Showsley Grounds Showsley, NN12 7RN

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Features • Entrance lobby and large reception hall • Five further bedrooms and first floor sitting room A substantial and well-presented • Three reception rooms and study • Four further shower/bathrooms (two en suite) Victorian former farmhouse set in open • Sizeable kitchen/breakfast room with garden lobby off • Outbuildings including garage, stable, stores and loft • Pantry and laundry room rooms countryside and with a very accessible • Rear hall and cloakroom • Charming garden including orchard, childrens’ tree house, parterre and swimming pool position. • Wine cellar • Principal bedroom with fully fitted dressing room and In all about 0.95 of an acre (0.38 ha) bath/shower room Introduction Showsley Grounds dates from about 1856 and was built as a farmhouse on the Estate. It stands on the site of a 12th century Cistercian Priory and some of the stone in the house may have come from the ruins. The construction of the house is of local limestone with a Welsh slated roof. Showsley Grounds was extended in the latter part of the 20th century in a matching style and the property now offers very spacious, comfortable and well-appointed family accommodation over two floors. The house has a beautiful garden lying to its south and east over which the majority of the rooms have views. There are far reaching views beyond the garden over open farmland to distant woods. Showsley Grounds has a good range of outbuildings on its west side. The house has an unclassified country lane to its north side off which the house is accessed to a parking and turning area in front of the house. There are further traditional buildings to the west of Showsley Grounds, which are in other ownership. They are currently in the course of conversion into a sizeable detached house and shoot room for the surrounding Showsley Estate. The Property The house is entered from the front door to an entrance lobby with steps then leading down into the large reception hall, which has southerly views over, and a part glazed door to, the garden. The drawing room is both elegant and intimate with a south facing bay window, with window seat, overlooking the garden, an open fireplace with a marble mantelpiece and purpose made glazed book or display cases with cupboards under. Adjacent to the drawing room is the east facing dining room, which also has an open fireplace with a carved and painted mantelpiece and a Jetmaster grate. The kitchen/breakfast room, almost 33 feet long, has kitchen units, including a large dresser in antique pine, and a central island unit with some of the units having granite worktops. The flooring is in limestone. The room faces west and north with glazed double doors opening on the east side to the garden lobby, which in turn has glazed double doors to the garden on the east side of the house. The kitchen has a four-oven Aga cooker, concealed fridge, electric oven and inset sinks. Off the kitchen is a useful north facing pantry with fitted kitchen cupboards and shelving. A green baize door from the hall opens to a passage which leads to a south and east facing study, with built in bookcases and cupboards, and to the sitting room with French doors on its south side leading to the garden. There is a back hall with storage cupboards, a back door to the drive and a door to a cloakroom with WC. The laundry room has painted cupboards with granite worktops, a double butler’s sink and the back staircase rising to the first floor. On the first floor, a broad landing from the head of the principal staircase leads to the principal bedroom, which is of similar dimensions to the drawing room below. This room has a bay window overlooking the garden to the south. A door opens to a dressing room with fitted floor to ceiling wardrobes and this in turn leads to an en suite bath/shower room. There are two guest bedroom suites, both with en suite bathrooms, three further bedrooms, a small sitting room or seventh bedroom, a fourth bathroom and a separate shower room. Outside The property is approached on its north side from a lane that leads from the A43 by to , which is relatively little used except by horse riders and walkers. There is a parking and turning area within a courtyard enclosed by the house and the outbuildings.

Outbuildings comprise a generously sized garage and an attached store room with a further two-storey range providing a second store room, WC, shower room and a stable. At first floor level and reached by a staircase are two loft rooms. The garden wraps around the house on its east and south side with a large lawn flanked by mature trees, herbaceous borders, a large south facing paved terrace, an orchard with childrens’ tree house and a box hedged parterre. There is a heated swimming pool, with an air source heat pump, at the western most extremity of the garden and sheltered in an angle of the adjacent outbuildings. The pool is overlooked by a south facing timber summerhouse. The Location Showsley lies about two miles to the north east of , a small former market town in the south west corner of Northamptonshire at the junction of the A5 (Watling Street) and the A43 ( to Oxford road). The town offers a number of supermarkets, including Waitrose, restaurants, local shops and health and leisure centres as well as primary and secondary schooling. The town is well placed for access to the M1 and M40 as well as to the local towns of Northampton and Milton Keynes. The latter town offers excellent shopping facilities as well as a theatre and other leisure facilities, it also has a main line station with regular trains (30 minutes approx.) to (Euston) and the north-west. There are excellent private schools within reasonable driving distance including Winchester House, Swanbourne House, Spratton Hall, Beachborough, Akeley Wood and Maidwell Hall at preparatory level and public schools, including Stowe, Radley, Tudor Hall, Rugby, Oundle, Uppingham and Oakham.

• Towcester 2 miles • Northampton 9 miles • Milton Keynes 13 miles (London Euston 30 minutes) • London 65 miles (Distances/time approximate) Directions From Northampton and Junction 15a of the M1 motorway take Outgoings: Council Tax Band ‘H’ the A43 dual carriageway south in the direction of Towcester and Tenure: Freehold Oxford. Continue about four miles passing the turns to to the left and Tiffield to the right and as the road dips take the left Viewings: Strictly by appointment only with the sole selling agents turn signed to Showsley. Continue on this single track lane for Jackson-Stops & Staff, 20 Bridge Street, Northampton NN1 1NR two-thirds of a mile and Showsley Grounds will be found on the Tel: 01604 632 991 Email: [email protected] right just beyond a range of traditional stone buildings. Jackson-Stops & Staff, 1 Market Place, Woburn, MK17 9PZ From Milton Keynes and the south, take the A5 north towards Tel: 01525 290 641 Email: [email protected] Towcester. Pass the villages of Potterspury and Paulerspury and just over the brow of a hill turn right signed to Shutlanger and June 2015 . On reaching Shutlanger, turn left just before the pub and follow this lane out of the village. Showsley Grounds will Energy Efficiency Rating be found on the left after about a mile. Property Information Services: Metered mains water and electricity are connected. There 69 is a private drainage system. Two oil fired boilers provide central 40 heating, underfloor in the kitchen, and the hot water. There is an intruder alarm and smoke detection system. The house has CAT 5 cabling and a Sonos sound system though much of the ground floor. Important Notice Jackson-Stops & Staff, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They have no authority to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied Local Authority: Council upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are Tel: 01327 322 322 approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulations or other consents and Jackson-Stops & Staff have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Approx. Gross Internal Area: 5603 sq ft 520.5 sq metres (excludes outbuildings)

Measured in accordance with RICS guidelines. Every attempt is made to ensure accuracy, however all measurements are approximate. This floor plan is for illustrative purposes only and is not to scale.

Stable 15' (4.57) max x 15' (4.57) min

Garage 16'2 (4.93) Store Store x 15' (4.57) 17'7 (5.36) Up 10'2 (3.10) x 17'5 (5.31) max x 10' (3.05)

Pantry Bedroom 2 12'7 (3.84) 16'2 (4.93) max x 10'7 (3.23) x 13'11 (4.24) into bay Outbuilding 2 Store Store Down Cellar 16'2 (4.93) 15'11 (4.55) 19'11 (3.07) max x 15'2 (4.62) x 15' (4.57) x 18'8 (5.69) max Up Kitchen / Breakfast Room 32'9 (9.98) max Garden x 19' (5.79) max Lobby Outbuilding 1 Outbuilding 1 Ground Floor First Floor Lower Ground Floor

Down

Down Bedroom 3 Up 13' (3.96) Bedroom 5 Dining Room Sitting Room x 12'1 (3.68) Laundry Room Hall 11'10 (3.61) Dressing 18'2 (5.54) 12'1 (3.68) 12'9 (3.84) 24'10 (7.56) max x 11'1 (3.38) Room Rear x 14'8 (4.47) x 9'9 (2.97) Hall x 9'9 (2.97) x 21'6 (6.55) max Down Up

Study Drawing Room Bedroom 1 12'6 (3.81) Sitting Room 20'8 (6.30) into bay 20'6 (6.25) into bay x 11'7 (3.53) 14'11 (4.55) x 14'11 (4.55) Bedroom 4 x 15'5 (4.70) max x 13'11 (4.24) into bay Bedroom 6 10'10 (3.30) 15'4 (4.67) max x 8'2 (2.49) x 14'2 (4.32) max

Ground Floor First Floor This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES100033380). Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES100033380). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE. guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.

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