£975,000 /Sale price

A spacious 5-bedroom chalet style house with impressive, adaptable accommodation in excess of 3,000 sq. ft. standing in a beautifully maintained plot of approximately 0.64 acre. NO ONWARD CHAIN.Sandlewood is a substantial detached chalet-style house dating from the 1960s with significant later additions that sits in a private, mature garden plot of 0.64 acre within the popular village of Sandleheath. The well-arranged accommodation is laid out on two floors and provides an excellent combination of versatile living rooms coupled with five spacious bedrooms. The impressive proportion throughout is uniformly generous and the house and gardens have been maintained in immaculate condition. Further scope for enlargement or an annexe if required (subject to planning permission) is offered by the sizable attached garage with an attic/store room over. The internal condition is reflected outside by the beautifully maintained garden within which are several useful outbuildings, not least the high level car/motorhome port and attached single garage/workshop.The property is located close to the centre of the sought-after village of Sandleheath, a thriving community home to a shop, a village hall that hosts numerous community events, a church, tennis club and scout hall. The Avonside town of Fordingbridge (approximately 1 1/2 miles) offers a wider range of shops, a building society, a library, a choice of restaurants and pubclic houses, and an excellent health centre. The local area is blessed with reputable schools in the state and private sectors; Western Downland at Rockbourne and Damerham, Fordingbridge Infant and Junior School, Burgate Secondary and Sixth Form and Forres Sandle Manor and a school bus serving the Fordingbridge schools runs through the village. The local road network supplies convenient access to the regional employment and commercial centres of Salisbury, Bournemouth and Southampton; all provide mainline links to London and there are airports at the latter two. The surrounding countryside provides myriad walking, riding and cycling opportunities via a number of paths and bridle ways, whilst the New Forest National Park lies approximately 3 miles to the East.A pair of electric wrought iron gates open onto a long gravel driveway with automatic lighting that sweeps down to the front of the property where there is ample parking and turning space. The driveway passes a 2-bay CAR PORT of brick and oak framed construction, leading to the attached DOUBLE GARAGE with twin up-and-over doors and power and light connected. Within the garage an internal staircase rises to a useful ATTIC/STORE ROOM which could offer conversion potential for alternative use (subject to any releVant planning pemrission). At the rear of the garage is a WASH/DRYING ROOM with heated floor. The driveway passes to the front and side of the property leading to a further CARPORT with high open frontage suitable for a motor home and an adjoining SINGLE GARAGE/WORKSHOP with up and over doors. The house sits centrally in its garden with an expansive lawn to the front bordered by a well stocked shrub bed. The lawn continues to the side and rear where there is a generous brick patio with flower borders and a further lawn that runs to an area of attractive light woodland. In the rear corner is a SUMMERHOUSE with power connected and a LOG STORE. There are 4 water taps at various intervals in the garden. The property as a whole is securely enclosed by stock proof fencing.New Forest District Council. Band F.All mains services are connected. Gas fired central heating.Leave Fordingbridge High Street travelling in a westerly direction (sign posted Sandleheath/Damerham) and continue along Station Road into Sandleheath. Pass the village hall and after approximately 100 yards turn right into the private drive that leads to Sandlewood.