Harley Shute Road, St. Leonards-on-Sea, TN38 9JJ

**Guide Price £700,000 - £750,000** An impressive and attractive detached house on an elevated plot, arranged over three floors and offering extremely generous family-oriented accommodation, with an integral garage and an attractive rear garden.

The Oaks is an imposing and attractive detached family house sitting on a generous plot on sought after Harley Shute Road, and only around 1 mile from the coast at St Leonards. The house offers 3,140 square feet over three floors and sits on a generous plot of approximately 0.26 of an acre with a deep front garden and an excellent rear garden ,with garage and ample parking provision. The ground floor offers particularly well-planned entertaining spaces with the first floor offering the main bedroom accommodation and the top floor offering a very spacious and flexible open-plan studio style bedroom/sitting room. The elevations are part brick and part colour-washed beneath a tiled roof, there is sealed unit double glazing and gas-fired central heating.

The main features of the property include: • Covered storm porch with two steps leading up to the timber and glass front door flanked by a glazed panel, opening to the entrance hall with dado rail and space for hanging coats. • Glazed double doors to the spacious well-proportioned reception/sitting room with decorative cornice, dado rail, exposed brick chimney breast over a stone and brick hearth with bressummer beam above and a built-in gas log stove (not currently in service). Sliding glazed doors lead to the large conservatory with exposed brick to one wall, quarry tiled floor and two glazed doors leading out to the terrace and garden. • The dining room also features decorative cornice and dado rail and has leaded light windows overlooking the front garden. • Panelled glazed door to the substantial kitchen/breakfast room having an extensive range of wooden wall and base units with co-ordinating tiled worktops incorporating 1½ bowl sink unit with mixer taps and drainer. There is a four-ring Bosch gas hob with overhead extractor, ntegrated AEG dishwasher, AEG fridge and separate freezer. Two sets of windows overlook the rear garden and there is a corner breakfast bar, suitable for casual dining. • A glazed door leads through to the useful utility/boot room plumbed for washing machine and tumble dryer and with additional storage cupboards, butler sink, and Worcester gas boiler. Glazed door to the rear garden and door to the cloakroom with WC, pedestal wash basin and vinyl flooring. • From the utility room a door leads to the large integral garage, currently used for storage, with up and over door to the front, space for additional fridge and freezer.

The first floor landing features a decorative cornice and dado rail and a linen cupboard housing the hot water tank. • The principal bedroom is a spacious double bedroom with an excellent range of high quality fitted wardrobe cupboards and an arch leading through to an additional dressing area with further fitted wardrobes and storage units, dressing table and built-in laundry basket. A window overlooks the rear garden. En suite shower room with glazed and tiled shower cubicle, WC, pedestal wash basin, bidet, part tiled walls, heated towel rail and vinyl flooring. • Bedroom 2 is a generous double bedroom, currently used as a study, with windows over the front garden. • Bedroom 3 is another good double bedroom with a range of fitted wardrobe cupboards and a window overlooking the rear garden. Bedroom 4 also has fitted wardrobe cupboards. • The family bathroom is fitted with a panelled bath with mixer taps and separate overhead shower, tiled walls and glazed screen, twin pedestal wash basins, WC, heated towel rail, part tiled walls and wood-effect vinyl flooring. • The staircase to the second floor opens into the large and flexible open-plan studio bedroom/sitting room. This excellent space could suit a variety of purposes and would be ideal for a teenager wanting space and an element of independence. There are built-in eaves storage cupboards and two Velux windows with views over the rear garden.

Outside To the front of the house is a deep front garden with a raised lawn with three impressive oak trees, with the wall serving as an attractive planter with a range of shrubs and flowering plants. The driveway provides ample parking for several cars and gives access to the integral garage. The rear garden has a paved area adjacent to the house and a second large paved terrace, ideal for al fresco dining and entertaining. The balance of the garden is laid to lawn with a number of mature trees, a built-in barbecue area and a useful timber garden shed. There is a small summerhouse which may now need some attention.