The Old Vicarage Lower Swell, Gloucestershire the Old Vicarage Lower Swell, Gloucestershire

THE OLD VICARAGE LOWER SWELL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE THE OLD VICARAGE LOWER SWELL, GLOUCESTERSHIRE A FINE GRADE II LISTED FIVE BEDROOM COUNTRY VICARAGE WITH GRACIOUS AND WELL PROPORTIONED ACCOMMODATION AND A DETACHED CART HOUSE, SET IN JUST UNDER 8 ACRES OF DELIGHTFUL GARDENS AND PADDOCKS AND QUIETLY SITUATED ON THE EDGE OF THIS ATTRACTIVE COTSWOLD VILLAGE Ground Floor: Entrance Hall • Drawing Room • Sitting Room • Dining Room • Kitchen/Breakfast Room Cloakroom • Utility Room • Boot Room • Extensive Cellars First Floor: Galleried Landing • Master Bedroom with En Suite Bathroom • Guest Bedroom with en suite Shower Room Three Further Bedrooms • Family Bathroom • Separate WC Cart House: Garage • Carport • Stable • Potting Shed • Workshop • Attic Store Outside: Driveway • Gravelled Courtyard • Gardens • Traditional Vegetable Garden • Tennis Court • Paddocks Stow-on-the-Wold 1.5 miles, Cheltenham 19 miles, Cirencester 21 miles Rail Stations to London Paddington: Moreton in Marsh 4 miles, Kingham 5 miles (approx 90 minutes) (All Distances approximate) The London Office: Stow-on-the-Wold office: 40 St James’s Place, Parklands House, Park Street, London, SW1A 1NS Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, GL54 1AQ T 0207 839 0888 T 01451 830731 E [email protected] E [email protected] www.tlo.co.uk www.butlersherborn.co.uk 2 THE OLD VICARAGE Three DESCRIPTION The Old Vicarage is a wonderful Cotswold stone family home with a timeless charm, set in an enviably quiet and pretty spot in this attractive and well located village. Built in the early years of the Victorian era in the Tudor Gothic style it boasts an impressive gabled porch with a Tudor arched entrance, stone mullions with sash windows and elegant reception rooms with high coved ceilings and working shutters. Presented in a calm and welcoming country house style, the property is ideally suited to both entertaining and family life. The appeal of this lovely home is enhanced by its idyllic setting within carefully planned and beautifully maintained mature gardens which abut the extensive paddocks. With sweeping lawns, generous herbaceous borders reminiscent of the designs of Gertrude Jekyll, a classical vegetable garden and a discreetly situated hard tennis court, there are many different areas of interest to beguile and pass the time of day. Having served as a much loved home since the present owners acquired it in 1984, the Old Vicarage now offers scope for a new owner to remodel and update the interior to their own specification. With scope to extend and an outbuilding ideal for conversion to ancillary accommodation (both subject to planning) it provides an outstanding opportunity to create an exceptional country residence. ACCOMMOdaTION Ground Floor Arched double entrance doors open into the gabled porch, with a Cotswold stone floor and part glazed arched double doors leading to the spacious hall. The elegant L shaped drawing room is south facing with windows overlooking the gardens, a decorative cornice and a fine carved marble fireplace. To the opposite side of the hall is a spacious and welcoming sitting room. With a marble fireplace, fitted bookshelves and windows to two aspects, it is particularly 4 THE OLD VICARAGE 5 light and sunny. The dining room is another elegant and pleasingly a deep china cupboard. Doors from the utility room lead back First Floor proportioned room with large sash windows, a fitted cupboard into the hall and to the boot room and back door. The cloakroom The stairs rise to a spacious galleried landing. The impressive and a connecting door to the kitchen/breakfast room. This room is situated to the rear of the hall, with a deep storage cupboard master bedroom is flooded with light, with windows overlooking also has high ceilings with a chimney recess with a high mantel adjacent. the gardens to the east and south. It has fitted wardrobes and a housing a two oven Aga. It is fitted with a range of dark oak units particularly spacious en suite bathroom with twin vanity basins with a laminate worktop and one and half bowl sink. Integrated A door beneath the main staircase opens to a stone flight of steps and a separate shower. There are three further bedrooms off the appliances include a double oven, ceramic hob, fridge and leading to the extensive cellars which have Cotswold stone floors main landing, one of which has an ensuite shower room with the dishwasher and there is ample space for a breakfast table. A door and include a wine store, boiler room and store room. access cleverly concealed within a range of fitted wardrobes. leads through to a generous utility room with fitted units, a sink, space and plumbing for laundry appliances, space for freezers and 6 THE OLD VICARAGE 7 Steps from the main landing rise to a quiet reading area with fitted bookshelves. A pretty double bedroom with a partly vaulted ceiling is to one side, with the family bathroom and a separate wc to the other. THE CART HOUSE Situated across the gravelled courtyard from the house, this pretty Cotswold stone outbuilding would have housed the Vicar’s horses and cart, their traditional mode of transport for travelling around the parish and county. It comprises a garage; stable with a ladder to the hayloft/storage attic above and two original stalls with cobbled floor and manger; potting shed with through access to the vegetable garden; a carport and a workshop with a Cotswold stone floor and corner manger. Subject to planning permission, this could be converted to create a charming guest cottage or staff accommodation and a home office. OUTSIDE The property is approached via iron gates and a gravel driveway, which sweeps up through the gardens, around to the front of the house and on to a gated courtyard parking area, with access to the boot room, the cart house and the paddocks. 8 THE OLD VICARAGE 9 The gardens are enclosed by stone walls, mature trees, hedging and shrubs. A massive Tulip tree stands sentinel in front of the house, with sweeping lawns to the front and side and mown paths winding through shrub and herbaceous beds to a pond and a small area of woodland. Stone steps lead up to a further area of lawn, partially enclosed by high stone walls, with clipped trees, a deep herbaceous bed and a sunny and sheltered dining terrace, with doors leading to both the courtyard and the vegetable garden. Screened by stone walls and mature hedging the vegetable garden is a tranquil haven with an avenue of fruit trees, a mature fig tree, herbaceous beds, fruit bushes, a cutting garden, two greenhouses and ample space for growing produce. A wrought iron gate and steps within the rear hedge lead to a secluded hard tennis court (in need of restoration), hidden from view and enclosed by further hedging, beyond which lie the two larger paddocks. There are three adjoining and interconnected paddocks, which can be accessed from a five bar gate adjacent to the courtyard via the smaller side paddock. A field gate from the road leads to a strip of mown vehicular access and the two large paddocks that lie beyond the tennis court. SITUATION & AMENITIES Lower Swell is a delightful North Cotswold village situated on the banks of the River Dikler within An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The village is surrounded by open countryside and benefits from a thriving primary school, parish Church and pub. The attractive market town of Stow-on-the-Wold is within walking distance nearby and provides local shopping facilities, including a supermarket and a wide range of shops, banks, boutiques, restaurants and pubs. More comprehensive facilities can be found at Cheltenham and Oxford. 10 THE OLD VICARAGE 11 The region has excellent links to the rest of the country via road and footpaths providing exceptional walking to neighbouring villages, LOCal AUTHORITY rail and is at the centre of an all-encompassing transport network. including the Heart of England Way and bridleway, accessed Cotswold District Council, Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL56 0AZ. Cheltenham, Birmingham and Oxford are within easy reach and within yards of The Old Vicarage. T 01285 623000 W cotswold.gov.uk London just 90 minutes away with regular main line services to Paddington at Moreton in Marsh and Kingham stations. SERVICES COUNCIL TAX Mains water, drainage and electricity. Oil fired central heating. There are a number of excellent educational facilities in the area Band G both in the public and private sector. The Cotswold School (Ofsted: Gigaclear broadband. No tests to the suitability of services have Outstanding), Chipping Camden School (Ofsted: Outstanding), been carried out and intending purchasers should commission VIEWINGS Kingham Hill School, Tudor Hall, Cheltenham College, Pate’s, St their own tests (if required). Hugh’s, to name but a few. Please telephone Elizabeth at Butler Sherborn, Stow on the Wold FIXTURES AND FITTINGS Office T 01993 822325 or The London Office T 0207 839 0888. Daylesford Organic Farm Shop & Spa is within 5 miles and numerous E [email protected] Only those items mentioned in these sales particulars are included award winning village pubs and restaurants are only a short drive in the sale. Garden statuary, including stone tubs and planters away. Theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon, Chipping Norton and and the fox sculpture, are specifically excluded. Other items are Oxford. National Hunt Racing at Cheltenham, Warwick and excluded but may be available by separate negotiation. Stratford-upon-Avon. Golf at Broadway, Burford, The Wychwoods and Naunton Downs. There is also an extensive network of 12 THE OLD VICARAGE Five DISClaIMER 1. These particulars, including any plan, are a general guide only and do not form any part of any offer or contract. All descriptions, including photographs, This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M.

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