BEECH Lodge was originally a single-storey gatehouse to the Ewhurst Park Estate, but has been extended to create a family-sized home.

The original lodge dates from Victorian times, and its setting in Ramsdell gives it a rural location, six miles from Basingstoke.

A large farmhouse-style kitchen-breakfast room is one of the star features of the house. Colour-washed kitchen units are fitted around a Belfast sink and a central island feature. The room has a slate-tiled floor.

The £650,000 asking price through estate agents Poulters and Redwoods does not include the property's Aga-style cooker.

Beech Lodge (pictured above) has four bedrooms. The drawing room has an open fireplace, with a marble surround, and French doors to the garden.

Original picture rails are a feature of the dining room.

Mature beech trees grow in the garden and form an avenue to a deeper area of wood.

Immediately behind the property is a raised deck and terrace area.

The grounds extend to about an acre.