The Country House Company has been appointed to sell this charming 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom,
village house with a garage, additional off street parking and a charming south facing garden. The
house is in Hambledon, a highly popular village. The guide price is £950,000.
This delightful period village house provides charming family accommodation in the heart of
Hambledon. The brick and timber framed Grade II listed property dates from the early 16th century
and exhibits many lovely characteristics from that era with exposed beams and brickwork, a few
surviving wattle and daub panels, early mullion window detailing and a beautiful inglenook fireplace
to the dining hall albeit now closed off. The dual aspect sitting room provides views to the village
and also over the garden towards the down land hillside behind where race horses are trained. The
kitchen has a breakfast area, AGA and from here one can reach the family room.
There are 5 bedrooms including a light, spacious and voluminous master suite with dressing area,
very good fitted cupboard space and an en?suite bathroom with separate shower. There is also an
en?suite shower room to one of the further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
The property enjoys the morning sun to the front of the house and benefits from a gravelled
driveway for at least 4 cars, turning area and garage. The enclosed rear garden is mainly walled,
predominantly laid to lawn and orientated to the south and west.
For a viewing please call Patrick on 02392 632275.
On occasion our visits to see homeowners are about longer term and associated relationships and a meeting in Itchen Abbas earlier this week was one those instances. I am always fascinated by people’s proposals for major projects, in part born out of my deep held interest in architecture from a young age. A tour of the existing house moved on to a detailed discussion and review of the plans they have had drawn up to significantly re-model the house. Increasing the square footage by probably 40% and re-configuring some of the rooms will transform the house. I made a few suggestions, one of which they very much appreciated and will implement in the next round of plan amendments.
My visit was to assess the current likely sale price providing detailed reasoning for our opinion and then considering the effect of the significant works they propose on the ultimate likely sale price once complete. They were clear from the first telephone call that they would only sell now if the numbers weren’t viable. Fortunately for them, my deliberations concluded that they are and their plans will now progress to the next stage comfortable in the knowledge that the current and future likely sale price justify the significant investment they are about to make. They’ll almost certainly spend many years at the house once transformed. Whilst I may still be at The Country House Company when they do sell, the very great likelihood is that I won’t and in the meantime their very evident gratitude might prompt them to talk to friends and neighbours about our no obligation input and that we might benefit because we have offered best advice and not been tempted by short term gain which has never been our ethos.
Patrick Glynn-Jones
Credit to Rightmove who are making a major change to the management of agents and new listings on their site.
Unscrupulous agents will no longer be able to launch and then a few weeks later, take that same property off Rightmove in order to match out (property alert) to Rightmove subscribers again. Some properties are repeatedly removed and re listed and this is distorting the market data and deceiving. Neither will doing this within 14 weeks of the initial launch change the ‘Listing Date’ of the ORIGINAL launch….another method used by some to give the impression that the house has been on the market for a shorter time than is actually the case. This new policy will give buyers an accurate picture on marketing history and not deceive prospective buyers which is what happens currently when agents adopt this policy.