4 bedroom house

Delightful village living with extensive mature gardens.


Description

Laurel House is a charming detached Victorian house of stone construction under a tile roof.

The house offers a number of period features including open fireplaces, dado rail, gothic arched windows and doors.

The house has been in the same ownership for over 25 years and whilst offered in good order, is in need of some modernisation.

Due to its architectural origins, the house offers generous ceiling heights, plenty of natural light, all combining to create a lovely sense of space. Natural light spills into the generous drawing room which enjoy views over the rear garden. There is a useful study for working from home and a kitchen/breakfast room also looking out onto the rear garden.

Given the plot size, there is scope to extend to the rear off the kitchen/breakfast room, subject to the relevant consents.

Outside the house enjoys extensive, level gardens with lawn areas, mature borders and beds interspersed with a variety of fruit trees. To one side are fruit cages and greenhouse. Closer to the house is a lovely summerhouse with light and power connected.

There are a number of traditional stone outbuildings including garage, workshop, stores and stable. Whilst ideal for storage, here there is scope to improve/convert to create additional accommodation to the main house, office, studio or income stream, all subject to the relevant consents.

The house is approached by an ‘in and out’ drive leading to an area of parking to the rear.

This property offers a real sense of space, delightful gardens, useful outbuildings and an opportunity to really put your own mark on the house, extend or improve to suit modern needs. It’s accessibility to the popular local towns, the M40 and train links further enhance its appeal.

Location

Laurel House is located on the edge of the village of Upper Tysoe, close to the Oxfordshire / Warwickshire border. The village benefits from a post office, shop, public house, café, primary school, doctors surgery with dispensary and an 11th Century Church.

Local amenities can be found in Kineton and Shipston-on-Stour, which provides a range of facilities, including Co-ops, local delis, florists and a variety of pubs, restaurants and shops, doctors and community hospital. More extensive leisure and shopping facilities can be found at Banbury and Stratford-upon-Avon, which both have a Waitrose and M&S.

There is an extensive range of well-respected state, grammar and private schools locally, including Kineton High School, King Edward VI Grammar (Stratford) and Stratford Girls Grammar School, Warwick (Boys) and Kings High (Girls) in Warwick, Kingsley School (Leamington Spa), Rugby, Princethorpe College and Bloxham. Prep schools include The Croft Preparatory School (Stratford), Stratford Preparatory School, Warwick Prep and Arnold Lodge (Leamington Spa).

Access onto the national motorway system is at Junctions 11 and 12 of the M40. Good train services to London Marylebone from Banbury from 56 minutes and to Birmingham from Warwick Parkway from 20 minutes. Birmingham International Airport lies 31 miles to the north.

Sporting and leisure activities include racing at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Cheltenham; golf courses at Stratford-upon-Avon, Brailes and Tadmarton; polo at Southam; motor racing at Silverstone; theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon, Coventry and Oxford and The British Motor Museum at Gaydon. There are extensive local countryside walks in the area, including along the historic Edgehill.





Acreage: 0.57 Acres

Directions

From Banbury head north-west on the A442, Stratford Road, through Drayton and Wroxton. Continue until you descend Sun Rising Hill and then take the first left towards Tysoe (on to Tysoe Road which becomes Main Street). Continue along Main Street for about half a mile, past the turning on the left to Shenington, around a sharp right hand, ignoring the left turn to Epwell and onto the Shipston Road. Stay on this road for about 150 metres where the first driveway to Laurel House can be found on the right hand side.

Marketed by: Savills, Banbury