Church Lane, Catsfield

**Guide Price £400,000 - £450,000**
Thatch Cottage is an attractive detached property (not Listed) on a wide plot opposite the church in Catsfield. The house requires significant modernisation but offers generous accommodation of some 1,421 square ft over just one floor. There is gated off-street parking and a wraparound garden of 0.25 of an acre.

Thatch Cottage is a highly attractive single storey period property opposite the picturesque church in Catsfield village. The house now requires modernisation but offers enormous scope for improvement and/or redevelopment, sitting as it does on a wide plot of some 0.25 of an acre. There is gated off-street parking and an attractive wraparound garden.
The elevations are part painted pebbledash and part weatherboard beneath a thatched roof. There is mains drainage and oil-fired central heating.

The main features of the property include:
• A path from the front gate to Church Lane leads to the original front door, which is not currently in use, but which opens into the dining room/snug which has a brick fireplace with wooden mantelpiece and tiled hearth, parquet wooden
flooring, half height painted tongue and groove panelling, exposed ceiling beams and an angled bay window overlooking the rear garden.
• Panelled door to the kitchen/breakfast room and a second panelled door leads to bedroom 3, a generous single bedroom with wood strip flooring and a window overlooking the front garden, and a door leading through to bedroom
4/dressing room, with wood strip flooring and a window overlooking the front garden.
• The kitchen/breakfast room is a traditional country-style kitchen with wooden wall and base units, granite worktops incorporating single stainless steel sink unit with drainer; Bosch four-ring ceramic hob and adjacent Rayburn Royal
stove; ceramic tiled floor and central granite-topped butcher’s block/island. This room has a double aspect overlooking the garden and a double glazed door to the side of the house, which is currently used as the front door.
• The family bathroom is situated off the kitchen and comprises a panelled bath with mixer tap and overhead shower attachment, pedestal wash basin, plumbing for washing machine and dishwasher; open storage cupboard housing the hot water tank. Quarry tiled floor and door to separate cloakroom with WC and quarry tiled flooring.
• The conservatory is situated to the rear of the house and is approached from the kitchen. This useful space currently offers additional space for kitchen appliances and storage, has a tiled floor and a panelled timber door leading out to the back of the house.
• A further panelled timber door opens into the sitting room, a nicely proportioned room with parquet flooring, exposed beams to the ceiling, large open fireplace with brick hearth, fitted fire grate with canopy above and bressummer beam.
• From this room a window overlooks and a door leads through to the inner hall/study, a useful split level room with part quarry tiled and part timber flooring, currently used for storage but has historically been used as a study.
• From here a door leads through to the principal bedroom, a bright triple aspect room with a glazed panelled door leading out to the side of the house.
• Alongside the sitting room, bedroom 2 is a striking double bedroom with vaulted ceiling and laminate wood flooring, a double aspect and a panelled timber door leading out to the driveway.
• Adjacent is the separate cloakroom, a room of sufficient proportions that it could potentially be converted into a shower room and currently comprises a pedestal wash basin, WC, attractive tiled flooring, heated towel rail and double
aspect.
Outside
There is a gated driveway from Church Lane that leads to an area of hardstanding providing parking for several cars, and there is also a paved area that is currently home to a large detached garden store room/shed.
The gardens themselves extend to some 0.25 of an acre and wrap around the house.
To the front a split pathway from the gated entrance from Church Lane leads to the several entrances to the house. There are expansive areas of lawn to either side of the house which are bordered mainly by mature shrubs and trees.
In the garden there is a fenced area concealing the oil tank and to the rear of the house a small courtyard garden which can also be approached from the conservatory to the rear of the house.
NB As the house now requires significant refurbishment and is not Listed, sitting
as it does on a large plot, we believe there may be some scope for redevelopment, subject of course to the necessary planning consents.