5 Bed Detached House For Sale Rivacres, Reading, RG8

Knight Frank are delighted to offer this beautifully appointed modern family home with a wealth of stylish, elegant accommodation, including five bedrooms and a separate annexe. Extended and modernised by the current owners, the property offers light-filled accommodation over two floors, with quality fixtures and fittings. It also features a lovely swimming pool and garden office.
The main house comprises five bedrooms, two bathrooms, two reception rooms and a utility. The annexe comprises a games room, utility/gym and shower room.

The welcoming and spacious reception hall provides a grand entrance with Porcelanosa flooring, doors radiating to the snug/cinema room, utility and kitchen/dining/sitting room, and a fantastic staircase rising to the first floor. The snug has attractive, fully fitted shelving and storage and space for sofas, a perfect chill-out area. To the rear of the reception hall is access to a large utility room with fitted, full-height units housing the washing and drying machines and a door to the side of the property.

Hunters Moon benefits greatly from a magnificent kitchen/dining/sitting room. This light and airy room has lovely views over the rear garden and swimming pool. The kitchen area has a range of wall and base units beneath a marble worktop and a central island with an induction hob, and a range of Fisher & Paykel appliances, including two dishwashers, triple ovens (one steam, one conventional and one combination oven), a Quooker tap, wine fridges, fridge and freezer. There is ample space for a dining table and sitting area with bi-fold doors opening to the patio and swimming pool, ensuring this space works perfectly for open-plan family living and entertaining.
The first floor comprises a luxurious principal bedroom with en suite shower room, a seating area with full-height windows with views over the front of the property and countryside beyond, and a dressing area. The second bedroom also has a fantastic full-height window and fitted wardrobes, and two further bedrooms have Juliette balconies and fitted wardrobes. The fifth bedroom and family bathroom complete the first-floor accommodation.

Above the garage is a games room, which could also be a study or bedroom, with access to a kitchen and shower room on the ground floor, a perfect self-contained annexe.

At the entrance to Hunters Moon, security gates open on to a gravel driveway, which leads to a spacious parking area and access to the detached double garage, which has a shower room, gym and kitchen to its ground floor, and a well-presented games room on the first floor, that could also be a bedroom or office. To one side of the garage at the front of the garden is laurel hedging and a utility area.
Steps rise to the front door, bordered by beautifully planted flowerbeds and a path leading to both sides of the property. The rear garden has a fantastic terrace from the kitchen and sitting room space and leads both to the swimming pool area with a gazebo and hot tub and a spacious seating area with a fire pit and BBQ area to the opposite side of the garden. Steps lead to a grassed area with a pergola and path leading to the garden office, installed with electricity, heating and wifi, ideal for those wishing to work from home. The garden has been landscaped with a beautiful selection of flower beds filled with shrubs, trees and perennials, giving the garden a great sense of privacy.

Whitchurch Hill is a quiet, hilltop village on the edge of the Chilterns Escarpment close to the Thames Valley, approximately 2 miles from Pangbourne, with surrounding countryside designated an 'Outstanding Natural Beauty' area.
At the bottom of the hill is the separate village of Whitchurch-on-Thames, opposite the town of Pangbourne on the Berkshire side of the river and home to an outstanding primary school. Pangbourne offers excellent shopping facilities and a wide range of amenities, including a supermarket, cafes, and restaurants. The property enjoys excellent communication links to all major regional towns. The nearby M4 provides speedy access to the motorway network, London and its airports, and access to the A34 for Oxford or the South. At the same time, the mainline train from Pangbourne station reaches London Paddington in around 45 minutes along with the new Elizabeth Line with its direct links to the West End, City and Canary Wharf.
In addition to having a good range of 'outstanding' local state primary schools in Whitchurch on Thames and secondary schooling in nearby Woodcote, the area is also well served by an excellent range of private schools, of particular note; Cranford House School, Oratory Preparatory School, Moulsford Preparatory School, St Andrews Preparatory School, The Oratory, Pangbourne College, Bradfield College, Abingdon School, and St Helen & St Katharine.