The property provides excellently presented accommodation with the majority of rooms benefitting from superb sea views. The house benefits from double glazing throughout and has had the kitchen and bathrooms modernised in recent years. The accommodation includes a well proportioned drawing room with stunning views as well as there being both a further reception room and conservatory, providing good, flexible accommodation. Outside there is a double garage and a recently built studio. The gardens are a particular feature including a wonderful array of mature flowering plants and shrubs which has created a very attractive, quiet setting.

The village occupies a stunning setting with a backdrop of St. Boniface down with wooded slopes running down to the coast where beaches can be found at Horseshoe Bay and Monks Bay. It largely comprises a range of attractive stone built period houses constructed in the Victorian era for the wealthy gentry who were attracted here by the milder climate and excellent sea views. Bonchurch is also famous for its past literary connections, including Dickens, Swinbourne, and Shaw. The village provides a shop, pub, post office, garage and blacksmiths as well as the highly regarded Pond Caf. The surrounding southern coastline of the Island provides some stunning scenery as well as further facilities and restaurants, particularly in the adjacent town of Ventnor, which also has Botanical Gardens. On the north coast of the Island there are a range of frequent car and passenger ferry services to the mainland including the Fishbourne to Portsmouth car ferry, which takes approximately 45 minutes and high speed ferry services from Ryde to Portsmouth and Cowes to Southampton taking between 12 and 25 minutes. Shanklin Railway Station, (about 3 miles) provides a service to Ryde Pier with the high-speed ferry leading to onwards connections to London.

Accommodation:

Panelled front door to:

Entrance hall Entrance lobby opening into a hall way 14.55m in length providing doors off to all of the principal rooms with halogen spotlighting inset and glazed double doors opening to the drawing room. Airing cupboard with slatted wooden shelving.

Cloakroom Coat hooks and space for a wardrobe cupboard.

Drawing room 6m x 5.73m (198 × 1810) max A well proportioned, light room with deep south facing windows providing wonderful views over the gardens and sea beyond. Open fireplace with ornate stone surround with mantelshelf and hearth. Sliding doors to a decked terrace and seating area. In addition there is an electrically operated external sun canopy to the southern elevation of the room.

Dining room 3.36m x 3.62m (110 × 1111) with sliding glazed doors opening to the terrace and with sea views.

Kitchen 4.68m x 2.73m (154 × 90) A well fitted modern kitchen comprising a good range of base and wall cupboards, integral double fridge, freezer and dishwasher, stainless steel Egins oven and four ring gas hob above with stainless steel extractor above. Ceramic 1 bowl sink, tiled splash backs, adjustable halogen spotlighting and tiled flooring. Wide opening with glazed windows to either side provide sea views through the adjoining conservatory.

Conservatory 3.11m x 3.10m (103 × 102) with low level block work walls with double glazed units to three sides affording wonderful views over the gardens and English Channel. Glazed doors open to terrace on the western side and to a path leading to the garden on the eastern side. Tiled flooring and fitted blinds. Opaque Perspex roof with Polycool Solar Control.

Bedroom 1 3.18m (105) widening to 3.94m x 3.36m (1211 × 110) incorporating a range of built in wardrobe cupboards. Panoramic views over the garden and English Channel.

Shower room en suite Tiled shower cubicle with thermostatic shower, wash hand basin set in cupboard beneath, WC, tiled walling and extractor fan.

Bedroom 3 3.74m x 2.7m (123 × 810) widening to 3.08m (101) incorporating a range of built in cupboards. Garden and sea views.

Bathroom Fully tiled throughout with modern white suite comprising panelled bath with mixer tap and shower attachment and separate thermostatic shower over with shower screen, pedestal wash hand basin and WC. Tiled floor.

Utility cupboard Tiled flooring, shelving and space and plumbing for washing machine, gas fired Trianco boiler.

Bedroom 2 3.94m x 3.98m (1211 × 131) incorporating a range of built in cupboards along one wall.

Shower room en suite Tiled shower cubicle with thermostatic shower, wash hand basin with cupboard beneath, WC, tiled lower walling and extractor fan.

Outside

From The Pitts there is a private tarmaccaden pull in adjacent to the garage providing parking, with double wrought iron gates opening to a further parking space adjacent to the property.

Double Garage 5.17m x 4.75m (170 × 157) with a wide up and over door opening onto the pull in as well as a single up and over electrically operated door opening to the eastern elevation. Blockwork construction under a partly pitched roof with a window to the southern elevation with power and lighting. Adjacent green house.

Summerhouse/Studio 3.07m x 3.52m (101 × 117) Constructed of timber in 2006 with windows and doors overlooking gardens with a laminate floor. There is power and lighting providing an ideal studio or home office.

A path leads to the front door passing a well planted border. The principal gardens lie to the south of the property and provide a real feature, benefitting from excellent landscaping and planting over the years.

To the south of the house and accessed from the drawing room, sitting room and conservatory is a decked terrace ideal for outdoor seating and dining with steps leading down through the stunning gardens. Just beneath the terrace is a level lawn surrounded by borders, stone walling and a rockery forming a wonderful south facing setting. Block built garden store. Steps and gravelled paths lead down through the remainder of the gardens that slope to the south and comprise extensively planted borders enclosed by stone walling, with an impressive array of flowering shrubs and trees forming a very attractive secluded setting surrounded by mature trees. There is an ornamental pond with an adjacent decked terrace. The gardens are a result of significant time spent over the years and are a real delight.

Services Mains water, electricity and gas. Private drainage. Gas fired central heating.

Directions From Leeson Road proceed down Bonchurch Shute and just after The Bonchurch Inn take the turning right signed The Pitts. Columba will be found on the left hand side after about 100m.

Viewings: All viewings will be strictly by prior arrangement with the sole selling agents Christopher Scott Ltd.

MISDESCRIPTIONS ACT 1991
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Iii No person in the employment of Christopher Scott has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to this property.