LOTS OF SPACE FOR FAMILIES IN COUNTRY RETREAT

By Judy Marriott - Thursday, March 20, 2008

Tanglefoot, in New Road, Porchfield, has plenty of space for families in a rural setting.

PROPERTY OF THE WEEK
PEACEFUL Porchfield is perfect for bringing up children and families will love all an executive-style home in the village has to offer.
Only a short drive from Newport’s schools and amenities, Tanglefoot has lots of sociable space for everyone to gather in and to enjoy meals together.
And another big plus at the handsome, traditional-looking home is that with five upstairs bedrooms, two of them en suite, all but the biggest families will have a room of their own, with queues for the bathroom a thing of the past.
Mums, and maybe dads, will appreciate the great layout where an eye can be kept on children using the games/playroom while working in the kitchen.
Also open to the kitchen is the dining room and both look out over the attractive back garden, a level area with a large lawn where the kids can run around, play and let off steam.
Adults will find Tanglefoot just as well geared to their needs as their offspring.
On the ground floor is a study, an inviting place to work while looking out over the front driveway across quiet New Road to fields and countryside beyond.
The kitchen is a well-appointed area partially divided from the dining area by a peninsula unit and with the additional benefit of built-in seating to a breakfast area.
In fact detached Tanglefoot, built in 1999, has everything in place for comfortable living.
It is set among similar prestigious properties along leafy little-used New Road and has a gravel driveway leading to twin garages with double-opening doors and parking to the front and side.
The brick-built property is L-shaped with decorative tile-hanging to the front and mature shrubs in beds.
Laminate flooring features in the entrance hall and continues into the kitchen, dining room and games room.
Decor is neutral in this initial area of the house, with cream walls and carpeting to the stairs.
A separate WC off the hall has laminate flooring and a white suite.
As light and airy as the rest of the property, the 20ft by 13ft lounge has an open fire with stone surround as its focal point.
It looks out over the attractive back garden through a sliding door with a side panel and this door opens to a couple of semi-circular steps down to a sitting area with small pebbles.
Double doors link the lounge and dining room, which has similar garden access, a door to the hall and recessed ceiling lights.
With a good range of wooden-fronted units, the kitchen has an electric hob with extractor over and oven below, plus an integral dishwasher, fridge and freezer.
Off a walkway to the games room is the utility room with a matching base unit, sink, plumbing for a washing machine, broom cupboard and side door to the garden.
The games room is a great multi-purpose space with fitted cupboards and a side bay window, while along the hall is the front-facing study.
Neutral-coloured carpeting extends throughout much of the first floor, including the landing, which has an airing cupboard and countryside views through two front windows.
From bright bedroom one, with two fitted double wardrobes, is a rear outlook over the garden to trees and nearby countryside.
Its en-suite bathroom includes a bath and separate shower cubicle and has white tiling with a decorative shell pattern border to half height.
Sunny bedroom two, also with built-in wardrobes, is set above the games room and has a side window looking out to fields opposite and distant downland. A white suite is fitted in its en-suite shower room.
Two of the remaining three bedrooms are doubles with a rear garden outlook while the fifth bedroom is a smaller front-facing room.
Also upstairs is a bathroom with a white suite, including a corner bath and bidet.
Beyond the pebbled area adjoining the house are beds filled with shrubs and flowers and lawn with a barked shrub bed to one side.
Low wood fencing plus small conifers divide the lawn from the rear part of the garden, which is accessed through an archway and includes barked beds with shrubs, a greenhouse, vegetable patch and decked seating area screened on three sides by trellis and decorative wooden screening.

HOMEFILE
Location...Porchfield
Bedrooms...Five
Price...£475,000
Agent...Watson Bull and Porter
Tel...292141

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LOTS OF SPACE FOR FAMILIES IN COUNTRY RETREAT

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