Description
Spacious family home with south westerly facing garden. The current owners have lived in this property for two decades and have stressed the sociability of daily family life in a cul-de-sac comprising comparable houses. 2 Knottocks End is within walking distance of Beaconsfield town centre, with its many restaurants and shops, and minutes away, via a 'green alley' from a network of footpaths through long-established public woodlands and open fields.
The house, built in 1968, was designed as a family home and has been extensively updated three years ago to accommodate the versatility required by a contemporary lifestyle, with an open plan living area downstairs, a gym, and a study or home office. While convenient in terms of local amenities and transport, the enclosed rear garden feels private and the treetops of the nearby woodland can be seen from the house and garden.
About the House cont'd The house has approx. 3,262 sq. ft. of accommodation arranged over three floors. The ground floor has a porch which leads into an entrance hall which accesses the family room, the cloakroom and the kitchen/breakfast room, which leads into the utility/boot room (with a door to the rear and front gardens), the gym and the double garage. A store also links the gym to the rear garden. To the left of the stairs in the entrance hall is a cupboard and a door into the open plan sitting/dining room which accesses the separate study and rear garden.
On the first floor there are three bedrooms with en suite facilities; the principal bedroom also has a dressing room with a balcony. The second floor has a fourth bedroom with an en suite bathroom and a dressing room. There is paved off street parking in front of the house, a lawned front garden with raised vegetable beds and an enclosed rear garden with paved terracing adjacent to the house.
Ground Floor A glazed front door with flanking windows opens to a slate tiled porch, with a further glazed door to the entrance hall, which has a window on one side and wood effect laminate flooring. On the right is the family room and a downstairs cloakroom with an obscured window to the utility/boot room and a matching WC and hand basin. The staircase is directly ahead; on the right is the kitchen/breakfast room and on the left is a deep understairs coat cupboard with hanging rails and shelving. A door on the left opens to the sitting/dining room, which accesses the study.
The double garage is connected to the house by the gym and the utility/boot room. A store, which also functions as a passage from the gym to the rear garden and has a hatch to the loft space above the garage. The ground floor has wood effect laminate flooring except for the cloakroom, kitchen area and utility/boot room, which have ceramic floor tiles; there is underfloor heating throughout this floor.
Family Room and Study Overlooking the front, and immediately on the right of the front door, the family room, with a glazed wooden door and a TV point, is typically flexible and over time has been a play room and a home office.
Approached through a glazed wooden door from the sitting/dining area, the study overlooks the front garden and has timber effect floor-to-ceiling shelving in the alcoves to each side of what was once the chimney breast. There is BT fibre broadband connected.
Sitting/Dining Room In the smaller, seating area of the sitting/dining room there is a window overlooking the front and a door to the entrance hall. To the left of the feature fireplace is an arched alcove with glass display shelves. This seating area is open plan with the sitting/dining area, which opens out to a width of almost 27 ft. and has a rectangular aluminium lantern over the current position of the dining table. Beyond the lantern, bifold doors open to a purpose-built area of decking set in the rear lawn. On the right and at a right angle, French doors with flanking windows open to the side terrace. Glazed, double doors open to the kitchen/ breakfast room. By the kitchen and study doors are two contemporary vertical radiators that resemble understated modern sculptures.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room The bespoke, newly fitted kitchen/breakfast room is accessed from the entrance hallway and has double doors into the sitting/dining room. It is dual aspect overlooking the terrace and rear garden and has quartz window sills and inset downlights. There is a range of base and wall units, some are glazed for display and have interior lights. Floor-to-ceiling cupboards with pull out shelves flank the Bosch American style fridge/ freezer. Integrated Neff appliances include a large oven, a smaller oven/microwave, a warming drawer, and a dishwasher. Beneath the central island are also cupboards and drawers as well as breakfast seating space for up to four people. The island has a quartz worksurface with an inset halogen hob and a gas burner; a Caple extractor fan is above. Also inset in the quartz worksurface is a pop-up USB point (these points are repeated throughout the house).
Utility /Boot Room A door from the kitchen leads into the utility/boot room, which in turn has glazed doors to the front drive, the rear terrace, and a solid door to the gym. A window overlooks the rear garden and there are worksurfaces matching those in the kitchen with an inset butler sink and mixer taps. There are also the same bespoke base and wall units as the kitchen, and space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer. Along the facing wall, floor-to-ceiling cupboards flank a tiled dog shower with a glazed low door.
First Floor The first floor has a landing with access to a storage cupboard with shelving, and doors to the three first floor bedrooms each with en suite shower or bathrooms. A further door accesses the second floor staircase.
Principal Bedroom, Dressing Room, and En Suite Bathroom
From the first-floor landing, the principal bedroom is accessed via a dressing room which has French doors opening to an over 25 ft. by 11 ft. balcony, with metal railings and artificial decking. This elevated outside seating area has views over the side (towards the woodland), the front, and the rear garden. An archway leads from the dressing room to the principal bedroom, which has a window over the front and four double doored, floor-to-ceiling fitted cupboards and a hatch to the loft space.
A door in the dressing room accesses the en suite bathroom which has a ceramic floor with underfloor heating and larger, matching wall tiles. There is a contemporary stand-alone bath on a plinth, a corner shower and a matching pedestal basin and WC. An obscured window overlooks the side and there is a heated towel rail.
Bedroom Two and Bedroom Three Accessed from the landing, bedroom two has two dormer windows overlooking the front of the property with the shape of the eaves reflected on that side of the room. The en suite shower room has ceramic floor and wall tiles, a walk-in double shower and a matching basin and WC. There is a ventilation system operated by the light switch.
Also opening off the landing, bedroom three overlooks the rear garden and has new Everest double glazed windows. The en suite shower room has a window overlooking the garden, marble floor and wall tiles, a walk-in double shower and a matching wall-hung basin and WC. There is a ventilation system operated by the light switch and like the other shower/ bathrooms in the house, the mirror doubles as a light.
Second Floor A door opens from the first floor landing to an enclosed staircase that rises to the new fourth bedroom, at the top there is an area of galleried landing in the room with a glazed balustrade and a carved newel post. This bedroom, running the length of the second floor, like bedroom three, has new Everest double glazed windows, in this case three, overlooking the rear garden. At the furthest end of the room is a walk-in dressing room with hanging rails and shelving.
On the right of the stairs, a door opens to the en suite bathroom, with a window in the gable end and a Velux above, which is has marble tiles on the floor and walls. There is a single shower, a modern stand-alone bath with central taps and a hand-held shower, a wall- hung vanity unit with a double length basin and a WC.
Over recent years, not just the rear bedrooms, but the entire house has been refitted with Everest double glazed windows, including the bifold in the recently refurbished living areas.
Front and Rear Gardens The house has a block-paved drive, which leads to the front of the garage as well as up to the front door step, and offers ample parking. The front garden, to the left of the drive, has a statement evergreen tree and an area of lawn with four vegetable beds, raised by wooden sleepers, and a bay hedge at the front.
The rear garden is enclosed by timber fencing with mature hedging on the left boundary and regularly planted pleached trees (for example photinia and laurel), planted the length of the longest boundary, which will in time increase the sense of privacy. The lawn has been levelled and resown. Adjacent to the back of the entire house is a paved terrace which is accessed by the side French doors from the sitting/ dining room and extends to the doors of the utility/ boot room and store.
Double Garage, Gym, Greenhouse The double garage, accessed from the front drive has an electronically operated roller door and a concrete floor; there is an electric vehicle charger. At the end there are built-in double cupboards housing the water tank, the Vaillant boiler and the manifold for the underfloor heating. The garage has power connected and a door at the back leads directly to the gym.
The gym accommodates at least four pieces of equipment, the floor has underfloor heating overlaid with gym flooring tiles and there is a TV point. Doors from the gym access the store/passage to the rear garden and the utility/boot room.
The Rhino greenhouse is positioned just off the terrace beyond the store. Its windows automatically respond to the internal heat and there are roller blinds to control scorching.
Situation and Schooling The property is in a cul de sac close to Beaconsfield Old and New town. The Old town has independent retail stores together with a variety of restaurants and public houses. The new town has more extensive shopping facilities and a mainline train station to London and Birmingham. The property is in catchment for St Mary and All Saints C of E Primary School (Ofsted rated Outstanding) and Beaconsfield High School for girls and Royal Grammar School and John Hampden Grammar schools for boys. There are preparatory schools within the town.
