Ailsa Road, Twickenham, TW1

Fig Tree Cottage is a tastefully renovated detached family home that occupies a fabulous setting within The St Margarets Pleasure Gardens

Description

Beautifully presented this pretty double fronted detached family home, affectionally known as Fig Tree Cottage, provides generously proportioned accommodation that is well balanced and arranged over three floors. The house has a great configuration, allowing equally well for both everyday family and more formal entertaining. It also has really good flow of natural light, by virtue of its large windows and open aspects. The social hub of the house is situated at the rear of the house at ground floor level, where you will find its stunning open plan kitchen/living/dining room, which opens directly onto the delightful veranda. At this level there is also a further reception/family room, as well as an office, a laundry room, a guest cloakroom and a most welcoming reception hall. Whilst upstairs there are four bedrooms, three bathrooms and two dressing room areas, with the principal suite occupying the whole of the top floor.

To the rear of the house there is a beautiful garden which affords excellent privacy and is predominantly laid to lawn with established borders. It also features a summer house, a gate leading directly on to the Lake Grounds and a raised terrace that provides an idyllic space for alfresco entertaining. Whilst to the front of the house there is a generous driveway, providing off street parking for several cars.

Location

The house occupies an enviable position within (and directly backing onto) the beautiful Lake Grounds of the St Margarets Pleasure Gardens (also known as the Trust Grounds). The Lake Grounds are the largest of three grounds (the other two being The River Grounds and The Avenue Grounds) that total around 12 acres, for the exclusive use of its residents. All three grounds feature a seasonal tennis court and there is a fabulous social side to them with annual events such as a children's sports day, a sixties night, a bonfire night, carol singing, a barn dance and a jazz picnic.

With this semi rural backdrop it is sometimes difficult to believe that you are within approximately 10 miles of Hyde Park Corner. Just a pleasant riverside stroll over Richmond Lock foot bridge and you are in Richmond, within a few hundred metres of its sophisticated yet charming shops and restaurants. Richmond train station (within about a mile) provides a rapid and direct service into London Waterloo, as well as the District line tube and overland to Stratford, via North London. Whilst even closer at hand St Margarets Village has a lovely atmosphere, as well as a direct train service in London Waterloo and the wonderful open acres of Marble Hill Park.

Local schools are considered amongst the best in the country and include Kings House School, The Old Vicarage, Kew Green, LEH (Lady Eleanor Hollis), St Catherine's, St Paul's, Hampton School, The Harrodian, Ibstock and the recently opened and much acclaimed Thomas's College.

Square Footage: 2,328 sq ft