WITH the recent movie adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited, you could easily re-enact the splendour of the period in this quintessentially English house.

Nea House, Somerley is a beautifully refurbished Georgian Grade II-listed property dating from 1750 within the grounds of Harbridge Court and on the edge of Ringwood Forest.

Harbridge Court consists of eight prestigious homes and Nea House has been considerably improved by the present owners to an exceptional standard.

Whatever the season you could easily take pleasure from the unique access and views over the original sunken gardens and orchard.

Nea House boasts a dazzling multitude of period features throughout that are sure to delight the eye.

These include six working open fireplaces, moulded architraves, skirtings and cornicing, panelled internal doors, high ceilings and sash windows that are just asking to be thrown open on a Christmas morning.

While it may have all the character features you could possibly desire, Nea House also incorporates many modern high quality specifications.

These include fitted kitchen/ breakfast room, brass light and power sockets to principal rooms, Lutron' interactive lighting system, gas fired heating system with under-floor heating where there are flagged/ tiled floors on the ground floor and vaulted cellar.

As you'd expect with a property of this standard, it has been very tastefully decorated using colours of the period and features a wonderful cellar dining room with exposed vaulted brick ceiling, plus a room which could easily provide a home cinema, a study or a gym.

The property is entered through impressive and grand wrought iron gates with video entry security system.

These give access to a gravelled and cobbled courtyard area, which serves three of the properties and provides considerable parking and turning space and access to a double garage with timber entry doors, electric light and power and aluminium ladder to boarded loft storage space with electric light.

The property is simply a joy for horticulturists as it enjoys the use of the communal original Georgian sunken garden to the rear of the estate.

This has been lovingly landscaped to incorporate areas of lawn surrounded by lavender and box hedging, dwarf walling, specimen trees and shrubs and an area to one side which has been retained as an orchard, plus its own private flagged patio area enclosed by hedging.

To the front of Nea House is an area of gravelled garden, enclosed by wrought iron railings and gate leading to the front door. The residents of Harbridge Court contribute annually to the maintenance of the communal gardens and grounds.

The property is very attractively situated within a rural location, yet not isolated, within minutes of Ringwood and the A31 dual carriageway gives fast access to the major centres of Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch in the west and with the M27 and M3 motorways to the east linking Southampton, Winchester and London.

For further information please contact estate agents Woolley and Wallis on 01425 472421 or w-w.co.uk.

4:42pm Thursday 30th October 2008

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