Cranbury Gardens, Southampton, SO31 8FB

This delightful four-bedroom detached chalet style bungalow is situated in the popular village of Bursledon and is conveniently located for local amenities, public transport links, nearby schools, and green spaces. The spacious and versatile dwelling is built of brick elevations under a pitched tiled roof and benefits from gas fired heating and double glazing. There is a lovely living room and a well-proportioned kitchen breakfast room which for perfect for entertaining. The ground floor also offers two bedrooms, a shower room and a conservatory. On the first floor are two further bedrooms, which share a bathroom. Outside, there is a private, enclosed garden, driveway, storage area and an adjoining studio, which offer for the discerning purchaser the opportunity to convert into an annexe subject to relevant local authority planning.

The Local Area

Bursledon is a picturesque village situated on the River Hamble in Hampshire, renowned for its outstanding natural beauty. Old Bursledon is one of the Hamble’s best-kept secrets. The River Hamble is an internationally-famed centre of yachting and motorboats, and boasts several marinas that offer extensive facilities for both residential and visiting yachtsmen. The village has close ties to the sea. The Elephant Boatyard located in Old Bursledon dates back centuries and is where some of Henry VIII's fleet was built. Submerged remnants of the fleet can be found in the River Hamble. The village, particularly the Jolly Sailor pub and the Elephant Boatyard, were used as the primary filming venue for the 1980s BBC TV soap opera Howards' Way. Bursledon's waterside location and woodland surroundings made it a natural location for building wooden ships. Numerous vessels were built for the Royal Navy at private shipyards at Bursledon. By the 1870s, the shipbuilding trade had disappeared from Bursledon and the main industry was arable agriculture, particularly the growing of strawberries.

Locally, there are several pubs and restaurants to try, but if you’d like to stretch your legs a little more, you can take a stroll to the waterside villages that line the Hamble’s route to the sea. Visit them by water taxi, or head upriver in a tender to Botley for some truly spectacular scenery.

The area has excellent transport links via a train station, and the M27 motorway that links the neighbouring cities of Southampton, Portsmouth, and Winchester. Nearby Southampton Airport Parkway train station it is an approximately a 1 hour 20 minutes ride to London Waterloo.