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Heronston Hall, Heronston Lane Heronston, Bridgend, CF31 3AX Heronston Hall, Heronston Lane Heronston, Bridgend, CF31 3AX Heronston Hall, Heronston Lane, Heronston, Bridgend, CF31 3AX £850,000 Freehold 5 Bedrooms : 2 Bathrooms : 4 Reception Rooms Located the edges of the Vale of Glamorgan and Bridgend County Borough, an exceedingly handsome, double fronted family home set in about 3 acres of gardens and grounds. Accommodation currently includes: drawing room, sitting room, study, kitchen, dining room. Also utility room and cloakroom5 double bedrooms, bathroom, shower room. Ample parking and double length garage. Surrounding gardens including vegetable beds and a number of specimen trees. Beyond the property, to its rear, is an adjoining paddock of about 1.5 acres. EPC Rating: TBC Directions From Ewenny Pottery, to the southern side of Bridgend town / the A48, travel down the hill - towards Ewenny Village - and take the first left turning after about 250 yards into Heronston Lane. Pass the entrance to the 'Park Homes' for a further 300 yards, taking the next left turning. Turn immediately left - opposite Heronston House - through the gated entrance onto the driveway that leads to Heronston Hall. • Cowbridge 6 miles • Bridgend Town Centre 1.5 miles • Cardiff City Centre 18.4 miles • M4 (J35, Pencoed) 3.5 miles Your local office: Cowbridge T 01446 773500 E [email protected] Summary of Accommodation ABOUT THE PROPERTY * Heronston Hall is located to the edges of Bridgend County Borough and the Vale of Glamorgan and enjoys views over the Ewenny River Valley and onto Ewenny Priory. * Understood to date back in part over 400 years, the handsome, double fronted Georgian style façade is believed to have been added in the Victorian period. * In need of modernisation, it offers an increasingly rare opportunity to purchase a glorious period property surrounded by generous private gardens with an additional paddock beyond. * Entrance portico leads into a porch from which there is access into the central hallway. * A finely proportioned drawing room is to the front of the property with tall, timber sash windows looking over front gardens and with views, to the distance, to Ewenny Priory. A chimney breast with recessed fire within is flanked by display shelves. * A second reception room also looks to the front of the property, again with plentiful natural light from the tall timber sash window; beyond this is sitting room is study space. * The hallway itself leads through to a kitchen-breakfast room, this being part of the original 400 year old farmhouse. * The kitchen has a side porch leading into a westerly-facing courtyard garden; an inner hallway off the kitchen passes by a utility room and opens into a dining room. * Dining room features, to one end, a chimney breast with wood burner within; doors open from here to the sheltered westerly facing courtyard. * To the first floor are five double bedrooms, a modern bathroom / WC and a separate, modern shower room / WC. * The three largest bedrooms all enjoy views over the front lawns and the Ewenny River Valley to the Priory to distance. GARDENS AND GROUNDS * Approached from Heronston Lane, a gated entrance leads onto a sweeping driveway flanked by lawns to either side and running to the front of the property. * Steps from the driveway lead to a southerly facing paved terrace and principal entrance. * Driveway continues to one side of the property running past the original farmhouse to a double length pre-fabricated garage. * Gardens surround the property itself primarily being laid to lawn but including a number of specimen trees, including Cedar of Lebanon and a number of oaks and fruit trees. * To the rear of the property, accessed directly from the dining room and from kitchen, is a gloriously sheltered and private flagstone paved courtyard garden, ideal to catch the afternoon and evening sun. The courtyard garden has two storage outhouses. * Within the grounds and to the rear of the property are vegetable beds and a greenhouse. * A level paddock of about 1.5 acres is accessed via a metal 5-bar gate from the grounds. * It is understood a stream borders the land to its western boundary in part. * In total, gardens, grounds and paddock measure approximately 3 acres. TENURE AND SERVICES Freehold. Mains electric and water connect to the property. Oil-fired central heating. Cess pit drainage. Any maps and floor plans included in these sales particulars are not accurate or drawn to scale and are intended only to help prospective purchasers visualise the layout of the property. They do not form any part of any contract. Bridgend Cowbridge Penarth London T 01656 644 288 T 01446 773 500 T 029 2071 2266 T 020 7467 5330 E [email protected] E [email protected] E [email protected] E [email protected] @WattsandMorgan wattsandmorgan wattsandmorgan.wales .
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