Marguerite Cottage Golf Lane, Bordon GU35 9EH

A characterful four-bedroom detached family home on Golf Lane, Bordon, GU35, offering 1,395 sq ft of thoughtfully improved accommodation, a bespoke kitchen, established garden, garden office, garage and generous driveway parking, with views towards Blackmoor Golf Club and countryside walks including Hogmoor Inclosure close by. **A home with character** There is a particular kind of morning you get at this house. Kettle on, underfloor heating taking the chill off the kitchen tiles, and the first light coming through the casement windows onto black granite worktops that have seen a thousand Sunday breakfasts. This four-bedroom detached home on Golf Lane has been lived in, loved and thoughtfully improved, while retaining the character and features that give a house its identity. With origins dating back to 1901, it feels established rather than simply finished, with original details sitting comfortably alongside modern improvements. **A kitchen made for living** The heart of the home is the beautifully remodelled kitchen, designed with serious cooking and entertaining in mind. A seven-burner range cooker with wok burner, griddle, twin gas ovens and warming oven sits beneath a reclaimed oak beam salvaged from the original kitchen. Honed black granite worktops and windowsills sit alongside shaker-style oak cabinetry, including a full-height pantry with rotary shelving and clever LeMans corner units. Integrated Bosch appliances take care of the everyday essentials. It is a kitchen designed to be used. Big Sunday roasts, long dinners with friends and plenty of room for family life. A proper utility room and boot room combination sits just off the kitchen, keeping muddy boots and school bags away from the main living spaces, while a downstairs cloakroom adds further practicality. **Rooms to spread out in** The dual-aspect living room catches the light from both front and rear and centres around a working fireplace with JetMaster grate. French doors open directly onto the garden, creating an easy connection between the house and outside space during the warmer months. A separate dining room provides a more formal space for entertaining, with its own decorative log burner and heritage sash window overlooking the front of the property. Upstairs, there are four bedrooms. The principal bedroom has an original feature fireplace and two fitted wardrobes, while the third bedroom has already been plumbed for an en-suite shower, offering useful potential for the next owner. The family bathroom includes a freestanding-style Ariston bath, separate quadrant shower enclosure and stone-effect Karndean flooring. **A garden that does more than look good** Step outside and the garden is one of the property's real strengths. Beyond the lawns, mature planting, flower beds and three paved patios is a surprisingly versatile collection of outdoor spaces. An insulated, double-glazed garden office/workshop provides a dedicated place to work or pursue hobbies, alongside a greenhouse, potting shed, brick-edged well and wildlife pond. Three established apple trees add to the character and promise a proper autumn harvest, while the mature planting attracts an impressive variety of wildlife. Robins, blackbirds, wrens, tits and finches regularly visit the feeders, while frogs and tadpoles appear in the pond during spring. Red kites and woodpeckers can often be seen overhead, and roe deer are not an unusual sight at dusk. To the front, a block-paved driveway provides parking for around six cars, alongside a brick-built garage and covered log store. **The setting** Golf Lane is a peaceful dead-end lane with very little passing traffic, running alongside the first fairway of the private Blackmoor Golf Club, established in 1913. The property enjoys views across the course while remaining within easy reach of Blackmoor village. Blackmoor village and St Matthew's Church, a Grade II* listed building, are around a ten-minute walk away, while the surrounding area provides an exceptional choice of countryside and walking routes. The South Downs National Park boundary, Shipwrights Way and Longmoor Ranges trails are all within around a ten-minute walk, with Hogmoor Inclosure, Blackmoor Golf Club, The Warren and The Slab all close by. Hogmoor Inclosure itself is under five minutes away and offers waymarked trails, wooden sculptures, a forest play park and Bean & Gone café. For longer walks, routes lead towards Selborne via the Zigzag path and Gilbert White's House, while Oakhanger village provides further countryside, The Chocolate Frog café and The Hanger pub. Blackmoor Cider Taproom is also around a fifteen-minute walk away, with Maverick Brewing's taproom within walking distance for those feeling adventurous. **Everyday amenities** Bordon and Whitehill provide the everyday facilities you'd expect, including supermarkets, pharmacies, doctors' surgeries, the Whitehill & Bordon Leisure Centre, skate park, pubs, cafés and restaurants. For larger shopping trips, Farnham offers Waitrose, Sainsbury's, Elphick's department store and a railway station. Alton provides M&S, Sainsbury's, its weekly market and access to the Watercress Line, while Liphook offers further shopping, an independent wine merchant, an arts cinema and its own railway station. It is a rare combination: a characterful four-bedroom detached home with a beautifully established garden, genuine outdoor space for work and hobbies, a peaceful golf-side setting and some of the area's best countryside walks close to the door. Offered for sale with no onward chain, this is a home that has been carefully improved without losing the character that made it special in the first place.