Location

The village of Ewshot is situated on the Surrey/Hampshire border north of the Georgian market town of Farnham. Ewshot has a church, village hall and public house. The neighbouring village of Crondall provides further day to day facilities with a village shop/Post Office, two churches, a choice of public houses, cricket ground, golf club and private hospital.   

The attractive Georgian market town of Farnham is about four miles away and offers a range of branded and independent shops and supermarkets including Waitrose. There are a number of coffee shops and restaurants in the town and on the picturesque Castle St and Lion and Lamb Yard. The town plays host to monthly and seasonal markets and the centrally located Malting Arts Centre offers theatre, film and crafts.   The county town of Guildford further provides a full range of shopping, recreational and cultural pursuits.   

Main line stations at Fleet and Farnham and both towns offer a frequent service to London's Waterloo in under the hour. Road connections are excellent with the M3 (Junc. 5) and the A31 both providing swift access to the national motorway network, London and also Heathrow, Gatwick and Southampton airports, London and the South Coast.   

There are a number of highly regarded schools in the area, including a Montessori nursery school, highly acclaimed C of E primary school in Crondall, Church Crookham Junior School, Folly Hill Infant and juniors in Farnham. Fee paying schools in the area include Edgeborough, Frensham Heights and More House Schools in Frensham, Lord Wandsworth College in Long Sutton.   

Recreational and sporting opportunities include tennis at the David Lloyd Centre in Farnham. Local golf courses include Farhnam, Crondall, Hankley Common and Hindhead.   

For outdoor enthusiasts, this part of Surrey offers excellent walking, cycling and riding opportunities directly accessible from the property and also across nearby countryside including Thursley Common, Hankley Common, Bourne Woods and Alice Holt Forest and Frensham Great and Little Ponds.

Description

Tudor Cottage is a beautiful five/six bedroom detached home located on Doras Green, close to the villages of Crondall and Ewshot. Set in gardens of about 2.5 acres, the property is accessed through gates to a sweeping gravel drive with parking for multiple cars, and has a tennis court and various useful outbuildings, including a large garage.

Partly dating from the 1700's, with later additions, the house is part brick, timbered and tile hung and has scenic views of the garden and surrounding countryside. There is a generous entrance hall with plentiful storage and access to all the principal receptions rooms.

The family room is a comfortable space with an ornamental fireplace, with southerly views over the garden. There is also a grand 27ft double aspect drawing room, with an open fireplace with finely carved pine surround and large bay window also enjoying the garden views and French doors out. The dining room, is bathed in natural light with windows on both sides, and leads to the triple aspect eat in kitchen with traditional style timber fitted units. The ground floor also has a cosy beamed office with an impressive ingle nook fireplace, a utility room and a downstairs cloakroom. Accessed from a staircase down from the utility room, are three useful basement rooms, that could be used for a games room or cinema room or simply used as extra storage. One area is fitted with racks and used as a wine cellar.

Upstairs, the primary bedroom is set off in a private wing of the house and benefits from an en suite and dressing room. There are five further bedrooms, four that are double and all are served by two well equipped family bathrooms and one with a separate shower. The sixth bedroom is used as a second office. Accessed via a paddle stairway is a large storage room which has been used as a children's den. All bedrooms have views out over the gardens.

Outside, the gardens feature rolling lawns with a selection of trees and mature shrubs with a mature hedge giving privacy from neighbours.
The private tennis court is suitably fenced off from the garden, which includes a useful outbuilding for storage.