Location

April Cottage is situated on Woodlands Road, an attractive tree lined road within the sought after Southborough conservation area.
Ideal for commuters, the transport links are excellent with Surbiton station is just 0.8 miles away which provides regular and direct trains into London Waterloo from 17 minutes. Central London (about 17 miles) can be accessed by car via the A3 and the motorway network (M3, Junction 1) is about 7 miles away. Heathrow and Gatwick airports are located 12 and 24 miles away respectively.

Surbiton offers a wide range of shops, bars, restaurants and other amenities whilst nearby Kingston-upon-Thames is a beautiful riverside walk, with its extensive shopping centre. Comprehensive leisure and recreational opportunities are available in the local and wider surrounding area, including parks, golf courses, tennis clubs, racing at Sandown, the Rose Theatre in Kingston, cinemas and a wide choice of restaurants and bars. The world famous royal palace at Hampton Court is just 2 miles away as is Bushy Park and the River Thames nearby offers opportunities for boat hire, boat rides and riverside walks.

The area is very popular with families as there is an excellent selection of schools available to all age levels, both in the state and private sector, including Shrewsbury House (preparatory, for boys, 7 – 13), Surbiton High School, Hinchley Wood School, Thames Ditton Infants, The Tiffin School, Tiffin Girl's School, Weston Green and Kingston Grammar School. The ACS Cobham International, Claremont Fan Court and Danes Hill schools are also within easy travelling distance.

Description

Set within a generous 0.59 acre plot, April Cottage is an Arts and Crafts style home full of character and listed as a house of 'Townscape Merit'.
Approached through electric gates onto a long gravel driveway, you enter the property via an archway which brings you into a large courtyard. The house is surrounded on all sides by delightful mature gardens. Built in the 1920's, this charming family home has many features which predate this era with reclaimed period materials such as old Sussex roof tiles, an enormous oak front door, oak floors, eyebrow windows, period fireplaces and beams.

The house is entered through the magnificent front door into a light and spacious oak-floored entrance hallway. The ground floor accommodation includes a large drawing room with working fireplace which leads through to a stunning west-facing Amdega conservatory with tiled floor overlooking a delightful walled garden with sunken pool and decking.
From here you step down into the breakfast room which benefits from double doors out to the patio and outdoor kitchen area and is open plan to the kitchen. The kitchen is characterised by beautiful flagstone flooring, a vaulted ceiling at one end and wooden beams. White shaker style units and wooden worktops compliment a large Britannia range oven adjacent to which is a built-in deep fat fryer. A utility room and cloakroom located off the kitchen with a useful external door as well as a guest cloakroom located off the entrance hallway.
The delightful reception room sits in the heart of the home and is a truly remarkable space with wooden flooring, a beamed ceiling and fabulous working fireplace. The far wall benefits from floor to ceiling fitted cupboards and shelving and two sets of double doors open out to the front of the property as well as a door to the rear proving beautiful views on both sides.

The first floor offers an impressive principal bedroom with en suite and dressing room. There are three further bedrooms and two further bathrooms on this floor.

The property also includes an attached annexe/cottage with sitting room, study, bedroom, bathroom and storage room. It features a beautiful spiral staircase, fireplace and oak wood flooring with double doors leading out to a terrace.