Property of the Week: Wealth of period detailing and understated elegance

This fine, detached residence retains a wealth of period detailing and understated elegance behind the beautiful dressed stone facades.

The house has been a loved home of the owner's family for more than 35 years and predominantly unaltered, presenting a wonderful opportunity for new owners to enhance this gracious property to their own style.

Earlham in Trumlands Road, St Marychurch, is complemented outside with ample driveway parking, a large detached garage, and generous gardens with a swimming pool.

A stone-pillared entrance with double gates leads to the gravelled driveway parking approach.

An entrance door opens to the porch with herringbone tiled floor. A glazed inner door opens to the reception hall with cloakroom.

An impressive drawing room is part panelled with lofty ceiling height and cornice work with a ceiling rose. There's a tiled fireplace and tall, sash windows overlooking and opening to the rear garden.

A door leads to a sunroom with French doors opening to the garden.

The dining room, again with lofty ceiling height and detailed cornice work, features thin oak-planked flooring, a tiled fireplace with hardwood surround and mantel, and a bay window with working shutters.

The breakfast room with Minster fireplace has triple sash windows overlooking parts of the garden.

A secondary staircase rises to the first floor, and further steps down to the cellarage.

The kitchen has three sash windows and a Rayburn.

There's a rear lobby with quarry tiled floor, storage cupboard with electric fuseboard and door to the side garden, with three steps down to a lower laundry area with sink, provisions for washing machine, GlowWorm

gas-fired boiler, and sash window.

The study has fitted book shelving and twin sash windows with working shutters.

From the reception hall, a turned staircase with hardwood handrails, carved newel post and spindles rises to the half landing with ornate stained glass leaded light windows.

Bedroom four has a sink and sash window overlooking the rear garden.

Stairs continue from the half landing to the first floor landing.

Bedrooms one and two feature sash windows overlooking the southerly aspect and private garden.

Bedroom three, again with sash windows, overlooks the side garden.

A shower room and inner hall with deep linen cupboard and overhead storage also feature.

A secondary staircase rises from the breakfast room, with four steps down to the lower section of hall.

Bedroom five is dual aspect. The family bathroom features a claw-and-ball-footed roll-top bath, wash hand basin and WC.

From the breakfast room, stone steps lead down to the cellerage, arranged as three rooms, one housing the swimming pool equipment.

Outside, the approach provides gravelled parking and a raised garden area with mature apple trees.

There's a pitched roof detached garage with wooden sliding glazed doors, inspection pit, fitted workbench, window to the rear and French doors to the side.

The rear garden is well screened and secure from the front, accessed from both the property, garage, or via a pedestrian gateway from Trumlands Road.

The primary garden is to the southerly side of the building with gravelled and paved areas directly adjoining the house, and sloping lawn with mature apple and eucalyptus trees.

There is also a screened swimming pool area with kidney-shaped pool.

The garden leads to the westerly side where there are further mature fruit trees, large greenhouse, two storage sheds, and outside WC.

Earlham is on the market with an asking price of £850,000. To book a viewing or for more information, call John Lake estate agents on 01803 328899