House For Sale £575,000
Nestled in an idyllic rural setting with picturesque views, this charming 18th-century thatched cottage exudes characterful country style charm and comes complete with a delightful garden with an outbuilding and ample driveway parking.
Offering a peaceful countryside lifestyle in the pretty rural hamlet of Merstone, Thatchdown has been sympathetically renovated to offer stunning magazine standard interiors which perfectly enhance the abundance of historical features such as exposed timber beams, characterful ledge and brace doors, and a handsome brick fireplace with a flagstone hearth. Although a traditional cottage with a typical cosy ambience, this detached property has been extended over the years and provides an ample amount of accommodation with its two versatile reception rooms, and a charming kitchen connecting with a boot room and a utility room complete with a cloakroom, providing a separate space for laundry related tasks. Each of the three bedrooms offers a double size with two on the first floor benefitting from a traditional family bathroom with a desirable claw foot bath. Featuring independent external access via the rear garden, a fabulous ground floor bedroom boasts a beautifully presented en-suite shower room which could offer a potential opportunity as a holiday let or annexe accommodation for guests or family members. With a picturesque rural outlook across neighbouring fields, outside offers a tranquil garden complete with a large timber outbuilding which could be utilised for multiple purposes such as a garage with direct access from a driveway at the rear. The main driveway to the front of the property offers ample parking for multiple vehicles and an approach to a charming porch entrance.
Nestled in a beautiful rural position in this convenient central island location, Thatchdown provides the perfect base for exploring the peaceful surrounding countryside. Home to Merstone Manor, the village is situated on the extensive ‘Red Squirrel Trail’ cycle track and those who have horses may be interested to learn that the property is close by to local liveries. Thatchdown is just a short stroll from Arreton, which has two pubs, a craft village and a farm shop. The location is conveniently situated just four miles from the county town of Newport with its vibrant shops, cinema and restaurants. Top family attractions in Newport include the multi-award-winning Monkey Haven and the spectacular Robin Hill Country Park, both extremely popular with residents and visitors alike. Being centrally located means you are never far from all the wonderful delights that the island has to offer, including the beautiful West Wight with its unspoilt beaches and spectacular coastline. Mainland travel links are located within a 20-minute drive from the property including the Wightlink car ferry from Fishbourne to Portsmouth, the Red Funnel car ferry from East Cowes to Southampton, and the high-speed Red Jet foot passenger service from Cowes to Southampton.
Welcome To Thatchdown
Accessed via double five-bar timber gates, this captivating thatched cottage provides an eye-catching first impression as your enter the gravel driveway with glorious open field views beyond. Continuing with the thatched roof charm and cottage-style windows, an entrance porch provides a light-green wooden front door.
Porch
Featuring a flagstone floor and warm neutral wall decor, this useful space provides ample room to remove coats and muddy boots after those long walks in the surrounding countryside. A multi-pane obscure glazed door with a traditional wall lantern light to the side opens to the sitting room.
Sitting Room (3.91m max x 3.91m (12'10 max x 12'10))
Providing a cosy ambience, this welcoming sitting room features an exposed timber ceiling beam and a characterful brick fireplace housing a cast iron log burner mounted upon a flagstone hearth. Including a window to the front aspect with a radiator beneath, this room has a polished concrete floor and is dressed with white painted walls as well as a warm neutral shade on either side of the chimney breast, adding subtle contrast. A television aerial connection and recessed spotlights are also located here.
Lounge-Diner
Boasting a dual aspect with windows to the front and side offering panoramic rural views, this naturally light room offers an open plan layout to arrange a lounge and dining area. Finished with a solid oak floor and warm neutral walls, this space has a pendant light fixture and is warmed by two radiators. This room provides access to the first floor via a turning staircase which also has shelving and a cupboard beneath. Further contents of this room include a telephone/internet point, a central heating thermostat and an electrical consumer unit installed within the last few years, neatly concealed within a wall-mounted cabinet. A ceiling hatch leads to the bedroom above and an open doorway continues to the kitchen.
Kitchen (3.18m x 2.97m (10'05 x 9'09))
Beautifully refurbished to offer a characterful farmhouse style, this delightful kitchen is fitted with a range of wooden base and wall cabinets in a soft-green shade providing a combination of cupboards, drawers and a traditional plate rack. With metro splashback tiling in white, a chunky wood countertop incorporates a breakfast bar area plus a butler sink beneath a window to the rear aspect, and there is handsome dual fuel Aga cooker in black adding to the character of the room. Enjoying natural light, the room is also illuminated by a dome-shaped pendant shade, two recessed spotlights and undercabinet lighting. With white-painted timber ceiling beams, this room also includes a stable-style door to a boot room and an additional door to a utility room. This space is beautifully finished in fresh neutral shades with a classic tiled floor and a painted, exposed stone wall with dado-height wood strip panelling.
Boot Room (2.26m x 1.09m (7'05 x 3'07))
Featuring a beautiful flagstone floor and a neutral wall decor, this space enjoys a window to the side aspect framing the lovely countryside views and is warmed by a radiator. With a charming stable-style door to the rear garden, this space also includes a pendant light fitting and a ceiling hatch leading to a boarded loft space.
Utility Room (3.40m x 1.88m max (11'02 x 6'02 max))
Finished in a fresh white theme and a grey vinyl floor, this convenient space features dado height strip wood panelling below an exposed stone wall and there is a wood-effect countertop providing space and plumbing connections for three appliances. With a window to the rear aspect, this room also includes a radiator, recessed spotlights, a loft hatch and a regularly serviced Glow-worm combination boiler installed approximately three years ago. Two coordinating doors open to a bedroom and cloakroom.
Cloakroom
With a window to the rear aspect, this convenient space continues with the decor from the utility room and is fitted with a modern dual flush w.c. And a vanity hand basin with a white splashback. A radiator and a recessed spotlight are also located here.
Bedroom One (4.88m x 2.31m max (16'0 x 7'07 max))
This ground floor bedroom enjoys a set of glazed French doors opening to the rear garden and is dressed with a beige textured carpet complemented by a warm neutral wall decor. Illuminated by recessed spotlights, this room also includes a television aerial connection, a radiator to keep the room cosy, and a door to an en-suite shower room.
En-Suite Shower Room
The fresh white theme in this room enhances the natural light from an opaque glazed window to the front aspect and a grey vinyl floor provides a practical, contrasting finish. A double-sized, glazed shower cubicle occupies one of the walls and has a white tile surround and chrome wall controls with a fabulous rainfall-effect fixture as well as a separate handheld attachment. Complete with a modern, wall-mounted vanity hand basin with a splashback panel and a dual flush w.c, the room also benefits from a chrome towel rail, recessed spotlights and an extractor fan.
First Floor Landing
The textured beige carpet from the stairwell continues to the first floor landing and each of the two bedrooms on this floor. Lit by a ceiling light fixture, this space has a series of matching doors opening to the rooms with a few steps up to the bathroom.
Bedroom Two (4.09m x 3.20m (13'05 x 10'06))
With a window to the front aspect, this bedroom exhibits typical characteristics of a traditional cottage with its original cast iron fireplace and textured walls in white and warm tones including a strip wood feature wall. Fitted with a pendant light fixture, this room benefits from built-in, floor to ceiling wardrobes on one side of the chimney breast and a radiator to provide warmth.
Bedroom Three (3.12m x 2.87m (10'03 x 9'05))
Again, featuring the same colour palette as the adjacent bedroom, this room is dressed with wood strip panelling on two walls, up to picture rail height. With a pendant light fixture, the room has a charming recessed shelf above the door frame and a window to the side aspect offers fabulous far-reaching rural views. This space also includes a loft hatch and a radiator to keep the room cosy.
Bathroom
Offering traditional elegance, this spacious bathroom boasts a fabulous freestanding, cast iron bath perched on decorative claw feet with a vintage-style chrome mixer tap incorporating a handheld shower attachment. Featuring a window to the rear aspect with a radiator beneath, the room has a traditional-style suite comprising a low-level w.c and a wall-mounted hand basin with a mirrored cabinet above. This room is lit by an industrial-style pendant light fixture from a white-painted timber beamed ceiling which provides a stylish contrast with the warm neutral wall decor featuring dado-height wood-strip panelling, also in white. Fitted with a charcoal-grey vinyl floor, this beautiful space also benefits from a shaver socket and built-in, floor to ceiling storage cupboards.
Rear Garden
With beautiful open views across neighbouring farmland, this spacious rear garden is mostly laid to lawn and offers a tranquil outdoor environment divided into three spaces. Accessed via a side gravel path from the front driveway, the boot room and the ground floor bedroom, a paved seating terrace spans along the rear of the property and there is an original brick well which has been beautifully retained to create a historical feature of the garden. A lawn area beyond the paved terrace offers a fabulous space to enjoy the picturesque landscape and features a range of mature trees, planting and hedging such as a magnolia tree and an ornamental mini pear tree with a flowering shrub bed beneath. A timber five-bar gate leads to the mid section of the garden which has a wooden potting shed and houses the underground lpg tank for the central heating and a septic tank wastewater system; both installed within the last three years. A further five-bar timber gate opens to the top section of the garden which provides access to a substantial, quality built timber outbuilding (measuring 10’0 x 4’0) offering the option to utilise as a garage, creative studio or home office should power and lighting be connected. Secluded by mature hedging and new timber fencing, this area also provides an additional hardstanding driveway accessed via full-height wooden double gates from the lane.
Parking
A gated gravel driveway to the front provides off-road parking for several vehicles and a further gated driveway to the rear offers a hardstanding for two vehicles as well as a timber outbuilding which could be used as a garage if required.
Thatchdown offers an enviable opportunity to acquire a quintessential English cottage, absolutely filled with character and charm as well as a significant amount of upgrades providing a welcoming and stylish family home. An early viewing is highly recommended with the sole agent Susan Payne Property.
Additional Details
Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: D
Services: Mains water and private drainage, electricity, lpg central heating.
Agent Notes:
The information provided about this property does not constitute or form part of an offer or contract, nor may it be regarded as representations. All interested parties must verify accuracy and your solicitor must verify tenure/lease information, fixtures and fittings and, where the property has been extended/converted, planning/building regulation consents. All dimensions are approximate and quoted for guidance only and their accuracy cannot be confirmed. Reference to appliances and/or services does not imply that they are necessarily in working order or fit for the purpose. Susan Payne Property Ltd. Company no. 10753879.
Offering a peaceful countryside lifestyle in the pretty rural hamlet of Merstone, Thatchdown has been sympathetically renovated to offer stunning magazine standard interiors which perfectly enhance the abundance of historical features such as exposed timber beams, characterful ledge and brace doors, and a handsome brick fireplace with a flagstone hearth. Although a traditional cottage with a typical cosy ambience, this detached property has been extended over the years and provides an ample amount of accommodation with its two versatile reception rooms, and a charming kitchen connecting with a boot room and a utility room complete with a cloakroom, providing a separate space for laundry related tasks. Each of the three bedrooms offers a double size with two on the first floor benefitting from a traditional family bathroom with a desirable claw foot bath. Featuring independent external access via the rear garden, a fabulous ground floor bedroom boasts a beautifully presented en-suite shower room which could offer a potential opportunity as a holiday let or annexe accommodation for guests or family members. With a picturesque rural outlook across neighbouring fields, outside offers a tranquil garden complete with a large timber outbuilding which could be utilised for multiple purposes such as a garage with direct access from a driveway at the rear. The main driveway to the front of the property offers ample parking for multiple vehicles and an approach to a charming porch entrance.
Nestled in a beautiful rural position in this convenient central island location, Thatchdown provides the perfect base for exploring the peaceful surrounding countryside. Home to Merstone Manor, the village is situated on the extensive ‘Red Squirrel Trail’ cycle track and those who have horses may be interested to learn that the property is close by to local liveries. Thatchdown is just a short stroll from Arreton, which has two pubs, a craft village and a farm shop. The location is conveniently situated just four miles from the county town of Newport with its vibrant shops, cinema and restaurants. Top family attractions in Newport include the multi-award-winning Monkey Haven and the spectacular Robin Hill Country Park, both extremely popular with residents and visitors alike. Being centrally located means you are never far from all the wonderful delights that the island has to offer, including the beautiful West Wight with its unspoilt beaches and spectacular coastline. Mainland travel links are located within a 20-minute drive from the property including the Wightlink car ferry from Fishbourne to Portsmouth, the Red Funnel car ferry from East Cowes to Southampton, and the high-speed Red Jet foot passenger service from Cowes to Southampton.
Welcome To Thatchdown
Accessed via double five-bar timber gates, this captivating thatched cottage provides an eye-catching first impression as your enter the gravel driveway with glorious open field views beyond. Continuing with the thatched roof charm and cottage-style windows, an entrance porch provides a light-green wooden front door.
Porch
Featuring a flagstone floor and warm neutral wall decor, this useful space provides ample room to remove coats and muddy boots after those long walks in the surrounding countryside. A multi-pane obscure glazed door with a traditional wall lantern light to the side opens to the sitting room.
Sitting Room (3.91m max x 3.91m (12'10 max x 12'10))
Providing a cosy ambience, this welcoming sitting room features an exposed timber ceiling beam and a characterful brick fireplace housing a cast iron log burner mounted upon a flagstone hearth. Including a window to the front aspect with a radiator beneath, this room has a polished concrete floor and is dressed with white painted walls as well as a warm neutral shade on either side of the chimney breast, adding subtle contrast. A television aerial connection and recessed spotlights are also located here.
Lounge-Diner
Boasting a dual aspect with windows to the front and side offering panoramic rural views, this naturally light room offers an open plan layout to arrange a lounge and dining area. Finished with a solid oak floor and warm neutral walls, this space has a pendant light fixture and is warmed by two radiators. This room provides access to the first floor via a turning staircase which also has shelving and a cupboard beneath. Further contents of this room include a telephone/internet point, a central heating thermostat and an electrical consumer unit installed within the last few years, neatly concealed within a wall-mounted cabinet. A ceiling hatch leads to the bedroom above and an open doorway continues to the kitchen.
Kitchen (3.18m x 2.97m (10'05 x 9'09))
Beautifully refurbished to offer a characterful farmhouse style, this delightful kitchen is fitted with a range of wooden base and wall cabinets in a soft-green shade providing a combination of cupboards, drawers and a traditional plate rack. With metro splashback tiling in white, a chunky wood countertop incorporates a breakfast bar area plus a butler sink beneath a window to the rear aspect, and there is handsome dual fuel Aga cooker in black adding to the character of the room. Enjoying natural light, the room is also illuminated by a dome-shaped pendant shade, two recessed spotlights and undercabinet lighting. With white-painted timber ceiling beams, this room also includes a stable-style door to a boot room and an additional door to a utility room. This space is beautifully finished in fresh neutral shades with a classic tiled floor and a painted, exposed stone wall with dado-height wood strip panelling.
Boot Room (2.26m x 1.09m (7'05 x 3'07))
Featuring a beautiful flagstone floor and a neutral wall decor, this space enjoys a window to the side aspect framing the lovely countryside views and is warmed by a radiator. With a charming stable-style door to the rear garden, this space also includes a pendant light fitting and a ceiling hatch leading to a boarded loft space.
Utility Room (3.40m x 1.88m max (11'02 x 6'02 max))
Finished in a fresh white theme and a grey vinyl floor, this convenient space features dado height strip wood panelling below an exposed stone wall and there is a wood-effect countertop providing space and plumbing connections for three appliances. With a window to the rear aspect, this room also includes a radiator, recessed spotlights, a loft hatch and a regularly serviced Glow-worm combination boiler installed approximately three years ago. Two coordinating doors open to a bedroom and cloakroom.
Cloakroom
With a window to the rear aspect, this convenient space continues with the decor from the utility room and is fitted with a modern dual flush w.c. And a vanity hand basin with a white splashback. A radiator and a recessed spotlight are also located here.
Bedroom One (4.88m x 2.31m max (16'0 x 7'07 max))
This ground floor bedroom enjoys a set of glazed French doors opening to the rear garden and is dressed with a beige textured carpet complemented by a warm neutral wall decor. Illuminated by recessed spotlights, this room also includes a television aerial connection, a radiator to keep the room cosy, and a door to an en-suite shower room.
En-Suite Shower Room
The fresh white theme in this room enhances the natural light from an opaque glazed window to the front aspect and a grey vinyl floor provides a practical, contrasting finish. A double-sized, glazed shower cubicle occupies one of the walls and has a white tile surround and chrome wall controls with a fabulous rainfall-effect fixture as well as a separate handheld attachment. Complete with a modern, wall-mounted vanity hand basin with a splashback panel and a dual flush w.c, the room also benefits from a chrome towel rail, recessed spotlights and an extractor fan.
First Floor Landing
The textured beige carpet from the stairwell continues to the first floor landing and each of the two bedrooms on this floor. Lit by a ceiling light fixture, this space has a series of matching doors opening to the rooms with a few steps up to the bathroom.
Bedroom Two (4.09m x 3.20m (13'05 x 10'06))
With a window to the front aspect, this bedroom exhibits typical characteristics of a traditional cottage with its original cast iron fireplace and textured walls in white and warm tones including a strip wood feature wall. Fitted with a pendant light fixture, this room benefits from built-in, floor to ceiling wardrobes on one side of the chimney breast and a radiator to provide warmth.
Bedroom Three (3.12m x 2.87m (10'03 x 9'05))
Again, featuring the same colour palette as the adjacent bedroom, this room is dressed with wood strip panelling on two walls, up to picture rail height. With a pendant light fixture, the room has a charming recessed shelf above the door frame and a window to the side aspect offers fabulous far-reaching rural views. This space also includes a loft hatch and a radiator to keep the room cosy.
Bathroom
Offering traditional elegance, this spacious bathroom boasts a fabulous freestanding, cast iron bath perched on decorative claw feet with a vintage-style chrome mixer tap incorporating a handheld shower attachment. Featuring a window to the rear aspect with a radiator beneath, the room has a traditional-style suite comprising a low-level w.c and a wall-mounted hand basin with a mirrored cabinet above. This room is lit by an industrial-style pendant light fixture from a white-painted timber beamed ceiling which provides a stylish contrast with the warm neutral wall decor featuring dado-height wood-strip panelling, also in white. Fitted with a charcoal-grey vinyl floor, this beautiful space also benefits from a shaver socket and built-in, floor to ceiling storage cupboards.
Rear Garden
With beautiful open views across neighbouring farmland, this spacious rear garden is mostly laid to lawn and offers a tranquil outdoor environment divided into three spaces. Accessed via a side gravel path from the front driveway, the boot room and the ground floor bedroom, a paved seating terrace spans along the rear of the property and there is an original brick well which has been beautifully retained to create a historical feature of the garden. A lawn area beyond the paved terrace offers a fabulous space to enjoy the picturesque landscape and features a range of mature trees, planting and hedging such as a magnolia tree and an ornamental mini pear tree with a flowering shrub bed beneath. A timber five-bar gate leads to the mid section of the garden which has a wooden potting shed and houses the underground lpg tank for the central heating and a septic tank wastewater system; both installed within the last three years. A further five-bar timber gate opens to the top section of the garden which provides access to a substantial, quality built timber outbuilding (measuring 10’0 x 4’0) offering the option to utilise as a garage, creative studio or home office should power and lighting be connected. Secluded by mature hedging and new timber fencing, this area also provides an additional hardstanding driveway accessed via full-height wooden double gates from the lane.
Parking
A gated gravel driveway to the front provides off-road parking for several vehicles and a further gated driveway to the rear offers a hardstanding for two vehicles as well as a timber outbuilding which could be used as a garage if required.
Thatchdown offers an enviable opportunity to acquire a quintessential English cottage, absolutely filled with character and charm as well as a significant amount of upgrades providing a welcoming and stylish family home. An early viewing is highly recommended with the sole agent Susan Payne Property.
Additional Details
Tenure: Freehold
Council Tax Band: D
Services: Mains water and private drainage, electricity, lpg central heating.
Agent Notes:
The information provided about this property does not constitute or form part of an offer or contract, nor may it be regarded as representations. All interested parties must verify accuracy and your solicitor must verify tenure/lease information, fixtures and fittings and, where the property has been extended/converted, planning/building regulation consents. All dimensions are approximate and quoted for guidance only and their accuracy cannot be confirmed. Reference to appliances and/or services does not imply that they are necessarily in working order or fit for the purpose. Susan Payne Property Ltd. Company no. 10753879.
