11 bed detached house for sale

Headley Hill Road, Headley, Hampshire GU35

Once owned by Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac fame, Benifold is a handsome detached Edwardian residence offering over 10,000 sq ft of sensitively modernised accommodation arranged across three floors. Period features have been retained throughout, including large sash windows, high ceilings, generously proportioned rooms, and original fireplaces. Designed to create an exceptional family and entertaining environment, the accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with feature fireplace, cloakroom, and a wine room. Living spaces include drawing, sitting, study, and snooker rooms, as well as a playroom and a stunning kitchen/breakfast room that opens into a family room with fireplace, and a dining room with a large bay and French doors to the garden. The kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and base units, a breakfast bar, Aga, modern integrated appliances, and a large skylight. It also has direct access to a walk-in larder and pantry and a well equipped utility room.

There is also a second cloakroom, boot room, interconnecting wood store, and an additional door to the garden. An impressive staircase rises from the reception hall to the first floor which provides a principal bedroom with fitted dressing room and en suite bathroom, five further bedrooms, one with en suite bathroom, and three with French doors to an extensive 55 ft terrace, and two further family bathrooms. The property’s four remaining rooms, with two further bathrooms, can be found on the second floor, together with an annexe with a living room with kitchenette, bedroom and shower room.

Approaching along a quiet tree-lined road and a sweeping in-and-out gravelled driveway providing private parking, Benifold sits centrally within its 6.98 acre plot. The landscaped mature formal garden has expanses of level lawn interspersed with mature trees, providing a high degree of privacy, and features a swimming pool with paved surround and pool house with sauna and shower room, an all-weather tennis court, a kitchen garden, orchard and an area of woodland together with paved terraces, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.

Headley and the nearby village of Arford offers amenities including a church, village hall, local store, newsagent, delicatessen, hairdresser, gp surgery, chemist, pubs and a primary school, surrounded by acres of National Trust land. Churt village has a shop, newsagent, church, village hall, infant school and cricket ground, while Bordon town centre has amenities including Tesco and Lidl supermarkets. Comprehensive facilities are also available in Grayshott and Liphook villages and in Haslemere and Farnham. The wider area provides opportunities for walking and riding at Waggoner’s Wells (Grayshott), The Devil’s Punchbowl (Hindhead) and Blackdown (Haslemere). Communications links are excellent: The A331/M3 and A31/A3 link to the motorway network, London and the south coast, Southampton, Heathrow and Gatwick airports are all readily accessible and Liphook station (5.5 miles) offers regular services to central London (London Waterloo from 63 minutes).