Thorpe Manor Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire Thorpe Manor Thorpe Mandeville, Northamptonshire A charming estate with a beautiful house in a wonderful setting. Brackley 8 miles ◆ Banbury 6 miles ◆ M40 (J11) 5 miles Towcester A43 16 miles ◆ Oxford 30 miles ◆ London 80 miles (Distances and times approximate) Accommodation and amenities Lot 1: Thorpe Manor Reception Hall ◆ Drawing room ◆ Morning room ◆ Study Dining room ◆ Kitchen and utility rooms ◆ Office ◆ Attics ◆ Cellars Master bedroom suite ◆ 7 further bedrooms 3 further bathrooms ◆ 3 bedroom integral staff flat Stable cottage with 3 bedrooms, 2 bed studio and 2 bed flat in stable courtyard Lovely gardens ◆ Stables ◆ Ancillary barns ◆ Parkland Paddocks and lakes ◆ 49.4 acres Lot 2: Magpie Farm Off-lying farmstead with 5 bedroom farmhouse and adjacent 4 bedroom cottage ◆ Stables ◆ Ancillary barns ◆ Paddocks and grassland ◆ 177 acres In all about 91.6 hectares (226.4 acres) For sale as a whole or in 2 lots Viewing by appointment only 020 7493 0676 020 7861 1373 127 Mount Street 55 Baker Street London W1K 3NT London W1U 8AN [email protected] [email protected] 01865 511444 01789 297735 Anchor House, 269 Banbury Road Bridgeway, Stratford-upon-Avon Oxford OX2 7LL Warwickshire CV37 6YY [email protected] [email protected] Situation Thorpe Manor is the principal house in the delightful hamlet of Thorpe Mandeville on the Northamptonshire/Oxfordshire borders, located approximately 6 miles to the east of Banbury in rolling countryside dotted with small villages. Banbury has an extensive range of shops suiting most requirements. Despite its wonderful rural location, the house is well located for communications, being within easy reach of the M40 (J11). Birmingham is about 45 miles while Birmingham International Airport is only about 45 minutes drive and provides an increasing national and international flight service. Banbury train station (about 6 miles) provides services directly into London Marylebone (approximately 50 mins as of May 2011). Milton Keynes train station (28.5 miles) provides trains directly into London Euston taking 35 minutes. There are excellent schools in the area including Winchester House, Carrdus School, Beachborough, Maidwell Hall, Stowe School, Tudor Hall and Bloxham. Sporting opportunities include golf at Cherwell Edge, Whittlebury and Tadmarton; racing at Stratford upon Avon, Warwick, Towcester and Cheltenham; hunting with the Bicester and Grafton hunts and polo at Kirtlington and Stoneleigh. The beautiful surrounding countryside provides excellent walks and rides. Thorpe Manor The Gardens and Grounds Thorpe Manor is situated behind a high, stone wall with Constructed of Horton stone under a slate roof, the house The principal garden comprises a series of terraced lawns double wooden gates with fine pillars and orb finials. comprises 5 main reception rooms and 8 main bedrooms. and has unusual circular, stone steps; a tennis lawn with To the front of the house is a large, gravelled parking area The hall is stoneflagged with two inner pillars leading off to herbaceous and shrub beds, rose beds and flagstone with lawns with further walling and wrought iron gates that the main reception rooms. The house is extremely well laid paths. There are mature evergreen and deciduous trees, lead to the principal gardens on the south and east sides out with a range of rooms that are ideal for entertaining, which give seclusion to the garden, and within it is a of the manor house. The house, believed to be the work of including the drawing room and dining room. There are summer house with shaped box shrubs. Close by is a Thomas Archer, was re-built in the 1770s and replaced many original features with fine open fireplaces, fine former Edwardian swimming pool screened by oak, laurel The Old Manor House which was damaged in the Civil War. plasterwork, wooden floors and cedar panelling in the and holly. The southern elevation is particularly fine, ornamented with drawing room. A broad staircase leads up to the landing classical pilasters, broken pediment and ornamental and main bedrooms with other wings giving ample embellishments with two fine magnolia bushes and a wide accommodation including an integral staff flat. flagstone terrace. Ground Floor APPROXIMATE GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA: Thorpe Manor: 1,551 sq m (16,695 sq ft) Stable Cottage: 120 sq m (1,292 sq ft) The Studio: 130 sq m (1,399 sq ft) The Flat: 60 sq m (646 sq ft) Cellar First Floor Thorpe Manor Second Floor The Stable Courtyard This has a particularly fine classical façade with a high archway and is approached by a separate entrance off the road. It is screened by shrubs. Within the stable courtyard are a 3 bedroom cottage, a further 2 bedroom cottage and a 2 bedroom flat. In addition there is a stableyard with 18 stables, tack room and feed room, together with a rug store. Stable Cottage The Flat Stable Flat First Floor Studio Stable Cottage The Studio Stable Cottage The Studio Ground Floor Ground Floor First Floor First Floor The Land and Lakes Beyond the gardens are three large parkland fields with traditional ridge and furrow having road frontage sloping down to a stream with a belt of mature woodland with pine, fir, spruce, beech, oak, ash and other trees. There is a large lake with islands that were possibly original medieval carp ponds. In all about 49.4 acres. Lot 2 Magpie Farm Extending to approximately 71.6 hectares (177 acres) and situated to the east of Thorpe Manor is Magpie Farm. It comprises an off-lying farmstead with two period dwellings and a range of ancillary stone barns. In addition to a 5 bedroom farmhouse there is a 4 bedroom cottage, stables and a fine courtyard of stone barns and farm buildings. The land is down to grass and the pastures drain to the lakes. Magpie Farm forms the southern boundary of the farm. In all about 177 acres. Magpie Farm APPROXIMATE GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA: 420 sq m (4,521 sq ft) Cellar Second Floor First Floor Magpie Farm Second Floor Magpie Cottage APPROXIMATE GROSS INTERNAL FLOOR AREA: 177 sq m (1,905 sq ft) Magpie Cottage Ground Floor First Floor General Remarks and Stipulations Property Name Council Tax Tenure/Rent Directions (OX17 2HR) From Junction 11 of the M40 take the A422 signed Brackley. Thorpe Manor G At the roundabout take the B4525 signed Northampton and after about 3 miles turn left signed Thorpe Mandeville Stable Cottage C Let under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy and Culworth. After a further half mile turn left into the village of Thorpe Mandeville by the Three Conies pub and Stable Flat B Occupied under a service occupancy Thorpe Manor will be found just past the church on the right hand side. The Studio C Occupied under a service occupancy Tenure and Possession The freehold of the Estate is being offered for sale subject Magpie Farmhouse F Let under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy to the various tenancies and various occupations, as set out in these particulars. Magpie Cottage G Let under an Assured Shorthold Tenancy Sporting Timber and Mineral Rights Buildings at Magpie Farm Occupied under a licence agreement The sporting, timber and mineral rights are included in so far as they are owned by the vendor. Land at Magpie Farm Occupied under a grazing licence Local Authorities Land to the south west of Magpie Farm Occupied under a licence agreement South Northamptonshire District Council: 01327 322322. Viewing Viewings are strictly by prior appointment through Carter and 71.00 Entitlements with the same 2009 value will be Planning and Designations Jonas or Knight Frank. transferred with Lot 2. The vendor will retain the full 2011 Thorpe Manor and buildings are Grade 2* listed. Thorpe Single Farm Payment claim with the purchaser being Manor Stables and Stone Walls, Gatepiers and Gateways Fixtures and Fittings required to maintain the land in GAEC condition to the end are Grade 2 listed. Magpie Farm is not listed. All those items known as tenants fixtures and fittings, of 2011. including the carpets, curtains, blinds, light fittings, fitted Wayleaves, Rights of Way and Easements mirrors, garden furniture and sculptures are expressly Environmental Stewardship The Estate will be sold and subject to and with the benefit excluded from the sale. 17.55 hectares of Lot 1 and 71.10 hectares of Lot 2 are within of all existing rights, both public and private, including an Entry Level Scheme agreement which covers a larger rights of way, supply, drainage, water abstraction, Only those items described in these particulars are area of the vendors holding. The agreement commenced in electricity supplies and other rights, covenants, restrictions included in the sale and the Vendors can give no warrant of Summer 2006 for a term of five years. Should completion and obligations, quasi-easements and all wayleaves, serviceability. The right is reserved to remove all other be before the end of the agreement then the purchaser will whether referred to or not. items not specifically described prior to the completion of be required to conform to the terms of the agreement. the sale. VAT Plans, Areas and Schedules Any guide prices quoted or discussed are exclusive of VAT. 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