5 bedroom detached house

This house is all about giving you options. This wonderfully spacious detached five-bedroom family home comes with oodles of off-road parking and a generous enclosed garden, and is definitely one you won’t want to miss. 

Situation

Gordon Road is a well-established tree-lined street with mature properties in a range of styles and ages, to the north west of Thatcham. It enjoys easy access to Newbury, the A4, M4 and A34, which between them connect you with most of the country.  

Property

Enclosed by a brick wall to the front with a sturdy five-bar gate, with planting along the fence line, the front space provides ample parking for at least four cars and a caravan or motorhome, in addition to the integral garage.  

Entrance

Through the front door, with double glazed leaded-glass panel and side light, and you’re into the bright welcoming entrance hall. The warm hues of the wood effect laminate floor unify the downstairs space and connect the rooms. 

Stairs lead you up to the rest of the house. To the side, beneath the stairs, is a handy enclosed storage space, while around the corner, beneath the stairs, you have large built-in storage that's perfect for a whole family’s worth of coats, shoes, brollies, boots and other essentials.  

Dining room

The space, light and that fabulous traditional cast iron fireplace in the elegant surround all vie for your attention in this lovely big dining room. This room feels wonderfully calm when you enter it, while also making a perfect venue for a big family Christmas gatherings and parties with family and friends. 

Kitchen  

From the dining room you find yourself drawn into the large bright kitchen. It’s not often a kitchen creates such a feeling of calm and order. As you enter, a breakfast bar provides the perfect spot for a morning coffee, to get help with homework or simply to sit and chat while you keep the cook company.     

Unifying the space are cream shaker-style wall and base cabinets with brushed steel handles, topped by a black marble-effect worksurface. Feature stone wall tiles and plentiful worksurfaces connect the two halves of this room. 

The smart glossy black range cooker has a ceramic hob with five cooking zones, and three ovens, a multifunction main oven, tall fan oven and grill – this is sure to make you want to revisit favourite recipe books. Above the range is a black glass splashback and extractor hood with handy hanging rail. Looking onto the garden is the steel 1½ sink and drainer with mono tap. 

Utility 

It’s not often we find a utility room so beautifully finished. This one includes the same cream shaker style units with smart brushed steel handles as the kitchen, a 1½ sink and drainer with mono tap, space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble drier, and room for a tall fridge freezer – or perhaps hooks and storage for wet coats and boots or a dog’s bed for after long tramps out on the playing fields.  

WC  

To the left of the front door, this ‘smallest room’ has received the same level of thought and high-quality finish as the rest of the house. A smart putty green cabinet has a back-to-cabinet loo and generous semi-inset basin, one you can actually fit both hands and some soap and water into, with a mono tap above. The vanity top is surrounded by contemporary textured white tiles, and there’s a chrome heated towel radiator. The illuminated mirror needs just a wave of the hand to be switched on – no more wiping away fingerprints. The room is further illuminated by an obscured glass side window and overhead light.  

Garage

From the hallway is a pedestrian door into the integrated garage. Spacious, with a roller door.

Office

To the front of the house is the home office, an oasis of calm far from the distractions of a lively family home. This could also make a welcoming impromptu guest room, playroom, crafting room, au pair’s room or really whatever you’d like it to be. 

Sitting room

Looking out onto the garden, this super spacious sitting room has windows on three sides to capture the best of the day’s light. 

This is another facet of the house that’s all about giving you options. You could create one big united family space with numerous large sofas, or you could create zones, perhaps with a multimedia TV space as you enter and a quieter reading space beside the gas fire, to make the most of all that wonderful natural light. 

French doors open onto the large patio area, connecting the lounge with the kitchen – perfect for parties, family gatherings and summer barbeques. 

UPSTAIRS

Master suite

Running the depth of the house, this exceptional master bedroom is an oasis of calm and light. You have a lovely wide window to the front of the house, with a smaller window looking out across the rear garden, ensuring you never need miss a sunrise or sunset. 

Again, it’s all about options with this house. Keeping the furniture free-standing ensures maximum flexibility when choosing how you’d like to furnish this lovely big room. Perhaps you’d like a dressing table to the front to capture the light? Maybe a small snuggle chair or chaise to enjoy a moment of calm with a book by the window. Or you could arrange the wardrobes to create a walk-in dressing room area beside the en suite.  

En suite 

Not forgetting the boutique hotel-inspired en suite WC, with tiled flooring, wall-hung loo with concealed cistern, vanity unit with basin, feature mono tap, illuminated mirror cabinet and heated towel rail.   

Bedrooms 2 & 3 

These two generous doubles have recesses that almost seamlessly accommodate large freestanding mirrored double wardrobes, proving plenty of storage while still leaving the room feeling spacious and uncluttered. 

Bedrooms 4 & 5 

A smaller double and a single, which would make a wonderful nursery or second office, should you have several home workers or students wanting to shut the door on their studies. The double has the added advantage of built-in storage in the void above the stairs. 

Family bathroom

When you have five bedrooms, it’s wise to think of every preference. This house has done just that. Above the lovely deep bath – perfect for long lazy baths, is an Aqua Lisa thermostatic shower. There’s also a wall-mounted vanity unit and basin with illuminated mirror above. The shock of pink feature wall, large wall tiles and beautiful mosaic feature tiles gives this space a wonderful contemporary hotel-chic feel. 

Family shower room 

This lovely big shower room has a large obscured-glass window to fill the room with light while keeping it free from filling up with steam. The quadrant shower has marble-style wall panels for a seamless finish. A wide basin sits on top of a glossy vanity unit, beneath an illuminated bathroom mirror activated by a wave of the hand – no wet fingerprints here! Opposite, against a matching glossy cabinet is the loo. 

Garden

To the rear of the house you step out onto a large enclosed patio, a perfect alfresco ‘dining room’ with space for a barbeque or outdoor kitchen, large table and chairs, garden sofa and more. This is enclosed with attractive metal railings and gates that keep small children close by, and dogs and pets safe and secure in the large lawned garden beyond. The plot measures approximately 0.17 acres in total.

Down the steps into the garden and you have mature trees with planted borders and beds, and scope for just about any type of garden you’ve longed for – self-sufficient with veggie patches and fruit trees, sociable with hidden seating areas, a nature garden with wild meadow area and neat tended beds. This garden is big enough to allow you to have it all.  

You also have a greenhouse and a brick-built outbuilding ideal for storage or to be used as a workshop, artist’s studio, yoga space, children’s play house… That’s what this house is all about, giving you options. 

Location

The saying location location location is certainly true here. You’re on the edge of Thatcham, so travel links in all directions are excellent, you’re also on the edge of miles of green open space, as well as the town centre. You really do have the best of just about every world. 

Within walking distance you have: 

·      The children’s park and open space of Henwick sports ground with its tennis courts, football, rugby and cricket facilities is a 4-minute walk away.

·      Regency Park Hotel fitness club is about a 10-minute walk or half a mile away. 

·      Henwick off licence and newsagent, and fresh fish of West Berkshire Seafoods are the same distance in the other direction.  

·      Tesco Express is smidge further, at just over half a mile away or just under a 15 min walk.

·      The Nature Discovery centre with its play area, lakes, bird and wildlife is only a 20-minute walk or just over a mile.

·      The Broadway Thatcham, with its selection of shops, including Waitrose and the Co-op supermarkets, cafes, restaurants, pubs is a 30-minute walk or 1.5 miles. 

Within a short drive you have:

·      West Berkshire Community Hospital, just a 4-minute drive away. 

·      Newbury town centre is 3 miles away or a 10-minute drive.

·      Frilsham, Yattendon and Woodspeen with their fantastic Michelin and highly-rated foodie pubs are all close by.

In the local area, you have a fantastic choice of local pubs to sample, you’re just a few miles from The Living Rainforest, unique Watermill Theatre, Newbury Racecourse and a selection of golf courses, as well as both Thatcham and Newbury towns with their variety of pubs, restaurants – including Michelin starred choices, cinema, shops and businesses. 

Connections by road include the M4, A4 and A34, making it easily commutable from London, while rail links take you into London, towards Cardiff in the west, and via nearby Reading, with its newly opened Elizabeth line, to most of the country including the Heathrow and Gatwick airports.  

Schooling

According to the West Berkshire Council website, the school catchment areas are:

Primary schools. Whitelands Park Primary School, St Finian’s Catholic Primary School.

Secondary school. Trinity School.

Services

Mains gas central heating & hot water.

Mains water & sewerage.

Broadband & mobile signal

According to OFCOM, broadband speeds of up to 1000Mbps are available.

According to Vodafone, their 4G service is ‘good indoors & outdoors’.

Council

The local authority is West Berkshire Council. The Council Tax band is F.

Tenure

Freehold