Wroxton Mill

The property further benefits from its own private golf course in a wildflower meadow and parkland setting.

The house is built of local Hornton stone around a steading which dates back to Norman times with the Mill at “Wrocestan” (Wroxton) mentioned in the Doomsday Book. The thatch was entirely renovated in 2005 in French water reed with a 30 year life. The central part of the house dates from the late 1400s, and has been added to from there. The house has been entirely renovated, completely re-roofed, rewired and essentially rebuilt.

The entrance from the car parking area leads to a coat/boot room and wine store, with a substantial north-facing larder and a separate laundry/utility room. To the right a hidden 'butler's door' leads into the dining room and to the left the door leads into the kitchen which has both South and West aspects and remains sunny all day. The kitchen table comfortably seats 10 people and the double French windows lead out onto a patio dining area by the formal flower beds.

The 'snug' (off the kitchen) provides a cosy television/sitting room, with a stable door into the garden. Off the snug is the hall which lies at the heart of the house; a substantial and light-filled wood-panelled room with a bespoke oak staircase under a double height ceiling. To the right of the hall is the downstairs loo, and a butler's pantry cupboard. It comfortably seats 16 people, and is wide enough for two tables of 16 people side-by-side. The Drawing room (off the hall) looks out over the gardens to the front and rear of the property and is particularly light in the mornings.

A door leads to the back stairs to some of the upstairs bedrooms and to the garden room. This is a large room with a library/study section looking out over the spring wildflower meadow and swimming pool. One section of the garden room is currently used as a gym. There is also 'summer dining area' which benefits from retractable sliding doors allowing the southern and western aspects of the room to be fully open to the garden.

Upstairs, the main bedroom offers a huge double-height ceiling. Off the main bedroom there is a substantial walk-in dressing room. A small 'anteroom' has a stairs to the attic. There is a bathroom and also a separate loo.

There are four additional bedrooms and three additional bathrooms that all look over the garden stream or the pool and trout lake and are finished to a high standard. There is a 'priesthole' door in the panelling between two of the bedrooms.

Gardens and grounds
The house sits in the 'Northern Valleys' Conservation Target Area, and is very rich in wildlife as the property has been managed organically for the past eight years under a comprehensive wildlife habitat restoration plan. The millstream in the garden is a breeding area for wild trout and the nationally endangered 'brook lamprey'. It is common to see kingfishers, otters and many other animals including deer and badgers. There are many areas of bluebell woodland, wildflower meadow and nationally rare 'calcareous grassland'.

The swimming pool was fully refurbished in 2016 and a new low cost heat pump system installed. The wild swimming pond has a diving jetty with a circulation pump and is 10ft deep at the deepest point. It is spring water fed, and stocked with brown trout. It is naturally filled and cleared.

The Mill Building is thatched and cedar-shingled. The gardeners day room makes a comfortable kitchen and includes a downstairs loo (on a separate septic tank). The waterwheel generates approx 1,500KwH of renewable electricity per year.

The main parkland has been renewed and enhanced over the past decade, and includes a wildflower meadow and extensive areas of spring bulb planting. There are a number of rare trees planted in the parkland, including Black Poplar (the UK's rarest tree) and Dutch Elm disease-resistant Elm trees. The park includes a 6 hole golf course (longest tee shot 275 yards) which has been managed organically.

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