Old world charm with amenities

HOSEHILL Farm is a six-bedroom, Grade II listed, 16th century farmhouse, which backs on to a nature reserve and Hosehill Lake, in the hamlet of Hosehill, Sulhamstead.

The property is entered via a reception hall, leading to a sitting room, study, family room, drawing room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room and pantry.

Features include natural oak timbers and beams and feature fireplaces, with oil-fired central heating. There is a self-contained annexe and detached stable/studio apartment, garage and car port.

Upstairs, the main bedroom has an en suite bath/shower room and dressing room, with loft access. The second bedroom is fitted with an en suite and there are four further bedrooms, a shower room and bathroom.

The annexe contains a lounge, kitchen, bathroom, shower and bedroom, while the studio apartment contains a living room/kitchenette, bedroom, dressing room and shower.

There is an indoor heated swimming pool and outside, there is a tennis court and garden hobbies room.

The mature gardens are laid to lawn, with shrubs and trees, in all covering around
3.3 acres.

The property has a total area of approximately 7,536 sq ft (700.1 sq m), excluding eaves, balcony and two stores. Owner, Nicholas Clarkin, has lived there with his family for 20 years. He is ready to move on, to pastures new, straight after Christmas.

Hosehill hamlet is on the fringe of Sulhamstead, a village six miles south-west of Reading.

Theale village and railway station are one mile away, with Paddington a 25-minute journey from Reading via Crossrail. Burghfield is two miles away, Englefield three miles, Mortimer village and station four miles and Newbury
10 miles.

The M4 is reached via Junction 12 of the M4 at Theale, three miles away.

Central London is about an hour’s drive away, with Heathrow Airport approximately 45 minutes. Hosehill Lake is owned by West Berkshire District Council and managed by the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust. It is surrounded by meadows, ponds and sheltered reedbeds and it is open year-round.

There are grazing Exmoor ponies in a fenced meadow in spring and autumn.

The lake hosts a wide variety of waterfowl in winter and nightingales, butterflies and dragonflies in spring. Wetland birds include lapwings, little ring plovers, great crested grebes and bitterns. A large sand martin bank can be seen and in the spring there are house martins, swifts and swallows.

Hosehill Farm has a guide price of £1,695,000. For more information and to arrange a viewing, call Sara Batting on 0118 950 2341.