Pen Y Banc Farm

Originally believed to have been three farm labourers cottages this period farmhouse has been sensitively extended and renovated over recent years and now comprises a spacious and well planned home offering family accommodation and useful outbuildings that are suitable for a variety of uses. Pen Y Banc Farm is set within 3.16 acres and benefits from staggering rural views across to Pen Y Lan.

Situated within mature and attractively landscaped rear gardens, offering a serious of ‘rooms’ with lawns, vegetable garden and further paddocks.

There are three entrances to Pen Y Banc Farm offering a versatile way to use the property. The formal entrance opens to the welcoming reception hallway with exposed beams, wooden cottage style internal doors, wooden floor and staircase to the first floor. The spacious dining room faces the front and has a feature fireplace and oak floor and could be easily utilised as a home office or library. The rectangle shaped drawing room has a feature fireplace with inset log burner, wooden floor and attractive views across to the hills of Pen Y Lan. This in turn opens to the family room offering a less formal family sitting room with fitted bookshelves and a feature brick fireplace with inset log burner. At the heart of this characterful property is the large breakfast room and excellent sized refitted kitchen with windows across to the rear garden with fields beyond. Recently refitted with a vast array of shaker style units, under solid wooden worktops, the integrated appliances include a double oven, electric hob, dishwasher and microwave as well as a useful bar area with space for bar stools. The breakfast room is semi open plan to the kitchen and benefits from a wooden floor and ample room for free standing furniture.

A large boot room, offering a second entrance, shower room with W.C and utility room, with third entrance and fitted units, completes the ground floor accommodation.

The staircase rises from the spacious reception hall to the first floor. The light flooded landing has a feature exposed brick chimney and views across to the hills of Pen Y Lan. The principle bedroom has dual aspect windows offering rural views to both aspects. There is space for an ensuite here if desired (subject to the relevant building regulations). Radiating off the landing are three further double bedrooms all with rural views. The family bathroom is fitted in white with a feature freestanding bath and separate shower cubicle.

Oil fired heating
Septic tank
Mains electricity
Private well water supply

Agents note: In Jan 2022 the barn was partly re-roofed.
The vendor of this property is an employee of (or a relative of, or an associate of an employee of) Strutt & Parker.

Wayleaves, rights of way and easements: The property will be sold subject to and with the benefit of all wayleaves, easements and rights of way, whether mentioned in these particulars or not.

Pen Y Banc Farm is situated in the desirable rural hamlet of Sodylt, close to St Martins, on the edge of the well regarded North Shropshire ‘Lakeland’ town of Ellesmere famous for its meres. Ellesmere has an excellent range of local shopping, recreational and educational facilities, and is within easy motoring distance of the larger centres of Oswestry, Shrewsbury, and Chester offering further facilities.

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

There is a railway station in Chirk, providing access to London, whilst the nearby A5/ M54 provides access to Birmingham and the Midlands, along with regional airports at Birmingham and Manchester.

Pen Y Banc Farm sits attractively within 3.16 acres and approached from the lane from three access points. The main gateway opens between the outbuildings and the farmhouse with ample parking.

The formal garden has been professionally landscaped and offers interest at all times of the year with mature fruit trees, along with a series of rooms including a rose garden and parterre complemented with lawned areas, deep borders planted with mature flowering shrubs and a vegetable garden. There is a further paddock beyond and a pine copse. There are a number of al fresco seating areas maximising the sun throughout the day and offering opportunity to enjoy the rural views to the rear of the house and the hills of Pen Y Lan to the front.

The spacious outbuildings offer immense opportunity for an onward buyer and would be ideal for equestrian use, small holding or conversion to a home office suite or holiday let (subject to the relevant consents and permissions) and comprise a barn, two stables, storage rooms, tack room and wash room. Power and water are connected.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, Shrewsbury