Whatlington Road, Battle

Property Details: - Type: Detached house - Bedrooms: 4 - Bathrooms: 3

Agent: Batcheller Monkhouse - Battle Phone: 01424 317893

<br/><br/>*Guide Price £1,000,000 - £1,100,000*<br/>An attractive and impressive detached family house, in the centre of a generous plot of some 0.77 of an acre, providing a surprising degree of privacy and seclusion. The house is arranged over two floors and offers generous, immaculately presented accommodation.<br/><br/>Gate End is an extremely attractive and well presented detached family house sitting on a large plot of some 0.77 of an acre and set well back from popular Whatlington Road. Battle High Street is some 0.8 of a mile.<br/>The house offers generous accommodation over two floors and there is excellent addition of a detached double garage and store room with generous parking provision.<br/>The elevations are of brick beneath a tiled roof. There is sealed unit double glazing and oil-fired central heating.<br/>The main features of the property include:<br/>Covered storm porch and timber front door to the impressive reception hall with oak flooring and a useful understairs coats and storage cupboard.<br/>The drawing room is a bright well-proportioned room with a double aspect over the garden. There is a painted wooden mantelpiece with marble tiled slips and hearths with a fitted log burner. The chimney breast is flanked to one side with a good range of shelving and storage cupboards. <br/>Opposite is the sitting room (previously used as a dining room), an attractive double aspect room featuring herringbone parquet flooring, with a brick hearth and open fireplace with bressummer beam above. Serving hatch through to the kitchen/breakfast room.<br/>The study/television room is another bright double aspect room with garden views and glazed double doors to the rear terrace and garden. There is a good range of storage and shelving, and the floor is carpeted. The cloakroom has a WC and wash basin and part tongue and groove panelled walls.<br/>The kitchen/breakfast room has quarry tiled flooring and a wide range of painted wooden wall and base units with marble worktops, 1½ bowl stainless steel sink unit with drainer and mixer taps. Traditional style range cooker with overhead extractor, integrated Hotpoint dishwasher. The generous breakfast/dining area enjoys views over the garden, has space for a large fridge/freezer and a useful larder cupboard to one corner.<br/>From the kitchen a part glazed door leads to the rear hall with quarry tiled flooring and a door to the utility area plumbed for the washing machine and providing additional storage. From the rear hall a part glazed door opens into the conservatory which has quarry tiled flooring and a part glazed door out to the terrace and garden.<br/>The spacious first floor landing benefits from a tall window with views over the garden, flooding this area with natural light, and there is hatch access to the loft storage space.<br/>The double aspect principal bedroom is of good size with far reaching views over neighbouring countryside and gardens. An archway leads to the dressing room with a good range of built-in storage and wardrobe cupboards. From here a door leads to the en suite shower room with tiled and glazed shower cubicle, wash basin in vanity unit with storage below, WC, marble tiled floor, and heated towel rail. <br/>Bedroom 2 is also a bright double aspect double bedroom with views over the garden. The en suite shower room has a tiled shower cubicle, wash basin with storage below, and WC. <br/>Bedroom 3 also has a bright double aspect and a built-in wardrobe cupboard. Bedroom 4 is a more compact but comfortable room currently serving as a single bedroom and study.<br/>The family bathroom is extremely spacious with a panelled bath with mixer taps and a separate overhead shower with glazed screen and tiled walls, traditional pedestal wash basin, WC, heated towel rail and a built-in linen cupboard, half height wooden tongue and groove panelling.<br/><br/>Outside<br/>The expansive wraparound garden is undoubtedly a feature, setting the house well back from the road with a surprising degree of seclusion and privacy and a lack of immediate neighbours.<br/>A gated driveway offers generous hardstanding to the front of the house with parking for numerous cars and a path meanders to the storm porch. There is a second pedestrian gate providing access from the road. <br/>The driveway continues to the rear of the property to a five-bar gate opening onto a further area of hardstanding, again providing generous additional parking and giving access to the excellent detached garage/store room with an open carport, alongside which is a smaller garage and a further useful storage room with ladder access to a first floor room which is boarded, has electricity connected and could provide a variety of uses.<br/>The gardens are a delight and surround the house to all sides. There is a large terrace to the rear offering excellent space for al fresco dining and entertaining and an expansive area of lawn. Separate orchard area with a selection of young trees and a fence-enclosed vegetable garden laid to gravel with three large raised beds. <br/>To the front is an additional area of garden screened by a mature hedge, which offers an enhanced sense of privacy. There is a further paved area to one side also suitable for seating and entertaining.