Ridgeway Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4

SOLD BY JACKSON-STOPS..... OUTSTANDING FAMILY HOME IN A COMMANDING LOCATION WITH FAR-REACHING VIEWS AND OCCUPYING GROUNDS OF SOME 8.8 ACRES............ Marleymead is a fine and substantial detached family home, built we understand in 1938 and is available to the market for the first time, since 1979. Marleymead occupies an elevated and commanding location, to take advantage of the views over the delightful grounds, beyond to the south over the surrounding countryside and far-reaching views towards Redlands. The accommodation is conventionally arranged over two floors with tremendous style and character and many fine features of its period. The accommodation consists of an entrance porch with a shower room and an inviting reception hall that provides access to the dining room, conservatory and drawing room. The drawing room is a most impressive room enjoying a bright southerly and westerly aspect, offering superb views over the private grounds, whilst there is also a good-sized study, fitted kitchen, together with a useful laundry room and pantry. To the first floor, the majority of rooms enjoy outstanding views to the south, with the main bedroom benefitting from built-in wardrobes and an en-suite bathroom, whilst there are four further bedrooms, served by a family bathroom and two separate WC's. Marleymead sits in an elevated location and the gardens are an absolute delight, enhancing the whole setting, having been well-tended and meticulously cared for over the years, with sweeping lawns, numerous established flowerbeds, ornamental ponds, specimen trees and further to the south, the lawns give way to an area of woodland. To the south and west side of the house accessed from the conservatory and study there is a strategically located York stone terrace, which has been positioned to take full advantage of the views and the open sunny aspect. From the terrace, there is a delightful walled garden and the detached pool house - now in need of some modernisation. There are various outbuildings including to the front a triple bay garage with an adjacent workshop and billiard/studio room above, plus an additional double detached garage both accessed by a driveway providing parking and together with a turning circle. In all, the grounds extend to about 8.8 acres.