THE RUSHES SPRIGGS ALLEY • OXFORDSHIRE

THE RUSHES

SPRIGGS ALLEY • OXFORDSHIRE

Chinnor Village 2.5 miles • Thame 6.2 miles • Princes Risborough 6.5 miles (mainline train to London Marylebone from 41 minutes) • M40 (J5) 5 miles High Wycombe 9.5 miles (mainline train to London Marylebone from 28 minutes) Oxford 21 miles • London(Baker Street) 41 miles (All distances and times are approximate) Beautifully located Chilterns country house set in lovely grounds with separate annexe, cottage and leisure facilities.

The House Reception hall • Kitchen • Family room • Dining room • Drawing room • Study • Garden room • Cloakroom Rear hall • Shower room • Second kitchen • Utility/boot room Principal bedroom with en suite bath/shower room (Jack and Jill to bedroom 6) Two guest bedrooms with en suite bathrooms • 6 further bedrooms • Bedroom 6 with a separate dressing room 3 further bathrooms The Annexe and Outbuildings Annexe comprising – Hall • Kitchen • Large reception room • Bathroom • 2 bedrooms Garage with loft storage above • Open store Triple car port • Tack room • 2 stables • Detached oak framed double garage The Cottage Kitchen • Living room • 2 bedrooms • Bathroom • Separate store room The Grounds Two electric, gated driveway entrances • Beautiful secluded mature gardens Swimming pool • Tennis court • Manège • Paddocks Approximately 8 acres in all (approximately 3.25 hectares)

Savills Beaconsfield Savills Country Department 10-12 The Broadway 33 Margaret Street Wycombe End, Beaconsfield Old Town London HP9 1ND W1G 0JD Chris Moorhouse Hugh Maconochie 01494731955 0207 0163 713 [email protected] [email protected] SITUATION In an elevated position approached via winding country lanes yet within easy reach of the M40 with access to Oxford, High Wycombe and London. Rushes is situated in an idyllic setting in Spriggs Alley. The house is surrounded by pretty rolling countryside, a designated area of outstanding beauty.

LEISURE The Chiltern Hills stretch from the River Thames in Oxfordshire to Hitchin in Hertfordshire and are nationally- protected as some of the finest countryside in the UK. Encompassing bluebell woods, rolling hills and ancient woodland, the area is well-known for wonderful walks, pretty villages and country public houses. There are also opportunities for fine dining at The Sir Charles Napier which is within walking distance from the house, being situated approximately 300 yards away, just on the outside of the hamlet, Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton (about 13 miles distant) and at Marlow, Old Amersham and Bray, the latter renowned for Blumenthal’s The Hinds Head and The Fat Duck and Roux’s The Waterside Inn restaurants.

Golf at: Princes Risborough, The Oxfordshire, Hazlemere, Aylesbury and Beaconsfield. Tennis at: Chinnor, Thame and Princes Risborough. Rugby: Chinnor and Thame. Cricket: Aston Rowant and Bledlow. Horse racing: Windsor and Ascot. Rowing and boating: Marlow, Maidenhead and Henley.

SCHOOLS Oxfordshire is renowned for its choice and standard of schooling in the independent and state sector. The area is one of the few to maintain grammar schools and these include Wycombe High School (girls) and The Royal Grammar School (boys). Independent schools in the area include Wycombe Abbey, High March, Abingdon School, Moulsford, Davenies and Rupert House, Headington School, The Dragon, Radley, St Edwards and Ashfold School. DESCRIPTION A highly attractive Chilterns country house of brick and flint and rendered elevations with a superb range of outbuildings, leisure facilities and guest accommodation all set in stunning secluded grounds.

The property is approached via a choice of long gravel driveways. The main driveway leads past the sunken hard tennis court, manège, a paddock, and park like grounds with mature trees including a Redwood, grand old Oak, Willow and Yew and arrives at the front of the house at a gravel courtyard with an attractive range of outbuildings.

The house is presented in fine order and offers an abundance of character and space with scope to adapt to an individual’s requirements.

Of particular note:

• Elegant drawing room with good ceiling heights with stone open fireplace and French doors to the side terrace.

• Part open plan kitchen, family room and dining room centred around the Aga and open fireplace with a beautifully fitted kitchen with a host of integrated appliances and granite work surfaces. This creates a wonderful family space in the heart of the house.

• Peaceful study with views over the frontage with an array of book shelving and open fireplace with carved wood surround and logburner.

• Impressive garden room flooded with natural light from a central roof lantern and views and doors to the well maintained gardens.

• Large secondary fully fitted kitchen with granite work surfaces and room for a breakfast table.

• Large utility/boot room with cloakroom and ground floor shower room perfect for post muddy walks etc.

• Two staircases to the first floor with interconnecting bedroom to both landing areas, offering flexibility to use as two separate sleeping areas or one.

• Principal bedroom with fitted wardrobes and en suite bath/shower room currently shared with a secondary bedroom.

• Guest bedroom with claw foot bath and night cloakroom.

• Further guest suite with en suite bathroom.

• All the bedrooms have lovely views over the gardens and grounds and the majority have fitted wardrobes with one bedroom having a walk in dressing room.

• 9 beds, 6 baths. OUTSIDE and wild flowers. In addition there are mature trees, clipped Two sweeping driveways approach the house onto the hedgerows, shaped hornbeam hedge and ornamental central courtyard which provides a large parking and features. The outdoor swimming pool lies behind the main turning area. Here there is a recently constructed oak house and annexe and is of an excellent size with a paved framed double garage, two stables and a tack room with a terrace, lawn area and shrub borders. To one side of the yard, small paddock and manège to the rear. An open car house is an attractive pond with mature trees and plants port provides parking for 3 cars and there is a further single including Eucalyptus, Willows and a large expanse of lawn, garage/machinery store. Adjacent to this is a large brick and this is a peaceful spot to sit and enjoy the gardens and two flint annexe building comfortably equipped with a large fenced paddocks bordered by woodland beyond. Within the reception room with wood floor and stone fireplace with log grounds is a timber outbuilding which has been converted burner, a modern kitchen area and on the first floor, a large to a cottage with kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and a studio/double bedroom, a single bedroom and a bathroom. bathroom. Behind this is an external store. The all-weather tennis court is discreetly sunken to one side of the grounds. The mature gardens which surround the house and outbuildings are a particularly fine feature and have been The grounds approach 8 acres in all and help to create a beautifully landscaped over many years to provide year- perfect lifestyle and leisure residence ideal for enjoying as round interest and a setting to admire. Front and rear paved a family and entertaining friends in a superb semi-rural terraces are ideal for al fresco dining and relaxation and the secluded setting. appealing garden design includes the well-maintained lawns, with colourful and well-stocked borders with mature shrubs

Approximate Floor Area = 495.7 sq m / 5336 sq ft Cottage = 64.1 sq m / 690 sq ft (Including Store) Annexe = 135.8 sq m / 1462 sq ft (Including Attached Garage / Excluding Carport / Excluding Reduced height area) Stable / Tack Room = 47.0 sq m / 506 sq ft Garage = 48.9 sq m / 526 sq ft Total = 833.8 sq m / 8975 sq ft Bedroom 4 For identification only. Not to scale. 4.85 x 3.68 15'11 x 12'1 T T © Fourwalls Bedroom 8 Bedroom 7 3.71 x 2.85 3.65 x 3.19 12'2 x 9'4 12'0 x 10'6 Dn Dn

Bedroom 5 Dressing 4.90 x 3.97 Room 16'1 x 13'0

Bedroom 2 5.38 x 4.20 17'8 x 13'9 Bedroom 9 3.00 x 2.20 Bedroom 3 9'10 x 7'3 Bedroom 6 5.02 x 3.47 4.68 x 3.76 Main Bedroom 16'6 x 11'5 15'4 x 12'4 4.92 x 3.98 16'2 x 13'1 First Floor

= Reduced head height below 1.5m

B B Utility / Boot Room 4.85 x 3.67 15'11 x 12'0 Cloakroom Kitchen 2 7.63 x 3.63 25'0 x 11'11

Family Room 6.19 x 3.70 Garden Room Kitchen 20'4 x 12'1 6.81 x 4.56 6.19 x 3.70 22'4 x 15'0 20'4 x 12'1 Study 4.26 x 4.21 Second Hall Drawing Room 14'0 x 13'10 Up 8.17 x 4.88 Up 26'10 x 16'0

Dining Room Reception 7.53 x 3.44 Hall 24'8 x 11'3 Ground Floor IN

Drawn for illustration and identification purposes only by fourwalls-group.com 266353 Approximate Floor Area = 495.7 sq m / 5336 sq ft Cottage = 64.1 sq m / 690 sq ft (Including Store) The Barn = 135.8 sq m / 1462 sq ft (Including Attached Garage / Excluding Carport / Excluding Reduced height area) Stable / Tack Room = 47.0 sq m / 506 sq ft Garage = 48.9 sq m / 526 sq ft Total = 833.8 sq m / 8975 sq ft For identification only. Not to scale.

© Fourwalls Studio / Bedroom 6.34 x 5.93 20'10 x 19'5 = Reduced head height below 1.5m

Dn Bedroom 2 3.01 x 1.93 9'11 x 6'4 Garage 7.25 x 6.75 23'9 x 22'2 Open Store T 7.00 x 5.50 Loft Storage 23'0 x 18'1 5.90 x 2.97 19'4 x 9'9

The Barn (Not Shown In Actual (Not Shown In Actual Location / Orientation) Location / Orientation) First Floor

Carport Tack 9.00 x 3.20 Room Separate Store Room 29'6 x 10'6 5.58 x 2.75 18'4 x 9'0

Kitchen / Stable Reception Room 5.30 x 3.60 9.56 x 5.87 Bedroom 2 B 17'5 x 11'10 31'4 x 19'3 3.00 x 2.65 9'10 x 8'8

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Bedroom 1 Pool Plant Room Stable Kitchen 2.95 x 2.56 Hall 4.75 x 2.33 5.04 x 3.60 9'8 x 8'5 15'7 x 7'8 16'6 x 11'10 B

(Not Shown In Actual Garage Location / Orientation) Living Room 5.94 x 2.96 5.40 x 2.83 19'6 x 9'9 17'9 x 9'3

Cottage The Barn (Not Shown In Actual Ground Floor Location / Orientation) (Not Shown In Actual Location / Orientation) Drawn for illustration and identification purposes only by fourwalls-group.com 266353 GENERAL REMARKS AND STIPULATIONS DIRECTIONS (OX39 4BT) From London exit the M40 at junction 6 and turn right along the B4009 towards Chinnor. Follow this road for about 3.5 miles and on entering the village of Chinnor, turn right at the roundabout follow the road straight across a second roundabout and up Hill Road and then Chinnor Hill Road keeping right towards Spriggs Alley, Crowell Hill and Radnage. After 1.4 miles you will reach Crowell Hill where the road bears sharply left, continue for 0.2 miles to the first entrance of The Rushes which is on the left. There is a THE RUSHES second entrance a further 0.3 miles on.

TENURE Freehold.

SERVICES Mains water, electricity, oil and private drainage.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGS Those items mentioned in these sale particulars are included in the freehold sale. All other fixtures, fittings and furnishings are expressly excluded. Certain such items may be available by separate negotiation. Further information should be obtained from the selling agents.

VIEWING By appointment with Savills. Prior to making an appointment to view, Savills strongly recommends that you discuss any particular points which are likely to affect your interest in the property with a member of Savills’ staff who has seen the property in order that you do not make a

Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of wasted journey. the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)

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