5 Bed Detached House For Sale Chestnut Avenue, Guildford, GU2

Barnett Farm is a handsome period residence offering adaptable accommodation, arranged across three light-filled floors. The property maintains original features, including exposed timbers, latched wooden doors, casement windows and fireplaces, complemented with an array of luxury modern elements. Double doors open into the airy entrance hall with its wide turned stairway and double-height glass panels to the grounds offering a light-filled welcome into the home. The stylish kitchen and breakfast area is accessible from here, a bright 24 ft. multi-aspect space with double, partially glazed doors to the front terrace and a side door. There is a well-appointed utility room, cloakroom and an attractive informal dining space with a striking Esse range stove and brick fireplace, alongside which is the chic contemporary range of wall and base cabinetry and granite worksurfaces with curved edges and various fitted appliances including an inset induction hob and dual cookers. The accommodation flows further through a beamed formal dining room, drawing room with an inglenook and a family room with fireplace and turned stairway, all of which lead directly out onto the grounds.
The characterful and luxurious bedrooms are arranged over the first and second floors, with four bedrooms including the impressive principal suite on the first floor. This enjoys a fully fitted dressing room and a deluxe en suite bathroom with dual sinks, a separate bathtub and walk-in shower, bedroom 3 also has an additional bathroom on a mezzanine level. There is also an equally pleasing family bathroom completing the first floor. The final bedroom occupies the heavily beamed and vaulted second floor.

The property is set in immaculately presented grounds, approached via a long sweeping driveway bordered by colourful shrubs and a scenic lake, pond and seating area, leading up to a gravelled forecourt beside the home. Stone-paved sun terraces wrap around the handsome residence, offering multiple aspects to dine al fresco, followed by neat box hedging and generous expanses of manicured formal lawns, interspersed with various mature trees, shrubs and planting schemes. Further, a paved pathway leads up to the charming two-storey timber, brick and stone annexe with fine exposed trusses and beams, which is being utilised as a home office complete with fitted L-shaped desks, shelving and a shower room and kitchen. A further timber outbuilding serves as a childs playroom.

Note: Further land is available by separate negotiation.

The picturesque village of Shamley Green with its charming cricket green, church and duck pond has a village shop and a pair of popular public houses. Nearby Cranleigh offers a wide array of additional facilities, including shops, supermarkets, banks and cafes. Godalming and Guildford providing an extensive array of educational, recreational and cultural services, along with mainline railway stations. The M25 provides convenient road connections to London Airports and further afield, with a range of notable schools in easy reach, including Cranleigh, Charterhouse, Duke of Kent, Hurtwood House, St Catherine’s, Cranmore Royal Grammar, Guildford High and Tormead.