Make the most of summer with a seafront home

With the soaring temperatures during June, it’s very tempting to start planning a move to the seaside.

Not a one-day effort with flip-flops on your feet and a knotted hanky on your head, but the full commitment with an attractive seafront home where you can make the most of the weather whenever it turns up.

Anne-Marie Green, of Fine and Country in Emsworth, reckons she knows just the place – the seafront on Hayling Island.

As an example of what can be achieved by careful planning, the owners of a property called Shorecroft (guide price £850,000, EPC Band E) sat down with their architect and thought things through thoroughly.

For this reason, what many would regard as a dream home also has its practical touches, such as a self-contained ground floor annexe utilising the fifth bedroom, study, shower room, and utility.

The real intention was to ensure that the views, sunsets, and fresh air could be absorbed as often as possible.

In addition to a ground floor drawing room behind a large bay window, there is a first floor sitting room with double French doors onto a balcony.

There are similar doors in the master bedroom but purdah glass ensures that while there’s always a view out no-one gets an uninvited view in!

At the rear, the dining/family room adjoins the kitchen and two sets of bi-fold doors bring the garden into the living space.

Twin roof lanterns flood the interior with natural light while underfloor heating makes it an attractive place in cooler weather.

The kitchen is also well equipped with appliances.

The practical side of the house is emphasised by a further ground floor bedroom, suitable for alternative use, and three bedrooms upstairs, with the master sharing the outstanding views across the seafront and The Solent to the Isle of Wight.

Shorecroft view

Shorecroft balcony

Shorecroft living area

Just a few doors along is another property, on the corner of Sea Front and Alexandra Avenue (guide price £875,000, EPC Band C), originally a holiday home but following an expansive programme of modernisation it is a magnificent main home for an open air-loving family.

To take advantage of the outlook, the wall has been lowered and topped with wrought iron railings.

On cooler days, the new sun room on the southern end of the sitting room is somewhere warm to watch the ships heading along the English Channel, an outlook that’s also enjoyed from the master and second bedrooms above.

The sitting room is huge and matched by the size of the kitchen and dining area, which makes this a great home for entertaining.

Certainly if you own it you’ll rediscover friends you haven’t heard from in years!

The master bedroom is en-suite and there’s a family bathroom with both a bath and double shower cubicle serving the other four first floor bedrooms.

On the ground floor there’s a study adjacent to a shower room that could be a bedroom or changing suite after those days on the beach.

On the corner of Sea Front and Alexandra Avenue (guide price £875,000, EPC Band C)

The view across Sea Front road

The living room of the home on the corner of Sea Front and Alexandra Avenue

These are houses totally in tune with the lifestyle favoured by people moving to Hayling Island – in fact if you thrive on sun, sea, and sand it’s difficult to imagine anywhere better than Hayling!

For more information on either of the properties, contact Fine and Country Emsworth on 01243 487969 or email: [email protected]