3 Bedrooms Semi-detached house for sale in Checkendon, Reading RG8 | £ 850,000
Overview
Price: | £ 850,000 |
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Contract type: | For Sale |
Type: | Semi-detached house |
County: | Berkshire |
Town: | Reading |
Postcode: | RG8 |
Address: | Checkendon, Reading RG8 |
Bathrooms: | 2 |
Bedrooms: | 3 |
Property Description
High Meadow is a very pretty semi-detached home, set down a delightful rural lane, built in the 1930's to a period style. The property is beautifully presented with extensive mature gardens which extend to approx. 1/4 of an acre, surrounded by woodland with open farmland to the front. There are three double bedrooms an ensuite shower room and family bathroom, along with excellent well-proportioned living space and scope to enlarge (subject to planning permission).
There is also a barn style timber garage building to the rear, with long driveway and ample parking.
Situated in a wonderful rural woodland setting in the heart of South Oxfordshire countryside and within an area of outstanding natural beauty. Within easy reach of the excellent shopping and leisure activities available in Henley on Thames and Reading. Main line railway services from Reading to London Paddington (approx. 28 mins) Crossrail from 2020 approx. Excellent schools including The Oratory & Oratory prep school, both close by.
Major road networks, including M4, M40 & M25 and London Heathrow, are all easily accessible. Recreation is in abundance, with several golf courses close by, outstanding riding and walking, throughout the Chilterns.
Accommodation
Approached through a hard wood panelled door, hall with quarry tiled floor, cloakroom with WC and wash basin. The hall opens into the dining room with leaded light window to the front, storage cupboard and stairs to first floor.
The kitchen breakfast room is spacious, fitted to two walls, plus island unit, with laminate work surfaces, inset stainless steel sink unit and integrated dish washer, range oven, wall dresser unit with glass display shelves. Oak strip flooring, large exposed timber and leaded light windows to front and rear gardens. Fire place with small wood burning stove. Rear hall with under stairs cupboard, door to garden. Utility room with wall and floor cupboards, plumbing for washing machine and wash basin. There is a good sized study area, double doors which lead to the sitting room, fireplace with brick hearth and wood burning stove, wood strip floor. Double glazed windows to three aspects, French doors to garden.
First floor landing, access to loft.
There are three double bedrooms, the master bedroom, situated to the rear, a double aspect room, with built in wardrobes. En-suite shower room, with fully tiled shower cubicle with Aqualisa shower, vanity wash basin with laminate top and WC. Both the other two bedrooms are double, with built in cupboards. The family bathroom is spacious, with a white suite, bath with large separate walk in shower cubicle, WC and wash basin, airing cupboard with lagged hot water cylinder, storage cupboards and velux window.
Outside
Wide gravel driveway to the front, providing ample parking for 4 to 5 vehicles, this in turn leads to the side of the property, with further grass driveway, leading to the rear. The rear garden is beautifully landscaped, with pergola, climbing plants, spring flowers, bushes and shrubs. Brick boiler house/shed with good dry storage, Potterton oil fired boiler. Adjacent oil tank and small shed.
To the rear is a double open barn style garage with pitched roof, beyond this the garden narrows, with many mature trees along each boundary and private woodland beyond.
Services
Mains electric & water, oil central heating, private drainage.
Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.
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