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|lace like home, but for TV presenter Alan Titchmarsh, life jack'yard. HANNAH STEPHENSON visits his secret garden...


THIS modern detached prop­ erly with four/five bedrooms is on the market for £595,000 with


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ing electronic entrance gates, Beck . House offers flexible living accom­ modation.. Surrounded by large manicured


gardens, the house has a rose garden and south-facing courtyard with ornamental pond and pergola; summer house, detached sauna . • room, greenhouse and wood multi­ use building which could be a stable or garden store, as well as a double garage with up-and-over door. ■ The driveway is brick paved and


there is a parking area suitable for ; several vehicles. Entry to the property is through


: an open entrance porch leading into the hallway which has two large picture windows and a door to the rear courtyard. - The two-piece cloakroom has a


built-in storage cupboard. ; Full width floor-to-ceiling


windows are a feature of the large lounge. There is an electronic sunblind with wind and sun sensor over the full width of the windows which also incorporate two sets of sliding patio doors. The reproduc­ tion fireplace has a polished marble inset and hearth and an open fire.' :


A comer iluminated niche


is a feature of the dining room . which has a boarded floor and pine fireplace, while the breakfast kitchen incorporates base and wall cupboards and is plumbed for an automatic washing machine and dishwasher. An archway firom the kitchen leads to the pantiy with • fitted cupboard. Also on the ground floor is a . :


bedroom/study with floor-to-ceiling cupboard units, while the master bedroom which has an en-suite fitted comer shower, sauna and bath, and a wash basin and is open to a dressing room with fitted wardrobes to one wall with storage


cupoboards over and a walk-in linen room. The four-piece house bathroom has a panelled bath, basin, toilet and bidet.


An open tread staircase with


details, contact the agent on 01200 427331 (www.mortimers-property. co.uk)


ornate wrought iron balustrade leads to the first floor where there are two further bedrooms. One has a built-in wardrobe to one wall and the other offers access to good stor­ age areas under the eaves. There is a three-piece bathroom with marble panelled bath with shower attachment, basin and toilet. :. To arrange a viewing, or for full


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’Estate agent:jMo'rtimers,’ i5&?7:castle S tre e t^ .' ; c l i t h e r o ^ B B 7 f 2 B T . : , ( ) i2 0 0 '4 2 7 3 3 1


nd is soon ■ Operastar with Myleene Kiass and Aiming his iatest ifA C jr iR iiii


ben Secrets, gardening series,- he doesn’t spend as much time as he’d, hand. He’S ; . - like in his own garden. [ighter Polly’s ■. He’s reluctant to expose too much of his own personal space to the TV-masses, so you won’t see pictures of his garden or his house on the screen. When he was the main presenter of Gardener's World,


he allowed cameras into his fonner garden, Barieywood, a couple of miles away, but when he moved to. his preserit house seven years ago he decided not to


' allow filming there. ' ■ “When we moved from Barieywood I


said this one’s ours. We’d had so many years of having camera crews in the


• ■ garden most days and I felt that I ; V owed it to myself and to my family


y y i people can see pictures of it. “The difficulty is that I love


;. ; V to have a more private garden.” ' *. He is, however, working on a ; : V book alDOUt his latest garden so


sharing it. If you have something - '■'S


coming out, you want to say, come . and look at this! But it’s been nice to have used my present garden as an oasis rather than a workshop.” ■ The son of a plumber,


; Trtchmarsh grew up in the • Yorkshire Dales and worked.as an ■ apprentice gardener with llkley . ? Council before studying horticulture at several colleges and later gaining a place at the


Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, where . he both studied and worked before


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Alan with fellow Ground Force presenters Tommy Walsh and Charlie


• Dimmock enjoyed a ratings winner


pursuing a career in gardening journalism. He presented Gardener's World for seven years and Ground Force for six, but will not comment on the news that Gardener's ' World is to return to its roots after its more youthful relaunch proved a ratings failure with the viewing public. “It’s for the public to say what they think and for the viewing audience to vote with their eyes or not. “I don’t really want to comment, except to say that I


think gardening programmes do need to be lucid and clear and instruct. But I don’t think it’s my place to criticise current regimes.” He’s also quashed nimours that he is returning


to the show, although his latest B B C series, scheduled to be shown in the autumn, will demonstrate how to recreate some of Britain's showpiece gardens. As well as a keen horticulturist and broadcaster, he has


• also made a name for himself as an author of many g ^ e n in g books and has just added another five titles to his la t ^ series. How To Garden. He has written three autobiographies and a string of romantic fiction novels,


including Mr MacGregor, Love And Dr Devon and Folly.' : He’s also working with the Royal Horticultural Society, ■


providing funds to give grants to primary schools to make gardens and nature areas and has so far funded more ’ than 500 gardens. “It’s good to put something back,” he says simply.= ■' He writes in a converted stone bam next to the house, -


overlooking the garden, and you’ll often see him looking • out of the skylight above his desk. He also does some writing at his second home in the Isle of Wight. He has help from two gardeners who maintain a further


35 acres of field and wood beyond the old house at Barieywood, which has been kept as a nature reserve, - and a further three acres on top of his acre of garden • surrounding the existing house, which contains a wild flower meadow and avenues of beech trees.


RHlmFLOOR MAIN STOCKIST - ; • “Being out there and pottering has got more important


to me as I’ve got older,” he continues. “I find great solace ' in it. I like being a part of nature.”


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