Detached House for sale with 4 bedrooms, Cornwallis Avenue, Folkestone

This unusual detached family home backs onto a cricket pitch and was built in the late Edwardian era. Set well back from the avenue, it is approached through a brick pillared entrance and an in-and-out carriage driveway that provides off road parking. It is bordered by a raised lawn, shrubs and trees and leads to the double garage and a fascinating front entrance area.

There is a large patio and charming external features including a brick arch over the front door, chimney stacks, brick and white elevations and multi-pane windows that combine to give it attractive appeal. While internally period features such as original oak flooring and the original oak staircase, dado rails, oak skirting boards and ornate coving, fireplaces and even the original servants’ bells in the larder, give it a special character.

The front door opens into the main hall with oak flooring that flows through to the sitting room and angled dining room. It includes a boot cupboard, a cloakroom, a mirrored storage cupboard, the staircase and has an open arch to a tiled inner hall and the historic larder with its servants’ bells and slate shelving. There is also a back door and side entrance as well as a boiler/utility room.

A multi-pane glazed door leads to the fitted kitchen with its half panelled wall and units housing a gas hob, double oven and stand-alone appliances while leaving plenty of room for a large breakfast table and chairs. For more formal occasions guests will be delighted to enjoy a meal in the dual aspect dining room with a fascinating corner angled fireplace incorporating a thin brick surround. There are doors from the dining room, sitting room and drawing room that all lead into the superb garden room where, in the spring and summer, the family spend much of their time. It has tiled flooring and French doors to the paved patio with additional decking and wonderful views over the garden and beyond, while the arched and beamed glazed doors to the charming sitting room are impressive. Here you will find a variety of period features including an impressive fireplace with a Baxi fire, a brick surround and an oak mantlepiece.

The double aspect drawing room/fourth bedroom has an angled fireplace and could be used as part of a separate apartment as it has a door to a secondary hallway that has access to a wet room and a security door to the garage. If additional living accommodation was required the integral garage could be converted subject to the appropriate planning permissions

Walking up the staircase you come to spacious galleried landing that provides a useful study area, access to an airing cupboard, the partially boarded attic, the family shower room with its wood flooring and three double bedrooms. These include one that is triple aspect with fitted cupboards and another that has a fascinating arched wardrobe, a vanity basin and doors to a large decked balcony with a glass and chrome balustrade where you can sip your morning coffee and enjoy watching the cricket. While the dual aspect main bedroom includes a wet room style shower room , a built in cupboard and fitted shelving. Since the roof of the garage is flat it would be possible to extend over it to create additional bedrooms if required and subject to the appropriate planning.

As well as the rear terrace where you can enjoy barbecues and outdoor entertaining there is a large lawn where kids and pets can play surrounded by trees and shrubs. There is also a pathway to the end of the garden, a charming summerhouse and views over the cricket pitch and sports centre. While at the side of the property there is a garden shed, a vegetable plot and a greenhouse.