4 bedroom detached house for sale

A fantastic 1930's detached home with grounds of nearly half an acre and situated within half a mile of the village shops and main line railway station.


This impressive four bedroom detached house offers the next owner a home with generous grounds, character features and a quiet, tucked away location half a mile level walk from the village shops and mainline railway station.
Approached via ornate gates and a sweeping driveway, Longacre House is a delightful home with well-proportioned rooms and high ceilings. The front door opens into an entrance lobby which in turn opens into a spacious hallway. There are stairs to the first floor and doors to the drawing room and dining room. A corridor off from the hallway leads to the kitchen and downstairs cloakroom. The elegant drawing room is triple aspect and has a large bay window overlooking the front garden. A glazed door leads through to the sun room which has doors out to the front garden and connecting door through to the dining room. The kitchen is well-equipped and is fitted with a matching range of cupboards and drawers and an oil fired AGA. A door leads to the utility room which has further cupboard storage, a store room housing the gas-fired central heating boiler, and an additional sink. To the far end of the room there is a shower room as well as a door out to the driveway. An additional doorway from the utility room opens through to a snug, which in turn has and archway to a garden room, with sliding patio doors out to a terrace, with the swimming pool and rear garden beyond.

Upstairs there is a spacious landing with access to eaves storage and an airing cupboard. There are four double bedrooms, a family bathroom and separate cloakroom. Bedroom one is above the drawing room and shares a similarly large footprint. There is an en-suite bathroom with a roll-top style bath and matching classical style pedestal wash basin and WC.
The second bedroom has a wash basin to one corner and the fourth bedroom has a shower enclosure. The space offered within the bedrooms and the existing plumbing connections provide the possibility of remodelling the layout should this be desired.

OUTSIDE: The gardens are a true delight and the nature of the plot ensures a sunny aspect is attainable within the grounds throughout the day. Much of the gardens are lawned and there is certainly potential to create a vegetable patch or add a timber home office. The rear garden has a swimming pool and the extensive driveway terminates at a detached garage with barn style doors, power and light.

AGENTS NOTE: This superb home has great potential and really should be viewed to fully appreciate all that it has to offer.

LOCATION: The property is well-positioned in a secluded location and is a comfortable near level walk to the village amenities and station. Liss village, situated in the South Downs National Park, provides shops for all day to day needs, mainline station and schools for infants and juniors, and being in the catchment area for the highly regarded secondary schools of Bohunt in Liphook and TPS in Petersfield.
In the heart of the village is Liss Triangle, the local community centre. This wonderful former village school offers a number of facilities and provides the location for numerous clubs and societies, First Steps pre-school and the Triangle after school club. There are also fitness classes, a coffee shop and cinema events. The village also has a modern sports pavilion which serves as the home to 1st Liss Scouts as well as additional clubs and societies.

The A3 bypasses the village, providing easy access to the south coast and the M25 and London to the north. The opening of the Hindhead tunnel has enhanced the attraction of this sought after location, potentially attracting people wishing to move out from the traditional commuter belt and suburbs but still being able to return there for work. The other nearby towns of Petersfield, Alton and Haslemere are all easily accessible, as are the cities of Chichester and Portsmouth.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: The property is a traditionally built, freehold detached house. It is connected to all mains services and has gas fired central heating. The AGA is oil fired. The local authority is East Hampshire District Council and the council tax band is G. The EPC Rating is Band D. For further information including broadband speed and mobile phone reception, please see the separate link on the online listing.