Hayeswood Road — Hayeswood Road

Kingwell House was built in 1920 by the Scobells, a local mining and entrepreneurial family, designed in the Arts and Crafts style, and has been sensitively restored over recent years, standing in approximately two and a half acres of level and mature gardens and grounds surrounded by glorious specimen trees. The interior of this house offers well-proportioned and flexible accommodation across two floors. The welcoming reception porch leads through a large oak framed door into a grand dining room with wooden floors. A bay window with a window seat overlooks the rear garden. The other end of this large space is the high-ceilinged drawing room; a wood burning stove is set within a designed brick fireplace. To the other end a door leads to a study also having a bay window overlooking the garden, and beside this there are two bedrooms and a bathroom, potentially creating an excellent suite to suit a dependant relative. Beyond the drawing room is a rear hall with downstairs loo, and back stairs leading up to the first floor. On through to the open plan kitchen/breakfast room with a central island unit, range cooker, windows to north and south, and double doors opening on to the rear garden and terrace, excellent for summer entertaining. Beyond the kitchen is the back hall and a well-appointed utility room, and the back door opens out very near the double garages. On the first floor is a lovely principal bedroom with an adjoining dressing room and en suite bathroom. There are three further good-sized bedrooms and two bathrooms on this level, and a large study with a woodburning stove and fitted bookcases opening onto a west facing balcony. Gardens and Grounds The present owners are knowledgeable gardeners and as such the exterior to the property is sensitively planted without entailing too much maintenance. The original owners planted some fine trees including three magnificent ginkgo on the edge of the driveway, and there is a champion tree, the tallest variegated Cornus