5 bed detached house for sale

Southampton Road, Alderbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire SP5

Oak House is a wonderful family home offering 3,541 sq ft of light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over three floors. Configured to provide a cohesive and practical family and entertaining environment, the accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with useful cloakroom. It briefly comprises a central rear aspect dining room with exposed wooden flooring, a walk-in store and French doors to the terrace. Doors from the dining room open to a dual aspect study and to an angled dual aspect sitting room with a feature open fireplace and French doors to the rear terrace. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a dual aspect kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen has a range of wall and base units, a large central island with breakfast bar, complementary work surfaces and splashbacks, and a door to a fitted utility room with a door to the front aspect. The breakfast area has space for a table for more informal meals and French doors to the rear terrace.

Stairs rise from the dining room to a generous first floor landing with useful storage. It gives access to an angled dual aspect principal bedroom with a fitted dressing area, built-in wardrobes and an en suite bathroom with freestanding bath and separate shower. The first floor also houses three further double bedrooms and a family bathroom with freestanding bath and separate shower. One of the bedrooms has a built-in wardrobe and two have eaves storage, one of the latter also benefitting from an en suite bathroom with bath and separate shower.

A separate staircase rises to the vaulted second floor, giving access to the property’s remaining bedroom with eaves storage and an en suite shower room and to a gym, suitable for use as a further bedroom if required.

Set within a wonderful south westerly mature gardens and grounds, Oak House is approached through electric automated double wooden gates and over a gravelled driveway providing private parking and giving access to the detached double garage. The well-maintained garden is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked shrub beds and mature hedging. It features numerous seating areas, a garden store, an area of light woodland and a paved terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining. There are seating areas to the rear of the house and at the top of the garden where there is a view to surrounding fields.

Situated just under 4 miles south east of Salisbury and to the east River Avon, the historic village of Alderbury features a church, village hall, shop, pub, recreation ground, tennis club, sports and social club and primary school. Salisbury offers independent and high street stores, shopping centres and extensive leisure and cultural facilities including restaurants, a theatre, cinemas and museums. Extensive amenities can also be found in Southampton. There are several golf courses close by and transportation links are excellent: The A36 links to the A303 and A338, giving access to major regional centres, the motorway network, London and the West Country, and Salisbury station (4.6 miles) offers regular mainline services to London Waterloo.

The area offers a good selection of state primary, secondary and grammar schooling including Bishop Wordsworth’s CofE Grammar School (rated Outstanding by Ofsted) together with independent schools including Godolphin, Salisbury Cathedral and Chafyn Grove.