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T r oy EWELME • OXFORDSHIRE Troy EwElmE • oxfordshirE Ewelme 1.5 miles, Wallingford 3 miles, Henley-on-Thames 9 miles, Didcot station 10 miles (trains to London Paddington from 45 mins) Oxford 16 miles, Heathrow airport 34 miles. (all distances and times are approximate). A Grade II Regency Manor House - Literary gem in the Chilterns — Lot 1: House and Gardens — Main house: Porch, drawing room, sitting room / snug, dining room, kitchen, butler’s station, study, office, gym, back hall / utility, 2 cloakrooms, theatre/games room, 4 room cellar. Master Bedroom suite with dressing room, 8 further bedrooms, 3 further bathrooms, cloakroom and attic room. Staff accommodation comprising: kitchen, bed / sitting room and bathroom. Summer house, pool house, pool, tennis court, garage, theatre, kitchen garden, orchard, stable/indoor pool house, paddocks, outdoor theatre/stable block. Lot 1 – About 12.9 acres — Lot 2: Paddocks and woodland strips — Lot 2 – About 33.2 acres — Lot 3: Farm buildings — Currently Let on Commercial tenancies and comprising:- 1 breeze block and wood-clad building comprising storage space, kitchenette and yard. 1 traditional Oxfordshire barn with extensions comprising storage space, ground and mezzanine office area, kitchenette and 2 cloakrooms. 3 further buildings comprising cloakroom, storage and workshop space. c.18,000 sq ft in total. Lot 3 – About 1.2 acres In all about 46.97 acres savills.co.uk KnightFrank.co.uk Savills London Country Department Savills Henley Knight Frank Henley Knight Frank Country Department 33 Margaret Street 58-60 Bell Street 20 Thameside 55 Baker Street London W1G 0JD Henley-on-Thames RG9 2BN Henley-on-Thames, RG9 2LJ London, W1U 8AN Tel: 020 7016 3780 Tel: 01491 843 010 Tel: 01491 844 900 Tel: 020 7861 1078 Contact: Ed Sugden Contact: Stephen Christie-Miller Contact: Matthew Mannall Contact: Rupert Sweeting [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] These particulars are only as a guide and must not be relied on as a statement of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of text. Situation Troy is situated in the middle of farmland south of the pretty village of Ewelme, in the Chiltern Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in South Oxfordshire. The village rises up to the fine Church of England parish church of Saint Mary where Thomas Chaucer, Alice de la Pole and Jerome K Jerome are buried. It is also home to the oldest continually operating primary school in the country, opened in 1440. Henley on Thames is 9 miles away and provides extensive amenities and leisure pursuits. Less than 3 miles west is the attractive market town of Wallingford, on the banks of the River Thames, convenient for local independent shops, restaurants, cafes and a large Waitrose. Troy’s stunningly rural location, reached via hedgerow flanked lanes belies its proximity to major transport links: junction 6 on the M40 is less than 10 miles away and trains from Didcot Parkway (10 miles) take 45 mins to London Paddington. Reading (13 miles away) will provide direct connections to London’s Crossrail once it is completed. Ewelme has access to high speed broadband, one of the first rural parishes in Oxfordshire to benefit. London is just 45 miles distant. Troy is ideally situated for some of the best schools in the country; Independent schools in the immediate area include all those in History current owners to stage charity performances. If walls could Oxford (16 miles away), Moulsford Prep School, Cranford House, This striking Regency Farmhouse is thought to date from 1827 and talk the house would be filled with the gossip of Edwardian The Oratory Prep and Public School, Downe House, Radley is sited on the original grounds of a monastery as an ancient yew tree house parties; literary greats such as H.G. Wells, W.W. Jacobs College, Abingdon School and the European School in Abingdon, testifies. Originally named Troy, the house was at one time renamed and Arthur Conan Doyle were amongst the circle who visited Wycombe Abbey for Girls in High Wycombe, Pangbourne College, Gould’s Grove before being returned to Troy. Its most famous resident and spent time in the summer houses writing. Whilst he only Bradfield College, Wellington College and Eton College. was Jerome K Jerome, best known as author of ‘Three Men in a Boat’, lived there for a short period of time, the area obviously left a Leisure facilities are within easy reach, including racing at who humbly described Troy in his autobiography as “an old farmhouse lasting impression: Jerome is buried at Ewelme churchyard, Newbury, rowing at Henley Royal Regatta, beautiful walking and on the hill above Wallingford”. Reported to have lived there with his testament to his fondness for Troy and Ewelme. The house riding on the many bridleways and footpaths near the property as family from 1895 to 1908 he most definitely put his mark on the has more recently been owned by two generations of the same well as in and around the Icknield Way and the Chiltern Hills. house, building two theatres which have frequently been used by the family since 1960. LOT 1: HOUSE AND GARDENS. Description Troy is a Grade II Listed Regency Farmhouse of traditionally symmetrical Georgian construction with a handsome facade of blue glazed bricks from a local kiln with red brick reveal. The front of the house shows four Georgian windows with a central venetian arched window, domed roof porch and venetian entrance door. Around 1926 the house was adjoined to the next door cottages and barns to create a west wing and courtyard. The house is hidden from view of the road where grand iron gates in pyramid mounted gate posts mark the entrance. A gravel drive, flanked by pretty and mature crab apple and walnut trees, sweeps around to the right arriving at a gravel forecourt in front of the house. Accommodation The house is the perfect combination of grand entertaining spaces and less formal family accommodation. Arranged over 3 floors, with the ground floor divided from the upper ground level in the main house to a lower ground level in the west wing, the house feels light and capacious throughout a tempting maze of rooms and hallways. One is immediately struck by the high ceilings, large windows, elegant panelling and parquet flooring throughout most of the rooms; evocative of the romantic early twentieth century when this house was lavishly restored. Upper ground floor The main entrance through the venetian door porch, with domed sky light and stone floor, leads through a second door into the pale green panelled entrance hall. One is offered a view along the full extension of the parquet floor hall to french windows and beautifully landscaped vistas along lawn avenues. The first room to the left of the entrance is an elegant Sitting Room with plaster panelling and a wood surround, marble inset open fire. Across the hall is a Cloakroom with parquet floor, wood panelling, a wood surround marble vanity unit and a door concealed within the panelling to a water closet. Continuing along the hall past the wooden staircase one arrives at a glorious dining room with light wood panelling, parquet floor, marble surround open fireplace and french windows to those stunning views. Full height double doors lead through to a an equally elegant panelled drawing room with fitted bookshelves, marble inset fireplace with club fender, french windows to terrace and ornate iron screen doors to the hall. Opposite the Dining Room is a Butler’s Station open to the hallway, yet hidden from view of the entrance. Lower Ground floor Steps lead down from the main house into a second entrance hall in the west extension of the house. Directly ahead is a Kitchen with a wonderful conservatory front creating a bright informal dining area with views of a beautiful terrace garden. The kitchen comprises a white 4 door oil-fired aga and bespoke painted wood cabinets. The entrance hall leads to a Butler’s Pantry with sink and fitted glass cabinets, a Cloakroom and steps down to a capacious Cellar with quarry tile floor comprising 4 rooms all with windows. The front cellar room has a woodburning stove and parquet floor, possibly used as servants accommodation at some time. A side door from the kitchen continues through the west extension, arriving first at aStudy with leaded light windows, french windows to the garden and a woodburning stove in an open fireplace with a bread oven. A Larder with Welsh slate leads from the Study. A further door leads from here to a quarry tiled Back hall and Utility Room with sink area, Cloakroom and back door to a courtyard. Continuing through the utility is a further Office with French windows to the garden and door to a third room currently used as a Gym. The continuing ground floor accommodation in the west wing is First floor Light coloured wood panelling leads down secondary stairs to a separate, accessed by a door from the courtyard. This door leads The main wooden staircase with iron balustrades leads to the first hallway with leaded windows, a remarkable 30m panelled passageway into Staff Accommodation comprising kitchen, bathroom, back floor landing, continuing the plaster panelling and parquet floors. leading to 6 further Bedrooms, one of which is en suite, and hall and sitting room. Stairs lead from here up to a stunning 10m This floor within the main house comprises aMaster Bedroom 2 Family Bathrooms, one of which has link doors to two of the wood panelled playroom with parquet floor and large brick-faced with Dressing Room through to an Ensuite Bathroom with a bedrooms.