5 bedroom detached for sale

Having been in the same family for over fifty years, Woodthorpe Road offers an exceptional opportunity to purchase a detached period home with a great deal of potential and scope.

The internal accommodation is centred around the grand central hallway accessed from the entrance hall. The first of the formal reception rooms is the drawing room to the front of the house, boasting a range of period features, including ornate ceiling plasterwork, an impressive fireplace, and a box bay window to the front elevation. Adjacent to this room is a study, and across the hall a second sitting room, with further features and period fireplace, and doors opening to the rear garden enjoying the fantastic southern elevation. Concluding the reception spaces is a dining room, with sliding doors to the gardens, which leads through to the kitchen. Completing the ground floor is a guest cloakroom and stairs down to the cellars, which are currently used as storage, however offer a great deal of scope for a variety of different purposes.

Rising to the first floor, there is a galleried landing over the central hallway, with doors leading to the accommodation. Four of the five generous bedrooms mirror the space of the reception rooms below, and are well proportioned with similar period features including fireplaces, generous head height and coving. The fifth bedroom, set over the kitchen, is currently utilised as a shower/dressing room, however could easily be turned back into a further double bedroom. There is a family bathroom, separate cloakroom, and boiler cupboard, along with a hatch to the attic space, which could also lend itself to further accommodation, subject to the necessary consent.

Externally, the grounds at Woodthorpe Road are a particular feature of the house. To the front, a paved driveway gives depth between the pavement and house, but also allows for off street parking for multiple vehicles, there is a single garage with pedestrian door to the rear and in turn the rear gardens. The 851 rear garden enjoys the most fantastic southern elevation, meaning that the rear of the house has sun for the whole day. The grounds are wonderfully established, with shrub boarders and mature trees providing a great degree of privacy.

Situation

Woodthorpe Road is an established residential road in West Putney, comprising of a small number of large, detached period houses. There are amenities along Upper Richmond Road, and in turn Putney High Street, and the green spaces of Barnes and Putney Common are to the north of the house, with Putney Heath to the south.

Bus routes run along Upper Richmond Road towards Putney High Street and beyond, or Sheen and Barnes. Mainline train services can be found at Putney mainline station (0.9 mile) or Barnes (0.7 mile), with district line underground services from East Putney (1.2 mile).

Property Ref Number:

• Freehold