Waterside Lane,Godalming,GU7 1RN

This beautiful five bedroom home is set deep within ancient woodland on a private road, with a stream at the foot of the west-facing garden and all only a ten minute walk from Godalming's High Street and station.

Approached along a private road with no through traffic, the house is surrounded by mature trees close in on either side, giving a sense of seclusion. A part-glazed entrance opens onto a large, light-filled hallway, where a bespoke staircase rises to the first floor. To one side of the hall, a dual-aspect sitting room stretches to almost 20ft, its scale matched by comfort, and flows through into a bright sun room that draws the eye straight out to the garden and the woodland beyond.

A separate dining room offers a place for entertaining away from the everyday business of the kitchen, while the kitchen and breakfast room itself runs to nearly twenty-five feet. Fitted with generous work surfaces and storage, it opens onto a snug sitting area. A utility room and integral garage with internal access complete a ground floor built around family living.

Upstairs, five generous bedrooms are arranged so that every member of the household has their own space, without the accommodation ever feeling stretched. The principal suite is the standout: generous in scale, with sliding doors that look out over the garden and the trees beyond, and served by its own en suite bathroom. A second bedroom also benefits from an en suite, while three further bedrooms share a well-appointed family bathroom, offering flexibility for growing families, visiting guests or home working. Tall windows over the staircase carry light through the first floor, keeping the woodland setting a constant presence.

Outside is where this home truly sets itself apart. The west-facing garden is tiered to make the most of a naturally sloping plot, moving from a paved terrace off the kitchen and sitting room, down through sweeping lawn and well-stocked borders to a stream that runs along the foot of the garden. Crossed by a small bridge and bordered by an established weeping willow, beyond the stream is mature woodland forming a private, uninterrupted backdrop, with lovely views across to the historic mill pond and the wildlife it draws in. A separate outbuilding provides useful additional storage, while the driveway offers off-street parking for multiples cars ahead of the integral garage.

This is somewhere the everyday rhythms of life sit comfortably alongside quiet evenings by the stream and weekends enjoying the garden. For anyone who is looking for a woodland setting and the convenience of a town on their doorstep, Waterside Lane offers something rather special.

Location Guide:

Waterside Lane sits within one of Godalming's quietest and most sought after corners: a private, no through road tucked into ancient woodland by the old mill, yet only a few minutes' walk from the heart of the town. It's the kind of setting that lets you have genuine peace and quiet at home, and the pull of a proper market town, with its independent shops, cafés close by.

Transport Links

Godalming is around thirty miles from central London, with direct trains to London Waterloo taking under an hour. Godalming station itself, a ten minute walk from Waterside Lane, handles the majority of commuter journeys, while Farncombe station offers a further option a little further north on the same line. The A3 is reachable within minutes, giving a direct road connection to both London and Portsmouth, and Guildford is a straightforward ten minute drive for a larger town centre, or additional mainline services to Waterloo. Heathrow & Gatwick airports are only a 45 minute drive plus Guildford station provides a fast service to Gatwick by train

Education

Families in this pocket of Godalming are particularly well placed for schooling, with multiple options for the junior years. For secondary education, Broadwater School and Rodborough both serve the town, while Godalming College provides sixth form provision with a strong reputation. Independent options are exceptional too: Charterhouse, one of the country's leading independent schools, sits on the edge of town, with Prior's Field School offering further independent provision nearby. And directly across the lane, beside the old mill pond, the new kinderzimmer nursery and pre school brings an eco conscious early years setting right to the doorstep, powered in part by the mill's own historic weir.

Local Attractions

The surrounding countryside is one of Godalming's great draws. The Lammas Lands, historic water meadows that line the River Wey as it approaches the town, are close by and offer some of the loveliest riverside walking in this part of Surrey. National Trust land at Winkworth Arboretum is renowned for its seasonal colour, while Loseley Park brings the formal gardens and history of an Elizabethan manor estate to a Sunday afternoon. The Surrey Hills National Landscape extends to the south and west, with the nature reserves at Thursley and Hankley Common and a genuinely wide network of footpaths and bridleways within easy reach, and Munstead Wood, the National Trust garden designed by Gertrude Jekyll, is a short drive away.

Entertainment and Leisure

At the end of Waterside Lane sits the Inn on the Lake, a lakeside pub and boutique hotel that has just completed a comprehensive refurbishment: a restored bar with a redesigned dining room and a refreshed courtyard and beer garden looking out over the water. It also has twenty newly refurbished bedrooms, handy for visiting family or friends who want to stay close without staying under the same roof. From there, Godalming's High Street punches well above its size for a market town, lined with independent cafés, delis, restaurants and shops alongside the practical everyday offer, and holding a striking concentration of listed buildings that gives the centre real character. On the dining front, Lavika brings grill led Turkish cooking with a Mediterranean sensibility, while the Greedy Elephant has become a firm local favourite for its Thai menu. For drinks and a proper meal, the Fox and Finch is a substantial gastropub with serious food credentials, and the Rose and Crown offers something altogether livelier, a smaller and more characterful pub with a loyal following. Church Street, one of Godalming's prettiest historic streets and the setting used for Cameron Diaz and Jude Law's scenes in the 2006 film The Holiday, is also home to The Star, a pub dating back to the 1600s that was named Surrey CAMRA Pub of the Year in 2024 and Greene King Pub of the Year at the 2025 Great British Pub Awards. For a Sunday afternoon further afield, the Stag on the River in Lower Eashing is an eighteenth century pub that sits on the banks of the River Wey. Guildford, around ten minutes by car or train, provides everything else: a main theatre, larger retail and a lively restaurant scene.