Night Owls, Greenham, RG19

A beautiful detached family home on a small development in a fantastic location – a stroll from Greenham Common and under a mile to Newbury RFC, David Lloyd Health Club & Spa and the town centre. With 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, an enclosed garden and a double garage.

Entrance
A path leads you through the pretty front garden with its beds and evergreen planting to the wide storm porch. Here you have plenty of space and shelter for taking off wellies and wet stuff after a walk on the Common.

Inside
The spacious entrance hall makes quite a statement. There’s a recessed alcove and space for a feature table – both ideal for vases of fresh flowers. From the hallway, you have the WC, the understairs cupboard and doors leading into the sitting room, dining room and kitchen-diner. Stairs take you up to the first and second floors.

Sitting room
Illuminated by wide windows and two ceiling lights, this large lounge offers space for multiple sofas and armchairs, a media centre and more.

The decorative coving is complemented by the stone fireplace, which gives the room an elegant focal point. French doors open into the garden room.

Garden room
Nicely sized with a dwarf wall, decorative floor tiling, French doors onto the patio and garden, and opening windows for a flow of fresh air. With a south-westerly orientation, this gets plenty of natural light.

Dining room
Glazed double doors lead into the generous dining room with its wide window and recessed alcove. A lovely space for family get-togethers and lazy Sunday lunches, this would also make a smart home office.

Kitchen/diner/family room
Glossy black stone-look worktops contrast perfectly with the pale beech-effect cabinets in this horseshoe-shaped kitchen.

Worktops are illuminated by the under-cabinet lighting. The electric double oven is built-in, below the gas hob and extractor hood. A 1½ stainless steel sink with mixer tap sits beneath a wide window looking out onto the rear garden.

The dishwasher and fridge-freezer are integrated, maintaining the smart, unified lines of this shaker-style kitchen.

The kitchen connects seamlessly with the dining/family area, which has ample space for a kitchen table, or perhaps a squishy sofa – perfect for snoozing dogs and chatting visitors to keep an eye on proceedings. The wide French doors open onto the garden with its deep patio beyond.

Utility room
A must-have in a busy house, the utility room has a stainless-steel sink, above and below counter storage and space for a washer-dryer. The secure double-glazed back door leads out to the garden and the gate to the front of the house.

Downstairs WC
Every family home benefits from a downstairs WC. This one has a back-to-cabinet toilet, counter-top basin, obscured-glass opening window and a double radiator. Look up and you’ll notice the attractive feature coving.

UPSTAIRS
A generous galleried landing leads to four double bedrooms, with doors to the airing cupboard and the stairs up to the second-floor fifth bedroom.

Principal bedroom
This spacious, nicely arranged bedroom has two built-in double wardrobes on either side of a door into the large ensuite bathroom.

You’ve ample space for a king-size bed, bedside cabinets and more – perhaps a dressing table, boudoir chair, chaise longue…

Views from the wide window look out over the back garden.

Ensuite
Luxuriously proportioned, you have a large built-in shower enclosure thermostatic shower, bath and cabinets below the two front-facing windows and a shaver socket. There’s plenty of storage alongside the back-to-cabinet loo and semi-recessed hand basin.

Towels are kept toasty warm and dry on the ladder-style towel rail. Walls have half-height tiles with a feature border.

Bedroom two
Two built-in double wardrobes leave this generous double bedroom with plenty of space for your bedroom furniture. The wide windows look out over the back garden and capture the morning sun. With a double radiator.

Ensuite
The built-in shower cubicle has a thermostatic shower and full height tiling, with a feature blue detail that runs around the room.

With a pedestal hand basin, close-coupled toilet, double radiator, shaver socket and obscured-glass window.

Bedroom three
A good single bedroom with a part-mansard ceiling and a wide window looking out to the front of the house.

Bedroom four
Another large double bedroom, this one looks out to the front of the house.

Family bathroom
Half-tiled with a bath, vanity unit and plentiful surfaces for all the bubble baths, shampoos, lotions and potions a busy family bathroom needs.

Towels are warmed and dried on the ladder-style radiator. The toilet is back-to-cabinet, and the hand basin is semi-recessed. An obscured-glass window keeps things light, bright and fresh.

SECOND FLOOR
The top-floor room, accessed via its own staircase, runs the full width of the house, making it a great size and perfect for all sorts of uses – as a home cinema, games or crafting room, space for your model railway or an enviable teenage bedsit. Whatever you’ve always wanted more space for.

Two sets of double Velux windows bring in lots of natural light. There’s plenty of storage in the eaves, keeping the space lovely and clutter-free, and a whole storage room/plant/boiler room, which houses the boiler and unvented mains pressurised hot water cylinder.

Outside
The well-kept back garden offers plenty of scope for all, and is fully enclosed.

The patio, accessed from the kitchen/diner and garden room, is ideal for lounging, alfresco dining and barbecues.

The lawn is enclosed by deep beds, mature shrubs and attractive planting giving year-round interest. A summer house at the far end provides another view and location for lazy afternoons.

Garage
The double garage, to the side of the house, has an up-and-over electric door and a side door that leads into the back garden. While large enough to accommodate two cars, the garage would also make a fantastic workshop, or a combination of the two. With no central pillar and a full width door, this is a ‘proper’ double garage.

Driveway parking is available for at least two cars.

Location
Night Owls is in a wonderfully green and leafy area, with the expansive Greenham Common and its miles of open and wooded walks under 5 minutes’ walk away.

For last-minute shopping and the big weekly shop, Tesco Extra and Newbury Retail Park with M&S, Boots, TK Maxx, Lidl and more, are an 11-minute walk away or a super short dash in the car.

Newbury town centre is a walkable 1.6 miles, with Thatcham 4.5 miles away.

Within the area, you have a fantastic choice of local pubs, Michelin-starred restaurants, a multi-screen cinema, shops and businesses to sample. Newbury Racecourse is just down the road. You’ve a selection of golf courses – Newbury & Crookham being just a 3-minute drive away. David Lloyd health and wellbeing centre is close by. And the unique Living Rainforest and Watermill Theatre are both within easy reach.

Transport links
By car
Night Owls sits on the edge of Newbury, with excellent travel links in all directions – the A34 is close by, as is the A339 – which runs east to Basingstoke and north to the M4.

This family home is easily commutable to London, Cardiff, Oxford, Winchester, Bristol, Gatwick, the south coast and the Midlands, to name just a few destinations.

By train
Trains from Newbury railway station run to Reading and London, with the Elizabeth Line starting at Reading, and to Heathrow and Gatwick airports. To the west, trains run to Exeter St Davids and Penzance.

By bus
Your nearest bus stops are just a 2-minute walk away, offering routes to Newbury bus and train station, Wash Common, West Berkshire Community Hospital, Thatcham and more.

Schooling
According to the West Berkshire Council website, the schools within the catchment area are:
Primary: The Willows Primary School, St Joseph’s Catholic Primary.
Secondary: Park House School.

In addition, there is a wide range of private schooling available, including Elstree, Downe House, St. Gabriel’s, Brockhurst & Marlston House, Horris Hill, Cheam, Marlborough College and Bradfield College.

Services
Mains electricity, gas-fired heating and hot water.
Mains water and drainage.

Connectivity
Broadband, according to Openreach, is full-fibre available at up to 1600 Mbps.
Mobile, according to Vodafone, is “good indoors & outdoors” 4G service, with their 5G service as “good outdoors only”.

Council Tax
The local authority is West Berkshire Council.
The house is Council Tax band G.

Tenure
Freehold.

There is an estate rent charge to cover maintenance of communal areas. For 2024/25 this is £664.80.

EPC rating: C. Tenure: Freehold,