Location: Middleton, Freshwater

Bedrooms: Five

Price: £995,000

Agent: Country Homes, by HRD

Telephone: 01983 538090

Spectacular Priory Cottage, on Moons Hill, in Middleton, Freshwater, was originally part of the Tennyson estate and dates back to the 1800s.

It has a host of period features, including leaded windows and decorative tiles— believed to have been designed by Tennyson.

There is also a one-bedroom, self-contained annexe on the ground floor of the main house.

Included is a detached timber-clad three-bedroom dwelling, for use as a holiday cottage.

In front of the cottage are gardens and parking. There is a 300ft garden at the back. A terrace currently has a hot tub (available by separate negotiation) in a sheltered spot. A gravel pathway leads to a timber chalet, complete with kitchenette and shower room.

From the summer house, you can enjoy views over the pond, across the fields.

Entering the house through the lobby, there is the option of turning into either the annexe or the main house.

Turning left first, one reaches the annexe sitting room. There is a double bedroom with a door to an en-suite wet room, as well as a kitchen/diner with a range of units and plumbing for a washing machine. From the kitchen there is a door into the utility room of the main house.

If you turn right from the lobby, you will enter the kitchen/dining room, with cream Shaker-style units, a Rangemaster gas-fired hob and triple oven. From here you can enter the rear lobby and patio, head upstairs or enter the sitting room, with stone fire surround.

Completing the ground floor are the living room, utility area and cloakroom.

The lovely living room has a vaulted ceiling wood-burning stove and French doors to the garden.

On the first floor are five bedrooms, four of which are doubles, and two bathrooms — one with a large walk-in shower and the other with a freestanding roll-top bath. There is also an en-suite shower room to the master bedroom as well as a box bay window, with views of Tennyson Down.