Property description

Beautifully presented, with recently updated interiors, Upalong offers a charming home with light, airy and versatile accommodation across two floors. On the lower level, a generous drawing room is centred around a fireplace with stone surround, providing comfort and warmth on a chilly evening, whilst glazed, sliding doors open onto the rear garden, allowing access to the outdoors. The well-designed kitchen is fitted with Shaker-style wall and base level cabinetry, topped with composite stone effect work surfaces, and features an island unit with breakfast bar along with a window seat within the bay alcove. The kitchen extends through to an adjoining dining area which is filled with natural light courtesy of a skylight lantern and glazed garden doors. The room also incorporates a utility sink and storage unit.
The ground floor offers a well-appointed shower room, along with one of the three bedrooms, providing excellent guest accommodation and future-proofing should first floor living ever become a challenge.
The first floor comprises a principal bedroom with fitted wardrobe storage and access to an adjacent room, currently in use as a study, which offers options to provide a nursery, or dressing room, if required.
Both the principal room and the second bedroom have extensive eaves storage and a family bathroom, with contemporary tiling, completes the accommodation.

The Drive is situated in the highly-desirable leafy residential area of Summersdale on the northern fringes of Chichester and just 500 metres from the Centurion Way, which offers a scenic route north to the South Downs and south to the city. Chichester offers a wide range of cultural, leisure and shopping facilities, including the renowned Festival Theatre and Pallant House Gallery. Nearby Goodwood is well known for its horse racing events in addition to the Festival of Speed and Revival Meetings. Sailing may be enjoyed from the centres around Chichester Harbour, with many good beaches nearby. Excellent schooling can be found in the area, including Bishop Luffa School and Portsmouth Grammar School.

Evergreen hedging fronts the lane with a picket gate and a pathway provides a route to the front door. To the side, mature laurel and clipped conifer bushes edge the gravelled driveway, which offers parking and an approach via double gates to an additional secure storage area for boats or motorhomes, with the detached garage beyond. A wooden gateway allows access onto a large paved terrace which adjoins the rear of the home and is graduated to extend into the garden and to provide a passage to the store room adjoining the garage. Paving stones offer a meandering pathway to reach the pretty summerhouse with power, ideally positioned to take advantage of the setting sun. Curved borders filled with mature shrubs and perennial plants frame the lawned area and at the far margin there is a perfect spot for a garden bench with a backdrop of trees situated beyond the end boundary.
Amenities

Reception hall

Drawing room

Kitchen/breakfast room

Dining room

Shower room

3 Bedrooms

Family bathroom

Study/dressing room

Garage and storeroom/workshop

Garden