Castlemain Avenue, Southbourne, Bournemouth, BH6 5EH

SUMMARY

A fully renovated four-bedroom detached house on a 0.12 acre plot, set at the top end of Castlemain Avenue and offered with no onward chain. The renovation has been done with real care, keeping the character (original coving, period doors stripped back to their original finish) while adding a new kitchen, designer bathrooms and an Italian limestone patio. It's a quiet, tree-lined road with a genuine sense of community. A short walk takes you to the cafés and shops of Southbourne Grove, and a little further on, Fisherman's Walk winds down through the pines to the beach.

GROUND FLOOR

You come in through a porch into a wide entrance hall, with a brick-arched alcove to one side, the staircase rising ahead and engineered oak flooring running throughout the ground floor. The internal doors have been acid-treated to bring them back to their original period finish, one of many details that show how carefully this house has been renovated. The lounge sits at the front, with original coving and a bay window that draws in light from the morning well into the afternoon. In the middle of the house is a shower room with WC, finished in Fired Earth tiles and as well done as anything else in the house.

The whole rear of the house is one big open-plan kitchen/dining room. The new kitchen has quartz worktops, plenty of storage and a layout that suits a school-night dinner as well as a houseful of friends. Behind a run of matching cupboard doors is a hidden utility, finished to the same standard, so it disappears completely until you need it.

FIRST FLOOR

Upstairs are three double bedrooms and a fourth bedroom. The front bedroom with its bay and the rear bedroom overlooking the garden are both generous, and either could be the principal bedroom. The third double is also at the rear, and the fourth, at the front, works as a single, nursery or home office. The family bathroom is a highlight, with bold tiling, a design with real personality and a finish well above the usual. Throughout the house there are flush casement windows and carefully chosen light fittings.

OUTSIDE SPACE

To the front, a red-brick drive and path, with generous side access through to the rear. Behind the house, a large patio in imported Italian limestone, with a dedicated BBQ area, leads onto a long, generous lawn with room for children, dogs and everything in between. The garden faces north-west, so the patio gets the sun from around midday right through to sunset, perfect for long Sunday lunches and summer evenings.

EPC Rating: C