7 bedroom house

• Carefully positioned window openings, exposed stonework and timberwork and carefully planned lighting enhance the accommodation.
• Approached from the reception hall, The tithe barn has been superbly converted, dominated by an exceptional, full height living space, lit by two full height former driftway windows, and beautifully fitted with a lovely kitchen dining area and family space,with flagstone and timber floors; further enhanced by the sitting room as one end , which can be closed off by a glazed screen or brought into the large living space as desired with its contemporary woodburner, flagstone floor and timber ceiling.
• The design brings out the fine traditional timberwork of the barn and its roof trusses
• Beyond this impressive room a concealed entrance behind the stone fireplace and chimney leads to a stair hall to ground floor bedroom 7 with en-suite shower room. The staircase rises to a Bedroom 6 above also en-suite with a door to a gallery overlooking the kitchen / family room
• A back hall glazed onto the courtyard leads to the cinema room with a spiral staircase to a mezzanine games room above and access to a large storage loft. Former garages have been converted to a large gym with cloakroom.
• The double storey glazed link connects the formerly detached tithe barn to the seventeenth century farmhouse, and also gives an additional access to the principal bedroom suite with vaulted Bedroom 1 with gallery, en-suite luxurious bathroom with free standing bath and walk in shower and a dressing room.
• Southfields Farm House incorporates fine traditional features with leaded light windows, some with window seats, period doors, stone fireplaces and inglenooks with flagstone hearths and timber lintel beams, two with wood burning stoves inset. Exposed ceiling beams and wall timbers.
• The ground floor accommodation is cosy, and works well as a contrast to the space in the barn, with a study, hall with staircase library / sitting room leading to a lounge and on to a bright garden room / home office with windows and double doors opening onto the vegetable garden courtyard. There is also a fitted utility / laundry room and larder store.
• First floor bedrooms have en-suite shower rooms and built in wardrobes . Bedroom 3 also has a dressing room. To the second floor are two further double bedrooms with a 6th bathroom.

Gardens & grounds

• The house has lovely mature gardens
• With electric gates from the lane an edged gravel tree lined driveway with post and rail fencing leads to the courtyard on the west side of the house, and branches off to the stable yard and to the yard to the side of the house with the dutch barn.
• The courtyard with further electric gates is part lawned with a gravelled parking and turning circle and box edged parterre beds
• The south facing partly walled garden is delightful, with espalier fruit trees, herbaceous, bulb and rose beds and borders. and flagstone patio. Mature apple trees, walnut and holly. stone garden store
• To the east side is a further flagstone patio and large lawn with lovely views, There is a running track round part of the land.
• 3 bay Dutch barn and lean-to (about 75ft x 30ft) with detailed planning consent for a swimming pool and leisure complex.
• There is an arboretum of 40 varieties of young trees and shrubs including hazel, birch, Norway spruce, oak, cherry, hornbeam, pine, field maple, redwood and cedar and the arboretum field also provides a wild flower hay meadow and moated island also planted with trees and shrubs, with a deck over the moat.
• Further grass paddocks and a stable yard with 4 stables with covered walkway in front, kitchenette and hay/ fodder store.

Southfield Farm is in an idyllic rural location outside the village of Ilmington, close to the Compton Scorpion and Foxcote Estate surrounded by traditional rolling Warwickshire countryside, close to the Gloucestershire border adjoining the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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