While some properties are close to country walks, others offer easy access to city centre amenities, and, if you are really lucky, your home might even be close to one of Cornwall’s beautiful beaches or wonderful waterways. Set on a private residential road in south Cornwall, the sensational Southernwood House boasts a special location that is sure to appeal to all the family.
Found on Sea Road in Carlyon Bay, this impressive five-bedroom detached house is just a short walk from both the South West Coast Path and Carlyon Bay Beach. While the South West Coast Path provides some beautiful coastal walks in both directions, Carlyon Bay Beach is a long sandy beach that fronts St Austell Bay and is due for the redevelopment of some old commercial premises at the back of the beach into modern apartments, shops, restaurants and bars.
The entrance to the Carlyon Bay golf course is just a few steps from Southernwood House and offers an 18-hole coastal golf course with fantastic fairways and views that many golfers travel good distances to enjoy. There are further golf clubs at Porthpean and Duporth, and at nearby St Austell town, you will find a range of shopping facilities, numerous sports clubs including rugby and football clubs, and a leisure centre.
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Around a mile from Carlyon Bay, the picturesque harbour village of Charlestown offers inns and has its own beach, while, a few miles to the east, the harbourside town of Fowey has a deep natural harbour and extensive sailing and pleasure craft facilities, yacht club and moorings.
When you have worn yourselves out exploring your new surroundings, you can head back to the comfort of home and enjoy sea glimpses to Carlyon Bay with a glass of something cool in hand.
Originally built in 1987, Southernwood House has been significantly improved and extended in recent times. Standing centrally within around 0.4 acres of delightful, landscaped gardens and grounds, the 4,000 sq ft house is set well back from the road behind electric gates which open onto a broad, brick paviour, hammerhead driveway that has plenty of parking and leads to the attached garage.
Lawns to either side of the driveway feature mature raised beds and borders, and the level, rear garden offers a patio and further sitting areas. Primarily lawned with mature trees and shrubs providing further privacy and interest, the gardens also host a summerhouse, raised fruit and vegetable beds, and useful storage sheds.
A broad covered front entrance opens into the property’s impressive reception hallway, which has a cloakroom to one end. The triple-aspect principal drawing room enjoys an outlook over the front and the rear gardens and has doors into a conservatory.
On the other side of the entrance hallway is a sitting room overlooking the front garden, and to the rear of the house is an exceptional kitchen and breakfast room which is beautifully appointed with recent improvements and upgrading. A utility room and another cloakroom complete the ground floor accommodation.
From the main reception hall, a turning staircase leads up to a galleried landing on the first floor where a further reception room with double doors to a decked balcony that has sea glimpses towards Carlyon Bay can be found.
The property’s principal bedroom is particularly spacious with fitted wardrobes and a large and beautifully appointed en-suite bath and shower room. There are four further bedrooms on the first floor - two sharing a Jack-and-Jill en-suite bathroom and two with en-suite bath and shower rooms.
Southernwood House is available for offers of around £1,450,000. For more information, contact Lillicrap Chilcott on 01872 273473.
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