5 bedroom house

Leafy is a handsome brick-built house constructed in 1972 with well-balanced family accommodation. The house has been ungraded and enhanced, beautifully decorated and has top-quality fixtures and fittings, including porcelain tiled flooring, some with underfloor heating. There are oak strip panelled doors, double-glazed Georgian-styled windows, attractive cornices to principal reception rooms and bi-fold doors from the main rooms to the expansive deck overlooking the rear garden and lovely views beyond. Bathroom and shower room fittings are individual, high-quality sanitary ware, attractive tiling, heated towel rails and electric underfloor heating.

The accommodation is generous with a large reception hall with a tiled floor, a staircase rising to the first floor and a guest cloakroom with WC and basin. There are doors to the study and to a lovely drawing room with timber and cast iron Jetmaster open fire, bi-fold doors and a bay window to the front. Off the drawing room is the snug/music room with bi-fold doors to the garden and a staircase with an oak handrail leading down to the tanked basement playroom with fitted cupboards.

An arch from the drawing room opens to the dining room, which is nearly 26 feet long, with bi-fold doors to two sides and a dresser.

The superb kitchen/breakfast/family room has bifold doors to the deck, and a bespoke Tom Howley kitchen with painted units with quartz surfaces and a large island unit with a wide Belfast sink with spray tap, waste disposal and Quooker boiling water tap, tiled recess for a Range cooker or Aga, integrated fridge and dishwasher. The pantry/back kitchen has matching kitchen units, a fan oven, a freezer and plumbing for a second dishwasher.

A generous first-floor landing has an airing cupboard and fully fitted laundry with a sink and plumbing for two washing machines and two dryers, clothes bins, heated cupboards with clothes hanging rails and a cupboard housing the modern wall-mounted boiler. The principal bedroom has a south-facing window getting the best of the view, painted moulded panelling to walls and extensive wardrobes and a luxurious en suite shower room. Attractively decorated double bedrooms two and three also face south for the view, and both have the most attractive en suite shower rooms. Double bedrooms four and five share a family bathroom with a clawfoot bath with shower over and large profile porcelain floor tiles.

There is boarded loft space for additional storage and housing of the hot water cylinders.

The house is approached by a double wooden five-bar gate to a brick-edged tarmac drive and parking area, screened from the lane by a high evergreen hedge, with lawns, shrub and flower border, spruce, evergreen and walnut trees. There is a detached brick-built matching double garage with electric up and over door and side door, with a storage loft above.

Timber fencing with hand gates to either side of the house leads to the rear garden, with a covered barbeque area and paving to one side. The lawned private rear south-facing garden has an expansive composite deck for outdoor seating and al fresco dining with low-level lighting and wisteria growing against the house, with a privet hedge and flower, shrub and herbaceous beds mature walnut tree and a fine hedgerow oak tree. There is a fenced vegetable garden area. traditional hedges to open fields behind.

Leafy is in a lovely rural location just outside the delightful village of Berkswell. The village has a primary school, post office and stores, church, public house and railway station, and is close to Balsall Common. Berryfields farm shop and restaurant are a short distance from the property.

The large villages of Barston, Hampton-in-Arden and Meriden, are easily accessible as are Solihull, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon. Solihull town centre has an excellent range of shopping facilities, including the Touchwood Shopping Centre, restaurants, bars, cinema complex and other lei

Marketed by: Knight Frank, Stratford-upon-Avon