Highfield Lane, Thursley, Godalming, Surrey, GU8

Copper Beeches is a wonderful home, superbly modernised, renovated and decorated by the owners. The house now provides elegant reception rooms, charming family spaces and lovely bedroom accommodation.

Outbuildings
Adjacent to the drive is the ancillary accommodation providing a kitchen/reception room as well as games room/gym shower room and store together with a further bedroom on the first floor.

Garden and Grounds
The house sits well within its own grounds with a terrace running along the garden side of the house overlooking sweeping lawns, hedges, specimen and fruit trees to the fields beyond. In addition there is a timber framed gazebo with raised beds partially surrounding a dining area, outbuildings and greenhouse.

Copper Beeches is situated in the heart of the popular village of Thursley. The village benefits from being on the doorstep of Thursley Common, an area of 350 hectares of Surrey heathland, protected as a Site of Special Scientific Interest and is in part a National Nature Reserve and in part owned by the Nation Trust to the south. With origins dating back to Saxon times the village of Thursley lies to the west of the main London to Portsmouth road within The Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Thursley offers a real sense of a rural community.
It is the archetypal English village with 12th Century parish church, the Three Horseshoes pub, village hall, nursery school and cricket pavilion, surrounded by equestrian and farmland.

There is an outstanding selection of schools in the area including Aldro, Puttenham C of E, Waverley Abbey, Barfield, St Hilary's , Amesbury, Barrows Hill, Charterhouse amongst many others. Acorns Nursery and St Mary's primary school, both in Shackleford, have excellent reputations. Godalming
has a good 6th form college.

Recreational opportunities include golf at several local clubs including Bramley, the West Surrey and Hurtmore.

There is polo at Hurtwood Park and Cowdray, racing at Epsom and Goodwood and sailing at Frensham Ponds and Chichester Harbour. Further leisure and entertainments centres can be found at the Spectrum Leisure Centre in Guildford and centres at Godalming and Haslemere provide a good range of activities.

The immediate surrounding countryside offers walking, cycling and riding opportunities in areas that include Hydon's Ball and The Devil's Punchbowl at Hindhead.

Distances
Hindhead 5.4 miles, Godalming 6.8 miles, Milford Station 5.6 miles (London Waterloo from 53 mins), Godalming station 5.9 miles (London Waterloo from 43 mins), Haslemere 8.1 miles (London Waterloo from 57 mins), Guildford 10.2 miles (London Waterloo from 33 mins)

Roads: A3 Thursley 1.2 miles, M25 Wisley (Junction 10) 18.7 miles, M3 Frimley (Junction 4) 18.5 miles
Airports: London Heathrow 33.6 miles, London Gatwick 38.6 miles

(Distances and times approximate)