Elm Lane, Calbourne, Isle of Wight.  PO30 4JZ.  £340,000.  Freehold.  CHAIN FREE with VACANT POSESSION.

A really charming, detached, Grade II listed, two bedroom stone cottage set in a large, level plot, adjoining open fields with fine, far-reaching views extending to the Solent.   The home is located in a truly rural position, yet still convenient to both Yarmouth & Newport Towns.  Excellent countryside walks & bridleways are on hand.  The comfortable accommodation comprises a kitchen (benefiting from an oil fired Rayburn), sitting room, dining room (both with open fires) & recently fitted bathroom on the ground floor, with the two double-bedrooms on the first floor.  Oil fired central heating (via the Rayburn) warms the cottage & all fitted carpets are to remain.  Outside a stone garage is attached to the property.  The village of Calbourne is approximately half a mile away offering a family public house & church. The Island’s main town of Newport is approximately five miles away, providing a wide selection of large shops, all level of schools, theatre, etc, whilst the busting yachting town of Yarmouth with harbour & car ferry, is approximately the same distance away.  All in all an ideal holiday retreat or main country home. 

Front Porch

3ft 8in x 2ft 10in.   Half glazed door (with cat flap) & glazed side panels.  Stable door (with cat flap) through to kitchen.

Kitchen

19ft 2in x 7ft 6in (min) plus side box bay window (4ft x 3ft 10in).  Double aspect with front window (overlooking the main garden) & side box bay.  Doors to dining room & bathroom. Stainless steel 1.5 bowl single drainer sink unit with mixer tap.  Oil fired, twin oven & twin hotplate Rayburn (also providing central heating & hot water).  Plumbing for washing machine.  Range of modern floor units, most with tiled splash backs.  Flag stone floor.  Radiator.

Bathroom

9ft 2in x 6ft 10in.  Side window.  Modern white suite comprising panelled bath with mixer tap & shower attachment, pedestal wash hand basin & WC.  Recessed ceiling spotlights.  Flagstone floor.  Chrome towel rail/radiator.

Dining Room

13ft x 12ft 4in (min).  Double aspect with rear & side windows.  Half glazed door to outside.  Door to sitting room. Stairs to first floor.  Fine, brick inglenook fireplace with fitted multifuel room heater & stone hearth.  Beamed ceiling.  Exposed brick & beamed wall.  Exposed & polished wooden floorboards.  Two radiators.

Sitting Room

13ft 10in (into alcoves) x 12ft 10in.  Rear window.  Attractive open stone fireplace.  Beamed ceiling.  Television point.  Exposed & polished wooden floorboards.  Two radiators.

Stairs from dining room leading up to: -

Landing

3ft x 3ft (plus stairwell).  Doors to both bedrooms.

Bedroom 1

13ft 2in x 12ft 2in.  Double aspect with front & rear windows – both with excellent far-reaching views – the former to the Solent.  Two built in cupboards.  Radiator.

Bedroom 2

12ft 4in x 9ft 10in.  Rear window with excellent countryside views.  Built in storage cupboard.  Built in airing cupboard with lagged hot water tank with immersion heater.  Radiator.

Outside: -

The whole, level,plot is totally enclosed & private, & apart from the road frontage adjoins open farmland.  There are two sets of double gates opening onto the road, the main ones opening onto the driveway, providing off road parking for several cars/boat etc to the front of the cottage & leading to the adjacent stone garage (15ft x 12ft approx – double front doors, light & power).  Outside tap.  The surrounding gardens are delightful & well tended; they are mainly to lawn, interspersed with flowerbeds, shrubs & fruit trees etc.  There is also a raised vegetable border.  Greenhouse (8ft x 6ft approx).  Owl box.  Adjoining the rear of the cottage is a paved patio (16ft x 10ft).  An attractive small stone pond in the front garden.  Excellent, far-reaching countryside views are found wherever one is in the garden.

Council Tax Band: - E

Schools: -

Barton Primary tel no 01983 522348

Carisbrooke C of E (controlled) tel no 01983 522348

Newport C of E (aided) tel no01983 522826

Nine Acres Primary tel no 01983 522984

St Thomas of Canterbury Catholic tel no 01983 522747

Summerfields Primary tel no 01983 525085

Christ the King Catholic& C of E  Secondary tel no 01983 523275

Downside Middle tel no 01983 524340

Nodehill Middle tel no 01983 522886

Carisbrooke High tel no 01983 524651

Medina High tel no 01983 526523

Isle of Wight College tel no 01983 526631 www.iwightc.ac.uk

Public

Ryde School tel no 01983 562229 www.rydeschool.org.uk

For clarification we wish to inform prospective purchasers that we have prepared these sales particulars as a general guide.  We have not carried out a detailed survey

nor tested the services, appliances and specific fittings.  Room sizes should not be relied upon for carpets and furnishings.  These particulars are believed to be correct but their accuracy is not guaranteed and they do not form any part of any contract.

Please contact us with any questions before viewing the property, especially if you are travelling from the mainland.

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