Mimosa Lodge, Ryde, has been beautifully upgraded and even has a mimosa-coloured summerhouse.
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Location...Ryde
Bedrooms...Five doubles
Price...Guide £750,000
Agent...Hose Rhodes Dickson
Tel...01983 538090
FOLLOWING no-expense-spared refurbishment works at a tall, period home in one of Ryde’s best addresses, the next owners need only to move in and enjoy its abundant space, elegance and lovely sea views.
Whoever buys beautiful, late-Georgian Mimosa Lodge, in Buckingham Road, will get attractively upgraded and renovated accommodation on four floors, with fine period features, including large sash windows, fireplaces and panelled doors.
Conveniently located for town centre shops, amenities and ferry links, the detached, Grade II listed town house was first renovated around two decades ago by the IW Buildings Preservation Trust.
Work has been finished off in superb, sympathetic style by the owners and includes everything from new plumbing and electrics down to a new staircase to the lower ground floor, carefully matched in with the original fine staircase.
Mimosa Lodge now exudes quality with a superbly appointed kitchen and bathrooms, bespoke built-in cupboards matching original cupboards and even a bright yellow front door and mimosa trees planted in the back garden to refelect its name.
Extensive, lower ground floor space has been turned into a double bedroom, utility room with butler sink and smart white units, an office/study, shower room, store and large open-plan room ideal as a gym or playroom.
This has its own access across a pretty front courtyard with covered corner seat and could be used as a two-bedroom garden flat. A gravelled drive leads to a large rear parking area and the main house is entered via an enclosed porch.
Wooden flooring continues from the entrance hall into a rear study area and flows into the front-facing dining room with a magnificent, grey marble fireplace surround.
Next door is the airy, quarry-tile floored kitchen/breakfast room with rear sea glimpses, a front window, pale wooden units, Corian worktops, a Miele electric hob and oven plus a cream Aga with matching tall fridge-freezer
The welcoming front and rear-aspect sitting room has pretty, tiled insets to a period fireplace with gas point. Neutral carpeting extends up the elegant staircase along the first floor landing and into two bedrooms.
Big front-to-back bedroom one looks over the back garden to the sea and its focal point is a lovely marble fireplace.
Front-facing bedroom two has a cast-iron fireplace and handbasin with cupboard of the same high quality as fitments and cupboards in the large first floor bathroom, which has sea glimpses.
On the floor above is an attractive, similarly-appointed shower room with panoramic rear views over the Solent to the mainland.
Wide sea views taking in Ryde Pierhead can be seen from bedroom three, with a pretty, cast iron fireplace and front-facing bedroom four also has a cast-iron fireplace.
Shrubs and plants in angled beds border the large terrace adjoining the rear of the house.
Central steps descend to the large walled and lawned garden, a large but easily-maintained area with small trees and shrubs to each side and a summerhouse with pretty veranda.
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