Holt Road, Thornage, Holt, NR25

An elegant Victorian 5-bedroom family home with fabulous countryside views, sitting within 2.3 acres (stms) of beautifully landscaped gardens. With double cart shed and storage barn. Located in Thornage, just over two miles from Holt and Greshams School and close to the North Norfolk Coast. __________ GROUND FLOOR - Reception hall - Drawing room - Dining room - Kitchen/breakfast room - Pantry - Boot room - Garden room - Second kitchen - Sitting room - Utility room - Wet room and WC - Cellar with wine store __________ FIRST FLOOR - Landing - Main bedroom with en suite dressing area and shower room - 4 further double bedrooms (one with en suite WC) - Family bathroom __________ SECOND FLOOR - Study/ bedroom six __________ OTHER - Owned by the same family for over 40 years - Two kitchens with Aga's ideal for multigenerational living or income generation - Rewired within recent years - New oil-fired boiler in recent years - Tall ceilings and original features __________ OUTSIDE - Beautiful landscaped walled garden - Potager kitchen/cutting garden - 2 green houses - Semidetached barn with double cart shed, three bay machinery store and single bay store - Barn offers potential for conversion to office or accommodation ( subject to planning) - Native woodland and wildflower meadow - Orchard __________ DRIVING DISTANCES (approx.) - Holt 2.3 miles - Blakeney 5.5 miles - Norwich 25 miles (international airport and mainline trains to London Liverpool Street) - Kings Lynn 32 miles (mainline trains to London Kings Cross via Cambridge) __________ SITUATION Thornage is situated just southwest of the picturesque town of Holt and about six miles from the coastal villages of Blakeney and Cley next the Sea. Surrounding the village are water meadows and areas of woodland and a maze of intriguing quiet lanes waiting to be discovered. Hill House is just over two miles from the Georgian market town of Holt, renowned for its attractive street frontages and for its wide and eclectic range of independent shops cafes and bars. Amenities include a supermarket, primary school, doctors' surgery, dentists, bank and post office. Holt is also home to Gresham's pre-prep, prep, and senior schools, founded in 1555. There is a buzz in the air in North Norfolk and the surrounding area enjoys everything on offer from locally sourced butchers, fishmongers and farmers markets to artisan bakers, cool coffee shops, restaurants, delicatessens, up-market farm shops and art galleries. Access to the coast is only six miles to the north at the old ports of Cley and, a little further along, Blakeney. These are Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs) with one of the best bird reserves in Europe and a wide variety of other leisure pursuits available such as sailing, seal watching, golf and walking the Norfolk Coastal path. There are saltmarshes, long sandy or pebble beaches, creeks and the quintessential north Norfolk wide, open skies. __________ DESCRIPTION Hill House is a nicely proportioned Victorian property of mellow red brick under pantile roof. Large sash windows bring in lots of natural light and take full advantage of beautiful garden and far-reaching countryside views. The half glazed front door opens to a small porch with a generously sized reception hall that runs through the centre of the house beyond, an elegant main staircase with turned handrail leads up to the galleried landing above. To your right off this hallway, the drawing room has south and east aspect with lovely views from large sash windows with original wooden shutters. An open fireplace with pine mantle creates a focal point. This room, like the dining room beyond both benefit from high ceilings and original cornicing. The dining room has east aspect, original pine flooring and a wall of book shelving and fitted storage. To your left off the reception hall the kitchen/breakfast room is another lovely room with west and south aspect that benefits from the same large windows with shutters. The kitchen is semi open plan to this room creating a very social space for family life, warmed by the comfort of the central a 3-oven electric Aga. The kitchen itself is fitted with a range of paint finished units with integrated appliances including a Bosch electric oven with induction hob, Bosch dishwasher and the Aga. Original pamment flooring runs through the kitchen, with pine floorboards in the breakfast room. A large garden room leads from the kitchen with panoramic views of the walled garden and French doors opening on two sides to the terrace and garden. To the back of the house there is a boot room area by the back door, a particularly useful and cool pantry with slate shelving and a separate utility room with adjoining WC and wet room. A north/east wing of the house offers much potential for extended living space, whether for family life or as an annex that could offer multigeneration living or income potential. Currently configured as a second fully fitted kitchen/dining room with a second oil fired three oven Aga and a very spacious sitting room beyond. It has its own entrance door and a second staircase allowing it to be completely separate from the front part of the house if required. The property also has a good sized and easily accessed cellar with wine storage area. Taking the main staircase to the first-floor galleried landing, this is where the full benefit of the incredible views is really capitalised on from almost every room. At the front of the house there are two light and spacious bedrooms, one, with east and south aspect, has a fitted storage cupboard and hand wash basin. The main bedroom looks to the west and south and benefits from a walk-through dressing room and an en suite shower room with large shower cubicle with rainfall shower and white sanitary wear. There is another large double bedroom off this main landing, with easterly views over the native woodland garden. A door that can be closed off should a separate living wing be required, leads through to a large family bathroom with bath and separate shower, a landing with useful linen and airing cupboards and two further double bedrooms, one of which has an en suite WC. A further set of stairs lead up to loft room which is pine lined with vaulted ceiling and restricted head height, it has a panoramic window in the gable end. This room could double as an occasional sixth bedroom or make a great teenage hang out space or study area __________ OUTSIDE It is hard to overstate the gardens at Hill House, a dedicated labour of love spanning over 40 years of ownership has culminated in a truly beautiful garden. The house sits well back within it's plot with a large lawn between it and the road and a sweeping gravelled driveway leading past the house to the cart shed and storage barn. A lovely fully enclosed garden sits to the west of the property, bordered by a huge beautifully manicured yew hedge to the south side, the house itself and tall brick and flint walls. Even in late September this garden is very colourful and in the hight of the summer it must be a riot of colour. There is a paved terrace by the house, ideal for outside dining and BBQ's. Herbaceous borders overflow with a carefully thought-out design of architectural and ground covering plants, formal topiary, salvia, clematis, and shrub and climbing roses to name just a few; interspersed by mown and paved pathways. A wooden arbour covered by wisteria leads to an iron gate leading to a more formal secret garden where a bench is positioned to sit peacefully and take in the vista. The potager garden was formally used for growing vegetables, today the raised beds are filled with wonderful cutting flowers like dahlia, salvia, delphiniums and verbena, low box and lavender hedges and tall espaliered pear trees add further definition. There is a good-sized green house and a small summer house in this area too. A further smaller green house and a coal shed are located beside the back door to the house. Tall beech hedges lead through to the less formal areas of garden, a large, paved terrace beside the house overlooks a wildflower meadow, recently planted, it includes an abundance of wild crocus and narcissi for spring interest. Beyond this the vendors planted 0.9 acre of native woodland, now nicely established it provides a perfect wildlife haven or a great place for children to run wild and build camps! There are also some spectacular large established trees including horse chestnut, poplar, sweet chestnut, and sycamore. The orchard and garden as a whole have a large variety of apple and pear trees, some free growing and some carefully espaliered. If you are looking for a long-term family home, somewhere for your family to grow and run wild that is close to Gresham's and Beeston schools and the coast, this is it! __________ LOCAL AUTHORITY North Norfolk District Council Band G __________ SERVICES Mains electricity and water, private drainage, oil fired and night storage heating. __________ DIRECTIONS From the roundabout on the A148 at Holt take the B1110 towards Thornage and proceed for approximately two miles, pass one small crossroads and the driveway to the property is the first entrance on your right. __________ TENURE Freehold __________ DATE DETAILS PRODUCED September 2022 __________ IMPORTANT NOTICE 1. These particulars have been prepared in good faith as a general guide, they are not exhaustive and include information provided to us by other parties including the seller, not all of which will have been verified by us. 2. 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