A TERRACE of village cottages is thought to have begun life in the 16th century as two Hampshire farmhouses.

Now the largest of the properties in the terrace of Castlebridge Cottages, in North Warnborough, is on the market with a price guide of £315,000 through agents Lane Fox.

The cottage is beamed, both outside and internally, where its accommodation is arranged over three floors. The master bedroom is in the eaves on the second floor and has a beamed and vaulted ceiling as well as being adjoined by an area suitable for a study or dressing room.

Two more bedrooms and the family bathroom are on the first floor.

Dividing the dining hall and sitting room is a storey-high exposed brick fireplace, which is open on both sides. The dining hall leads through to a modernised kitchen, which has an integrated oven, hob and fridge freezer set into the dark wood units.

A kitchen door opens to the garden, which has a brick patio and a raised sun deck covered by a pergola at the far end.

Matthew White, of the Odiham office of Lane Fox, said: "The property is a very interesting and unusual cottage."