A stylish family house with studio, in Lower Shiplake.
Originally a coach house built around the turn of the century, Little Cottam is a delightful detached red brick house under a clay tiled roof with attractive foliage covered elevations. It has a very stylish 2,300 sq ft interior, with the focus of the ground floor rooms being a fantastic kitchen/dining hall and family room from the front to the back of the house and with double doors onto the garden terrace. It is a designed kitchen with black granite worktops, twin inset white enamel sink unit, electric 2-oven Aga, Bosch dishwasher and Bosch oven, wine fridge, wall mounted Worcester gas fired boiler for central heating and domestic hot water, island unit with white granite worktop, power and drawers.
The delightful sitting room has front to back aspect with handsome reclaimed floorboards and an open fireplace, and double doors leading onto the garden. The reception hall and the kitchen/dining hall have an attractive grey limestone floor, and there is a large coats cupboard in the reception hall where the staircase leads to the first floor.
Landing with roof light, fireplace and airing cupboard.
Principal bedroom with part vaulted ceiling and dressing area with 2 fitted wardrobes, walk-in dressing area, en suite bathroom with Victorian cast iron bath, reclaimed wooden floor, separate WC, twin wash hand basins inset in marble vanity unit, shower cubicle and walk-in dressing room with hanging rails.
Bedroom 2 has a part vaulted ceiling with en suite shower room with shower, WC and wash hand basin.
Family bathroom cast iron bath with mixer taps, low level WC, Burlington wash hand basin, utility cupboard and space and plumbing for washing machine.
Bedrooms 3 and 4 are of good size with part vaulted ceiling. Bedroom 4 currently used as an office/study.
Outside
Studio/Annexe: Bedroom with wooden floor and tongue and groove panelling with part vaulted ceiling, door to terrace. Kitchenette with sink, space for microwave and fridge. En suite shower room with shower, WC and wash hand basin. Door to small private terrace.
Gardens
The gardens to Little Cottam are delightful and well maintained with lawns to the front screened from Mill Road by a laurel hedge. The drive and pedestrian path are of stone, leading to the front door and workshop. There are 2 splendid larch trees in the front garden and a store.
The rear garden is also delightful with south and west facing aspect, 2 terraces, 1 outside the sitting room, 1 outside the kitchen. Laid principally to lawn with herbaceous borders around the boundary including a eucalyptus tree. The boundaries are walled and fenced, and in the north-west corner is a brick terrace with loggia above. The north side of the house between the house and the boundary is a part covered side alley with excellent storage for garden furniture/equipment.
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I love this house as it's cosy yet flooded with light and has easy access to the village and the river.
Victoria KnightProperty agent