5 bedroom link detached house for sale

noir by david cliff - ONE OF A KIND

This beloved home has been our clients' family residence for nearly 40 years. Now available to the market is a rare opportunity to own a Victorian family home featuring a historic Principal House (over 100 years old), a stunning Victorian Walled Garden with a 50ft Glasshouse, and three additional walled gardens.

The Coach House offers generous living and entertaining spaces, with potential for further enhancement or modernization which would be a wonderful opportunity for someone looking to create their own home, This property certainly promises an exciting and rewarding venture for the next generation.

The Victorian proportions and high ceilings ensure light and airy living rooms, while there may be further potential to extend or add on to the property subject to the usual planning permissions.

Of particular note is the 25' drawing room with open fire and superb sitting room off from the kitchen, both with many windows allowing natural light to flood the rooms. The sitting room also boasts having it's very own wood burner making this an excellent area to entertain.

The kitchen itself is the hub of the house with a 4 oven Aga and plenty of room for sitting and relaxing. Off from the kitchen is a well spaced square dining room for more formal occasions. The ground floor also offers a good sized utility room, and study or bedroom 5 with views over to one of the many walled gardens.

The first floor provides four good sized bedrooms with the master bedroom being particularly spacious and benefits from having not only dual aspect living but also its own ensuite bathroom. There is also a separate family bathroom giving easy access for the remaining rooms.

Externally, the garden of The Coach House offers space for all the family, with an outside swimming pool secure with wooden fence and gate, large glass house and three different very pretty and attractive walled gardens. There is also a garden shed, and store room.

Pedestrian access to the paddock approached by an entrance off the courtyard and another entrance via five bar gate from the driveway. with field shelter and tack/feed room. There are two garages, the larger of which has an inspection pit. These are approached off the courtyard, where there is parking for a number of vehicles.

The property is situated in a rural position on the outskirts of Swallowfield (mentioned in the Doomsday Book) just to the south of Reading. The pretty, vibrant village of Swallowfield is surrounded by farmland and has a shop/post office, public houses (including the gourmet George & Dragon), doctor's surgery, church, parish hall and a very active tennis club close by in Riseley. The nearby centres of Reading, Wokingham and Basingstoke are all within easy daily reach and provide a broader range of shopping, recreational and educational facilities.

Vendors comments:

“We planned to stay for 10 years and ended up staying for nearly 40. This reflects what a happy home it has been for our children and us. We have loved living in The Coach House with the surrounding beautiful gardens since the day we first saw the property. We have some fantastic memories from Christenings to Weddings in the Garden of the Coach House.”