Cripps Corner Road, Staplecross

**Guide Price £950,000 - £1,100,000**
A beautiful Grade II Listed property with numerous period features, located on the edge of Staplecross village, with outbuildings, swimming pool and private gardens and grounds of about 2 acres.

Description
Solomon’s Garden enjoys an excellent location within a short walk of Staplecross village stores and public house and is a 15th century Grade II Listed house, the elevations being part brick, timber framed with plaster infilling, beneath a hipped thatched roof.
There are wonderful period features within, including inglenook fireplaces and exposed oak timbering, together with the benefit of mains gas-fired central heating and mains drainage.
The accommodation is arranged as follows:
• Oak front door to entrance hall with glazed doors to the dining room and drawing room.
• The drawing room is a triple aspect room with impressive inglenook fireplace with oak bressummer beam and brick hearth, display alcove with glass cupboard to the side. Two built-in oak fronted cupboards and two areas with vaulted ceilings. Door to inner hall, secondary staircase to first floor and double glazed doors to the terrace and garden.
• The dining room has another impressive inglenook fireplace with oak bressummer beam and brick hearth, and has windows overlooking the front garden. The study is a useful triple aspect room with vaulted ceiling.
• The kitchen/breakfast room was added in 1987 and is a wonderful asset to the house, being triple aspect with a wide oak stable door to the terrace and garden. Fitted with a deep glazed butler sink inset into granite work surface with drainer to the side, cupboards and drawers beneath, including integrated dishwasher and electric oven with grill. Gas-fired three-oven Aga. Built-in fridge freezer. Larder cupboard housing the Worcester gas-fired boiler. Central island unit with cupboards and drawers beneath. There is a cupboard below the stairs, and additional storage area. Opening to side hall with stable door to the outside. Cloakroom with WC, wash basin with shelving and storage space below, plumbing for washing machine.
• From the drawing room a door opens to the inner hall with an oak secondary staircase to the first floor and door to a tiled wet room with WC, wash basin, shower and heated towel rail.
• The first floor is approached from the kitchen/breakfast room via the main oak staircase to the landing with storage space and clothes hanging rail. Master bedroom with vaulted ceiling, exposed timbering, built-in wardrobes and access to loft space.
• Bedroom 2 also has a vaulted ceiling and exposed timbering, built-in wardrobe, views over the rear garden.
• Shower room with large tiled shower cubicle, WC, wash basin inset into vanity unit, heated towel rail.
• Bedroom 3 can be approached via the main landing as well as from the secondary staircase ( both these doorways are low) and has a vaulted ceiling and an outlook.
• Bedroom 4 is approached from the secondary staircase and has a vaulted ceiling and exposed floorboards.

Outside
Solomon’s Garden can be approached from the road both by a pedestrian gate with a pathway leading to the front door, and also via a vehicular access with parking for a number of cars, culminating in the garaging 20’6 x 11’1 with single garage to the side.
The larger garage has plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer, together with useful wine cupboard and a ladder giving access to loft storage space. Behind the garage is an excellent garden machinery/implement store of timber construction beneath a pitch tiled roof.
The gardens and grounds form a delightful feature of the property, enjoying great privacy, with a broad spacious west-facing terrace to the rear with steps leading to areas of lawn bordered by box hedging and topiary and dwarf brick walls.
Further steps lead to the heated swimming pool with an electronic cover, inset into a brick and paved terrace. In this area is a timber outbuilding which houses the pool plant equipment and heat exchanger.
The gardens are principally laid to lawn with herbaceous borders and mature trees and shrubs including some wonderful acers, silver birches and mature oak trees.
Discreetly tucked away is a good sized garden gazebo with a paved terrace in front, ideal for outside dining and entertaining, all overlooking the pond with lilies and irises.
To the south of the gardens is an area of light woodland, extending to about 0.9 of an acre, with two separate accesses from the road, some mature trees, dilapidated chicken run and pond.
In all about 2 acres.