6 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- Handsome Victorian villa on one of the towns most sought after roads
- Gated landscaped gardens of nearly two thirds of an acre
- In all just over 7500 square feet, including indoor swimming pool complex
Winster House is an impressive and very attractive detached period house, standing elevated from Legh Road within gated, landscaped gardens and grounds of just under two thirds of an acre.
The accommodation flows exceptionally well, with a lovely reception hall, and two impressive interlinking principle reception rooms, with a smaller secondary sitting/family room behind, which lies adjacent to the kitchen. The kitchen/dining/living room is a large and spacious triple use room overlooking and accessing the garden and a large entertaining terrace, and has a long glazed link off, leading into the leisure complex, which provides for an indoor swimming pool with seating area, plant room and shower room, and has a very useful first floor gym above with an adjacent studio or home office suite attached, that has a separate staircase to outside. A small detached outbuilding on the driveway provides an excellent private space for a domestic office.
The bedrooms are configured over two upper floors, the main bedroom has a dressing room and an en suite bathroom, and two further bedrooms sharing a family bathroom are on this floor. On the second floor are three further bedrooms and another bathroom.
The house was extended and remodelled in 2004/5 during a comprehensively rebuild, including the addition of the pool complex at that time, and was completely refurbished to an exceptional standard. The kitchen was recently replaced (2022) with a quality range of hand pained cabinets with high end appliances, and some of the bathrooms were also refreshed at the same time. Extensive infrastructure work such as rewiring and updating of the home automation systems has also been completed.
Electric gates access a long driveway off Legh Road, and there is ample parking in a side courtyard and a double garage, The lawned gardens are tiered, and the house faces to the south and west from its principle elevations.
In summary, this lovely period home, situated on the towns foremost road in lovely grounds, offers great further scope for a new buyer to make it their perfect family home for the next 20 years or so, and is available now with vacant possession for an immediate purchase.
EPC Rating: E