Hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, family room/guest bedroom, shower room, utility room, master bedroom with dressing room/study, two further bedrooms and two bathrooms. Lovely cottage gardens with off-road parking. EPC Band F.

Reading 7 miles,
Basingstoke 11 miles,
London Paddington from 45 minutes from Mortimer Station, London Waterloo also accessible from Mortimer via Basingstoke.

Situation

The property is located in lovely countryside close to the edge of Mortimer, a desirable and picturesque village on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders with an excellent range of local facilities catering for most day-to-day requirements, including schools, shops, doctor’s surgery and pubs, and a station which provides easy access to Paddington via Reading and Waterloo via Basingstoke.

The nearby towns of Reading and Basingstoke both provide a comprehensive range of leisure, recreational, arts and educational facilities and are well located for ease of communication to London by car on the M4 and M3 respectively.

The property

Believed to date from the 1830s, and formerly part of the adjoining 18th century Warennes Wood estate, the property retains much of its late Georgian/early Victorian character with a distinctive Dutch gable. It has been sympathetically modernised and extended, has recently been redecorated and renovated, and is now a very comfortable home of great character in excellent order throughout.

On the ground floor the two principal reception rooms each have log burning stoves, and the kitchen is fitted with a comprehensive range of units with granite worksurfaces and fitted Rangemaster cooker; there is a sizeable utility room next to the kitchen, with two of the home’s five skylights. The breakfast area features a bay window overlooking the side garden. The family room doubles as a ground floor guest bedroom with an adjoining travertine shower room.

On the first floor, the master bedroom also has a bay window overlooking the garden and an adjoining dressing room, and there is an adjoining bathroom. There is a further sizeable second bedroom with hillside views on the first floor, and on the second floor there is a further bedroom and bathroom.

Outside

To the front, a gated gravel driveway provides parking for three cars. The garden lies to the rear and to one side and backs onto farmland and woodland, enclosed by a combination of fencing and hedging. Gated access leads to footpaths and bridleways leading to the village and out to the Pamber Forest reserve. The garden is divided into two distinct areas, both with lawns, a variety of mature shrubs and various fruit trees and many perennial plantings. There is a paved terrace, two sheds and a greenhouse.


Services:
Mains water and electricity. Oil central heating. Private self-sustaining drainage.

Local authority:
West Berkshire District Council.

Viewing:
By prior appointment through Randalls Residential on 01256 345635

Directions to RG7 3JJ:

Approaching Mortimer from the East via Beech Hill, continue until reaching the station. At the roundabout immediately afterwards take the first exit to Mortimer. Continue up the hill until the war memorial and turn right onto Hammonds Heath, alongside the village green. This becomes Brewery Common, and the Mowbray Hill; 2 The Crockers will be found on the left at the bottom of the hill, opposite a large white fence and gate.