7 bedroom house

Available for the first time since its construction at the turn of the millennium Silverdale House is an exciting opportunity to purchase a contemporary village home within parkland style gardens extending to 0.46 acres with a two bedroom cottage. Designed by the well regarded Shropshire architect Frank Healey drawing inspiration from continental and ‘Huf Haus’ architecture the internal accommodation has been designed to maximise the staggering rural view. Offering immense space, flexibility and scope the principle living accommodation is on the first floor with the ground floor housing bedrooms and further leisure accommodation.

Silverdale House and Cottage have been constructed in warm coloured engineered brick with wide hanger style hipped roofs, feature wooden panelling and decorative contemporary carpentry including a two balconies and side staircase adding architectural punctuation to this contemporary house.

The use of quality natural materials is evident throughout and provides contemporary styling to this modern country house. Materials include; exposed feature brick walls, panelled oak doors, sepetir panelled vaulted ceiling to the drawing room, Villeroy and Boch sanitary ware, recently installed log burner and a bespoke kitchen with granite work surfaces.

Within Silverdale House the internal accommodation is vast, light and distinguished as well being totally flexible for modern family life (re configuration of the floorplan could create a modern and very large kitchen/living/dining space). With a wide sweeping staircase, windows to all sides and velux windows the first floor is light and bright with excellent sixed rooms including drawing room with balcony, breakfast kitchen with al fresco dining balcony, dining room, snug, principle bedroom with ensuite, further bedroom with bathroom and cloakroom with W.C. To the ground floor are three double bedrooms complemented by two bathrooms and a W.C along with a utility room and study/bedroom five. The main feature on this floor is the outstanding games/snooker room that would make a superb garden/family sitting room opening directly to the gardens.

Within the Cottage the accommodation is set out in a conventional capacity and offers immense scope for the imaginative onward purchaser as either a teen/nanny/relative annexe, business premises or holiday letting accommodation to produce an income (subject to the relevant planning consents).

To the ground floor is the wide garden facing sitting room, dining room, kitchen, utility room and cloakroom with W.C. Two double bedrooms complemented by two bathrooms are located on the first floor.

The charming gardens and grounds are wide and
private extending across both the house and cottage private with a hedge screening the properties from Offas Dyke path that runs outside the boundary. The rear garden is laid to lawn with slopes offering distinct interest and contrast to the contemporary architecture of Silverdale House and Cottage. There are two large balconies with superb rural views to the first floor. One is off the kitchen and has been designed as an alfresco living space and the second is situated off the drawing and dining rooms to staging views to the Shropshire hills to the fore.

To the front is a sweeping Tarmacadam driveway with parking area and feature brick walled border with mature shrubs and trees that soften the front landscape.

The acreage extends to 0.46 acres in all.

Silverdale House and Cottage is situated in the heart of the popular English/Welsh borders village of Trefonen. Trefonen (translated as ‘village of the ash trees’) is a well-regarded North Shropshire village with a primary school shop, public house and the popular Offas Dyke path running through the heart of the village. Oswestry offers an excellent range of day-to-day shopping, recreational and educational facilities, and is within easy motoring distance of the larger centres of Wrexham, Shrewsbury, Birmingham and Chester offering more comprehensive amenities.

There are excellent state and private schools nearby including Oswestry School, Ellesmere College, Shrewsbury School, Ellesmere College and Moreton Hall.

There is a railway station at Gobowen, providing direct access to Shrewsbury, Chester, Birmingham and London, whilst the A5/M54/A483 provides road access to Wrexham, Chester, Birmingham and the Midlands. Airports are located at Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, Shrewsbury