Pinecroft, Druid Stoke Avenue

Druid Stoke Avenue is the kind of road people move to and then stay on for thirty years. Pinecroft sits well back from it behind a gravelled drive with parking for several cars and a double garage to the side, which in this part of Stoke Bishop is worth as much as a spare bedroom.

The house works for a family that has run out of room elsewhere. There are two reception rooms at the front, a study off the hall, and a kitchen and family room across the back that opens onto the garden through wide doors. Five bedrooms sit over the two upper floors, the principal with its own bathroom and a dressing area, and there is a useful utility and downstairs cloakroom.

The garden faces west and runs to roughly ninety feet, mature enough to give privacy without becoming a weekend job. The Downs, the village shops at Stoke Bishop and several of the city’s better schools are all within walking distance.