4 bed detached house for sale

River Way, Shipston-On-Stour, Warwickshire CV36

Entrance hall with a full height timber and glazed bay window and tiled floor. Shower room. Large kitchen/ breakfast room with sliding doors to the terrace and a range of painted kitchen units with integrated ovens, hob, dishwasher and fridge. The kitchen/diner opens into a cosy dual aspect snug/ family room. Fitted utility room with a side door to outside.

On the first floor, the sitting room has two pairs of sliding doors to the covered balcony with views to Brailes Hill, with electric blind providing a screen and with a TV projector. Fire with mood lighting. Study with fitted furniture and dual aspect bedroom four.

On the second floor, the principal bedroom has a four-light window, facing south-east for the view and morning sun, with built-in wardrobes and an en suite shower room. Double bedroom two and bedroom three with a built-in wardrobe. Family bathroom.

Gardens and grounds

The detached double garage has parking to the front, a west facing secluded patio and pedestrain acces to either side of the house to the lovely rear garden with a wide terrace and steps down to a lawn with shrub and flower beds and native hedges providing privacy.

A pedestrian gate at the bottom of the garden gives access to the riverside shared meadow which is held in the name of a company, the directors of which are the owners of the six properties backing on to it. The paddock also has a vehicular access off River Way. The vendor currently pays about £320 per year as a share of the mowing and maintenance of the paddock..

Shipston-on-Stour was noted by the Sunday Times as one of the best places to live in the UK, and provides an excellent selection of independent shops including a butcher's, a greengrocer, bakery, cafes, boutique hotel, vet's, doctor's surgery, cottage hospital and pre, junior and secondary schools. To the north is the large town of Stratford-upon-Avon, providing more extensive shopping and leisure facilities and being the region's cultural centre and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.

South Warwickshire is renowned for its excellent selection of state, private and grammar schools, including the boys' and girls' grammar schools in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick Boys' School and King's High in Warwick, The Croft School at Stratford-upon-Avon, Bloxham and Sibford Ferris Public Schools and Kitebrook in Moreton-in-Marsh. There are school and public bus routes through the town.
For the commuter, there is easy access to the M40 (J12), Banbury and Warwick Parkway for trains to London Marylebone, and Moreton-in-Marsh for trains to London Paddington.

Sporting and leisure activities in the area include a popular swimming pool and gym, rugby club and sports club in Shipston; golf at Brailes, Tadmarton and Chipping Norton, racing at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Cheltenham, as well as easy access to world-class theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon and the art gallery at Compton Verney.