Woodpeckers, Alverstone , is a large beautifully refurbished family home.
HOMEFILE
Location...Alverstone
Bedrooms...Five/six
Price...£525,000
Agent...Fine and Country
Tel...01983 520000
IN a leafy setting, where you could almost hear a pin drop if it were not for the sound of birdsong, is Woodpeckers, a spacious, light-filled home, providing a perfect family nest.
With their family having flown, the owners now find the impressive five/six bedroom detached house, tucked away in Youngwoods Way, in Alverstone Garden Village, too big.
After buying Woodpeckers seven years ago, they refurbished and modernised it to a high standard throughout and it offers immaculate, comfortable living.
Behind its frontage, with a huge feature window lighting the stairwell, is appealing, three-storey space overlooking the large wooded front gardens or the lawned rear gardens, which attract birds and red squirrels.
The hub of the home and great for entertaining is a stylish, sociable open-plan area, encompassing a well-fitted kitchen, dining area and bright garden room, while upstairs is a more formal lounge, with an open fire to cosy up to in the winter. All five bedrooms are double-sized and there is also an office and a flexible, sloping-ceilinged loft room, which could be a child’s bedroom or playroom.
Tall shrubs and trees in the front garden, with lawned areas and a raised pond, screen the house and set it well back from the road.
The tree-lined driveway and an integral car port, with glazing on two sides, and a store off provide plenty of parking. Ideal when returning with shopping on a rainy day, the car port has a door into a hallway with rich-coloured, hardwood, open-tread stairs to the upper floors
Neutral tiling continues from the hall throughout this floor and quality hardwood internal doors feature on this level and the floor above.
Next to a WC, with white suite, is a utility room with fitted floor and wall units, worktop and space and plumbing for appliances.
Double doors lead from the hall into the spacious dining area, with an arched opening to the kitchen and a wide square opening into the garden room, an airy space with two skylight windows and a rear area with a glazed ceiling and windows on three sides incorporating doors to a patio.
Looking over the garden is the kitchen, a well-laid out working space with fitted white units, contrasting dark worktops, a built-in Bosch electric hob and double oven.
The 20ft by 13ft lounge upstairs has a wooded outlook through a front picture window and a rear garden view.
There is also a pleasant rear garden outlook from bedroom four and from L-shaped bedroom two, with an en-suite bathroom off a dressing area with fitted mirror-fronted wardrobes.
Also on this floor is a family shower room and an office and bedroom, both with a wooded front outlook.
En-suite to the huge, second floor master bedroom, with front and rear dormer windows, is a fully tiled bathroom, which can also be reached via the landing.
Spacious front and rear-facing bedroom five and a sloping-ceilinged loft room complete the accommodation.
Beyond a block-paved rear patio wrapping around the sun room is a good-sized, lawned and enclosed garden.