Property: Extended Wolstanton home is fabulous for entertaining

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E XTENDED and rebuilt with more regard to quality than cost just several years ago, this property ticks every single box that a family buyer could look for. But, more than most houses, it is one you need to go and see from the inside.

It is big, it has an excellent layout, it has off-road parking and is quiet yet in a great location close to good schools, shops and roads; all these details you can get from the website of Bob Gutteridge, the estate agency handling the sale, but what going online will not convey is the atmosphere inside, the feel of the place.

Because this house is absolutely charming, filled with lovely little details that emphasise the considerable investment in time and money that the owners have put in.

Estate agent Steve Gutteridge said they bought it at auction some nine years ago. Then the property, at Milehouse Lane, Wolstanton, and just down from the landmark green open space of the marsh, was in a state that Steve describes as "very tired, very old-fashioned''.

But they could see the potential to effectively start from scratch and make something special.

That is exactly what they have created, and it is evident from the moment you walk into the hallway that this is no ordinary property. Steve said it best when he told me: "They put in a lot of time, thought and effort on it over the years. But why would you settle for making something that is merely good when with a bit more commitment and investment you can make something that is really special?''

Why indeed. And as you walk into the house on the lovely pale honey-coloured solid oak flooring that runs throughout the ground floor and glows in the sunlight, and feel the weight and solidity of the doors, you know that considerations of quality outweighed those of cost when the place was rebuilt.

Steve added: "They have done everything, taking the walls back to bare brick, replastering, rewiring, putting on a new roof and a new heating system, laying the new oak flooring and having new windows." The house has been extended, adding two more bedrooms and more living space downstairs, and redesigned for a better, more sociable layout.

To the left off the hallway at the front is a good sized dining room with a marble fireplace, and behind it is a large, light and lovely lounge flooded with daylight from patio doors at the end. A solid stone not fake surround houses a remote-controlled gas fire, but so effective is the insulation and central heating that Steve says it is hardly ever used, even in the winter.

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Property: Extended Wolstanton home is fabulous for entertaining