Property description
This Is A Grade Ii Listed Family Home With Accommodation On Three Floors.The Old Part Of The House Formerly A Private Chapel Was Endowed As A School In 1580.It Has 17Th And 19Th Century Additions.The Former School Room Provides Two Exceptionally Generous Reception Rooms, With Unusually High Ceilings.The House Has A Number Of Period Features Which Span Its History And It Sits Well Within Its Lovely Gardens, Which Are A Particular Feature.There Is A Stream, Heated Swimming Pool And Hard Tennis Court, Together With A Double Garage.The Present Owners Have Carried Out Considerable Work To The House, Including A New Oak Staircase, New Mark Wilkinson Kitchen, Rewiring And Replumbing And General Decoration And Updating Throughout.
Front door opening into . A heated swimming pool is well screened from the house by a yew hedge approached through a five bar gate. The pool has a wide paved surround and adjacent is the pool room housing the heat pump. A public footpath runs along the garden to the west of the house but is well screened by a high stone wall. Beyond the path and wall where there are numerous mature trees is a hard tennis court and where the stream emerges a water garden with various pools and water falls, aquatic plants and a large willow and sequoia amongst other trees. In the garden are a number of mature trees including walnut, horse chestnut, yew and sycamore. Bathroom Panelled bath with mixer taps and Grohe shower over, extractor fan, WC with concealed cistern, wash basin with cupboards under, linen cupboard with hot water tank, tubular radiator, inset downlighters. Bedroom 1 4.75m x 3.88m Two radiators, telephone point, built-in hanging and shelved cupboards to one wall, door to Bedroom 2 4.23m x 3.75m Built-in hanging and shelved cupboards to one wall, radiator, open fireplace (sealed) with beam over, window seat, low voltage spotlights. Bedroom 3 3.63m x 3.33m Two radiators, window seat, shelved cupboard, low voltage spotlights. Bedroom 4 3.44m x 3.19m Radiator, built-in hanging cupboard, door to Bedroom 5 4.51m x 3.67m Two radiators, two eaves storage cupboards, pretty Victorian wash basin set in tiled surround with cupboard under and light above, two Velux rooflights, hanging cupboard. Bedroom 6 4.9m x 2.05m This room is currently used as a store room but would make a good childs bedroom and has a large Velux rooflight, eaves storage. Bedroom 7 4.22m x 2.21m Telephone point, eaves storage, radiator. Cellar 3.38m x 3.31m Useful storage area with shelving with sump. Cloakroom WC with concealed cistern, shelving above, extractor fan, corner wash basin with tiled splashback, rooflight, tiled floor. Dining Room 4.88m x 4.25m Cotswold limestone flooring, large fireplace with stone hearth and beam, three radiators, shelved recess, window seat, exposed beam, door to kitchen, stable door to front of house, door to school room, door to study, door to Ensuite Bathroom Panelled bath with mixer taps, shower attachment, WC, radiator, heated towel rail, twin basins set in marble surface and splashback with cupboards under, inset lighting, built-in cupboards, extractor fan. Ensuite Bathroom Panelled bath with mixer taps and shower attachment, pedestal wash basin with splashback, WC, heated towel rail with radiator, extractor fan, inset downlighters. First Floor Gallery The gallery overlooks the school room and has two radiators, oak floor, recessed downlighters. Hall Exposed stone wall with original Elizabethan mullioned window above looking into school room, radiator, Cotswold limetone floor, oak staircase rising to first floor together with door and glazed panels set in oak frame to kitchen. Kitchen 7.2m x 3.28m Cotswold limestone flooring, a Mark Wilkinson painted wooden kitchen with wall and base units with Baltic brown granite work surface, double Belfast style sink with mixer tap, cream four oven Aga with Miele Classic oven to one side, inset lights above, built-in Miele dishwasher, built-in Miele freezer, built-in Miele fridge, radiator, door to outside, downlighters, telephone point, television aerial point. From the kitchen there is a door to the outside to a covered porch with quarry tiled floor and door to Utility Room. Landing Wall light points, two radiators, shelved cupboard, shelved display recess, cupboard, cottage stairs down to playroom. Landing Three Velux rooflights, two radiators, fitted cupboards to one wall, eaves storage. This is a large landing with sufficient space for a desk or sofa and provides a further sitting room. Library 4.91m x 4.32m Fitted limed oak bookshelves, double radiator with cover, telephone point, under floor heating, television aerial point, vaulted painted panelled ceiling, door to lobby. Lobby Quarry tiled floor, coat hooks, two doors to outside. Outside The property is approached by a gravel driveway, the initial part being shared with two other houses, beyond this through a wide five bar gate there is a double garage on the left hand side and a driveway leads to the house and then widens to a large parking area. The front door is approached by a terrace of engineered brick with box hedging together with a mature fig tree climbing the wall to the south west elevation. The west elevation being the front facade has a large gravelled terrace to the front with topiary box hedge domes to the front separating it from the lawn. The house sits well within its own gardens which are mainly laid to lawn with a number of formal and less formal areas. There are particularly well stocked flower and shrub borders on the boundaries and to the northern boundaries a very pretty stream running along its length. The orchard to the north east of the house contains a kitchen garden, a large fruit cage and useful brick outbuilding. Playroom 4.98m x 2.74m Chimney recess with shelved cupboard to one side, window seat, two radiators, shelved cupboard, telephone point, television aerial point, wall lights, understairs cupboard, door with rear cottage stairs rising to first floor. Rear Hall Door to outside, fitted cupboards and shelves to one wall, Cotswold limestone floor, two rooflights over together with high level cupboard, radiator, door to School Room 9.41m x 4.46m A large double height room with part galleried first floor, Elizabethan mullioned window featured in Pevsners Oxfordshire, oak floorboards, panelling to dado height, three Victorian style radiators, inset ceiling lights, matwell, raised stone hearth with wood burning stove to one corner, five amp lighting, double doors (one folding) to Library Second Floor Study 4.55m x 3.51m Open fireplace with stone surround and hearth, telephone point, television aerial point, window seat, two radiators, wall light points, shelved display alcove, steps down to cellar. Utility Room Belfast sink, Thermecon oil fired boiler, space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer, shelving above, painted stone walls, radiator, quarry tiled floor, hot water tank.