Hampshire Property News

Coming to the rental market in early September is a wonderful detached cottage in Monxton. Old Hoyles is the perfect opportunity for tenants to experience, perhaps for the first time, a rural lifestyle in a pretty village location. The cottage with its thatched roof is typical of many properties within this community and is perfectly placed to take advantage of rural pursuits including hunting, fishing and shooting all available nearby.

The cottage has been thoughtfully restored and has lovely stone floors, an attractive kitchen, and spaces for dining and sitting and a study. Two lovely bedrooms are on the first floor with white walls and exposed beams.

The garden is a good size and wraps around the cottage and there is off road parking and a garage.

Belinda Wright, Lettings Manager for Winkworth in Winchester says that Old Hoyles becomes available for occupation in the first week of September at a monthly rent of £1,450 and will be happy to answer any enquiries on this and other village properties. Contact Belinda on 01962 866777.…

Walled garden the perfect setting for Park House

A high, tile capped, brick and flint wall encloses the delightful gardens of Park House at Amport. With a charming backdrop of the 14th century parish church, Amport is a quintessential English village with a local primary school, village green and a pub. Other nearby communities such as Abbots Ann and Grateley provide additional amenities, even a mainline station which brings Waterloo within a 77 minute trip.

In addition to the high brick wall the garden features a multitude of established trees and shrubs which create a private and secluded atmosphere, with various areas of lawn and paved terraces to sit and enjoy warm summer days. The garden extends to more than a quarter of an acre and close to the entrance is a double garage with a workshop and store, additional driveway parking and two greenhouses within the garden.

The house has extensive accommodation over two floors radiating from a spacious and elegant reception hall. Formal drawing and dining rooms are impressive and there is also a sitting room close to the kitchen/breakfast room for total relaxation together with a garden room and a conservatory both on the sunny side. An inner hallway gives access to substantial storage and the cloakroom and there is also a utility room with a door to the garden.

Stairs from the hall rise to the naturally lit first floor landing which branches off to five double bedrooms, all with built-in wardrobes. The master bedroom is charming with its own large bathroom and a door to a sunny balcony overlooking the principal area of garden. There is also a large family bathroom with a bath and separate shower.

Be sure to arrange to view this delightful home on a fine day to fully appreciate……

Beautiful thatched cottage

Orchard Cottage is a charming thatched property located within the lovely Candover Valley. Grade II listed with a pleasing wide frontage and pretty thatched porch flanked by casement windows, the lovely character inside with exposed timbers and a brick inglenook fireplace in the sitting room could be improved with a certain amount of cosmetic work.

The layout works well with the central entrance hall having doors to the sitting room on one side and the kitchen on the other. The kitchen has attractive units and is open plan to the dining room. The conservatory which leads off the kitchen and the sitting room both have glazed doors opening to the garden and there is also a utility room and a ground floor shower room.

Stairs rise from the hall to the landing which has doors to three bedrooms. Two are excellent double rooms with fitted storage and windows to the front and rear with the third room being a good size single bedroom adjacent to the family bathroom.

Orchard Cottage is approached over a gravel driveway which provides parking and leads to a detached garage with the remainder of the front garden attractively laid out and with a pathway through the lawn to the front door. The rear garden is a good size with a sunny aspect with planted borders around the lawn and a flagstone terrace with access from the conservatory and sitting room.

Preston Candover lies in a triangle created by Winchester, Basingstoke and Alton and the village is surrounded by farmland and rolling countryside. There are useful local amenities which underpins this rural community.

A guide price of £595,000 is quoted. Charters in Alresford will be happy to provide further details and to make an appointment to view. Contact the office on……

Builder Montague Gibbs and architect Trevor Tatham had a huge influence on the growth of Lee-on-the-Solent after World War 1.

And an example of how they expected the area, and the people moving there, to prosper is tucked away in a bungalow called Branscombe in Milvil Road.

They must have realised that ownership of the motor car, then a relative novelty only available to the wealthy, would be something that gained wider appeal. So although Branscombe was built in the early 1920s it was still designed with an integral garage, almost revolutionary in its day.

Originally a three bedroom bungalow, Branscombe was also cleverly created to make the most of its plot, with its angled shape giving plenty of room yet still allowing a good area of garden in its fifth of an acre.

Colonial influences were still prevalent at the time, so the bungalow also acquired a veranda that runs around the front of the property which, because of its shape, means the veranda actually runs along four walls.

The property has only changed hands a very few times since its construction, the current owners taking possession in 1995. They have now decided to move on, but the home they leave behind is now an impressive five bedroom property as two more bedrooms have been added in the original roof space, centred round a galleried landing that creates almost an atrium effect in the entrance hall below. In fact, with the skilful integration of the stylish staircase it would be hard to detect that how it is now is not what the architect always intended.

“This is one of those stand-out properties, and for more reasons than the permanent presence of the union flag from the mast in the front garden,” says Colin Shairp, of Fine and Country Southern……

It’s almost 170 years since the primitive Methodist chapel was built in the Hampshire hamlet of Upper Wield.

Not least among the changes in the intervening years was the arrival of a new neighbour in 2003, when Chapel Cottages was built alongside after 155 years of existence.

Not that the Victorian building was overwhelmed by its neighbour because the architect took as inspiration for the new house the design of Upper Wield Manor. As a result, Chapel Cottages looks to have been part of the landscape for years, blending the great practicality of a new home with the atmosphere and style of a much older country house.

“The twin bay windows on the ground floor and the porthole window set between them on the first floor give a delightful period feel that’s reinforced by the catslide roof descending from the main ridge to almost ground level over the car port at the side of the house,” says Chris Gooch, of Carter Jonas.

“Partial black weatherboarding extending out across the car port mirrors the same cladding of the twin workshops behind the car port. It’s a truly effective combination of materials.

“The front bays face south east, bringing plenty of light into the kitchen / breakfast room behind one and the dining room behind the other. On the west end of the house is a further bay for the sitting room which looks out along a lawned garden to a summerhouse and open fields, with clever planting framing the view.

“On the first floor there are three bedrooms, one a large master suite with a dressing area leading through to a large bathroom. There’s a separate dressing room lit by the porthole window plus two generous double bedrooms served by the family bathroom, equipped with both a bath and shower cubicle.……

Taking the old to create the new

New build homes in the centre of Winchester are a decreasingly common occurrence but, in a project handled sensitively, they can effectively be created by breathing fresh life into older properties.

A good example of how to achieve such an outcome is just being launched on the Upper High Street in Winchester where local developers Williams Ewan have used their familiarity with the city and its needs to create two apartments with the real bonus of private gardens.

“The directors at Williams Ewan have lived in Winchester all their lives and have a keen appreciation of what the city needs and how to create schemes in keeping with its history,” says Chris Gooch, of Carter Jonas.

“The execution of the work to complete this scheme has been to a very high standard and, of course, top quality fittings and appliances have also featured from the start.

“An essential part of schemes to suit modern Winchester life, apart from kitchens bristling with AEG appliances, is installing Cat 5 cabling for television and media but the interiors also have their traditional touches with oak featuring for the flooring in the kitchen, the staircase, and internal doors.

“The first flat (guide price £475,000) has a large ground floor living room with a dining and seating area to the front and the kitchen towards the rear. From there, a turning staircase descends to the lower ground floor which has two bedrooms and a bathroom with a bath and double shower cubicle.

“The second flat (£425,000) has a spacious open plan living area with kitchen on the first floor with a corner staircase to the second floor and its two bedrooms plus a similarly-equipped bathroom.

“The beauty of these new apartments is that they are literally……