Cliff Road Hill Head
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- PROPERTY TYPE
Detached
- BEDROOMS
4
- BATHROOMS
2
- SIZE
2,700 sq ft
251 sq m
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Key features
- Amazing panoramic sea views across the Solent to the Isle of Wight and access to Hill Head Beach in 2 minutes.
- Beautifully presented Edwardian detached family home designed for a modern lifestyle while retaining many of the period features of the era.
- Very comfortable Sitting Room with log burner and views over the Solent.
- Master bedroom with fitted wardrobes, ensuite shower room and sea views.
- The hub of the home is the luxury fully fitted kitchen with spacious family dining and seating areas.
- Fully fitted Cinema room with large screen, projector and surround sound for family film nights.
- Professionally landscaped gardens, well stocked with specimen trees and shrubs.
- Single garage with electric roller shutter door. Parking for 4/5cars in the fully paved driveway.
- Hexagonal Summer House to escape the madding crowd
- Large Amdega garden room overlooking the rear garden.
Description
Meonshore House is a beautifully maintained and modernised Edwardian home built in 1925 which has been sympathetically improved to cater for a modern lifestyle, and yet, has retained many of the period features associated with the Edwardian era. The coastal location is quite simply breathtaking with uninterrupted 180 degree views across the Solent towards Ryde and Cowes on the Isle of Wight and further west down towards Hurst Castle and also into Southampton Water.
The view is never the same as the light is constantly changing creating a variety of cloud formations and amazing sunsets. In the foreground is the Bramble Bank, notorious amongst local boaters as a hazard, but also well known for an annual cricket match held in the summer on the bank at low water between the Island Sailing Club in Cowes and the Royal Southern Yacht Club in Hamble. Access to Hill Head and a short walk to Meon Shore is across Cliff Road down a flight of steps and is very popular with all forms of water sports from Paddle Boarding and Kayaking to Kite Surfing, Wing Foiling and everything in between. There is also the occasional sight and sound of a Spitfire based at Solent Airport that operates scenic flights around the Isle of Wight. If you are looking for a less energetic pastime there is Titchfield Haven Nature Reserve 5 minutes walk from the house which is home to a very diverse variety of native and migratory birds that include Oyster Catchers, Marsh Harriers, Egrets and Brent Geese. Access to marinas in Portsmouth Harbour and the River Hamble are both within easy reach by car.
Hill Head is an exclusive and popular location home to the Hill Head Sailing Club and a small picturesque harbour that dries out at low water into which the River Meon, a well known Hampshire chalk stream, flows into the sea at this point. There is also a popular cafe and the Osbourne View, a very popular beach front pub, which was destroyed by fire in February 2024 is to be rebuilt in a modern contemporary style with a beach bar and more formal dining areas at street level all with views across the Solent. Stubbington Village is 1.5 miles away with a wide range of amenities including a small supermarket, greengrocers, bakery, coffee shops and hairdressers. There is also a pharmacy, a library and a medical centre. The historic village of Titchfield with its 7th century church, the oldest in Hampshire, the ruins of Titchfield Abbey and the Great Barn where it is thought that William Shakespeare first performed Twelfth Night is a delightful place to visit just 2.3 miles away.
The accommodation which has been beautifully maintained and modernised has retained many of the original features associated with the Edwardian era such as the black and white tiled floor in the entrance hall, the internal doors to most rooms and the stairs that lead to the first floor. There is the addition of a porch at the front of the house that leads into the entrance hall which, in turn, gives access to a spacious sitting room that has a large bay window with views out to the Solent and through which the afternoon and evening sun streams and a very efficient Chesneys log burner for cosy winter evenings. To the other side of the hall is another reception room currently used as a study with identical views to the sitting room and which has a cast iron gas coal effect fire in an oak surround with a granite hearth. There are high quality hand built oak bookshelves incorporating storage cupboards to each chimney recess with a matching built in crescent shaped desk and cabinet.
To the rear of the house there is a separate utility room housing a Bosch washing machine, Zanussi tumble drier and stainless steel sink unit and storage cupboards. A very comfortable open plan family living area that includes a luxury fully fitted kitchen installed in 2017 with Shaker style units and solid oak worktops, a double butler’s sink, a walk-in pantry with automatic lighting and a large breakfast bar. Kitchen appliances include a 5 ring gas Rangemaster 100 cooker, Bosch dishwasher and built in fridge. The dining area overlooks the beautifully landscaped rear garden and leads into the cinema room that has a large wall mounted screen (measuring 92 ins on the diagonal), a ceiling mounted Optima projector and surround sound (all available by separate negotiation) ideal for family film nights. Bi-fold doors lead from the kitchen into an impressive Amdega garden room also with views over the beautifully landscaped gardens. There is a cloakroom housing a Worcester Greenstar boiler, serviced annually with multi zoned Hive system for central heating and water and a water softener. Texecom multi-zone burglar alarm with remote access.
On the first floor there are three double bedrooms, all featuring the original Edwardian cast iron fireplaces; the master bedroom benefits from fitted wardrobes and fitted dressing table together with luxury ensuite shower room fitted in 2019. A further guest bathroom also fitted in 2019 serves the 2 other guest bedrooms which also have adjoining dressing rooms with restricted ceiling height but which could easily be converted to ensuite facilities. The spacious landing features a picture window framing the waterside view and which would provide space to create another staircase giving access to the large roof space where a studio or similar could be created with a large apex window looking out to sea. The suggested alterations would all be subject to the necessary Planning and Building Regulations consent.
Outside to the rear of the property is an enclosed and professionally landscaped garden that mixes the formality of well stocked herbaceous borders with the informality of a woodland area which contains a variety of specimen trees that include Himalayan Birch, Bay, Holly and Chestnut trees. There are terraced areas for entertaining and brick pathways that provide access to all areas of the garden including to an attractive cedar hexagonal summer house with power and light and an ornamental pond with a water feature, as well as an aluminium greenhouse and large timber garden tool shed constructed in 2023.
To the front there is an integral single garage with electric roller shutter door and door into the house. The driveway is bricked paved featuring a compass rose and with ample parking for 4/5 cars and/or a small boat with space to turn and exit forwards onto Cliff Road. There is a small shrubbery and it is all enclosed by an ornamental brick wall and 5 bar gate. There is pedestrian access to the rear garden via both sides of the house.
If you have a love of the sea there will not be a better opportunity to buy a home in such an enviable position so close to beaches and all that they have to offer.
Notes:
- The Cinema Room was previously an annex that still retains all the plumbing and electrics so it could easily be returned to that use or converted to a Guest Bedroom Suite with an ensuite bathroom.
- The adjoining property, No 14 Cliff Road, was demolished earlier in 2024 and is being rebuilt with completion anticipated in April 2025. Plans of the design are available on request.
Location:
Gosport Marinas - 6.8 miles
Gun Wharf Quays via Gosport Ferry - 6.4 miles
Portsmouth Cross Channel Ferry Terminal - 12 miles
Hamble - 12 miles
Southampton Airport Parkway - 14 miles
Southampton Airport - 15 miles
Solent Airport (Private Aircraft) - 2.6 miles
M27 J9 - 6.3 miles
Titchfield - 2.3 miles
Prep Schools:
Boundary Oak Wickham
West Hill Park Titchfield
Meon Cross Stubbington
Public Schools:
Portsmouth Grammar
Churchers Petersfield
King Edward VI Southampton
St Swithuns Winchester
Primary Schools:
Crofton Hammond Infant and Junior Stubbington
Secondary Schools:
Crofton School Stubbington
For more information and an appointment to view please contact David Brierley at By Design on or david.
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