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**Guide Price £800,000 £850,000**
A striking contemporary style detached house on a large and elevated plot in this popular residential lane close to the centre of Battle, benefiting from wonderful far reaching views and offering generous family accommodation over two floors.

Description
Holgates is a striking contemporary style detached family house in this popular lane close to the centre of Battle town. The house offers generous accommodation of some 2,893 square feet and sits in an attractive plot of some 0.54 of an acre. A particular feature is the far reaching countryside views.
The elevations are part brick and part colourwashed beneath a tiled roof. There is
gas fired central heating, sealed unit double glazed windows throughout and a range
of solar panels, inverters and batteries.

The main features of the property include
The glazed front door opens into the entrance hall with marble tiled flooring and understairs coat hanging space. The ground floor shower cloak room has a glazed shower cubicle, wash basin in vanity unit, WC and heated towel rail.
Glazed double doors lead through to the spacious drawing room, again with marble tiled flooring and a large fitted log burner with stone tiled hearth. Full height picture windows offer lovely views over the front gardens and
countryside beyond.
The sitting room is a comfortable area currently used as a television room with a built in storage cupboard. A wide opening leads to the open plan dining room with two sets of double doors and a single door leading out to the terrace and garden. A wall of folding glazed doors leads through to the useful office study with herringbone parquet flooring and a second door to the hallway.
From the dining room a glazed door leads through to the conservatory with tiled flooring and a door to the front of the house.
The kitchen breakfast room is well proportioned with an extensive range of painted wooden wall and base units with a co ordinating Corian worktop incorporating a 1 bowl sink unit with mixer taps, John Lewis four ring induction hob with overhead extractor, integrated Neff dishwasher, integrated Neff fridge and separate freezer, John Lewis oven and AEG microwave oven combined, separate two ring Aga with two ovens. There is a bright double aspect to front and rear, double doors leading out to the terrace and a part glazed door leading through to the useful utility boot room with storage units, sink unit with mixer tap, plumbing for washing machine and tumble drier, and the Worcester gas boiler. There is a glazed door out to the terrace and garden.
A panelled door leads through to the double garage which also currently serves as an excellent storage and workshop space with remote controlled up and over garage door.
The first floor landing has a panelled door to the principal bedroom, a really striking vaulted room with exposed beams and a large wall of picture windows offering wonderful views over the front garden and attractive countryside beyond. This room is undoubtedly one of the main features of the property and also benefits from an en suite shower room with glazed shower cubicle, WC and wash basin in vanity unit with storage below, heated towel rail and tiled walls.
Bedroom 2 is another well proportioned double aspect room with two Velux windows overlooking the rear garden, a good range of fitted wardrobe
cupboards, drawers and desk, and wooden flooring.
Bedroom 3 also features two Velux windows overlooking the rear garden, and has mirror fronted fitted wardrobe cupboard and a separate sitting dressing area.
Bedroom 4 also overlooks the rear garden and has mirror fronted wardrobe cupboards.
Bedroom 5 is a more compact single bedroom and is currently used as a dressing room.
Family bathroom features a large panelled bath with mixer tap and shower attachment, wash basin, WC , separate tiled and glazed shower cubicle, heated towel rail, part tiled walls and tiled floor.

Outside
Holgates is approached via a long driveway from Virgins Lane surrounded on both sides by extremely attractive and mature gardens with a wide array of mature trees and shrubs, two areas of lawn and a useful wooden garden shed. The drive culminates in an area leading to the attached garage and provides ample parking
for several cars on the drive.
To the rear of the house the split level garden is another feature of the property. There is a large paved terrace, perfect for entertaining and al fresco dining. Steps lead up to the upper level of the garden where there is a pretty heart shaped
ornamental pond and a generous area of lawn. A path meanders through the upper section of the garden and leads to the rear most section where there is an excellent raised and covered seating area enjoying lovely rooftop and countryside views.
The detached garden studio office is timber clad inside with a vaulted ceiling and two separate rooms, which would serve a variety of purposes, from studio to home office to playroom. There is an additional walk in storage cupboard to the rear of one of the rooms and the whole space benefits from lovely far reaching views over
the rooftops.
There is a timber log store and garden storage room adjacent and a useful working area on the rear boundary.
In all about 0.54 of an acre."