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" Eckersley White are pleased to offer for sale a detached residence built by Northcott situated in a desirable location retaining many original features. The property has a sweeping in and out driveway as well and substantial gardens.

* Sitting Room * Dining Room * Kitchen/Breakfast Room, extended & re-fitted 20'1 utility room * Cloakroom * 5 Bedrooms * Bathroom & Separate Shower Room * Integral Garage * Established Gardens to front & rear * Cedar lined loft space with potential for conversion (subject to permission) * Plot size approx 200' x 65' *

Location:
Blandings was one of the last houses built by the noted Gosport builder, G V Northcott, in the interwar years.  It harks back to the period in which his clients would have grown up, and has elements taken from Edwardian style.  It even has a servants bell system, of which the front door and main bathroom are still functional.  The present owners are only the third since 1946 and have brought up the property up to modern requirements whilst retaining the features of its period.  It is a house that is very light, with many of the principal rooms being dual aspect to take advantage of its corner plot position.  It benefits from gas central heating, and is fully double glazed, with white aluminium framed units in oak frames with mullions.  The ground floor rooms are nearly all original herringbone parquet, oak in the hall, dining room and sitting room and pine elsewhere, there are deep plaster cornices, and the high ceilings and large windows add to the feeling of light and space which marks the house.
  
Directions:
From Gosport Ferry Gardens leave via South Street entering the one way system at Foster Road.  Follow the road around to the left and at the traffic lights turn left into The Avenue where Blandings can be found on the right hand side on the corner of Bury Hall Lane.

Accommodation Comprises
  
Entrance Porch:
Half glazed oak front door, Victorian pattern tiled floor in cream, terracotta and black, cedar lined roof and coloured glass 'lantern' pendant light.  Double half glazed doors leading to:
  
Hallway:
With original oak floor and light oak panelled staircase, dado rail, telephone point, three glass shaded pendant lights, double radiator, alarm control panel, understairs cupboard, archway to deep walk-in storage cupboard, central heating thermostat.  Doors lead off to:
  
Cloakroom:
With inset vanity basin in Victorian walnut unit, original 1930s WC, chrome towel rail radiator, natural light window.
  
Dining Room: 16'8 x 13' (5.08m x 3.96m)
With large windows to the front (east) and south, overlooking the courtyard garden patio, an ornate plaster ceiling rose and brass five branch pendant light with glass shades, three brass double wall lights with glass shades, double radiator, wooden fire surround with arched steel fireplace and claret tiles to the front, dado rail.
  
Sitting Room: 18'8 into bay x 18' (5.69m into bay x 5.49m)
With large semi circular bay window overlooking the rear garden, and a double glazed door to the south aspect directly onto the patio.  The focal point of the room is the wide oak panelled alcove, with red tiled floor, which has twin seats over storage beneath on either side of the brick fireplace with gas coal effect fire, and two single brass wall lights with glass shades.  The room also has two double brass wall lights and two three branch brass pendant lights beneath acanthus decorated plaster ceiling roses.  There is a picture rail and 'egg and dart' pattern deep cornice, a telephone point and a TV aerial point, two double radiators.
  
Kitchen/Breakfast Room: 13'1 x 13' (3.99m x 3.96m)
Built in dresser with glazed upper doors, double glazed window overlooking rear garden, maple worktop, drawers and cupboard under, and tall cupboards to either side, a deep alcove with Racing Green Rangemaster Elan electric double oven cooker and five ring gas hob with extractor hood over, brass three light linear fitting with white glass coolie shades, one and a half bowl ceramic sink unit with single drainer, a range of wall and floor units, solid wood block flooring, double radiator, plumbing for dishwasher, walk-in pantry.  Door opens into the walk in larder with red tiled floor, tiled deep shelving and wall shelves.  A second door opens into:
  
Utility Room: 20'1 x 6'5  (6.12m x 1.96m )
Refitted by the current owners with extensive range of wall and base units with worktop surfaces and tiled surrounds, three double glazed windows to side elevation and double glazed window to front elevation, door to garden, tiled floor, wood effect worktop surface, radiator, butler sink, recess for American style fridge freezer with plumbing for water / ice dispenser. 
  
On the First Floor
  
Landing:
Stairs leading up to the landing with pendant light fitting matching hall, single radiator.  Access to lagged and boarded loft space with drop down aluminium ladder.  Roof space is cedar lined and the shape gives ample scope for conversion (subject to planning permission), water tanks, T.V. aerial and CCTV controller located in loft space.
  
Bedroom One: 17' x 13' (5.18m x 3.96m)
Dual aspect to side (south) and front (east), double radiator, T.V. point
  
Bedroom Two: 15'6 x 13'1 (4.72m x 3.99m)
Built in mirror fronted wardrobes to one wall with built in lighting, window to front, double radiator, inset vanity basin.
  
Bedroom Three: 13' x 11'11 (3.96m x 3.63m)
Dual aspect to south side and west over rear garden, wash hand basin, double radiator.
  
Bedroom Four: 10'11 x 10'8 (3.33m x 3.25m)
Large window overlooking rear garden, double radiator.
  
Bedroom Five: 9'11 x 7'8 (3.02m x 2.34m)
Window overlooking front garden, double radiator.
  
Family Bathroom: 10'9 x 6'6 (3.28m x 1.98m)
Half tiled with ceramic tiled floor in woodblock pattern.  Large basin, Art Deco mirror, original cast iron bath with new fittings, shaver point. The bath is especially deep and a bath lover's dream!  Large original chrome heated towel rail.
  
Bathroom Two: 6'6 x 6' (1.98m x 1.83m)
Double glazed window, half tiled, with Heritage low flush WC and basin, shower cubicle with power shower, tiled floor, double radiator.
  
Separate WC:
Double glazed window with low flush WC and hand basin , natural light window .
  
  
On the Outside
  
To the Front:
Garden is laid to lawn with perennial borders and trees.  In and out gravel driveway with access from both The Avenue and Bury Hall Lane, water tap, waterproof power socket, gas meter housed in external box.

Single integral garage with window to side aspect, power and light, containing electricity meter and fuse box.  Subject to planning permission this could be converted into a third reception room with access via the walk in cupboard off the hallway.
  
To the south side of the house is a 'courtyard garden' divided from the rear part of the garden by arched trellis screening and with a wrought iron full height gate accessing the front.  The paving is edged with rope twist terracotta tiles and the borders are primarily of clematis and English roses.  This area catches the sun from around eight in the morning until eight in the evening in summer.  The main part of the rear garden has established shrubs, azalea, rhododendron, hibiscus, arbutus and ceanothus amongst others, a Worcester Pearmain apple tree, a Victoria plum, a pear tree, and a large Weymouth pine at the back of the garden.  There is a pergola, stone raised beds, a productive vegetable garden with raised beds and another patio area in front of the summerhouse in the Japenese style. To the rear is a wooden shed on a concrete base.  Water tap and waterproof power socket.

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