Brancaster Staithe

Forming the eastern sentinel for the entrance to The Staithe, from the front aspect Harbourside is an attractive double fronted Victorian house. However, step inside and you are presented with a coastal panorama that many artists have emulated but there is no need to do so here.

As befits a house with such incredible views, the living space is on the first floor, allowing the ground floor to be given over for accommodation.
At the front of the house are two identically-sized double bedrooms that share a shower room, and then the principal bedroom suite is at the front with views down the garden as well as french doors out to the ground floor patio. There is a further door out to the garden which is situated beside the ground floor shower room, so ideal for stepping straight into a hot shower after a day on your boat, in the sea air.

The fourth bedroom suite is on the first floor, but the remainder of the space up here is given over to living and entertaining. The most stunning room is also the hub of every home, the incredible kitchen/dining room with its vaulted ceiling and almost cathedral-like fully glazed wall at the coastal end, allowing for that sweeping vista to not only fill the room with natural light but provide a kaleidoscopic array of compelling and ever changing scenery. Whether it be watching the innumerable skeins of geese filling the sky in winter or the flotilla of sails heading out on a full tide in the summer, this is a room that will simply delight you whatever the weather and whatever the season.

Beside this is the living room and both have glass doors that lead out to a substantial, decked roof terrace that is fully open to the west, so ideal for al fresco entertaining. Where better to sit chatting and laughing, with friends and family, watching the sun sink down over the horizon while enjoying an ice cold glass of rosé.

As well as ample off-street parking to the front, there is a large garage to the side which is ideal for winter boat storage, kayaks, bicycles, wet suits and any other essential bits of kit and clothing that help make a North Norfolk coastal holiday perfect. To the rear, the garden is fully enclosed with a gate at the bottom allowing quick access out to The Staithe or into The Sailing Club. There are also some useful outbuildings which run along the side of the lawned garden.

Harbourside has been in the same ownership for over 15 years and, whilst it has been fully enjoyed as an idyllic home-from-home and more recently as a main home, it could now benefit from some updating. Given the width and depth of the plot, there is of course huge potential to enlarge the house, particularly over the garage and adjoining the outbuildings in the garden, subject to the relevant permissions. However, it is an elegant Victorian house which is also perfectly balanced so can easily remain as it currently is. Whatever its next custodian decides, this is a house that will forever be about its position and those hypnotic views.  

BRANCASTER STAITHE A small coastal village, centred around the harbour, with its thriving fishing community and ideal for the sailing enthusiast. Brancaster Staithe is located approximately halfway between Hunstanton and Wells-next-the-Sea on the north Norfolk Coast. Connected to Burnham Deepdale, between the two villages they have a variety of shops including a supermarket/petrol station, cafe, fresh fish shop, sailing school, tourist information centre and two pubs, The Jolly Sailors, and The White Horse with its superb coastal views. Brancaster is justly famous for its mussels.

Scolt Head Island is a Nature Conservation Area, set in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and being only a boat trip away, depending on the tide. The island has a large breeding colony of Sandwich Terns and in winter there can be 50,000 pink-footed geese roosting on the island.

Brancaster Staithe is one of the best bird watching areas in the UK, the coastal path between Brancaster and Burnham Deepdale offers an abundance of wild life to enjoy.

There are many circular and coastal walks around the village including Barrow Common, with views over the coastline, or the Norfolk Coastal Path, which runs the length of the village, along the marshes.
 

SERVICES CONNECTED Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil fired central heating.
 

COUNCIL TAX Band E. 

ENERGY EFFICIENCY RATING E. Ref:- 8545-7022-4189-0167-8902
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TENURE Freehold. 

LOCATION What3words: ///rashers.shepherds.ensemble
 

AGENT'S NOTE Please note that some images have been virtually staged. 

PROPERTY REFERENCE 45029 

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