In a magical setting, Old Mill Farm in Blackwater could be the perfect family home. Picture by Chris Thwaites.
HOMEFILE
Location...Blackwater
Bedrooms...Four
Price...Guide £750,000
Agent...Hose Rhodes Dickson
Tel...01983 521144
SETTING the perfect scene for magical family memories is a Blackwater home with lots of appealing indoor space and huge grounds where children can enjoy themselves to their hearts’ content.
Old Mill Farm is set well off the main road in nearly two acres of gorgeous well-kept grounds crossed by two streams and with a carp pond where ducks nest, a heated swimming pool and a wild area ideal for teenage camp-outs.
Attracting a wealth of wildlife, it has a lovely, laid-back rural feel with lofty trees, sweeping lawns, useful outbuildings and the super detached house dating from the early 1800s.
Great for Christmas and for entertaining is the wonderful hub of the home — the spacious kitchen overlooking a stream and the gardens and with enough room for eating and relaxing as well as cooking.
Also fantastic for family living are two characterful reception rooms and a second-floor study and bedroom area, ideal for sleepovers and entertaining friends. A long gravel driveway sweeps around the front of the house past a parking area and substantial triple garage with tall central doors and two electric doors.
Ideal for housing a motorhome or boat as well as cars, it has an attached greenhouse. Other outbuildings include a carport, log store, stables, garage and store.
The cream-colourwashed house has two front porches, one leading to the kitchen and the other a tile-floored area leading to the spacious reception hall/living room.
Looking over the back garden attracting red squirrels and other wildlife, this inviting room has a beamed ceiling, stairs to the first floor and a door to the good-sized utility room with tiled flooring, space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer and a door to a side courtyard.
An inner lobby off the reception hall/living room leads to a cloakroom with WC and on to the sitting room, a welcoming front and rear-facing room with ceiling beams, another staircase to the first floor and an attractive stone open fireplace.
In the tile-floored 20ft by 17ft kitchen are smart, fitted cream units, a breakfast bar, a built-in ceramic hob and gas hob, a double electric oven and an integrated dishwasher.
Seating is built-in below a window overlooking the stream and garden and adjoining is a rear conservatory with tiled flooring and sliding doors to a rear patio.
On the first floor are two attractive bathrooms, each with neutral, tiled flooring and a fresh white suite and one also housing a separate shower cubicle.
Bright bedroom one enjoys a scenic front garden outlook while the other first-floor bedrooms are airy rear-aspect rooms.
Exposed beams feature in the stairwell to the second floor where characterful accommodation has sloping beamed ceilings and the same smart neutral carpeting as the first-floor bedrooms.
A study area has fitted wardobes, while a WC and bedroom both have lovely views over the old mill pond.
Next to a rear patio is a climber-covered bridge over the stream to the 32ft-long pool with paved surround and a timber pool house.
The stunning gardens include many shrubs, soft fruit, apple, plum, fig and pear trees and a highly productive vegetable area.
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