Detached house for sale in Bowden Green, Pangbourne, Reading, Berkshire RG8

Lower Bowden Barn is a fantastic contemporary conversion of a former dairy at the Lower Bowden Estate. The property was converted in recent times with a focus on creating a streamlined house with large, light filled spaces predominantly overlooking its extraordinary and beautiful long view towards the Chiltern hills. It is exceptionally rare on the edges of Pangbourne to have such a special and attractive outlook.
The house flows off a large and impressive vaulted, full height reception hall which gives access to all the main reception rooms. To the side of the house is a large and well-appointed family kitchen which again benefits from the beautiful view and flows out onto a generous garden terrace. The barn benefits from all the modern conveniences of the recent conversion and offers a stylish and sophisticated environment with underfloor heating, high quality wooden and stone floors and high quality double glazed windows. There is a large drawing room with full height bifold doors opening on to the gardens and raised terrace. In addition there is an equally generous dining room, separate study and large family room which is spacious enough to be sub-divided should one wish. There are six bedrooms and five bathrooms and the five bedrooms on the first floor all benefit from exposed beams from the original dairy building celebrating the barn’s original agricultural origins. In particular, the main bedroom suite has 'his and hers' matching dressing rooms, a generously proportioned bathroom and French doors onto a balcony overlooking the view. Conveniently, there is also the flexibility of a bedroom suite on the ground floor which allows guest or staff accommodation to have a degree of privacy and separation.<br /><br />To the rear of the property there is an uninterrupted and beautiful view over the property’s own paddocks and borrowing a far longer outlook to the Chilterns beyond. Around the house itself are the more formally maintained gardens with smartly clipped lawns, seasonal interest mixed borders and a large wildlife pond with an imaginative seating area around it. To the side of the house there is a more formal potager-style vegetable garden with a greenhouse, raised beds and espalier fruit trees. Beyond the gardens is a large agricultural paddock which is currently maintained as a wildflower meadow, changing through the seasons before being cut and baled at the end of the summer.<br /><br />Pangbourne is a pretty Thameside village with an excellent range of local facilities including a church, primary school, pubs and restaurants and a number of specialist shops, including an award winning butcher, a specialist cheese shop and an artisan baker. There is also a main line rail link to London, Paddington within the hour.
The more comprehensive amenities of Reading are just 6 miles away (London Paddington, 27 minutes). The M4 (J12) is about five miles away and provides excellent access to the motorway network, London and its airports.
There is an excellent range of schooling in the area including Pangbourne College, Bradfield College, St Andrew's School and The Oratory.
There are also wonderful recreational facilities available at Bradfield College via membership, and the surrounding countryside is renowned for its walking and riding opportunities.