The Manor House

Handsome early Victorian Manor House in a rural setting.


Description

Dating back to the early/mid-19th Century, The Manor House is a Grade II listed former manor farmhouse. The property is built of Flemish bond red brick with blue brick diapering throughout under a plain-tile roof with fish-scale diapering.

The property offers a wealth of period features including open fireplaces, painted iron latticed casement windows, bay windows, cornicing, deep skirting boards, exposed floor boards, four panel internal doors and exposed timbers.

The house commands a rural position about 0.5 miles outside of the village with views over open countryside.

Given its Victorian architecture, the house offers well-proportioned and versatile family accommodation over three floors. Generous windows and ceiling heights produce a light and airy feel.

The house has been carefully and sympathetically modernised by the current owners, all done whilst retaining many of its original period features. Improvements include a bespoke kitchen, utility room, white bathroom fittings, stone flooring, built in bookshelves, cupboards and storage, all offered in good decorative condition.

Offering just under 4,500 sq ft of living accommodation, the property is ideal for family living and entertaining with spacious reception rooms and ample bedrooms. The ground floor layout with study, playroom and WC, lends itself to creating an integral annexe for guests, dependent relatives, working from home or live in staff.

The kitchen/breakfast room is central to the house with oil fired Aga and doors out onto the central courtyard, ideal for summer/informal entertaining. There is a really useful boot room, snug and sitting room for families, whilst the reception hall, drawing room and dining room offer formality. Two staircases make for easy family and guest living.

There are three bedrooms on the first floor, with family shower room and the principal bedroom with dressing room and en suite bath/ shower room. There are a further three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor.

OUTSIDE
The Manor House is approached through wooden gates on two stone piers onto a gravelled tree lined driveway leading to the front and side of the house. Double garage and courtyard area to the side.

There are extensive mature gardens which are a particular feature of the property and extend across three sides of the house. Herbaceous borders and beds provide a lovely backdrop to much of the garden which is interspersed with a various mature trees including weeping ash and cherry, all flanked by hedge and fenced boundaries. Pond provides a focus for wildlife including ducks.

There is a delightful summerhouse with sauna and a greenhouse. Hard tennis court with flood lighting.

This is a well maintained family home with space, privacy and views, all set away from the village.

All distances and times are approximate.

Location

Monks Kirby is a small and very attractive village located approximately6.5 miles north-west of Rugby. The village is dominated by the Grade 1 priory church of St Edith and there is also The Denbigh Arms public house. Other public houses can be found in Easenhall (The Golden Lion) and Harborough Magna (The Old Lion), Gilmorton (The Grey Goose). Nearby Stretton-under-Fosse is home to the award winning Malt Kiln Farm Shop which includes the Revel Bakery.

Educational facilities provided at primary level by The Revel C of E Primary School in Monks Kirby/Brinklow. Senior schools in Rugby (including Grammar Schools Lawrence Sheriff and Rugby High), Leamington Spa, Lutterworth and Coventry. Independent education can be found at Rugby School (co-ed), Princethorpe (co-ed), Warwick (boys), Kings High (girls), King Henry VIII (co-ed), Bablake (co-ed), Bilton Grange (co-ed Preparatory, part of Rugby school foundation) The Crescent ( co-ed Prep, part of Princethorpe foundation) and Kingsley School (girls).

Lutterworth has a full range of super markets, local bank, swimming pool/gym and a large range of small shops. Rugby town has The Clock Towers shopping precinct and Elliots Field Retail Park, both offering an extensive range of facilities.

Comprehensive communication links with access to the M6, M1, M69 and the M40, giving access to London, Birmingham, Nottingham, Derby and Oxford. Mainline train services run from Rugby to London Euston (from 50 minutes) and Birmingham (from 31 minutes). Leamington Spa to London Marylebone (from 81 minutes). Airports, Birmingham 17 miles and East Midlands 26 miles.

Sporting and recreational facilities in the area include golf at Lutterworth Golf Club, Rugby Golf Club, Coventry Golf club, Forest of Arden (Meriden), fishing and sailing at Draycote Reservoir; racing at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. Tennis in Lutterworth, Rugby and Coventry.

More extensive retail, cultural and recreational facilities can be found in Leicester, Rugby, Leamington Spa, Coventry or further afield in Solihull or Birmingham.

All distances and times are approximate.

Square Footage: 5,428 sq ft




Acreage: 1.94 Acres


Additional Info

Council Tax Band - G

Marketed by: Savills, Banbury