The Old Cottage
Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
Guide Price
£2,150,000
The Property
A truly beautiful example of a traditional, Grade II listed New Forest Farmhouse, set in the heart of Minstead village, within The New Forest National Park. This substantial five bedroom family home has been extended and re-furbished overtime to an outstanding standard offering the perfect balance of period character and light and airy accommodation.
An attractive brick porch leads you through to the front door and into the entrance lobby laid with beautiful stone flooring. To your left, a generous and grand proportioned sitting room, which spans the entire length of the property, with glazing to the far end and French doors out to the patio, allowing light to flood the room. A cosy inset log burner to one end of the room and a large walk in cupboard which has been tastefully designed to incorporate a bar, with electric for a drinks fridge.
The entrance lobby then gives access to the other side of the property into the dining hall. A welcoming space with feature wooden beam and built in units and a window to the front aspect. A useful home office is situated at the back of the property, again with built in cabinets and storage units, a beautiful brick open fireplace and a window to the rear garden.
From the dining hall, the accommodation flows effortlessly into the kitchen diner and snug. A walk though which joins the kitchen to the utility room and ground floor WC, benefits from high quality built in cupboards offering ample additional storage space along with the utility room to the front of the property comprising space for a washing machine and tumble dryer, an additional sink and workspace, additional storage cupboards, housing the oil fired boiler and a water softener system. The kitchen diner is a light and airy family space, featuring a vaulted ceiling with velux windows and additional panels of glazing, as well as a door out to the rear patio.
A beautiful high quality shaker style kitchen, comprises a Rangemaster oven with gas hob, a double Butler sink, integrated dishwasher, a central island offering additional worktop space, a walk in pantry and space for a freestanding American fridge freezer. A door out to the side of the property with an adjoining boot room, is a useful design for country living.
The staircase rises from the dining hall to the first floor accommodation, boasting five generous double bedrooms and three bathrooms. An impressive principal suite with stunning rear aspect views over the gardens and paddocks, featuring a large en suite bathroom with a free standing roll top bath, walk in shower cubicle, double sink and WC. A further four double bedrooms all featuring built in wardrobes, one benefiting from a en suite shower room, offering an ideal guest suite, and the others facilitated by a family bathroom.
Externally
The property also benefits from an array of extensive outbuildings including a large established home office, triple garage block, stable yard, pool house and heated swimming pool, all nestled within stunning grounds and paddocks approaching two acres.
Electric gates lead onto a large gravel driveway with parking for ample vehicles and access to the triple garage. A secondary driveway with an automated gated entrance at the other end of the property, provides parking and access to the substantial and established home office, which comprises ample working space, storage, kitchenette and shower room. The front gardens are laid to lawn with shingle pathway and mature hedging to the front offering good privacy.
A large rear patio offers space for alfresco dining and a brick wall with stairs leading up onto the lawn. The two paddocks are fenced with post and rail with beautiful elevated views and benefit from a yard with four stables and hard standing. The grounds also enjoy a newly fitted pool complex with heated outside swimming pool and a large pool house/annexe offering changing facilities, a kitchenette, shower room and further potential to create annexe accommodation STPP. The grounds in total are approaching two acres.
Agents Notes
Commoners Rights: The property has access to an annual cord of wood and common of pasture.
Key features
Description
Local Information
Minstead is a perfect village in miniature. Tucked down a maze of country lanes and surrounded by woodland, it is tranquil and unspoiled, yet surprisingly and accessibly close to junction one of the M27 at Cadnam.
For a small village it punches well above its size in terms of community and history. Overlooking its delightful green is a popular country inn, The Trusty Servant Inn, and a village shop and cafe tea room that serves as a community hub. There’s also a quirky parish church which is the resting place of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. Nearby are what are thought to be two of the oldest oak trees in the Forest as well as the Rufus Stone, marking the spot where King William II was shot by an arrow.
There’s a busy village hall (the largest in the Forest) which hosts regular antiques and collectors’ markets and the Minstead Players. However, what makes Minstead particularly special are its community-minded organisations including Minstead Study Centre with its sustainability focus and Minstead Training Trust which also runs Furzey Gardens – first planted in 1922 they are ablaze with colour in spring and feature an award-wining garden and ‘fairy doors’ among the trees.
Services
Mains electric, water and drainage.
House and home office: Oil fuelled heating.
Barn: Electricity for heating and hot water
Swimming Pool: Air source heat pump
Ultrafast broadband with speeds of up to 1000 Mbps is available at the property (Ofcom)
Tenure
Freehold
Wayleaves, Easements & Rights of Way
The property is being sold subject to all existing wayleaves, easements and rights of way, whether or not specified within the sales particulars.
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Location
Minstead, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
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