5 bedroom house
Little Faringdon, Lechlade, Oxfordshire, GL7 3QQ
Guide Price
£1,995,000
Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Mill House, Private Water Supply
Property Tags: N/A
Land Tags: Fishing Rights and Lakes
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Sep 2022
- Removed: Dec 2022
- Residential Tags: Farmhouse, Mill House, Private Water Supply
- Property Tags: N/A
- Land Tags: Fishing Rights and Lakes
An outstanding Mill House within close proximity of a market town.
Description
Little Faringdon Mill is a unique property in a delightful location on the River Leach, close to the Gloucestershire border. A mill is recorded on the site in the Domesday book and the current buildings date from the mid to late 18C, with some parts of the Mill House believed to date from the 16C. The current three storey Mill retains many original 19C mill workings and spans the mill race. Powered by a 14ft wheel, it continued milling corn well into the 20C.
The original Mill House is a charming and comfortable two storey building overlooking the river, with attractive original features including gothic windows and stone mullions, an internal viewing window to the wheel, exposed stone walling, beams and timbers and a splendid balustrade to the first floor landing. Most of the ground floor rooms have direct access to the gardens, ideal for inside/outside living and entertaining. The house connects via the first floor to the Mill, which retains the weather boarded hoist projection and has been imaginatively converted to feature some of the original millstones and machinery. It provides additional accommodation including an impressive vaulted family room with a galleried office. The 47’ ground floor of the mill would make a marvellous games/party room and there is scope, subject to regulations, to install a staircase, thereby creating potential for two self contained wings, ideal for two families or multi-generational living.
The front door opens into the sunny entrance hall, with a door to the cloakroom, and a glazed door to the south facing terrace. It leads to the reception rooms, all with river views. The comfortable dining room has an impressive Cotswold stone fireplace, beyond which are the well proportioned drawing room and a smaller sitting room, both with working fireplaces and doors to the south facing terrace. In addition, the original oak front door leads from the drawing room to the riverside terrace, adjacent to the weir. The triple aspect and partly vaulted kitchen/breakfast room has a flagstone floor, a stable door to the gardens and comprehensive bespoke fittings providing generous storage.
Stairs rise from the dining room to the first floor landing with generous storage and two double bedrooms. The partly vaulted principal bedroom has views of both the garden and the river and has a fitted dressing room and a bathroom with whirlpool bath and separate shower. The second bedroom overlooks the garden and has an en suite bathroom. A door from the landing and a flight of steps lead to the impressive vaulted family room within the mill, with huge beams and various retained mechanical features including a millstone. Two attractive double bedrooms share a stunning bathroom which has been designed to highlight the millstones set into the floor, with limestone tiling, a roll top bath and a walk in shower. There is also a study on this floor, in the area where the original ladder staircase would have come up from the mill workings below.
A contemporary spiral staircase rises from the family room to a galleried landing and office that floats above the room below. A broad corridor with generous storage leads to the hoist projection and around to a double bedroom in the eaves, which has millworker’s graffiti retained on the brickwork and an en suite wet room.
Accessed via french doors from a terrace adjacent to the drive and tail race, this impressive space is currently used for storage, with a utility area and plumbing for laundry appliances to the rear and a separate boiler room. The wooden cogs and gearing for the water wheel have been retained to one side and there is scope to create a magnificent games/party room or, subject to regulations, a unique living space with potential access to the first floor.
The property is approached via automatic timber gates and a shared drive that runs alongside the river and leads to a private area of gravel drive to the rear and access to the double carport with adjacent workshop. A broad bridge across the mill race leads to the entrance hall, with access to the wheel house adjacent to the race. The enchanting gardens include a substantial ‘island’ of lawn with a view across adjacent farmland and bridges spanning the river on one side and the tail race on the other. Further areas include lawned riverbank, a walled parterre, gothic style green house, and paved terraces adjoining the river and house. Further outbuildings include a tool store, stone store and a lean-to potting shed housing an original double privy.
Location
Little Faringdon Mill is situated in a private enclave of just four attractive period buildings on the outskirts of Little Faringdon, 1 mile from the market town of Lechlade, which lies on the Thames and has several independent shops, a small supermarket, bakery, cafes, several pubs, a doctors’ surgery, and a library. Cirencester provides more comprehensive facilities including an excellent range of independent shops, boutiques, and restaurants as well as regular markets and three supermarkets, including Waitrose. There are many highly regarded gastro pubs in the area including The Bell Inn at Langford and The Five Alls in Filkins. The highly regarded Thyme Hotel and Spa is within 3 miles and Daylesford Organic, Soho Farmhouse, and the larger centres of Oxford and Cheltenham are within easy driving distance, providing a wider range of facilities including cultural and recreational amenities. Communications are good with road links to London and beyond via the A40/ M40 (J8) near Oxford or the M4 at Swindon (J15), and trains from either Charlbury or Swindon to Paddington, and from Swindon to Bath and Bristol. Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Burford, Highworth and Witney; and racing at Cheltenham, Stratford and Newbury. Little Faringdon is located close to the boundary of the Cotswold Water Park providing various water sports. Trout fishing is offered at Lechlade. State and private schooling is excellent with a primary school located a mile away in Langford, (Ofsted Good) and a highly regarded secondary school in Burford (Ofsted Good). Private schools nearby include Hatherop Castle, Cokethorpe and St Hugh’s and there are many excellent schools around Cirencester, Cheltenham and Oxford.
Square Footage: 4,381 sq ft
Additional Info
Lechlade 1 mile, Burford 7 miles, Cirencester 14 miles, Oxford 25 miles, Cheltenham 27 miles, Charlbury Station 16 miles (London Paddington from 67 minutes) (all times and distances are approximate).
Services = Mains electricity. Gas fired central heating. Private water supply. Shared private drainage. Broadband.
Local Authority = West Oxfordshire District Council, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire. T:
Council Tax Band = H
Photography = External taken August 2022 and internal taken April 2022
Marketed by: Savills, Cirencester
Description
Little Faringdon Mill is a unique property in a delightful location on the River Leach, close to the Gloucestershire border. A mill is recorded on the site in the Domesday book and the current buildings date from the mid to late 18C, with some parts of the Mill House believed to date from the 16C. The current three storey Mill retains many original 19C mill workings and spans the mill race. Powered by a 14ft wheel, it continued milling corn well into the 20C.
The original Mill House is a charming and comfortable two storey building overlooking the river, with attractive original features including gothic windows and stone mullions, an internal viewing window to the wheel, exposed stone walling, beams and timbers and a splendid balustrade to the first floor landing. Most of the ground floor rooms have direct access to the gardens, ideal for inside/outside living and entertaining. The house connects via the first floor to the Mill, which retains the weather boarded hoist projection and has been imaginatively converted to feature some of the original millstones and machinery. It provides additional accommodation including an impressive vaulted family room with a galleried office. The 47’ ground floor of the mill would make a marvellous games/party room and there is scope, subject to regulations, to install a staircase, thereby creating potential for two self contained wings, ideal for two families or multi-generational living.
The front door opens into the sunny entrance hall, with a door to the cloakroom, and a glazed door to the south facing terrace. It leads to the reception rooms, all with river views. The comfortable dining room has an impressive Cotswold stone fireplace, beyond which are the well proportioned drawing room and a smaller sitting room, both with working fireplaces and doors to the south facing terrace. In addition, the original oak front door leads from the drawing room to the riverside terrace, adjacent to the weir. The triple aspect and partly vaulted kitchen/breakfast room has a flagstone floor, a stable door to the gardens and comprehensive bespoke fittings providing generous storage.
Stairs rise from the dining room to the first floor landing with generous storage and two double bedrooms. The partly vaulted principal bedroom has views of both the garden and the river and has a fitted dressing room and a bathroom with whirlpool bath and separate shower. The second bedroom overlooks the garden and has an en suite bathroom. A door from the landing and a flight of steps lead to the impressive vaulted family room within the mill, with huge beams and various retained mechanical features including a millstone. Two attractive double bedrooms share a stunning bathroom which has been designed to highlight the millstones set into the floor, with limestone tiling, a roll top bath and a walk in shower. There is also a study on this floor, in the area where the original ladder staircase would have come up from the mill workings below.
A contemporary spiral staircase rises from the family room to a galleried landing and office that floats above the room below. A broad corridor with generous storage leads to the hoist projection and around to a double bedroom in the eaves, which has millworker’s graffiti retained on the brickwork and an en suite wet room.
Accessed via french doors from a terrace adjacent to the drive and tail race, this impressive space is currently used for storage, with a utility area and plumbing for laundry appliances to the rear and a separate boiler room. The wooden cogs and gearing for the water wheel have been retained to one side and there is scope to create a magnificent games/party room or, subject to regulations, a unique living space with potential access to the first floor.
The property is approached via automatic timber gates and a shared drive that runs alongside the river and leads to a private area of gravel drive to the rear and access to the double carport with adjacent workshop. A broad bridge across the mill race leads to the entrance hall, with access to the wheel house adjacent to the race. The enchanting gardens include a substantial ‘island’ of lawn with a view across adjacent farmland and bridges spanning the river on one side and the tail race on the other. Further areas include lawned riverbank, a walled parterre, gothic style green house, and paved terraces adjoining the river and house. Further outbuildings include a tool store, stone store and a lean-to potting shed housing an original double privy.
Location
Little Faringdon Mill is situated in a private enclave of just four attractive period buildings on the outskirts of Little Faringdon, 1 mile from the market town of Lechlade, which lies on the Thames and has several independent shops, a small supermarket, bakery, cafes, several pubs, a doctors’ surgery, and a library. Cirencester provides more comprehensive facilities including an excellent range of independent shops, boutiques, and restaurants as well as regular markets and three supermarkets, including Waitrose. There are many highly regarded gastro pubs in the area including The Bell Inn at Langford and The Five Alls in Filkins. The highly regarded Thyme Hotel and Spa is within 3 miles and Daylesford Organic, Soho Farmhouse, and the larger centres of Oxford and Cheltenham are within easy driving distance, providing a wider range of facilities including cultural and recreational amenities. Communications are good with road links to London and beyond via the A40/ M40 (J8) near Oxford or the M4 at Swindon (J15), and trains from either Charlbury or Swindon to Paddington, and from Swindon to Bath and Bristol. Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Burford, Highworth and Witney; and racing at Cheltenham, Stratford and Newbury. Little Faringdon is located close to the boundary of the Cotswold Water Park providing various water sports. Trout fishing is offered at Lechlade. State and private schooling is excellent with a primary school located a mile away in Langford, (Ofsted Good) and a highly regarded secondary school in Burford (Ofsted Good). Private schools nearby include Hatherop Castle, Cokethorpe and St Hugh’s and there are many excellent schools around Cirencester, Cheltenham and Oxford.
Square Footage: 4,381 sq ft
Additional Info
Lechlade 1 mile, Burford 7 miles, Cirencester 14 miles, Oxford 25 miles, Cheltenham 27 miles, Charlbury Station 16 miles (London Paddington from 67 minutes) (all times and distances are approximate).
Services = Mains electricity. Gas fired central heating. Private water supply. Shared private drainage. Broadband.
Local Authority = West Oxfordshire District Council, Church Green, Witney, Oxfordshire. T:
Council Tax Band = H
Photography = External taken August 2022 and internal taken April 2022
Marketed by: Savills, Cirencester
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.