West End Terrace, Winchester, Hampshire, SO22

A beautifully presented, four storey Georgian town house with garage, situated in a highly sought after location moments from the city centre and close to the station. The property offers wonderful interiors that seamlessly blend modern living with its abundance of character and period ambience. This extended home is deceptively spacious and allows in large amounts of natural light with the skilfully enhanced interiors complimenting its many original features. From the upper floors there are far reaching views of Winchester and its landmark Cathedral with an outlook that extends to the countryside beyond. The gardens are generous and complement the home perfectly and 15 West End Terrace offers excellent parking at the rear with a large garage accessed through the rear mews, in keeping with the front of the house with its period setting. The property also has the additional benefit of planning permission for a first floor extension on the garage to include a bedroom and bathroom.

The front door leads through to a wonderful drawing room with handsome open working fireplace, double glazed sash window with shutters, part panelled walls and coved ceiling. Leading through from this part of the house, the kitchen with dining area at the rear is a magnificent space, having been extended in recent years whilst fully capturing the feel of the original building. This room now forms the heart of the ground floor and creates a perfect entertaining or family area with the kitchen offering extensive fitted units and appliances, quality worktops and Aga. The spacious dining area in this room is bathed in light from two large skylight windows and there is a complete range of floor to ceiling sliding doors at the rear that give the feel of bringing the outside into the home. The formal dining room is situated between the kitchen and drawing room and offers a polished wood floor and the same lovely high ceilings and coving, this room also has quality fitted and recessed bookshelves and serves as a perfect office or study if required. A door from the kitchen leads to a quaint inner courtyard with pebbled floor, ideal for a specimen tree visible from the interior of the home.

The split level first floor has the principal bedroom at the front with a range of fitted wardrobes and feature cast iron fireplace, a double glazed sash window looks out to the front and a bank of trees on the other side of the road. The Jack and Gill En-Suite bathroom is spacious and has views to the rear over rooftops and the city centre. A further double bedroom is situated at the rear of this floor and provides an En-Suite cloakroom and the same rooftop and city views. On the second floor a large double bedroom with polished wood flooring provides the most impressive outlook from the home with panoramic views over Winchester, its imposing medieval Cathedral and hills and countryside beyond. A further family bathroom is situated on this floor adjacent to the bedroom. The property provides additional living quarters in the lower ground floor that offers a double bedroom and utility room.

Outside

The spacious rear garden complements the house perfectly with lawn and flower/herbaceous beds, at the foot of the garden the garage is a good size providing ample parking and storage/workshop space. The front garden is well cared for and gated from the pavement.

Location

West End Terrace is a highly sought after road offering a number of lovely period buildings, and a short walk to Winchester city centre with its extensive shops, restaurants, museums and theatre being just some of its many attractions. The famous medieval Cathedral with its magnificent architecture is close by and there are excellent schools in the area including Westgate, Princes Mead, Pilgrims, Twford, Hampshire Collegiate, Winchester College, St Swithuns School and Peter Symonds Sixth form college. There are excellent transport links with the M3 offering road access to London and the national motorway network. Winchester mainline railway station is 800 metres away and provides direct services to London Waterloo.