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Location...Cowes
Bedrooms...Four doubles
Price...£459,950
Agent...Bob Lancaster
Tel...01983 209020
IT is not just quality that shines through in impressive style at a beautifully upgraded and extended house a short stroll from the centre of Cowes.
Sunlight pours through big windows into generous-sized rooms at 1 Brooklands Road while classy neutral decor and high ceilings accentuate the wonderfully airy, spacious feel.
Immaculate throughout, the well-proportioned four-bedroom house has been finished in top-notch fashion, with attractive solid-oak flooring in the lounge and entrance hall, gorgeous black granite worktops and limestone tiles in the fantastic kitchen/diner and a fabulous en-suite bathroom exuding wow factor.
The conveniently located property is thought to date from the 1930s and has original panelled interior doors, a handsome brick fireplace in the lounge and appealing sash windows with leaded top lights.
Blending in beautifully is the side extension, added by the owners of the past seven years. It houses the 20ft by 14ft kitchen/diner and superb upstairs master suite with sea views.
They completely gutted number 1 and brought it back to life in sympathetic style providing a delightful space for everything.
While the comfortable lounge is a great place to gather, there is also an attractive reading room to retreat to with a book.
Entertaining can be as formal or casual as you please, with the inviting dining room or kitchen/diner to choose from and a paved area in the sunny side garden perfect for barbecues or al-fresco dining.
A tandem garage provides parking and the front door opens into the bright entrance hallway with stairs to the first floor.
Focal point of the 18ft by 17ft lounge with sash windows in a front bay, is a gas coal-effect fire with brick surround and a leaded window to each side.
The dining room has front sash windows and a lovely open fireplace with elegant limestone surround and bespoke cupboards and shelving to each side.
Double doors open to the kitchen/ diner with a front sea glimpse.
Lovely mellow limestone floor tiles and splashback tiles complement extensive buttermilk units, with a coffee machine and microwave built in.
A utility room, leading to a cloakroom/WC, has plumbing for a dishwasher and washing machine.
Morning sunshine pours into the side-facing reading room with a decorative fireplace as its focal point.
Upstairs are four double bedrooms — the smallest both measuring 13ft by 9ft — and the attractive main bathroom with pale limestone-style tiling.
Off the ultra-bright master bedroom with sea views is a dressing area with built-in cupboards. It leads to the stunning en-suite bathroom also with a sea outlook.
Dominated by a lovely chunky freestanding white roll-top bath this stylish room has twin contemporary bowl-style basins, a large shower cubicle, a WC and natural-coloured limestone-style floor and wall tiles.
Bedroom two is a large front-facing room, while bedrooms two and three are good-sized side-facing rooms.
At the front and to one side are lawned gardens with shrubs and the delightful larger side garden, with many flowers and shrubs in borders, is bathed in sunshine from late morning onwards.
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