5 bedroom house

Longridge House is a substantial family home that has been extended to create spacious light and airy living accommodation with a flexible layout including a 10m indoor swimming pool. The main reception room is the impressive, 32ft drawing room with its fireplace and dual aspect, which welcomes plenty of natural light. There is also a useful study with a bay window to the front and a formal dining room with fireplace overlooking the south-facing rear garden, while the modern orangery provides further attractive living and entertaining space, with its ceiling lantern skylight and bi-fold doors opening onto the garden. The well-proportioned kitchen and breakfast room has wooden units providing plenty of storage, integrated Miele appliances, an AGA and space for a breakfast table.

The first floor has five comfortable double bedrooms, including the principal bedroom with fitted storage and an en suite bathroom and another bedroom which is en suite. The first floor also has a family bathroom and a separate shower room.

In addition to the living accommodation, the house also includes a stunning indoor heated swimming pool with changing and showering facilities and a gym, providing a setting to exercise all-year round.

EPC rating D.

The house sits in beautiful gardens and grounds, which total around 1.35 acres and include magnificent views to the south, across the surrounding countryside. At the entrance to the house, a five-bar gate opens onto a gravel driveway with plenty of parking and access to the stone-built barn, which may be used as a garage or workshop, or converted into further accommodation, subject to the necessary consents.

The south-facing garden to the rear includes paved terracing extending across the back of the house from the orangery, as well as extensive lawns and meadows, a vegetable garden with raised beds, various mature trees and shrubs, a treehouse and established boundary hedgerows, providing privacy.

Longridge House is set in a superb location, on the edge of the village of Dockenfield on the Surrey/Hampshire border, set within the South Downs National Park. Dockenfield is an active and vibrant village which offers a church, the popular Bluebell pub and many well supported community events and clubs including the annual Dockenfield Day village fete, Horticultural Society, Local History Group, Village Lunch, Pilates in the church hall and more.

The nearby villages of Frensham and Rowledge boast a variety of local facilities including a village shop, Post Office, butcher, public houses, cricket and tennis clubs and excellent schools. There is sailing and fishing at the National Trust Frensham Ponds and many well-regarded golf courses close by. Nearby Alice Holt Forest () provides ample opportunity for walking, riding, cycling and outward-bound activities. The Shipwrights Way, a 50-mile scenic cycle route to the south coast is adjacent to the property.

The pretty Georgian market town of Farnham provides the area with an excellent range of shopping and leisure facilities, with more extensive facilities of Guildford a little further afield. The train station at Bentley is just three miles away with trains to London Waterloo in about an hour.

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