5 bedroom equestrian facility for sale

Tenure: Freehold

Situated on the outskirts of the town, an individual family home of excellent dimensions with extensive outbuildings, standing in well stocked matured grounds surrounded by paddocks and woodland (available separately).

5 BEDROOMS, 2 BATHROOMS (1 EN-SUITE), 4 RECEPTION ROOMS, KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM, SCULLERY, CLOAKROOM, INTEGRAL DOUBLE GARAGE, TWO SUBSTANTIAL OUTBUILDINGS, FURTHER STORES, MATURE GROUNDS OF APPROXIMATELY 1.83 ACRES, FURTHER PADDOCK AND WOODLAND AVAILABLE SEPARATELY (APPROXIMATELY 5.37 ACRES)


SITUATION    Merry Oaks is situated approximately 1½ miles west of Lymington, between the village of Sway and Lymington town. The New Forest, subject of National Park status, encompasses over 140,000 acres of beautiful open heathland and enclosed woodland, offering many miles of unspoilt riding and walking. The Georgian market town of Lymington offers a wide range of shopping facilities includes various supermarkets, a selection of boutiques and a charter market every Saturday. There are excellent facilities for the yachtsman with 2 marinas with both permanent and visitors moorings on the Lymington River. The forest village of Brockenhurst lies some 4 miles to the north, affording a useful mainline rail connected (London Waterloo approximately 90 minutes).

DESCRIPTION    A fine family home set well back off the Sway Road to the immediate north west of Lymington town. The property was built, we suspect, during the 1970's to provide accommodation arranged over two floors extending to an area of approximately 3,326 sq.ft. Opening off a fine hallway with its associated cloakroom is a superb sitting room with an adjacent garden room and separate dining room that makes for a great entertaining space. Similarly, the property has a separate study with a generous kitchen/breakfast room and scullery. The first floor provides for a total of five bedrooms served by two bathrooms (one en-suite). Externally, the property has tracts of easily maintained lawned gardens that feature a fine array of mature shrubs.

.    Within the curtilage of the property is a fine range of brick block outbuildings providing exceptional storage facilities that would serve a variety of purposes. The property has been in the ownership of the same family for a considerable number of years and would now lend itself a suitable candidate for a programme of modernisation and /or refurbishment. Subject to obtaining the appropriate consents, the site might offer an incoming purchaser considerable scope. In all, a distinctive family home in a fine semi-rural location enjoying a lovely outlook, the whole being with 1½ miles of the thriving town centre and coastline.

ACCOMMODATION

ENTRANCE PORCH    Recessed entrance porch with a tiled floor covering. Obscure glazed panelled door with adjacent side panel opening to:

RECEPTION HALL    A T-shaped reception hall with an exposed natural wood floor covering throughout. Turnaround stairs incorporating a quarter landing ascending to the first floor. Three wall light points. Access to a deep cloaks/store cupboard. Doors to:

CLOAKROOM    Fitted with a white suite comprised of a low-level WC, together with a wall mounted wash hand basin. Tiled wall covering throughout.

DRAWING ROOM    A naturally well room of excellent dimensions, with picture windows to fore overlooking the gardens. Glazed door to side opening to a tiled seating veranda. Recessed ceiling lights. Twin television aerial points. Open archway currently incorporating bi-folding obscured glazed doors opening through to:

GARDEN ROOM    A naturally well lit reception room with two sets of glazed sliding patio doors opening to the veranda and gardens to the side. Recessed ceiling lights. Return doors to:

DINING ROOM    Glazed double patio doors open to a paved seating terrace to the rear with gardens beyond. Return door to kitchen/breakfast room with a further square archway suitable to take bi-folding doors serving an additional dining area to the side that is currently fitted with a full-width range of deep shelved china/glass store cabinets with further overhead storage. Return door to reception hall.

STUDY    Exposed wood floor covering throughout. Fitted with a range of base store cabinets incorporating a kneehole study area. Further range of part glazed overhead display cabinets. Telephone point.

KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM    Fitted with a range of store cabinets to both base and high level with surrounding Formica topped worksurfaces with contrasting tiled relief. Inset twin drainer single bowl steel sink. Inset appliances comprised of an eye-level Electrolux oven and grill and a further Electrolux six-ring gas hob. Space and plumbing for domestic dishwasher. Space for a full height fridge freezer. Ample breakfast seating area. Tiled floor covering throughout. Access to a full height shelved Larder Store Cupboard. Extractor fan. Door through to:

SCULLERY    Fitted with a further range of wood-effect store cupboards to both base and high level with surrounding worksurfaces having contrasting tiled relief. Inset single bowl stainless steel sink. Space and plumbing to side for washing machine. Floor mounted Thorn gas fired boiler for heating and hot water requirements throughout the property, with an adjacent control panel. Part glazed door to tiled side lobby.

ON THE FIRST FLOOR

GALLERIED LANDING    Three wall light points. Access to a deep shelved Airing Cupboard with overhead store cupboards.

BEDROOM 1    A dual aspect room with glazed doors opening to a projecting Balcony. Fitted with a comprehensive range of fitted wardrobe store cupboards to two walls with overhead storage. Vanity area incorporating sculpted sink with overhead storage and further walk-through door to:

EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM    Fitted with a coloured suite comprised of a panelled bath set in a tiled surround with matching low-level WC, pedestal wash hand basin and bidet. Separate enclosed tiled shower cubicle. Contrasting tiled relief to principal walls.

BEDROOM 2    Affording a similar delightful outlook across the surrounding countryside. Glazed door opening to a projecting tiled Balcony. Fitted with a vanity wash hand basin with an overhead strip light and shaver point having a range of base store drawers and cupboards. Built-in double wardrobe cupboard with overhead storage.

BEDROOM 3    Access to overhead roof void. Wall mounted wash hand basin with fluorescent strip light and shaver point. Fitted double wardrobe with overhead storage space.

BEDROOM 4    Fitted double wardrobe with overhead storage space.

BEDROOM 5    Fitted double wardrobe with overhead storage space. Wall mounted wash hand basin with fluorescent strip light and shaver point.

BATHROOM    Fitted with a coloured suite comprised of a panelled bath with concealed plumbing to an overhead wall shower, together with a matching pedestal wash hand basin. Tiled wall covering.

CLOAKROOM    Low-level WC. Pedestal wash hand basin. Contrasting tiling to walls.

OUTSIDE    The property itself is set in fine well-maintained lawned gardens (approximately 1.83 acre in total) which incorporate a diverse array of mature ornamental shrubs providing colour and interest throughout the seasons. To the rear is a light area of Orchard. Adjacent to the property is a crazy paved and/or traditionally paved seating terrace with raised stone planters. Approached off the road over a sweeping tarmac drive providing ample unobstructed areas of parking suitable for a number of vehicles, the drive terminates with the property and the:

INTEGRAL DOUBLE GARAGE/WORKSHOP    With an up-and-over door. Power and light connected. Within the garaging complex there is a useful Inspection Pit.

.    To one side of the property the drives runs past and leads to a range of substantial Outbuildings of essentially brick and block construction, as follows:

OUTBUILDING 1    Of brick and block construction being surmounted by a corrugated roof. Clad in part by ornamental climbing hydrangea and Virginia creeper.

OUTBUILDING 2    Providing an open drive-through facility of ventilated block construction. The barn has been subdivided by corrugated panelling to provide for an additional Workshop/Store. The barn is surmounted by a pitched corrugated roof.

GREENHOUSE    Of timber and glazed construction surmounted by a corrugated roof.

SEPARATE LAND    A block of fenced paddock land and a belt of standing woodland that effectively horseshoes the property can be made available for an additional sum of £100,000. This plot extends to an area of approximately 5.375 acres.

SERVICES    Mains gas, water and electricity. Private drainage. The services and equipment remaining with the property have not been tested by John D Wood & Co. and we are unable to verify that they are in working order.

FIXTURES & FITTINGS    All items usually denominated as fixtures and fittings, apart from those mentioned specifically in these particulars, are excluded from the sale.

VIEWING    STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT through John D Wood & Co. (01590) 677233.

DIRECTIONS    From Lymington take the A337 in a northerly direction out of town in the direction of Brockenhurst. On passing the Toll House Public House turn left in Sway Road. Continue along Sway Road for a distance of approximately one mile where the splayed approach serving the property will be seen on the right hand side the property being set well back from the road behind its own paddockland.