5 bedroom house

Arlescote, Banbury, Warwickshire, OX17 1DQ

Guide Price

£1,250,000

  • Status: FOR SALE SOLD UNDER OFFER
  • First Marketed: Apr 2021
  • Removed: Apr 2021
  • 4.01 acres
  • 5 beds

Residential Tags: Farmhouse

Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian

Land Tags: Paddock, Pasture Land

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  • First Marketed: Apr 2021
  • Removed: Apr 2021
  • Residential Tags: Farmhouse
  • Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian
  • Land Tags: Paddock, Pasture Land
An attractive residential farmhouse in the village of Arlescote near Banbury on the Warwickshire / Oxfordshire border


Description

SITUATION
Home Farm is located at the heart of the village of Arlescote near Banbury. Situated on the Oxfordshire Warwickshire border, Arlescote lies on the north eastern edge of the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Nearby Banbury provides an extensive range of amenities and services including supermarkets, cinema, shopping centres and hospital. Further afield, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Leamington Spa and Oxford provide similar services and amenities, along with more cultural offerings. Soho Farmhouse is about 17 miles away.

Popular pubs in the area include The Castle at Edgehill, The Rose & Crown at Ratley and the Plough at Warmington.

The area offers a good range of state schooling including Hornton Primary School and Kineton High School together with a wide selection of noted independent schools including St John’s Priory, Sibford, Carrdus, Tudor Hall, Bloxham, The Croft and Warwick.

The village enjoys good road connections, situated about 5.6 miles from Junction 12 of the M40 at Gaydon and 8.8 miles from Junction 11 of the M40 at Banbury. Banbury has a mainline railway station with regular trains to London Marylebone (from 51 minutes) and Birmingham.

DESCRIPTION
Home Farm is an attractive five bedroom property, fully renovated to a high standard in 2006, with an annex (home office and gym), garaging, stabling, farm buildings and pasture extending to about 4.01 acres (1.62 hectares). The house offers excellent family living space and enjoys views over the attractive conservation area village.

The house has a wealth of interesting features and is understood to have been the site of a farm since the Domesday Book of 1086. Exposed beams and stonework add character and heritage charm to the house, together with original stone mullion windows and flagstone floors in many rooms. Oak flooring throughout much of the house with original elm floor boards in one of the bedrooms.

The house is accessed by a drive from either side of the farmhouse through electric gates.

The farmhouse comprises:
Ground floor:
Double aspect kitchen / breakfast room with 2-oven Aga and original bread oven, Miele dishwasher, coffee machine and microwave combi;
Games room with former salting trough;
Double aspect snug with window seat and log burner set within a fireplace that features a salt cupboard;
Triple aspect dining room and sitting room centred around a 16th century fireplace;
A utility room with bar cupboard and separate shower room / WC;
Outside the kitchen door is a bespoke cantilever canopy with lighting, heating and speakers.
First floor:
Double aspect master bedroom with en suite bathroom and dressing room;
Three double bedrooms (one with en suite bathroom) and a family bathroom.
Bathrooms all have Amtico floors.
Second floor:
Double bedroom / study, sitting room and WC.

Annex and Garage
There is an annex and garage to the rear and side of the farmhouse. Of ironstone and slate construction, the building contains a three bay garage, workshop and WC on the ground floor and independent access to the annex above. The annex is used as a home office and gym, and comprises an open plan work area with kitchenette, two store rooms and a shower room with WC.

Farm Buildings
To the rear of the house are a number of farm buildings:
Stables: There is an L-shaped range of timber stables comprising 4 loose boxes and a tackroom.
Farm Building: A three bay steel portal framed farm building with a fibre cement roof, stoned floor, roller shutter door and open sides (with wind breakers) currently used as a general farm building and lambing shed.
Traditional Barn: A traditional farm building of ironstone construction with a corrugated steel roof and a concrete floor, with a timber framed lean-to poultry house on one side and two further loose boxes on another.
The temporary steel buildings are available by separate negotiation.

Subject to securing the necessary planning permissions and further works, these farm buildings lend themselves to alternative uses.

Land
Lot 1 extends to about 4.01 acres (1.62 hectares) in total and is currently split between the following uses:
• House, buildings and miscellaneous areas: 2.14 acres (0.86 hectares)
• Pasture: 1.87 acres (0.76 hectares)
The land slopes southwards away from the farmhouse and buildings up Edge Hill to the B4086 (Camp Lane) off which there is no access. The land is split into a number of paddocks,
fenced for livestock with water troughs.

Home Farm (Lot 1) forms part of a larger farm being offered for sale. In total, Home Farm extends to about 115.26 acres (46.64 hectares) and is offered for sale as a whole or in 3 lots.

Please get in touch for a copy of the sales brochure.

Square Footage: 3,606 sq ft




Acreage: 4.01 Acres

Marketed by: Savills Rural Sales, Botley

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