- Large kitchen/breakfast room area +
- Three reception rooms and study +
- Utility room +
- Large entrance hall with log burner +
- Principle bedroom suite +
- Four further bedrooms and three bathrooms +
- Double garage and workshop/office +
- Large garden with views to Farnham Castle +
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If you are looking for a house which has undergone complete removal of the Edwardian features with their replacements in a present-day style, read no further; this house is not for you!
Harefield, 22 Great Austins is a substantial detached two storey house, of late Edwardian date, and of typical style for that era, in a similar vein to the surrounding houses. Some of the neighbouring houses are of Arts and Crafts design, with several by the architect William Faulkner.
The house was built as a family house with live-in help, in around 1912/13, for Mr Walter Batting, a local hop grower and draper. He gifted it to his daughter on her marriage. It is brick built and of cavity wall construction. The build date is confirmed by the date 14-5-13 formed in the cast iron bath in the original bathroom. The main rooms and bedrooms have servant’s bells, with an indicator board next to the present kitchen.
Several additions and internal alterations have been carried out over the last fifty years (by the current owners), while retaining a large majority of the features of the original house, and with the alterations being made where possible in keeping with the Edwardian style.
Three of the bedrooms and the dining room have their original fireplaces, complete with original tiles from the local, Harris, pottery. The dining room and hall have exposed beam ceilings, original to the Arts and Crafts era.
Upstairs there are five bedrooms. Four of them have built-in (original) cupboards. The two largest bedrooms have en-suite modern bathrooms with wet-room showers, and one of them has a walk-in wardrobe. The family bathroom is the original bathroom. There is also a separate toilet in its original location.
The loft space is floor-boarded throughout.
Downstairs, the sitting room is a double aspect room with sliding doors at the back looking over the garden. The dining room, accessed from the hall and from the family room, provides an ideal atmosphere for entertaining family or guests.
The kitchen is entirely modern, with fitted appliances, and with one of the best views from Great Austins towards Farnham town, including Farnham Castle. The family room and breakfast room areas form an L-shaped space, with sliding doors overlooking the garden. Taken together with the kitchen, these rooms cover an area of around 44 square metres, or about 470 square feet.
Between the kitchen and the hall is a study area. The utility room leads to a toilet, as well as a shower room with wet-room shower. Beyond the utility room is a room currently used as an office, but which is also suitable for use as a bedroom.
Outside, the front drive has space for several cars, and at the rear of the house, the lawn is surrounded by ironstone walls, with the lower half of the garden being suitable for cultivation. The original garden design was based on a design by Gertrude Jeckel. With a little TLC it could be restored to its former glory. The total size of the property is about 0.4 acre.
The very large double garage can accommodate two cars, and to the rear of the garage is a separate, purpose-built room currently used as a hobbies room/workshop, but which could equally be used as an office, or with the garage to provide more living accommodation subject to planning permission. This would make the house suitable for multi-generational living.
There could be no onward chain.