3 bedroom house

Charming Grade II listed country cottage situated in a glorious rural setting with mature gardens extending to 0.4 acres together with detached garage, outbuildings & detached workshop
Situation
The property is surrounded by beautiful rolling countryside and is located in the small hamlet of Broughton Green on the edge of the parish of Hanbury. Local amenities in Hanbury include a church, primary school and The Vernon Arms public house. More extensive shops and amenities are available in nearby Bromsgrove, Droitwich Spa and Worcester. The property is well located for access to regional centres including Bromsgrove, Redditch, Droitwich and the Cathedral City of Worcester together with Birmingham and the West Midlands conurbation. Junction 5 of the M5 motorway is only 6.5 miles and Junction 1 of the M42 is just some 9 miles distance and this in turn connects to the M40 which is the principal route to London from the West Midlands. Rail services to Birmingham operate locally from Droitwich, Bromsgrove and Worcester to Birmingham which in turn offers onward connections to London.

Description
This lovely cottage is a gem of a period property and is believed to date back to the mid-14th Century and has a wealth of features to include exposed wall and ceiling timbers understood to have originally been selected for nearby Mere Hall. The current owners have renovated and improved the property within the last five years to include rewiring, the installation of an oil fired central heating system, new kitchen and luxury family bathroom. The panelled front door opens into the reception hall which has a tiled floor, exposed beams, stairs to the first floor and feature leaded light borrowed windows to the adjacent sitting room. The sitting room has beautiful exposed timbers, oak flooring, wall lights and a window overlooking the front garden. There is also a feature brick fireplace with a wood burning stove. A stable door from the hallway leads through to the breakfast kitchen which is dual aspect and has oak fronted kitchen units and a tiled floor. There is a recess with a Rangemaster oven with an extractor over, an integral Neff dishwasher and an island unit with a breakfast bar and pull-out saucepan drawers. The adjacent rear hall/boot room has a tiled floor and a glazed door to the garden together with a utility area with plumbing for the usual appliances and a separate wet room.

On the first floor the dual aspect master bedroom overlooks the lovely gardens and has exposed floor timbers, wall and ceiling beams, fitted wardrobes and a feature fireplace. There are two further good sized bedrooms both with exposed beams and a stylish family bathroom which has a white suite with a free standing roll top bath and a separate rainwater shower cubicle together with a stainless steel wall mounted heated towel rail.

Grounds and gardens
The gardens are a real feature of the property and are private and well established and mature and extend to 0.4 acres.

The property is approached over a shared driveway providing ample parking and there is a separate detached garage with electric doors and an adjacent garden store. Picket fencing separates the driveway from the garden and a paved path leads to the front of the cottage with feature topiary and box hedging. The garden is filled with colour all year round with perennial planting and also there are many mature trees to include quince, fruit and holly trees and well positioned lighting illuminates areas of the garden and the specimen trees at night. A paved patio provides a lovely sitting out and alfresco dining area and there are brick and tiled outbuildings to include a potting shed, wood store, pig sty and the original privy. A separate driveway leads up to a detached wood clad steel framed storage barn/workshop which provides a superb storage facility and has manual spring assisted doors and a personnel door to the garden.


Marketed by: Fisher German, Worcester