Cedar House approached along its private driveway
Cedar House · Lyndhurst · The New Forest

Beyond the particulars

What is it really like to live here? The honest story of the house, garden and village life—the things we would have wanted to know before we bought it.

5 + 1Bedrooms + top-floor room
4Bathrooms
3Reception rooms
3,965Approx. sq ft
No chainReady to move
More than a listing

A home with a story

Built in 2000, Cedar House sits in the middle of approximately three-quarters of an acre, once part of the grounds of Stydd House further up the road.

That history gives the garden its established feel: beautiful mature trees, including a magnificent London plane, generous lawns and the sort of privacy that takes decades to create. We have lived here for twelve very happy years. It has been a special family home in every sense, and leaving it will be a real wrench.

Cedar House and its generous rear garden The light-filled garden room opening across the front of the house
The bright bespoke kitchen with its large central island and wide garden windows
The green sofa, dining area and bespoke kitchen seen together across the open-plan living space
The generous family sitting room with two facing sofas and its characterful Victorian linen cupboard
In the owners' words

Life at Cedar House

“One of the greatest joys of the house is the plot itself. There is sunshine throughout the day, with a place to sit outside from morning until evening.”

The current owners
The broad summer lawn, mature trees and established planting at Cedar House
Approximately three-quarters of an acre

A garden that follows the sun

The house sits in the middle of its plot, so the garden receives light throughout the day. Several patios let you follow the sun from a kitchen sunrise to an evening on the western terrace or in the garden room.

Once the far end of the grounds belonging to the manor house further up the road, the garden has a maturity that no newly created plot can imitate. At its heart is a magnificent London plane, believed to be centuries old - the same resilient species famous for lining the streets of London.

A gardener's garden

Apple, pear, cherry and fig trees flourish here, alongside substantial raised beds made in oak by a local carpenter, and even an oak grown by the family from an acorn. The soil and sheltered plot have rewarded almost everything we have planted.

Made for childhood

The generous lawns give children room to roam. A sunken trampoline has been a particular favourite: easy for little ones to crawl on and off, and irresistible to every child who visits.

Room for a freer life

For five years our chickens have enjoyed the entire garden as truly free-range birds, happily remaining within the grounds and providing fresh eggs close to the kitchen.

Parking without compromise

The long driveway and generous frontage have accommodated around ten cars, making family gatherings and entertaining remarkably easy.

Storage, studio and workshop space

The detached double garage has been insulated and internally clad, with handsome bespoke solid-timber doors made by a local carpenter. An upper level adds storage, while the main space has served for many years as a generous home office and studio. A separate garden shed provides still more room for tools and outdoor equipment.

Scope for a swimming pool

Planning permission was previously granted for a 16-metre indoor pool behind the garage, designed with sliding doors opening to the garden. Electrical and gas provision was begun; buyers should confirm the present planning status and remaining works.

The broad rear garden, full rear elevation and motorhome beside the detached garage
A sheltered garden seating area framed by mature trees and rich autumn colour
The garden beneath a light covering of snow
White hydrangeas flowering beneath the mature trees
One of the friendly chickens visiting the family room from the garden
The little fir trees along the drive decorated for Christmas

The garden has a life beyond a single perfect photography day. In summer the hydrangeas billow beneath the trees and the mature boundary planting becomes wonderfully full. At Christmas, the little fir trees lining the approach are dressed with baubles. Even our 8½-metre motorhome can be turned within the drive—a rather persuasive demonstration of its scale.

A rare reassurance

What price would you put on perfect neighbours?

You can change a kitchen or redecorate a room. The people living around you are the one part of a move you cannot choose afterwards.

Moving house can feel like Russian roulette: however beautiful the property, difficult neighbours can change the experience of living there. At Cedar House, we have been exceptionally fortunate.

We share the entrance at the top of the driveway with wonderful neighbours before our drives separate. Over the years they have become genuine friends, and our sons have grown up as friends too. The children move happily between the two homes, while the adults are warm, helpful and respectful of one another's privacy. We borrow the occasional tool or wheelbarrow, help each other when needed, and otherwise allow each family to enjoy its own life.

The detached home on the other side is equally peaceful; its newer owners have settled in so quietly that we scarcely hear them. Behind the garden is a long-established cottage whose owners have always been kind and enormously helpful whenever needed, yet never intrusive.

No barking dogs, no wild parties and nobody living on your doorstep - simply considerate people, generous space and the reassuring feeling of being surrounded by good neighbours. We shall be genuinely sad to leave them.

The best of both worlds

Five minutes to milk. Five minutes to ponies.

Cedar House gives you the privacy and space of New Forest life without asking you to surrender the freedom, friendships and everyday ease of village living.

When we moved here, my husband dreamed of living unseen at the end of a forest track. I wanted the countryside too, but not the isolation - especially with young children and a husband who sometimes worked away. Cedar House turned out to be the compromise we did not know existed.

5 minutesWalk to Lyndhurst village

Slip through a tucked-away cut-through and you can be buying a pint of milk within minutes, on a completely level walk that was just as easy with a large pram. Shops stay open late, while independent cafés, bakeries, pubs and restaurants make the village feel alive.

5 minutesWalk to the open forest

Head the other way, cross the cattle grid and you are out among the ponies. From there, cycle paths lead towards Brockenhurst without following a main road, while Bolton's Bench is close enough for an impromptu picnic with fish and chips.

The historic gabled buildings of Lyndhurst High Street beneath a clear blue sky
Five minutes one way: independent shops, cafés, pubs and village life.
A New Forest pony grazing beneath the iconic tree at Bolton's Bench
Five minutes the other: Bolton's Bench, open forest and free-roaming ponies.
Dinner on foot

More than twenty places to eat—and not a taxi required

Space and seclusion usually come with a compromise: every pint of milk, supper with friends or celebratory lunch begins with the car keys. Cedar House is different.

A level five-minute walk brings you into a village with more than twenty places to eat on or just off its High Street. There are destination restaurants, intimate wine bars, old-fashioned pubs, independent cafés and excellent takeaways. You can choose somewhere different throughout the week, enjoy a bottle of wine with dinner and simply walk home. For us, that freedom was one of the reasons for moving here—and after twelve years, it remains one of the things we value most.

La Pergola

The sort of family-run Italian restaurant people think has disappeared: warm, traditional and wonderfully unpretentious. The food ranges from freshly prepared pizzas and pasta to proper Italian dishes and homemade desserts, still brought around for you to choose from. Children adore it, adults return to it, and its wisteria-clad setting opposite the open forest makes the walk there almost as lovely as the meal.

Visit La Pergola
Passage to India

This is not simply our local Indian restaurant; it is an award-winning destination to which people travel from miles around. It received Tripadvisor's Travellers' Choice Award in 2024. It is my favourite Indian restaurant, and the lamb pasanda is genuinely out of this world. Dine there or collect a takeaway and be home within minutes.

Visit Passage to India
Renoufs

Lyndhurst even has its own intimate, award-winning cheese and wine bar. Renoufs pairs carefully selected wines with artisan cheeses, charcuterie and generous sharing boards. It is perfect for an evening with friends or an impromptu date night—the sort of place one might expect to travel into a city to find, yet here you can simply wander home afterwards.

Visit Renoufs
Anissa's Thai Kitchen

Food writers Tom Parker Bowles and Olly Smith called it “a Thai treasure in the New Forest”—and it truly is. Chef-owner Sutti also founded acclaimed Thai restaurants in London, but he and his family are a genuine part of village life. His authentic, inventive food combines New Forest produce with traditional Thai ingredients and techniques. Anissa's offers food to take home, a Thai deli and grocery, special dining events, Chef's Table evenings and sociable cookery workshops. I have taken several lessons there myself; they have been some of the most enjoyable—and delicious—days.

Visit Anissa's
Lime Wood and Hartnett Holder & Co Visit Lime Wood

For birthdays, anniversaries and those glorious celebratory lunches while the children are safely at school, Lime Wood is my favourite. The celebrated five-star country-house hotel is home to Hartnett Holder & Co, where Angela Hartnett and Luke Holder create relaxed, Italian-influenced food with outstanding seasonal and local ingredients. It feels special without feeling stiff—the sort of place people plan an entire New Forest stay around, yet from Cedar House it is close enough to walk or cycle to.

Lime Wood is also home to the award-winning Herb House Spa, with a 16-metre pool, forest sauna, hydrotherapy facilities, an outdoor hot pool and a rooftop gym looking across the trees. Local membership is available, turning one of the country's loveliest hotel spas into your neighbourhood health club.

Pubs, cocktails and everyday village shopping

Lyndhurst remains a wonderfully old-fashioned English village, with six or seven pubs within walking distance of the house. Most serve very good food and several host live music at weekends. At the top of the High Street, opposite the church, the handsome Crown Manor House Hotel has a secluded courtyard garden—one of our favourite places for cocktails.

Village life is practical as well as pleasurable. There is an excellent independent butcher preparing locally sourced New Forest meat on site, an independent bakery, cafés for lunch and coffee, and a Tesco Express for late-evening essentials. You can live in the National Park without having to take the car every time you need supper—or simply a pint of milk.

It is difficult to feel isolated in a village where the people behind the counter know their customers, the restaurateurs send their children to the local schools and an ordinary walk up the road can become coffee, supper, live music or a cocktail in a hidden courtyard.

A village with community

The cafés became places to work, feed a baby and make friends. The many independent businesses, restaurants and pubs mean there is always somewhere familiar to go and someone to know.

Freedom as children grow

Nearby buses run towards Southampton and Lymington and pass the local railway connections. Both stations can also be reached by bicycle, giving older children and teenagers valuable independence.

Schools within easy reach

Families have access to highly regarded local schools, with village schooling close enough to walk to. Bus and minibus routes also serve local secondary and independent schools.

Everything on the doorstep

A small village with a remarkably big life

Within a few minutes of Cedar House, it is possible to find friendship, sport, learning, creativity and a genuine sense of belonging - whatever stage of family life you are in.

Three churches within five minutes

Each offers far more than Sunday services, with welcoming communities and activities that include parent-and-baby gatherings and knitting groups. You do not have to be particularly religious to find friendship and connection there.

A village hall full of life

From martial arts, Tai Chi and yoga to local-history talks and meetings of the beekeeping association, the hall hosts an extraordinary range of regular activities. The children's library is alongside it.

Space for children to play

A large children's play park is within a ten-minute walk, with Lyndhurst's football ground and thriving local teams nearby.

Tennis, bowls and theatre

Our road has a friendly, affordable tennis club with three courts, including two floodlit courts, coaching and its own clubhouse bar. Beside it are the bowls club and a small theatre offering performances, drama groups and amateur dramatics.

A real Alice in Wonderland connection

Alice Liddell—the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's Alice—spent her later life in Lyndhurst and is buried in the churchyard of St Michael and All Angels. It is one of the village's most quietly magical pieces of history.

Arts and Crafts treasures

St Michael and All Angels is remarkable in its own right, with stained glass by William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. These are not distant attractions planned for a day out, but part of the history encountered on an ordinary walk through the village.

Independent, not isolated

A village where children can grow into their freedom

Country living can be wonderfully quiet, but being miles from everything often leaves parents providing a taxi service—and teenagers dependent on it.

Cedar House gave us the balance we wanted. Our children have been able to walk to the tennis club, cross the road for the bus and reach the village on foot. As our eldest grew older, we felt comfortable allowing her to work locally and walk home in the evening. It gave her real independence while she remained within a familiar, close-knit community.

It has the reassuring atmosphere of the sort of village many of us remember growing up in: people recognise one another, local businesses know their customers and help is never very far away.

The bespoke kitchen overlooking the garden
Designed for everyday life

Light, space and room to gather

The kitchen is the heart of the house: bespoke, handmade and arranged around a generous island. Picture windows look onto the garden, while the adjoining dining, sitting and garden rooms make family life and entertaining feel effortless.

Outside, the sun rises beside the kitchen and reaches the circular rear patio in the evening - perfect for long lunches, supper outdoors and watching children explore the garden.

Extensively reconsidered downstairs

We did not need a bigger house. We needed to use it better.

Rather than simply adding another room, we rethought the entire ground floor around the way our family genuinely lives.

The wall between the former dining room and kitchen came down so that cooking no longer meant disappearing from family and guests. Because the rooms deserved to feel connected, we rebuilt the floor throughout rather than treating each space as a separate project.

A solid, warm foundation

The original floor had enough movement for Heidi to notice whenever someone walked past—something the rest of the family found highly amusing until the floor came up and proved her right. We replaced it with a fully insulated concrete floor and zoned wet underfloor heating. It warms quickly, each area can be controlled separately, and there are no downstairs radiators collecting dust or claiming the best walls for furniture. The utility room was deliberately left unheated because it is used for food storage.

Amtico made for real life

The same Amtico flooring flows through the ground floor, creating one calm, cohesive space. It was chosen over timber to cope gracefully with high heels, family life and the occasional spill or leak. A robot vacuum and mop now travels the entire level each night, leaving an unusually large floor beautifully clean with remarkably little effort. Spare planks have been kept should one ever be needed.

A completely bespoke kitchen

Made for the house by Arden Kitchens in Winchester, the kitchen was designed after years of learning exactly what the room needed. Wide, heavy-duty drawers replace awkward low cupboards; cutlery, spices, vitamins and baking trays all have hidden, purpose-made storage. Even the toaster and coffee machine have powered cupboards, leaving the worktops clear. The cabinetry can be professionally repainted in almost any colour, making it easy for a new owner to transform the room without replacing it.

Details that earn their place

Corian worktops, a Quooker boiling-water tap, two slide-and-hide pyrolytic ovens and carefully divided LED task lighting were chosen because they make cooking easier. Large aluminium rear doors replaced the former timber French doors, while wide sliding kitchen windows open in both directions—perfect for passing supper through to the barbecue. The BORA induction hob has its extractor built directly into the cooking surface, drawing away steam, odours and grease without a hood interrupting the open room. Ours is ducted to discharge the extracted air outside rather than recirculating it into the kitchen, and its removable inlet and grease-filter parts can go into the dishwasher.

GRANDER water throughout the house

A whole-house GRANDER water system means the water reaches far beyond a single drinking tap: it is used for drinking and cooking, as well as bathing and washing clothes. The manufacturer states that its water-revitalisation units work without electricity or chemical additives and require no servicing or maintenance. It is one of those substantial investments a photograph cannot show, but one that is quietly used throughout the house every day.

Instant atmosphere, without the labour

The original log burner looked romantic, but brought wood storage, ash, dirt, spiders and the distinct possibility of returning from checking the roast to find the fire had gone out. Its replacement is a gas stove with the appearance of a log burner: press a button and there is immediate warmth and atmosphere, without clearing ashes or ordering logs.

Open plan, but still adaptable

The result is sociable rather than cavernous: kitchen, dining and living areas work together while retaining their own character. Anyone preferring greater separation could introduce a sliding door to the adjoining sitting room. The Frame television already sits like a piece of artwork rather than dominating the room.

This was never a quick makeover for resale. We renovated Cedar House as the home we expected to keep forever, investing in the parts that make a large house warmer, more flexible and considerably easier to live in every day. Life sometimes changes the plan; for us, family must come first.

The full length of the tall, light-filled top-floor playroom beneath its hand-painted big-top ceiling
The playroom seen from the opposite end, showing its exceptional length and flexible family space
The playful little yellow door built into the striped top-floor room
The top floor

The room every child remembers

One of my dreams had always been a proper loft: somewhere light and accessible where I could rotate winter clothes, cushions, curtains and Christmas decorations without climbing a ladder into spiders and cobwebs.

Imagine my surprise when we first viewed Cedar House and discovered that the loft had been designed as part of the house from the beginning. It is not a later conversion. The staircase simply carries on upwards into an exceptionally tall, bright and airy floor that never feels like an attic. My husband is six foot two and still has space above his head.

I am rather known for Christmas. Twenty-two large boxes of decorations suggest there may be some American blood in me somewhere.

A discreet sliding door now separates a shelved storage area approximately the size of many people's entire lofts. It holds the Christmas collection, out-of-season clothes and homeware, so I can effectively shop in my own house whenever the mood changes—without sacrificing the main room or asking anyone to hold a ladder. Additional access runs into the side eaves, giving suitcases and those rarely needed possessions a proper home too.

For our children, however, this has been the ultimate playroom. Cousins and friends could spread out upstairs, make noise and create their own world while the adults remained remarkably peaceful below. The yellow-and-white big-top effect is paint, not wallpaper, painstakingly created by a local decorator. It is joyful, memorable and very easily painted over if circus life is not for you.

Its scale also leaves enormous future flexibility. The existing room can serve as a sixth bedroom, generous guest or nanny suite, studio, cinema or games room; there is also ample space to explore adding an en suite, subject to the usual checks for any new plumbing and building work.

Spacious first-floor bedroom with bespoke fitted wardrobes and chandelier
Closer view of the principal bedroom and its substantial wall of fitted wardrobes
Bright first-floor bedroom with shutters and neutral carpet
The first-floor bedrooms

Calm rooms, and storage that actually works

Every first-floor bedroom has recently been redecorated in fresh white eco paint and finished with new neutral carpet—a quiet background ready for someone else's furniture and personality.

Several rooms have painted timber cladding, an interior-design detail added to give plain walls texture and character without making them difficult to change. Most have bespoke shutters and all the bedroom doors are oak.

The chandelier bedroom contains an exceptional wall of bespoke wardrobes. Behind the doors are slide-out drawers and dedicated pull-out shoe racks, so an enormous amount can be stored without the room feeling dominated by furniture. The other bedrooms also benefit from fitted wardrobes.

Storage should make a room feel calmer, not simply give you somewhere larger to lose things.

LED spotlights provide bright, practical light for dressing and make-up, while separate pendant circuits allow the room to feel softer in the evening. You can choose useful light or lovely light—and you do not have to have both at once.

Complete view of the principal bathroom with large bath, twin basin and underfloor heating
The generous glass-enclosed shower with two separate rainfall and handheld shower fittings
A second beautifully finished bathroom with a walk-in shower and heated towel rail
Bathrooms designed by a mother

Warm feet, generous baths and thoughtful details

The sanitaryware and porcelain finishes were sourced together so the upstairs bathrooms feel related rather than like separate projects completed at different times.

Each bathroom has independently controlled electric underfloor heating, including a holiday setting. It can be used only where and when it is wanted—and there is something quietly luxurious about walking into a bathroom on a winter morning without meeting an icy floor.

The principal bathroom has an extra-large bath, with a carefully positioned shower fitting that makes rinsing and cleaning it far easier. The generous shower was created by sacrificing a cupboard and includes two shower outlets.

The double shower sounds romantic. In truth, it was designed for small children who objected to having their hair washed. They could jump in with me, claim their own shower and suddenly bath time became much less of a negotiation. Any mother will understand.

Even the en-suite lighting and extractor fan operate independently. If the window is open while you are having a bath, the fan—and its accompanying hum—can simply remain off. A large Megaflo system supports the household, while the substantial airing cupboard has been fitted out as a practical place for drying clothes.

The arrival

The shoe storage of dreams

A family entrance works best when everything has somewhere to disappear. The extensive shoe storage, coat cupboard and pull-out fittings mean the hall can welcome people rather than displaying everybody's belongings.

A concealed compartment provides a discreet place for a safe. Beneath the stairs, push-to-open cupboards swallow the vacuum cleaner, sports equipment and the awkward necessities of family life—the things every house contains but no photograph needs to celebrate.

The downstairs cloakroom continues the bespoke approach. Boat carpenters created its fitted timber cladding and concealed the pipework serving the underfloor heating with the same precision they would bring to a yacht. The character basin was sourced separately, then professionally painted to sit beautifully against the joinery; both the ceramic finish and timber colour can be changed in future.

This is where the standard of the house reveals itself: not in shouting for attention, but in carpentry made by people accustomed to fitting beautiful things into exacting spaces.

The completed entrance hall with bespoke floor-to-ceiling shoe storage, handleless under-stairs cupboards and natural wooden coat hooks
The garden room

The room that rescues an English summer

The kitchen, sitting area and garden room flow together beautifully, but the house still offers enough separate seating areas for everybody to find their own kind of company.

When family visit, children can disappear to another sofa or claim a quiet corner, someone can read undisturbed and the rest of us naturally gravitate towards the two facing sofas beside the fire. It allows a large gathering to feel relaxed rather than crowded.

Both sets of patio doors open directly onto terraces. In summer, the garden room holds that very English middle ground: warm enough to throw every door open, but not necessarily warm enough to sit outside. In winter, its independently controlled electric underfloor heating and professionally coated roof help make it a warm, useful room rather than a conservatory abandoned until spring.

Beautiful outdoor furniture lives here during the colder months and simply moves onto the terrace for summer. Nothing has to be dismantled, covered in plastic or sacrificed to a damp shed. I also hold many of my online meetings here; people regularly interrupt themselves to say how lovely the background is.

Our record is dinner for twenty-six. We joined the outdoor and indoor tables, began in the garden room and carried the table right through the house. It was magnificent.

Winter Sundays tend to mean a roast, sofas around the fire and a forest walk. Summer might begin with the walk, continue with lunch in the village and finish with all the doors open at home. When nobody wishes to cook, the acclaimed Lime Wood hotel can be reached on foot or by bicycle.

It has hosted children's birthdays, Christmas tables, drinks parties, quiet working days and ordinary cups of coffee. This room has never had only one job—and that is precisely why it works.

Investment in everyday comfort

The thoughtful details you only notice when you live here

Some of what we have spent on Cedar House is visible immediately. Other investments reveal themselves more quietly: solid materials and practical touches chosen to make daily life easier.

They may not be the first things you see in a photograph, but they are among the details we have appreciated most.

Timber details with character

The windows are made from wood and have many years ahead of them with normal care. Unlike fixed-colour frames, they can be maintained and repainted as tastes change. The front is currently a soft sage green—but the next colour can reflect your personality, not ours. The separate back door was also made bespoke in solid timber by a local carpenter.

Fresh air, fewer visitors

Fly screens have been fitted to most windows, the rear doors and the garage doors. They allow us to leave doors and windows open well into the evening—or overnight—while helping to keep insects and spiders outside.

Even the robin knows the way in

One friendly local robin has developed a habit of trying to visit inside the house. The screens gently discourage him too: a small, practical detail with a very Cedar House story behind it.

Work without the household soundtrack

The dedicated office and utility-room doors were upgraded for as much sound separation as was practical. The washing machine and tumble dryer do not intrude on working calls, while children's play can continue elsewhere in the house without becoming part of every online meeting. A substantial fitted cupboard keeps cameras and working equipment out of sight.

Connected and discreetly protected

Exterior CCTV provides an additional layer of reassurance around the house. Its associated equipment, together with the home's network hub, is gathered discreetly out of sight rather than scattered through the rooms.

The complete layout

How the house flows

Generous family accommodation unfolds across three floors, with flexible rooms for working, entertaining, guests and growing children, together with the detached garage.

Floor plan of Cedar House showing the ground, first and second floors and detached garage Floor plan reproduced from Spencers' current marketing particulars. For guidance only; measurements should be verified with the selling agent.
At a glance

Space for the whole family

Approximately ¾ acreMature, private garden
Detached double garagePlus extensive driveway parking
Bespoke kitchenHandmade cabinetry and Corian surfaces
Garden roomPanoramic glazing onto the grounds
Three floorsFlexible bedrooms, study and playroom
EPC rating CAll mains services connected
Ultrafast broadbandIdeal for working from home
FreeholdOffered with no onward chain
An honest word from the owners

Why are we leaving a home we love?

Quite simply, family circumstances have changed. With elderly parents needing more of our time, we now need a different kind of home.

We hope to keep a smaller apartment locally because our ties to Lyndhurst remain so strong. Cedar House is not being sold because we have fallen out of love with it; it is being sold because life has moved into a new chapter.

What would we have done next?

Every much-loved house keeps offering new possibilities. Had circumstances been different, these were the ideas still on our own list.

Reinstate a larger solid entrance gateWhen we previously had a larger solid gate at the top of the drive, it noticeably softened the road sound. Replacing it with a handsome electric gate was on our own future list and would create an even greater sense of arrival and privacy.
Complete the pool visionRevisit the previously approved plans for a 16-metre indoor swimming pool behind the garage, with sliding doors opening onto the garden.
Consider an annexeInvestigate whether a small garden annexe could be created for older family members, entirely subject to planning permission and the appropriate consents.
Add triple glazing if desiredAnyone particularly sensitive to sound could choose upgraded or triple glazing, although we have comfortably slept with our windows open and never felt the need to do so ourselves.

And the one-way system? It was one of our own concerns before we moved here, so we would rather address it honestly. In practice, the one-way arrangement means traffic passes the house in only one direction, with the other flow filtering away along the alternative road. Set back behind a private drive, mature shrubs and trees, the house feels far more removed from it than the address might suggest.

Lyndhurst can become busy on a bank-holiday or major show weekend, but local people know the alternative loop around the village and do not simply sit in the queue. On the rare occasion we have needed to leave at the busiest time, allowing a few extra minutes has been enough; in twelve years, our own delay has never been more than around five minutes.

Most days, the sound we notice is the remarkable birdlife in the garden. We are very much a sleep-with-the-windows-open family and have never felt the need for acoustic fencing or upgraded glazing. A buyer who is particularly sensitive to sound could add acoustic fencing, triple glazing or a larger solid gate, but for us these have remained possibilities rather than necessities.

Come and experience it

Could Cedar House be your next chapter?

For full particulars or to arrange a private viewing, please contact the appointed selling agent, Spencers of the New Forest.

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