Manor Cottage
Little Stretton, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE2 2FS
Guide Price
£1,250,000
Residential Tags: N/A
Property Tags: Solar Energy
Land Tags: Paddock, Woodland
Summary Details
- First Marketed: May 2022
- Removed: Oct 2022
- Residential Tags: N/A
- Property Tags: Solar Energy
- Land Tags: Paddock, Woodland
Situated in the lovely rural hamlet of Little Stretton, yet with quick and easy access via the B582 to Leicester City Centre and the A6 to Market Harborough.
Manor Cottage is set in over one acre of grounds. This wonderful red-brick, five-bedroom family home has been beautifully renovated and refurbished throughout, doubling its size while sympathetically retaining its character. Manor Cottage also benefits from a separate sympathetically converted outbuildings now a multi purpose annexe.
A Home with History
First built in 1750, the right-hand side of the property was added in around 1820 and the annexe in 1892. Originally a dairy and workman’s cottage in a working farm, Manor Cottage was owned by the Co-Op until the 1970s, when it was sold to a family who lived there until the current owners purchased it in 2016.
Extensively Improved
Over the years, the current owners have made substantial improvements to the property.
This included damp-proofing the house and annexe, re-roofing the house with Welsh slate and rewiring the electrics throughout. The house has strong eco credentials with upgraded insulation, a state of the art new combined air source and oil boiler system, new highly eco efficient radiators, sixteen discreetly placed solar panels with battery storage and a Solar Iboost system which redirects solar power to heat the immersion heater. The solar panels and additional Renewable Heat Incentive payments attract an income amounting to £1500 a year until 2025.
Other updates include connecting the house to mains drainage, increasing the water pressure, fitting a security system alarm and CCTV, wiring smoke alarms and adding outdoor plugs, satin chrome light fittings and sockets throughout.
A Warm Welcome
Approaching the house from Main Street, pull through into the smart, paved and Cotswold stone courtyard via double gates painted in Farrow & Ball to match the annexe windows, utility area and entrance porch.
Between mature hedging to the front, a painted gate opens onto a lawn-flanked cream stone pathway leading to a front door framed by established wisteria and a creeping white rose. Step through into a hallway with recessed lighting and a carpeted staircase with a solid oak handrail.
Elegance & Comfort
The door on your right reveals a wonderful sitting room (circa 1820) with a gorgeous open stone fireplace salvaged from Peatling Hall. This elegant room also features an oak floor, a coved ceiling with recessed lighting, chrome picture lights, an Everest hardwood bay window and a side casement.
To the left side of the hall, you will find a cosy living room (circa 1750) with a modern wood burner fitted in 2017 and a magnificent new oak ceiling support beam to join an oak floor, Everest hardwood bay window, and recessed lighting. This room features a range of spot-lit built-in bookcases with glass-fronted doors, making it the perfect retreat for reading and study.
Entertain in Style
A door from the living room brings you to a lobby with access to a handy pantry (circa 1750). Beyond lies the recently extended RDS Interiors open plan dining kitchen and family room, which benefits from heating to the Karndean flooring, and recessed and pendant lighting.
Meanwhile, light floods in from the aluminium bi-fold doors, French doors, and five remote-controlled rain sensitive Velux windows. So, whether you choose to cook, eat or relax, a beautiful view across the garden is always on the menu.
The kitchen itself features sleek light wood-effect cabinetry with concealed handles and white quartz worktops – offset by an orange Everhot Range Cooker to match the feature wall and a deep-blue peninsular unit with large storage drawers and a raised antique mahogany breakfast bar.
An inset sink with a satin chrome filter tap sits beneath a window facing the garden, but you’ll also find a floor-to-ceiling storage unit housing a 45-bottle wine rack, a Samsung American-style fridge-freezer, and a Miele integrated dishwasher.
From the kitchen area, a door accesses a utility room containing fitted cupboards, a solar power battery and control unit, recessed lighting, a heated Karndean floor, a washing machine and dryer, sink and fitted shelving.
From the family/dining area, a glazed door leads to the boot room, which features a built-in wardrobe and shoe storage by RDS Interiors, and a cloakroom with Laufen sanitaryware and vanity unit, plus a built-in cupboard. Both areas have heated Karndean flooring, while an oak back door leads into the courtyard area.
Time to Unwind
Take the stairs to the first floor. The generous double-aspect master suite lies in the extension area, entered through a dressing room with built-in mirrored cupboards. Here, pale toned walls rise from the oak floor to a white, part-sloped ceiling with recessed lighting. At the same time, a casement window with shutters and bifold aluminium doors to a Juliet balcony overlook the garden and the gentle countryside beyond.
In the dressing room, an oak door with a porthole design opens to an en suite, where a sumptuous Victoria & Albert volcanic limestone freestanding slipper bath awaits. A Grohe freestanding chrome mixer tap supplies the water – just add bubbles!
The en suite also boasts Laufen sanitaryware and vanity unit, a Kudos enclosure with Hansgrohe shower and mixer tap, ceramic floor tiles and heated towel rails. A casement window overlooks the garden, while shutters provide some privacy.
From the master suite, turn right on the oak-floored landing to find bedroom three, which overlooks the garden and courtyard area. Mid-grey walls strike a great contrast with the white ceiling and paintwork, oak flooring underfoot and an oak door. A mirrored fitted wardrobe reflects the light in this ample double room, which also has recessed spotlights and a chrome picture light.
Bedroom two (circa 1820) is a good-sized double facing the front aspect and features a delightful original fireplace. Pale green walls and oak flooring give a serene feeling, while new wall insulation and Everest hardwood windows keep the room warm. Recessed spotlights and a built-in wardrobe complete the space.
Bedrooms four and five (circa 1750) have warm wool carpets, Everest hardwood windows and original cottage doors. Bedroom four overlooks the front and side aspects and features a part-sloped ceiling, pale grey walls and a fireplace with a white painted wooden mantle surround. Facing the front, the fifth bedroom also has a built-in wall cupboard and access to the loft.
The spacious family bathroom is well-appointed with Laufen sanitaryware, a Hansgrohe shower and tap with a Kudos shower sliding door, a heated towel rail, a ceramic tiled floor and shower, an oak door airing cupboard, and a storage cupboard with access to the hot water tank, immersion heater, and loft space. Recessed lighting, Everest wood windows and a cottage door finish the bathroom.
Work and Play
Across the courtyard is the annexe originally used as a hayloft and farm workshops. Extensively renovated, it now houses a fabulous office/living space. Enter the part-glazed hardwood door into the downstairs lobby, which has bamboo flooring, conservation windows with blackout blinds, and a carpeted, white-painted wooden turning staircase to the office above.
The lobby leads to a bathroom/shower room with Vitra sanitaryware and vanity unit, a Mira chrome electric shower, an electric heater, and ceramic tiling.
As you climb the stairs to the office, you’re greeted by a wonderfully bright and airy space with a pitched roof, original restored beams, bamboo flooring, hardwood windows, a 'window door' with a Juliet balcony, and conservation roof windows with blackout blinds. The room is spot-lit and has a range of in-built book shelving. Situated under the office is the garage, accessed from the courtyard via an electric remote-controlled door.
Step Outside
Returning to the courtyard, you will see two hardwood doors leading into a home gym and a storage area, completing the inside of the annexe. There is also a walled utility area with an air source heating unit, oil tank, space for several bins and a wood store.
A double painted gate leads from the courtyard to the garden, where nearby, you will find a cedar wood greenhouse on a concrete base with raised solid oak beds on either side.
Lavender and white rose bushes adorn the rear block-paved and Cotswold stone patio, where oak steps invite you onto the lawn.
The garden is extensive, with mature trees and shrubs and delightful woodland areas to wander through. There are native hedges of holm oak and laurel on the boundaries, a wooden fence behind a yew tree hedge and a wooden gate for access to paddock land, plus secure fencing with a native hedge on the roadside.
If you love a kitchen garden and a bit of culinary creativeness, you’ll make great use of the established apple trees of the eating, cooking, and cider making varieties (cider making kit available by negotiation!), pear and damson trees, and newly planted mulberry, walnut, apricot and cherry trees. You’ll also find two rectangular solid oak surrounded vegetable beds and a formal raised herb and flower bed framed by Cotswold stone.
On Your Doorstep
Little Stretton is nestled in lovely countryside not far from the family-friendly village of Great Glen. The wonderful market town of Market Harborough is within 20 minutes and Leicester City can be reached within 15 minutes and the M1 in 20 minutes.
Nearby Great Glen offers a range of amenities you would expect to find in a rural village to serve your daily needs, from a church, play areas and sporting facilities to a post office, library, shops and pubs.
Noteworthy state schools include the Ofsted-rated Outstanding Woodland Grange Primary School and Gartree High School, both of which can be found in Oadby. Leicester Grammar School LGS Stoneygate, Leicester High School for Girls, St Crispin’s Grammar School, and the Al-Islamia Institute for Education are fantastic independent alternatives.
Trains run from Market Harborough & Leicester to London St Pancras, with journey times ranging from 60-90 minutes. (All distances and times are appropriate)
Marketed by: Fine & Country, Leicester
Manor Cottage is set in over one acre of grounds. This wonderful red-brick, five-bedroom family home has been beautifully renovated and refurbished throughout, doubling its size while sympathetically retaining its character. Manor Cottage also benefits from a separate sympathetically converted outbuildings now a multi purpose annexe.
A Home with History
First built in 1750, the right-hand side of the property was added in around 1820 and the annexe in 1892. Originally a dairy and workman’s cottage in a working farm, Manor Cottage was owned by the Co-Op until the 1970s, when it was sold to a family who lived there until the current owners purchased it in 2016.
Extensively Improved
Over the years, the current owners have made substantial improvements to the property.
This included damp-proofing the house and annexe, re-roofing the house with Welsh slate and rewiring the electrics throughout. The house has strong eco credentials with upgraded insulation, a state of the art new combined air source and oil boiler system, new highly eco efficient radiators, sixteen discreetly placed solar panels with battery storage and a Solar Iboost system which redirects solar power to heat the immersion heater. The solar panels and additional Renewable Heat Incentive payments attract an income amounting to £1500 a year until 2025.
Other updates include connecting the house to mains drainage, increasing the water pressure, fitting a security system alarm and CCTV, wiring smoke alarms and adding outdoor plugs, satin chrome light fittings and sockets throughout.
A Warm Welcome
Approaching the house from Main Street, pull through into the smart, paved and Cotswold stone courtyard via double gates painted in Farrow & Ball to match the annexe windows, utility area and entrance porch.
Between mature hedging to the front, a painted gate opens onto a lawn-flanked cream stone pathway leading to a front door framed by established wisteria and a creeping white rose. Step through into a hallway with recessed lighting and a carpeted staircase with a solid oak handrail.
Elegance & Comfort
The door on your right reveals a wonderful sitting room (circa 1820) with a gorgeous open stone fireplace salvaged from Peatling Hall. This elegant room also features an oak floor, a coved ceiling with recessed lighting, chrome picture lights, an Everest hardwood bay window and a side casement.
To the left side of the hall, you will find a cosy living room (circa 1750) with a modern wood burner fitted in 2017 and a magnificent new oak ceiling support beam to join an oak floor, Everest hardwood bay window, and recessed lighting. This room features a range of spot-lit built-in bookcases with glass-fronted doors, making it the perfect retreat for reading and study.
Entertain in Style
A door from the living room brings you to a lobby with access to a handy pantry (circa 1750). Beyond lies the recently extended RDS Interiors open plan dining kitchen and family room, which benefits from heating to the Karndean flooring, and recessed and pendant lighting.
Meanwhile, light floods in from the aluminium bi-fold doors, French doors, and five remote-controlled rain sensitive Velux windows. So, whether you choose to cook, eat or relax, a beautiful view across the garden is always on the menu.
The kitchen itself features sleek light wood-effect cabinetry with concealed handles and white quartz worktops – offset by an orange Everhot Range Cooker to match the feature wall and a deep-blue peninsular unit with large storage drawers and a raised antique mahogany breakfast bar.
An inset sink with a satin chrome filter tap sits beneath a window facing the garden, but you’ll also find a floor-to-ceiling storage unit housing a 45-bottle wine rack, a Samsung American-style fridge-freezer, and a Miele integrated dishwasher.
From the kitchen area, a door accesses a utility room containing fitted cupboards, a solar power battery and control unit, recessed lighting, a heated Karndean floor, a washing machine and dryer, sink and fitted shelving.
From the family/dining area, a glazed door leads to the boot room, which features a built-in wardrobe and shoe storage by RDS Interiors, and a cloakroom with Laufen sanitaryware and vanity unit, plus a built-in cupboard. Both areas have heated Karndean flooring, while an oak back door leads into the courtyard area.
Time to Unwind
Take the stairs to the first floor. The generous double-aspect master suite lies in the extension area, entered through a dressing room with built-in mirrored cupboards. Here, pale toned walls rise from the oak floor to a white, part-sloped ceiling with recessed lighting. At the same time, a casement window with shutters and bifold aluminium doors to a Juliet balcony overlook the garden and the gentle countryside beyond.
In the dressing room, an oak door with a porthole design opens to an en suite, where a sumptuous Victoria & Albert volcanic limestone freestanding slipper bath awaits. A Grohe freestanding chrome mixer tap supplies the water – just add bubbles!
The en suite also boasts Laufen sanitaryware and vanity unit, a Kudos enclosure with Hansgrohe shower and mixer tap, ceramic floor tiles and heated towel rails. A casement window overlooks the garden, while shutters provide some privacy.
From the master suite, turn right on the oak-floored landing to find bedroom three, which overlooks the garden and courtyard area. Mid-grey walls strike a great contrast with the white ceiling and paintwork, oak flooring underfoot and an oak door. A mirrored fitted wardrobe reflects the light in this ample double room, which also has recessed spotlights and a chrome picture light.
Bedroom two (circa 1820) is a good-sized double facing the front aspect and features a delightful original fireplace. Pale green walls and oak flooring give a serene feeling, while new wall insulation and Everest hardwood windows keep the room warm. Recessed spotlights and a built-in wardrobe complete the space.
Bedrooms four and five (circa 1750) have warm wool carpets, Everest hardwood windows and original cottage doors. Bedroom four overlooks the front and side aspects and features a part-sloped ceiling, pale grey walls and a fireplace with a white painted wooden mantle surround. Facing the front, the fifth bedroom also has a built-in wall cupboard and access to the loft.
The spacious family bathroom is well-appointed with Laufen sanitaryware, a Hansgrohe shower and tap with a Kudos shower sliding door, a heated towel rail, a ceramic tiled floor and shower, an oak door airing cupboard, and a storage cupboard with access to the hot water tank, immersion heater, and loft space. Recessed lighting, Everest wood windows and a cottage door finish the bathroom.
Work and Play
Across the courtyard is the annexe originally used as a hayloft and farm workshops. Extensively renovated, it now houses a fabulous office/living space. Enter the part-glazed hardwood door into the downstairs lobby, which has bamboo flooring, conservation windows with blackout blinds, and a carpeted, white-painted wooden turning staircase to the office above.
The lobby leads to a bathroom/shower room with Vitra sanitaryware and vanity unit, a Mira chrome electric shower, an electric heater, and ceramic tiling.
As you climb the stairs to the office, you’re greeted by a wonderfully bright and airy space with a pitched roof, original restored beams, bamboo flooring, hardwood windows, a 'window door' with a Juliet balcony, and conservation roof windows with blackout blinds. The room is spot-lit and has a range of in-built book shelving. Situated under the office is the garage, accessed from the courtyard via an electric remote-controlled door.
Step Outside
Returning to the courtyard, you will see two hardwood doors leading into a home gym and a storage area, completing the inside of the annexe. There is also a walled utility area with an air source heating unit, oil tank, space for several bins and a wood store.
A double painted gate leads from the courtyard to the garden, where nearby, you will find a cedar wood greenhouse on a concrete base with raised solid oak beds on either side.
Lavender and white rose bushes adorn the rear block-paved and Cotswold stone patio, where oak steps invite you onto the lawn.
The garden is extensive, with mature trees and shrubs and delightful woodland areas to wander through. There are native hedges of holm oak and laurel on the boundaries, a wooden fence behind a yew tree hedge and a wooden gate for access to paddock land, plus secure fencing with a native hedge on the roadside.
If you love a kitchen garden and a bit of culinary creativeness, you’ll make great use of the established apple trees of the eating, cooking, and cider making varieties (cider making kit available by negotiation!), pear and damson trees, and newly planted mulberry, walnut, apricot and cherry trees. You’ll also find two rectangular solid oak surrounded vegetable beds and a formal raised herb and flower bed framed by Cotswold stone.
On Your Doorstep
Little Stretton is nestled in lovely countryside not far from the family-friendly village of Great Glen. The wonderful market town of Market Harborough is within 20 minutes and Leicester City can be reached within 15 minutes and the M1 in 20 minutes.
Nearby Great Glen offers a range of amenities you would expect to find in a rural village to serve your daily needs, from a church, play areas and sporting facilities to a post office, library, shops and pubs.
Noteworthy state schools include the Ofsted-rated Outstanding Woodland Grange Primary School and Gartree High School, both of which can be found in Oadby. Leicester Grammar School LGS Stoneygate, Leicester High School for Girls, St Crispin’s Grammar School, and the Al-Islamia Institute for Education are fantastic independent alternatives.
Trains run from Market Harborough & Leicester to London St Pancras, with journey times ranging from 60-90 minutes. (All distances and times are appropriate)
Marketed by: Fine & Country, Leicester
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