4 bedroom detached house for sale

*Guide Price £575,000 - £625,000*
An extremely attractive Grade II Listed detached period house in the popular Collington area of Bexhill-on-Sea, offering much charm and character, with generous parking and a lovely and mature rear garden of about 0.21 of an acre. CHAIN FREE

Vine Cottage is an attractive detached Grade II Listed house of character in the popular Collington area of Bexhill, just over half a mile from Collington station and approximately 1 mile from the seafront.
The house is arranged over two floors and offers some 1,877 square feet of well planned accommodation. There is ample parking to the front and a pretty and mature rear garden.
The elevations are brick and part tile hung beneath a tiled roof and there are leaded
light windows.

The main features of the property include:
• The brick pathway leads under a covered loggia to the front door which opens into the impressive sitting room of much character with timber beams to the ceiling and walls, large brick inglenook fireplace with bressummer beam
above, fitted log burner within a quarry tiled hearth. There are wide original floorboards and a double aspect with leaded light windows overlooking the front and rear garden. Doors to the inner hall.
• The useful study has an excellent range of fitted bookshelves and a desk, exposed ceiling beams and a brick open fireplace with tiled hearth flanked by storage cupboards and shelves above.
• The dining room also features wide original floorboards, brick fireplace with tiled hearth and open fire, leaded light windows overlooking the rear garden. Built-in storage cupboard.
• The well-appointed kitchen/breakfast room is arranged in two sections with the smaller section having a 1½ bowl ceramic sink unit with mixer taps and drainer; four-ring induction hob with overhead extractor; range of painted wooden and glass-fronted wall and base units with co-ordinating wooden worktop; integrated under-counter fridge. A panelled door leads to the pantry with fitted shelving for storage and a tiled floor.
• The larger section of the kitchen is home to a built-in Aga stove and a further extensive range of painted wooden and part glass-fronted wall and base units with co-ordinating wooden worktops. Separate Zanussi oven and integrated
Electrolux under-counter freezer. This whole area features a quarry tiled floor and there is ample space for a breakfast area, suitable for more casual dining.
• Cloakroom with half height tongue and groove wood panelled walls, WC and wash basin, quarry tiled floor.
• Just outside the front entrance to the kitchen is a utility/boot room which houses the boiler and is plumbed for the washing machine.
• The first floor landing has exposed beams to the walls and hatch entrance to loft storage space. Built-in linen cupboard.
• Panelled timber door to the principal bedroom, a generous double bedroom with a double aspect, one window overlooking the rear garden. There is a deep open storage area under the eaves and a second storage area which flank the
dormer window to the front.
• Bedroom 2 is another good size with a recessed open storage/hanging area, exposed beams, painted timber panelled ceiling, painted brick wall, leaded light windows overlooking the rear garden.
• Bedroom 3 is another double bedroom with a double aspect, exposed beams and painted timber panelled ceiling.
• Bedroom 4 is a single bedroom with exposed beams to the wall and painted timber panelled ceiling.
• The family bathroom has fully tiled walls and floor, panelled oval corner whirlpool bath, separate tiled and glazed shower cubicle, wash basin, heated towel rail and leaded light window to the front. Adjacent is a separate WC with
tiled floor.

Outside
To the front of the house is a brick paved driveway providing parking for several cars
and with the benefit of an electric car charging point. There is an original brick well and a covered loggia area.
A paved brick pathway with arbour above leads to the mature rear garden with a range of trees and shrubs and a pretty ornamental pond with a bridge over. There is a very large garden storage room alongside which is a smaller storage room which currently houses the logs and there is a small garden shed to one side.
The garden offers a variety of different areas suitable for al fresco dining and entertaining and mature beds for those keen on gardening.
In all about 0.21 of an acre.