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Forming part of Royal Crescent, just off the Romsey Road on the way into Winchester, this impressive townhouse has spacious and well designed accommodation over three floors. All the rooms are light and bright with large windows and there is ample provision of fitted storage throughout.

Forming part of a smart development completed four years ago, this is a superb location for those who work within Winchester; it is close to the hospital, Kings School is little more than half a mile away and the train station is just over a mile from here.

At the front of the house there is parking in front of the integral garage and a recessed porch protects the front door from the weather. The entrance hall is spacious and has a cloakroom leading off on one side and the kitchen/dining room sweeping across the extended width of the property with French doors to the garden. The kitchen is extremely well fitted with a range of integrated appliances and a tiled floor extends across both areas.

The first floor has the large sitting room at the rear and a lovely master bedroom suite at the front with excellent fitted wardrobes and its own shower room.

Three further bedrooms, all with fitted wardrobes, on the top floor ensure space for all the family and there is a further en suite shower room and a family bathroom.

The house enjoys a south westerly aspect at the rear and there are lovely views from this elevated position. The garden is easily maintained, being laid to lawn with a paved terrace accessed from the kitchen and there is gated rear access.

Savills in Winchester will be happy to provide further details and to arrange an appointment to view this impressive townhouse. The house becomes available in early……

Superb modern kitchen makes this house a winner

All freshly decorated and with a superb modern kitchen, this terraced house in Falcon View at Badger Farm is a great opportunity for tenants looking for a smart home within easy reach of Winchester’s city centre and the excellent local road network as well as lovely stretches of countryside within walking distance.

The kitchen has been well designed with smart grey tiling and incorporates an oven and hob, fridge freezer, dishwasher and washing machine. The entrance hall provides storage and leads into the good size living room at the rear of which a door opens into a conservatory, creating further relaxing space.

Upstairs the larger bedroom is being fitted with new carpets and there is a second bedroom and a bathroom.

The low maintenance garden means that this space can be enjoyed with minimal time spent keeping things tidy. The house benefits from gas central heating and double glazing and there is residents parking in addition to a garage.

Goadsby in Winchester quotes a monthly rent of £1,000 on an unfurnished basis and welcomes enquiries on 01962 620444.…

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……