End of Terrace for sale on

Harwood Rise

Newbury, RG20

Tenure: Freehold

A charming 3-bedroom family home brimming with potential in a highly sought-after village.  

Intro  

This is a delightful spot to raise a family or downsize to a quieter way of life. It’s just a 15-minute walk to the village school. A 5-minute stroll to the local shop and pub. There’s no through traffic and no onward chain.

Outside

To the front of this end-of-terrace house, sitting between two hedges, is a small lawned garden with a path up to the doorsteps.

Entrance

The entrance hall is light and bright thanks to the light from the half-glazed front door and window to the top of the stairs, which lie straight ahead. With space for guests to hang their coats before turning right into the sitting room. 

Sitting room

The 24’ long sitting/dining room is dual aspect, ensuring this spacious room is flooded with natural light. 

To the front, wide windows look out onto the garden. While a chimney breast creates two distinct zones between the sitting room and dining room.

Dining room

Connecting the lounge and kitchen, the bright dining room is well lit with light from the wide south-facing windows and part-glazed door onto the garden. This end wall could easily be updated with full-width bi-fold doors, for an even greater connection with the garden.  

Kitchen

Like many of us, the kitchen is showing its age. But that said, it has great bones and fabulous proportions, and with a little TLC could be revitalised into a super stylish space. Or you can leave it as it is and enjoy the authentic 1980s fittings. Some of the wall cupboard doors, with their playful ‘either way up’ fitting, are solid oak. 

Rear garden

Fully enclosed and mostly laid to gravel, this ultra-low maintenance garden has scope.

You could arrange some garden furniture, perhaps an al fresco sofa or a table and chairs, around a barbecue or pizza oven, then relax in your sociable suntrap. Or get stuck in and plant up the beds, turning it into a garden buzzing with activity and delicious produce. Or maybe something in the middle. To the far end is a gate for access that’s not through the house.

UPSTAIRS

To the top of the stairs, the landing has doors to two double bedrooms, one single bedroom, the family bathroom and an airing cupboard.

Main bedroom

Looking out to the front of the house, this is a well-sized double bedroom with a built-in wardrobe and space for more.

Second bedroom

Looking out over the rear garden, this is another good-sized double bedroom with a built-in wardrobe and space for an additional chest of drawers.

Third bedroom

The smallest of the three bedrooms, this single bedroom would make a great home office. With views overlooking the front of the house, so you needn’t miss a thing.

Family bathroom

Recently refitted, this beautiful bathroom really speaks to this lovely home’s potential.

There’s a super spacious walk-in shower with minimalist controls. A smart close-coupled toilet and wall-hung vanity cabinet. Wide windows for plenty of natural light. And crisp white tiles that contrast perfectly with the chrome ladder towel radiator and grey slate-effect flooring.    

Parking

You have a garage in a block just around the corner, and plentiful unrestricted on-street parking. This is a no-through road, so passing cars are minimal.   

Situation

Woolton Hill is a wonderfully unspoilt village to the south-west of Newbury. Within it, Harwood Rise is a quiet residential street, a stone’s throw from the National Trust’s The Chase, a beautiful 143-acre wooded nature reserve with its own lake, meadows, heathland and free-grazing horned cattle.

In roughly five minutes you can walk to the village shop and post office, bus stop and nearest pub. While the tennis club is a little over a 15-minute walk.

Highclere Castle, also known as Downton Abbey to some, is about 10-minute drive away in nearby Highclere, which also has some attractive gastro pubs.

Going further afield, you have Newbury, and a choice of shops, cafes, pubs and restaurants to sample, including Michelin-starred choices. There are cinemas, theatres, arts and music venues, social centres, Newbury RFC, golf courses, gyms, horse riding stables, canoeing, Racecourse and so much more.

You’re also just a few miles from the unique Watermill Theatre, The Living Rainforest and some world-renowned stretches of chalk stream for the fishing enthusiast.

Transport links

By car

Harwood Rise is very close to the A343, which takes you into Andover and beyond to the A303 and the west country, and the A34, which connects the south coast with Oxford. It’s also within easy reach of the M4, A4 and A339, making it easily commutable from London, Bristol, Oxford, Basingstoke and many other hubs. 

By bus

Two bus routes, with a stop just a couple of minutes’ walk away, run into Newbury.

By train

The railway station in Newbury links you to London, Cardiff in the west and via Reading, with the Elizabeth line, to most of the country, including Heathrow and Gatwick airports. 

Schooling

The local schools are:

Primary: St Thomas Church of England Infant School and Burghclere Primary School

Junior: Woolton Hill Junior School?Secondary: The Clere School

In addition, there’s a wide range of private schooling available, including: Cheam, Elstree, Downe House, St. Gabriel’s, Brockhurst & Marlston House, Horris Hill, Thorngrove, Marlborough College and Bradfield College.

Services

Heating and hot water are powered by a bottled LPG system.

Mains water, sewerage and electricity.

Connectivity

Broadband, according to Openreach, is Superfast Fibre available at up to 58 Mbps.

Mobile, according to Vodafone’s coverage checker, is a “Good indoors and outdoors” 4G signal.      

Council

The local authority is Basingstoke and Deane. The Council Tax CT band is C.

Tenure

Freehold.

EPC rating: G. Council tax band: C, Tenure: Freehold,