Up Somborne, Stockbridge, Hampshire, SO20

Springfield House is a versatile detached family home in a peaceful setting and with exceptional long views in a westerly direction.

The ground floor drawing room offers ample space for relaxing and entertaining, an attractive focal point of a brick fireplace with log burner and a large bay window with appealing views over the rear garden. There are two further reception rooms, currently being used as a library and generously proportioned study and the kitchen/family room provides plenty of space for informal, open plan living and features exposed wooden flooring and an AGA.

On the first floor there are five bedrooms, one of which benefits from an en suite shower room. The sizeable principal bedroom has long, sweeping views of the surrounding counytrside to the west. Two further bathrooms, one with a separate walk-in shower, completes the first floor accommodation.

This house is located in the hamlet of Up Somborne on a peaceful lane surrounded by beautiful countryside and within a short drive from the desirable town of Stockbridge to the west and the city of Winchester to the east.

The nearest shops and amenities are to be found in Stockbridge where several pubs, cafes, a delicatessen, a small supermarket, a greengrocers and various boutiques and galleries exist. Larger supermarkets and day-to-day amenities can be found in Winchester which provides excellent travel links to London (58 minutes to London Waterloo by train), and a variety of leisure and entertainment facilities. The road networks of the A303, A34 and M3 are nearby providing access to London, the Midlands and the South West and West country.

The choice of local schools is also excellent, with several good or outstanding-rated primary and secondary schools and independent schools such as St Swithuns, Princes Mead, Pilgrims, Winchester College and Farleigh.

Footpaths from the village, head in all directions including to Farley Mount where the Clarendon Way can be joined.

Springfield House sits well within its plot with a front garden laid mainly to lawn and with a gated gravelled driveway leading to the front of the property. There is also a brick-built double garage and workshop. The outlook to the front is towards open countryside protected under an SSSI classification thereby protected from development. The total plot amounts to in the region of 1.1 acres much of which is behind the house and has been carefully landscaped comprising a broad range of level lawned areas, hedges, shrubs and long-established trees and borders. A raised deck accessible from rooms at the back of the house, takes advantage of the southwesterly views and provides space for outdoor dining.