6 bed detached house for sale

Point Road, Avening, Tetbury GL8

Enjoying spectacular views, this Cotswold Stone barn conversion offers spacious living, glorious gardens, a paddock and field and is within walking distance of the village centre.

The accommodation is approached into a hallway with a large cupboard for coats and shoes and stairs rising to the first floor. The dual aspect sitting room has a feature fireplace with a gas fire, powered by bottled Calor gas; and full length windows which look over open farmland and from which the evening sunsets can be enjoyed.

The kitchen/dining room is a large, light and airy room with double doors opening into the garden, a beautifully fitted farmhouse kitchen with integrated appliances and a breakfast bar. Adjacent to the kitchen is a large utility room, with planned space for appliances and a water softener under the sink. There is a downstairs cloakroom and a useful study.

On the first floor is a double aspect principal bedroom with an en-suite bathroom with bath. The guest accommodation is separated with an inner hallway with a large airing cupboard, three double bedrooms, one of which is used a study, and a bathroom with a coloured suite. On the second floor there are two further double bedrooms with beautiful vaulted ceilings and exposed beams, one with a sink which could be converted into an en-suite.

Outside there is ample driveway parking for several cars leading to a double garage with two up and over doors. Adjacent to the garage is a conservatory/ garden room, beautifully planted with a fig tree and winter jasmine.

The gardens are spectacular with plenty of nooks and crannies with which to enjoy the views and the sunsets, a roof terrace above the garage is the perfect place to while away time with a gin and tonic. In addition, there is a paddock and an adjacent field, a gated pathway leads directly down to the church, the land in total is 1.8 acres.

Avening is a small Cotswold village that, like many villages in the area, grew up around the wool industry. It is located almost equidistant between Nailsworth and Tetbury and provides local facilities which include a public house, a primary school with an outstanding reputation, and an historic Saxon Church. Minchinhampton is just a short drive away with access to a few smaller shops and 600 acres of common land managed by the National Trust.

Nailsworth is just over two miles away where you will find a small supermarket, delicatessens including the acclaimed Williams Kitchen fish market & food hall plus a wonderfully diverse selection of fashionable boutiques and shops, salons, antiques & furniture shops and galleries for local craftspeople who have an annual arts festival. The town also offers a post office, butchers, grocery shops, doctors, dentists and a public library.

There are several good secondary schools in the area including one in Tetbury, one in Cirencester as well as a girls and a boys grammar school in Stroud. The area also has excellent transport links with Swindon, Cheltenham, Bristol and Bath all being easily commutable, and London being about 80 minutes away from Kemble Station.