6 bedroom detached house for sale

An 18th Century farm house of immense character set away from busy roads yet only 2 miles north-west from Monmouth town . The house boasts a south facing aspect looking down the delightful gardens of 1 acre which enjoy some stunning outlooks across the neighbouring farmland to the rolling countryside of the lower Monnow Valley and surrounding hillsides.

Hall œ Living Room œ Study œ Dining Room œ Sitting room œ Farmhouse kitchen and breakfast room œ Cloakroom with wc œ Laundry Room œ Six Double Bedrooms plus a Box Room œ En Suite Shower Room to the Master Bedroom œ Two Family Bathrooms œ Driveway and Parking/turning area œ attached stone built workshop plus ancillary outbuildings œ Attractively arranged and planted gardens œ Comprehensive central heating system

Ground Floor

Entrance Porch
With arched opening, quarry tiled floor, windows on either side, sizeable ledged and braced boarded front door to:-

Hall
With doorways connecting to the dining room and kitchen

Dining Room
20’03” (6.19m) x 13’02” (4.03m) An attractive and imposing fireplace of inglenook proportions incorporating an enamelled wood burning stove set on a flagstone hearth with oak cross beam and illuminated display niches to the rear. Fitted display cabinet with lightening one side. Staircases in either corner of the room lead to the first floor. A set of French doors open to the patio and garden. Built in shelved cupboard beside the door from the hall and a window to the front elevation.

Sitting Room
17’06” (5.34m) x 16’04” (4.99m) A delightful room with a set double glazed French doors with internal shutters opening to the scented garden on the side of the house. Fireplace with tiled hearth and hardwood fender housing an enamelled wood burning stove. Flanking the fireplace are cupboard and display recesses. A second set of French doors provide a broad opening to:-

Study
13’07” (4.15m excluding door entrance) x 8’0” (2.46m) Enjoying lovely outlooks to the garden. Windows on either side of the room with a set French doors that open to the patio and garden. Fitted cupboards and book shelves. Part glazed door to the dining Room.

Kitchen
16’09” (5.12m) x 11’10” (3.62m) Ceramic tiled flooring and featuring a 4 oven green Aga set into an arched recess. The kitchen is fitted with an extensive range of oak fronted floor and wall cabinets, glazed china/glass cabinets, generous amount of work surfaces with pretty tiled splash backs, inset 1½ bowl sink top, plumbing for dishwasher. Island unit/breakfast bar with ceramic tiled work surface incorporating drawers, cupboards and gallery shelves. Ceiling down lights, window above the sink with an outlook to the front of the house, telephone point. Archway and opening to a rear lobby area with tiled flooring to match and fitted cupboards. Double glazed back door and window to side, opening through to:-

Breakfast Room
11’02” (3.42m) x 10’07” (3.23m) Semi open plan to the main kitchen area and again having lovely outlooks to the garden with Double glazed windows on three elevations overlooking and a set of French doors to patio. Fitted seating arrangement incorporating storage cupboards, tiled flooring to match the kitchen.

Inner Hallway
Flagstone flooring, window to the rear elevation, staircase to first floor.

Utility Room/Laundry Room
12’03” (3.76m) x 6’0” (1.83m) Tiled flooring, Keston Central heating boiler and water cylinder. Area for coats, fitted storage/linen cupboard, window to the front of the house, work surfaces with tiled splash backs and inset with a double bowl stainless steel sink top, plumbing for domestic laundry appliances, ceiling down lighters, twin louvre doors to the hall.

Cloakroom
Tiled flooring, modern fitted sanitary ware comprising wc and hand basin with cabinet surrounds, window to front of the house, ceiling down lighters, fitted cupboards and shelves.

Family/Living Room
16’11” (5.17m) x 16’0” (4.90m) A super family room with dual outlooks from windows with shutters to the front and side of the house. Corner fireplace with tiled hearth and curved hardwood fender incorporating a wood burning stove, fitted double closet with shelves concealing the original front door beyond. Range of fitted bookshelves and cupboards around the room, ceiling down lighters.

First Floor

Landing
With Velux roof window and eaves cupboard below, doors on the left and right serving the following bedroom and bathroom .

Bedroom Two
17’0”(5.18m) x 12’01” (3.69m) Windows on two elevations with views to garden and farmland, feature exposed beam structure, built in wardrobe closets.

Family Bathroom
14’11” (4.56m) x 8’05” (2.57m) plus area with shelved towel and linen cupboard leading to further landing area. Vaulted ceiling with exposed beam structure, Shower bath with polished chrome period style taps and hand shower, separate overhead shower, tiled surrounds, Saniton pedestal hand basin with decorative floral motif, close coupled wc, built in closet, radiator plus heated chrome towel rail above, strip light and shave point, window to front elevation.

Inner Landing
Window to the front of the house, fitted book shelves.

Bedroom Three
12’02” (3.73m) x 10’10” (3.31m) max. Vaulted ceiling with exposed beam structure, built in closets and book shelves with matching painted t & g panelling, 2 Velux roof windows with views overlooking the garden.

Landing
With stairs from dining room, window to the front of the house, staircase to the bedroom number six above.

Bedroom Four
14’03” (4.37m) x 8’08” (2.66m) window to the front of the house with bench seat affording far reaching views across farmland and hillsides beyond. Built in wardrobe closets and dressing table unit.
Corridor to Master Bedroom with fitted bookshelves and door to: -

Family Bathroom
White sanitary ware with co-ordinated tiled surrounds comprising corner bath with whirlpool feature and shower/mixer tap and curved shower curtain track. Pedestal hand basin and close coupled wc, wall mirror and cabinet with down lights and shaver socket, window looking down the garden, radiator plus heated towel rail.

Master Bedroom
17’0” (5.21m) x 15’09” (4.80m) A lovely room with an arched window above the bed area looking down the length of the garden, window to the side of the house affording far reaching views, range of built in wardrobes closets along one wall with matching dressing table and bedroom furniture, door to landing area with stairs down to the dining room and up to the fifth bedroom and box room above.

En Suite Shower Room
With white sanitary ware with fitted cabinet surrounds comprising counter top circular hand basin, back to wall wc, wall mirror with down lights and cabinet, tiled shower enclosure with Mira shower and extractor, radiator/towel rail.

Second Floor

Landing
Velux roof window.

Bedroom Five
12’10” (3.91m) x 11’11” (3.64m) Presently used as a study, window giving an uninterrupted view down the garden. Fitted closets on both sides of the room. Velux roof window to the side of the house.

Box Room
9’01” 92.77m) x 7’03”(2.21m) max. Providing a useful storage facility.

Bedroom Six
21’02” (6.47m) x 14’07” (4.47m) max. A super room with windows at either end providing wonderful views of the garden and Monnow Valley. Fitted wardrobes closets with central desk unit and fitted shelves on the opposite wall.

Outside

Garden & Additional Buildings
Gravelled driveway and parking areas at the front of the house with a secondary parking area for delivery vehicles etc. Flag stone paving to the porch area flanked by garden with a pretty stone built area housing a water well and pump. To the side of the house with access from the lawn is a paved and planted area known as the”scented garden”. Immediately to the rear of the house is the paved patio area providing a view of the entire length of the garden over hung by a pergola frame and providing a delightful outdoor recereational/dining area linking from the main household. Beside the back door is a gate leading to an enclosed area for logs with an outdoor water tap and leading to an

Attached workshop 21’03” (6.49m) x 11’05” (3.50m) with lighting and power.

Additional buildings include a large Double Shed 20’0” (6.10m) x 14’03” (4.35m) with partly ramped front. Tractor/Mower Shed 10’08” (3.27m) x 10’02” (3.11m) with overhead storage.

The gardens extend to approximately 1 acre and are predominately contained at the rear of the house embracing aspects to the south and west with wonderful views of the surrounding countryside. The garden comprises large expanses of lawn interspersed with a variety of trees and planting with horticultural features including a trailing roses to part of the garden boundary, Beech arbour creating an enclosed seating area and an arched walk way lined with trees trained along the frame work . Octagonal shaped Summer House. Kitchen garden enclosed by trellis fencing.

Property Ref:152_655_2519503