Summary - APRIL COTTAGE DARK LANE SHERBORNE ST JOHN BASINGSTOKE RG24 9HR
3 bed 2 bath Detached
Character-filled three-bedroom home with large gardens and flexible outbuildings.
Grade II listed 17th-century thatched cottage facing village green
April Cottage is a Grade II listed 17th-century thatched home set on about 0.27 acres facing the village green in Sherborne St John. The house retains strong period character—exposed oak beams, an inglenook fireplace and timber framing—while providing modern conveniences such as LED lighting, updated electrics (2018) and Hive-controlled central heating. Ground floor living flows from an L-shaped sitting/dining room to a country kitchen with an oil-fired AGA and a large utility room with the gas combi boiler and garden access.
Upstairs offers two generous double bedrooms and a third smaller bedroom or dressing room, plus a family bathroom and a shower room. The large mature gardens include terraced lawns, fruit trees, vegetable beds, a greenhouse, treehouse, and useful outbuildings: a detached double garage partly converted to a heated garden office, a folly used for log storage, potting shed and greenhouse.
This home will suit buyers who value historic character, outdoor space and village life—families and those seeking a picturesque rural home close to good primary and secondary schools. Buyers should note the listed status: any alterations will require listed-building consent and thatched maintenance and solid-wall construction limit immediate insulation improvements. Council tax is high and some internal spaces have low ceilings typical of older cottages.
April Cottage offers a rare combination of period charm, generous plot and practical outbuildings in a very affluent, low-crime village setting—an attractive long-term home for buyers prepared to maintain and sensitively update a historic property.
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