Amery Hill, Alton, GU34 1HS

It’s A Three Minute Walk To The High Street, And If You Work From Home Your Commute To The Bottom Of The Garden Only Takes Seconds. A cute period cottage with a traditional log burner lounge and a west-facing private garden with a garden studio/office - right in the heart of Alton. 

For anyone who's tried to make a spare bedroom work as an office, or has spent a year commuting from a flat with no outdoor space, this one is worth paying close attention to. 

The garden studio is insulated, boarded, lined and fitted with power and a Velux skylight - a room you’ll look forward to spending the whole working day in, separate from the house.

The cottage itself opens straight into the sitting room. The cast iron surround fireplace with its working log burner sits on a terracotta-tiled hearth, the ceiling has classic cornicing, and there's a brass pendant light that gives the room a warm, unhurried quality in the evenings. 

The kitchen runs across the back of the house with white shaker-style cabinets, a butler-style sink, wooden worktops and subway tiles. It includes a gas range with extractor, a washing machine and a dishwasher. 

Sage green stable doors feature throughout the ground floor - one off the kitchen, one in the passageway beyond - and they lift the whole space considerably. The stairs rise from the back of the ground floor up to the first floor, with a ground floor bathroom completing the layout down here, fitted with a bath and a shower over it. 

Upstairs there are two bedrooms. The main bedroom looks out over the rooftops and tree canopy at the front. You might expect small rooms in a traditional cottage like this but this is a proper double with good ceiling height. The second bedroom is more compact but works well as a single bedroom, a dressing room or office (if you’ve got other ideas about the outbuilding in the garden.

Now, moving onto the garden, it’s accessed from the back of the house and also via a walkway to the side - and once you're through, it opens up considerably. 

Recent landscaping has created two distinct levels: a lower lawn area with well-stocked borders and an upper raised deck with timber sleepers where the garden studio sits. 

The studio has French doors opening onto its own deck space, and faces west, so it catches the evening sun. This is not just a shed with a desk in it.

Alton is well set up for everyday life. The High Street is only a three-minute walk away, with independent shops, a Waitrose, and a range of cafés and restaurants. 

The station, with direct trains to London Waterloo which take around an hour, is a thirteen-minute walk.

If you want a period cottage in the centre of a well-connected market town - and you want to work from home without working from your kitchen table - this charming cottage actually delivers both.

Get in touch to arrange a viewing, as we'd expect this one to move quickly.