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KEY FEATURES: -• Delightful, Characterful Thatched and Pantiled Cottage.
• Fronting a Mature Plot approaching Half an Acre.
• Outstanding Views over Open Fields to the Rear.
• Sympathetically Remodelled, Updated and Improved.
• Living Room and Cosy Snug.
• Kitchen/Breakfast Room.
• Second Reception/Occasional Bedroom.
• Two Bedrooms on First Floor.
• Refitted Bathroom with Contemporary Four Piece Suite.
• Listed Grade II.
Full Details
Living Room
4.30m x 4.20m (14' 1" x 13' 9")
Entrance door opens to the living area featuring inglenook recess with flagstone hearth and oak bressumer. Radiator, windows to side and rear. Glazed door leading out to the rear garden.
Reception/Bedroom
4.20m x 3.30m (13' 9" x 10' 10")
Radiator, window to front. Currently used by the present owners as an additional bedroom but would equally work as another reception/HOME OFFICE if required.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room
4.11m x 3.74m (13' 6" x 12' 3")
Fitted with counter tops to two sides and a comprehensive range of cabinets, inset one and a half bowl sink and drainer with mixer tap, splashback tiling, fitted oven and ceramic hob, space for dining/breakfast table. Tiled floor, radiator, windows to front and side and French doors leading out to the rear garden.
Inner Hallway
Accessed from living room and leading to the snug and the bathroom. Wood flooring.
Snug
2.43m x 1.80m (8' x 5' 11")
Wood flooring, radiator. Cupboard housing water cylinder and gas fired boiler which serves the hot water and heating system.
Bathroom
4.19m x 2.70m (13' 9" x 8' 10") max measurements.
Refitted in recent times to include a free-standing roll top bath, shower mixer taps and attachment, quadrant shower enclosure, pedestal wash basin and low level WC. Laminate flooring, vertical radiator. Window to side and door leading out to the terrace area.
First Floor Landing
Stairs lead off from the living Room to the first floor.
Bedroom One
4.20m x 4.20m (13' 9" x 13' 9")
Radiator, dormer window to side.
Bedroom Two
4.20m x 2.40m (13' 9" x 7' 10")
Radiator, window to front.
Garden and Grounds
The property is well positioned to the front of a delightfully mature plot approaching half an acre, with lawn, formal garden and entertaining areas.
A five-bar and pedestrian gate opens onto the gravel driveway/parking area, with a second gated entrance to the gardens, additional parking and the garage.
The gardens and grounds enjoy a good degree of privacy and feature an attractive gravelled ‘cottage garden’ area with planters and paved patio, an extensive lawn interspersed with a variety of mature trees and shrubs, ornamental beds, Summerhouse and decked area with arbour.
Garage
Timber garage with additional storage space.
Marketed by Town-and-Country.
Grade II Listing
The English Heritage website describes Rafters as follows: -
Cottage. C17. Timber framed with colour washed plaster infill. Thatched roof. 3-room plan, one storey and attics. SW elevation: ground floor has one sash window, one fixed light in place of doorway opposite red brick ridge stack, and one 2-light horizontal sash with leaded lights. One dormer with leaded 2-light horizontal sash. C20 door. One storey extensions to NW and NE elevations.
Listing NGR: TL0463663324