Magnificent property in spectacular setting

We are familiar with the description of “it’s one in a million”. It doesn’t strictly apply to a special property fresh to the market in Alresford. Tralee, in Bishops Sutton Road, is “two in £1.1 million” because it comprises a house and large bungalow annexe. It also comes with a five bay garage block with a huge loft area above which has potential for office or leisure use.

Tralee started life in the 1920s as a modest home but has since been skillfully extended to become much more substantial and imposing. A well-proportioned three bedroomed bungalow annexe is a more recent addition. Because the plot extends to around two acres it can take it.

Only those with a skilled eye would be able to detect where the old house joins the new by studying the floor plan – the physical join is seamless and the house guards the secrets of its growth very well. Its setting is also ideal – it faces south and the gardens and paddock behind it slope gently down to Alresford Pond to give a truly spectacular outlook.

One of the most imposing features of Tralee is the magnificent 27 foot drawing room, which has a bay window to the front and another at the side incorporating a French door into the garden. Bay windows also feature in the sitting room, the dining room, and kitchen breakfast room. The latter also has a French door into the garden.

A galleried landing on the first floor leads to the five bedrooms, two of which have access to a shared bathroom. There is also a family bathroom and all the bedrooms, plus the landing, have bay windows. Above is a generous boarded loft space with windows that would make an ideal hobbies area.

The bungalow in the grounds, built during the 1990s, has an unusual and interestingly shaped sitting room accessed by French doors off the hall. To the other side of the hall are three bedrooms. At the rear of the building is the kitchen / breakfast room.


The gardens provide the house with a magnificent backdrop. They broaden on the northern boundary to provide sufficient land to perhaps enable some division to pony paddocks. A wide paved terrace adjacent to the house has steps down to an area of lawn with gravelled features. Beyond are fine silver birch and weeping willow.

For more details, visit dnproperty.co.uk.