Eddington Manor, St Helens.
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Location...St Helens
Bedrooms...Four
Price...£745,000
Agent...Creasey Biles and King
Tel...01983 872335
WHILE several centuries have left behind beautiful old features and quirky charm at picturesque Eddington Manor, the more recent past has seen the property rounded off perfectly.
The lovely, mellow stone grade II listed house is believed to date from the 17th century, when it stood on its own, but popular St Helens has since grown up around it.
However, the detached, four-bedroom house, enhanced by beautiful exposed wall and ceiling beams and recently attractively upgraded with a new kitchen, bathroom and en-suite shower room, still seems to inhabit a little kingdom of its own.
Hugely thick walls and secondary glazed front windows make it hard to realise you are on Eddington Road and the pretty, dog and child-proof walled back garden enjoys plenty of privacy.
Looking onto this well-planted space, with mature trees, shrubs and lawn, is the spacious kitchen/breakfast room and adjoining conservatory and dining room — all housed in rear extensions.
Eddington Manor is believed to have been a farm, which was one of a few IW properties given manorial status to help raise forces to fight French invasion.
Extending a warm welcome and with light, airy rooms decorated mainly in neutral shades, it has traditional stone fireplaces and a secondary staircase with Jacobean balustrade and newel post.
Uneven walls are part of its charm, as is a delightful "room at the top" — a beamed and sloping-ceilinged attic bedroom with glimpses of Bembridge Harbour.
It is reached via a hidden staircase from bedroom three, which is also linked to bedroom two by a charming little passageway concealed behind a door.
Parking is on a gravel driveway fronting a barn, with a downstairs garage and workshop area and two rooms upstairs. This substantial building has potential for conversion for several purposes.
Herbs, shrubs,a quince tree, purple crocuses and a mature grape vine clambering up the facade feature in the paved and walled front garden.
A flagstone-floored entrance porch leads to a lobby with a triple-aspect study to one side and the slightly larger sitting room opposite.
Both rooms have white-painted ceiling beams and in the front and rear-facing sitting room is a deep feature fireplace with built-in side seat and beam over.
From here the secondary staircases rises to the eastern end of the wide upstairs landing and a door opens to an inner hall with a pretty cloakroom/WC off and the main staged staircase to the first floor.
Attractive bespoke units in the 17ft by 11ft kitchen/breakfast room have a mix of solid wood and granite worktops and are complemented by terracotta-coloured floor tiles.
The bright conservatory and the airy dining room both have access to a sunny south-facing rear terrace.
Upstairs are three double bedrooms, bedroom one overlooking the back garden and with extensive built-in wardrobes, en-suite bedroom two with a side harbour glimpse and front-facing bedroom three with built-in wardrobes.
The spacious family bathroom is both well-appointed and attractively decorated.
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