The Knook, at Sandford, is an amazing, five-bedroom home, fitted out for luxury, hi-tech living and with glorious views across the countryside. Picture by Jennifer Burton.
PROPERTY OF THE WEEKHOMEFILE
Location...Sandford
Bedrooms...Five in main house and one in apartment
Price...Guide £1.5m
Agent...Creasey Biles and King
Tel...01983 527744
FROM the start, it is evident a stunning contemporary home at Sandford, with beautiful unspoilt countryside and downland views, reflects the tastes and personality of its extrovert owner.
Developer Steve Readhead has packed the fabulous, five-bedroom home with technology, stylish modern features and beautiful materials, finishing it off with a nameplate inscribed 'The Knook by Lord Redhead’ outside ornate electric entrance gates.
Just completed after around three years’ work, The Knook is as individual as he is, offering more than 4,533 sq ft of well-designed luxury space, with huge front and rear windows framing magnificent views over pretty countryside to the downs.
It is also a fabulous party pad with loads of space and some special entertaining features, including a sauna, a rooftop area with hot tub and a cosy wooden outside barbecue cabin.
A state-of-the-art system provides music in every room but perhaps most impressive of all are huge drop-down screens to vast front and rear glazed walls, turning the fantastic upstairs sitting room into a cinema or computer/games system room.
Off another great living space, a downstairs atrium-style living area with full-height ceiling, floor-to-ceiling front windows and double doors is superb guest accommodation, comprising two en-suite bedrooms.
Totally self-contained space can be found in an attractive building, Clockhouse, attached to the main house by a covered walkway.
Built to replicate Steve’s previous Shanklin home and with an attractive clock tower on top, this houses a triple garage downstairs with a one-bedroom apartment above.
Now seeking a new project, Steve has planned the outside as carefully as the inside. Landscaped gardens complement the property perfectly and include a lovely Indian sandstone rear terrace, a smart block-paved driveway and gravelled Mediterranean-style planted beds and borders.
Mellow clay peg tiled roofs plus weathered-looking brick enhance the two buildings and walkway, while in the hallway and downstairs living areas is beautiful Turkish marble. Bathrooms mostly have neutral Travertine tiling with sleek, imported French suites.
Dark granite worktops grace glossy white units in the spacious kitchen and breakfast area, situated off the atrium. This area is overlooked by a gallery landing and is dominated by a striking fun feature — a stainless steel and glass LED-lit staircase with changing colour sequences.
Also downstairs is a carpeted games room, a slate-floored WC, a multi-purpose triple-aspect room off the kitchen, ideal for more formal dining, a study/bedroom and two en-suite bedrooms.
Fine downland views can be seen from some downstairs rooms but the outlook from the huge sitting room, is truly glorious.
Also upstairs are two appealing en-suite bedrooms.
Fabulous for families, the Knook has an enclosed, lawned rear garden backing onto fields, where children can let off steam playing on two raised wooden playhouses with slides.
Also in this garden is the six-
sided barbecue cabin and a summerhouse with decked terrace looking over fields and countryside to the downs.
To one side is a paddock housing
a substantial concrete-floored storage building.
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