Upper Winstone Bungalow, near Wroxall, offer more than its names suggests, including eight stables.
HOMEFILE
Location...Near Wroxall
Bedrooms...Four/five
Price...Offers around £625,000
Agent...Fine and Country
Tel...01983 520000
ALTHOUGH it will have horse owners champing at the bit and beguile buyers, a property in a great rural spot with downland views is undersold by its name.
Upper Winstone Bungalow, off St Johns Road, near Wroxall, offers much more than its name suggests, with a four/five-bedroom home that is no longer a bungalow, super equine facilities, a smallholding with more than three acres of land and a range of outbuildings.
It comes with eight stables, a feed store and a tack room with kitchen around a yard, a competition-sized menage and three paddocks, with adjoining woodland housing a field shelter.
Looking westwards to lovely Appuldurcombe Down, it has fields and a bridleway opposite, linking to many miles of scenic riding country without coming across a road.
The smallholding is ideal for those wanting to keep animals and will even come, if wanted, with its current flock of attractive rare breed chickens plus ducks and geese housed in a large pen.
Also outside is a double garage, storage sheds, a brick building, two greenhouses and two buildings ideal for social types who love to entertain in style — a large games and music room and a timber cabin kitted out with a working bar.
Income can be generated by letting a one-bedroom static caravan and a three-bedroom timber chalet and a brick building at the rear of the home.
Before the owners came on the scene in 1985, the property fitted its name, as it was just a detached three-bedroom bungalow without any of the equine and other facilities. Adding an upper floor with two large en-suite bedrooms has turned it into a spacious home, enjoying views over surrounding countryside and to the downs.
The quarry-tile-floored entrance porch leads to the 22ft-long lounge, with a front bow window, an attractive, period-style fireplace with gas fire and French doors to a side sun lounge with tiled flooring and access to a large deck with downland views.
Oak flooring continues from the lounge into an inner hallway.
The side-facing dining room is open to the rear-aspect kitchen and both areas have tiled flooring and ceiling beams. In the kitchen are oak units, space for a range cooker and an integrated fridge/freezer.
Through a stable door from here is a tile-floored kitchen leading to the rear, mostly-paved courtyard garden.
Also downstairs is good-sized, front-facing bedroom three, with built-in wardrobes, and bedroom four and bedroom five/study, both with a rear outlook and a bathroom with white suite.
Double-aspect bedroom one upstairs has countryside and downland views, a large, front-facing dressing room and stylish en-suite bathroom, with a white suite, including a free-standing claw-foot bath and large shower cubicle.
More views can be seen from triple-aspect bedroom two, with an en-suite shower room off a dressing area.
Fronting the property are gardens with planted beds and lawns on two levels.
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