Guide Price £6,000,000 Subject to Contract
9 Bedrooms
3 Receptions
An architect, eco-designed, 8/9 bedroom 1970's residence by Gore, Gibberd & Saunders, in a gated road off Kingston Hill, taking into account a Biophilic concept and introducing an abundance of natural daylight from the Southwest-facing rear aspect overlooking the exclusive Coombe Hill Golf course.
Location
Coombe Park is a 28 acre, secure, private gated estate, set in leafy surroundings only 6.5 miles from Knightsbridge and within easy reach of central London, the South Coast, Heathrow and Gatwick airports via the A3 and M25 Motorway.
With Richmond Park on the doorstep, the largest of the capital’s 8 Royal Parks and the biggest enclosed space in London, its 2,368 acres of natural beauty are home to the beautiful Isabella Plantation, Pembroke Lodge and herds of Red and Fallow deer.
This fabulous area is also home to five golf clubs, including the prestigious Coombe Hill Club. The All England Lawn Tennis Club and Wimbledon Village are a mere 5 minute drive away, where one can enjoy a variety of specialist boutiques and a wide range of restaurants catering for most tastes.
Wimbledon Common is also close at hand, where one can enjoy a variety of activities from cycling to horse riding. Wimbledon, Richmond and Kingston theatres are a popular choice for local residents with many a new production debuted before launching in the West End. Coombe, Kingston and Wimbledon are also home to a wealth of good schools catering for all ages, including private and state with a variety of international educational establishments. There are also private school buses serving schools further afield into Surrey.
The Property
Once through the CCTV controlled security gates off Coombe Park, the property is off the right-hand fork and on the right hand side with a 33.6-meter frontage and a direct South facing rear garden with access and uninterrupted views of the Coombe Hill Golf Course. The property which started its life in 1970 as a two-storey house with an integral garage is now over 3 floors with no garage but a very impressive, landscaped forecourt and wide side passages. The concept of the design was to offer the owners privacy from the front but flooding the house with natural daylight from the rear with large panelled windows and doors. taking in the uninterrupted views of the exclusive Coombe Hill Golf Course. Birch Grove’s special harmony and flow is a key principle of Feng Shui.
Whilst the spread of the accommodation is unusual to a typical home, the property has been designed by Gore, Gibberd & Saunders, with the main living accommodation on the first floor onto a large paved heated terrace with a full width awning and wall heaters where one can enjoy the magnificent views. On entering the main reception hall with the limestone flooring, one is greeted with an expanse of natural day light and space with a sliding glazed door into the study with access to a colonnaded passage across the whole rear façade.
There are two bedrooms to the left-hand side of the house with a bathroom and separated by one door from the hall, which could serve as a suite for one member of the family with two other bedrooms/ studies with en suite bathrooms, a very large laundry room and plant room. There is also a very useful boot room with an en suite shower, ideal for the whole family and friends and for washing down dirty pets back from a walk.
The easy rising staircase leads to a spacious double aspect drawing room with sliding doors onto the terrace which leads to the kitchen dining room and family room and sliding screen to the front windows. There is a formal guest cloakroom, the principal bedroom with an en suite dressing room and stone clad en suite bathroom and shower and another bedroom suite. Off the kitchen/dining room is a family room which can be instantly transformed to a home cinema with sliding panels and a curtain.
The second floor offers a very large bedroom with an en suite and another bedroom sharing a bathroom off the landing. Also on this level is the magnificent games room with a kitchenette facility. This area is for all the family as a relaxation area and possibly the gym as part of the whole area and being triple aspect, floods with natural day light. Birch Grove is a unique design to the area and is being offered with no chain.