Location

Cookham Dean is a highly regarded and picturesque village conveniently located for the M40 (Junction 4) and the M4 (Junction 8/9) which provides access to Heathrow Airport and the M25.

Day-to-day shopping needs are well served in Cookham Rise; more extensive amenities may be found in Maidenhead. Rail connections to London (Paddington) are available from Cookham Rise (via the branch line to Maidenhead), providing services to the City and beyond via the new Elizabeth Line.

Nearby Marlow offers a superb range of retailers, with an eclectic mix of local independent and national retailers. There are numerous bars, cafes and restaurants dotted around the town offering destinations for any occasion. Marlow itself is situated on the banks of the River Thames and the Thames Path follows the river through the town.

Just outside the town, the area opens out to glorious rolling countryside and a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Outdoor pursuits are numerous, as are golf, football, cricket and rugby clubs.

Description

Chanters is a beautifully presented home quietly situated along a private lane of similarly impresive detached houses. The house was built in the 1930s with a charming thatched roof and Tudor Revival-style wooden beams which provide character. The house offers flexible, well-proportioned accommodation with a large outbuilding, extending in total to about 3,800 sq ft. It occupies a generous plot amongst attractive, well maintained gardens. It is the ideal family home and has a number of impressive features, including a sweeping driveway, a detached double garage with games room presenting an opportunity for an annexe (subject to permissions), and ample living space that’s equally suited to family life as well as entertaining.

The interiors are presented to a good standard and offer fantastic scope for further modernisation. The house is entered onto a generous entrance hall leading to a light-filled sunroom at the front of the house, a fitted study, a sitting room with stone fireplace, and a dining room with half-panelled walls; this trio of reception rooms forms the perfect space for formal occasions. Separately there is an inviting family room and an open plan kitchen and breakfast room, which has an adjoining utility with space for laundry machines. Upstairs there is a principal bedroom with a dressing area and an en suite shower room. A further en suite bedroom is the ideal guest suite while the remaining two double bedrooms (making four bedrooms in total) share a family bathroom.

Chanters is situated on one of Cookham Dean’s most prestigious private lanes: the setting is unrivalled and offers a high degree of privacy, with mature trees enclosing a spacious plot with countryside to the rear. A sweeping gravel carriage driveway leads up to the house and a detached double garage with a separate games room, WC and storage space. The mature gardens to the front and rear are well tended and feature a variety of mature trees, established borders and well-stocked flowerbeds around an expansive lawn, with a number of areas for seating including a large paved terrace and a pretty summerhouse adjacent to a pond.

Directions

From Marlow, head south on the High Street and cross the river via Marlow Bridge. Turn left into Quarry Wood Road and continue onto Dean Lane. After about 0.7 miles turn left onto Alleyns Lane, where the turning to Chanters will be found on the left-hand side; Chanters is the second property on the left-hand side.