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Period house with outbuildings and land

Long Ridge, Road, , HP27 0LZ

Freehold Reception hall • 3 reception rooms • kitchen • breakfast room • study • 5 bedrooms (all en suite) • quadruple garage, barn and stable block • about 3.25 acres in all

Local information University Country Club, for the Princes Risborough 2 miles (rail University of . One of the service to London Marylebone unique features of Long Ridge is from 37 minutes), the quadruple garage where 10 miles, Junction 4 of M40 11 there are two Victorian train miles, Heathrow 30 miles, carriages which flank opposite 23 miles, London (Baker Street) walls and were originally used as 44 miles. All distances and times changing rooms for the Country are approximate and correct at Club when there was a swimming the time of printing. pool on the site. One of the former owners was Sir Long Ridge is situated on the Fred Pooley, CBE, the renowned edge of Whiteleaf village with its architect who was involved in the public house (The Red Lion) and reconstruction of the city of golf club within the Chilterns Coventry after World War II. Area of Outstanding Beauty, the area has many countryside walks Description and bridle ways, yet is close to Long Ridge is a substantial the (J4 and J5) country home accessed over a for access to London and the carriage driveway, offering M25 and M4 motorways. Within generous accommodation two miles is the market town of around an impressive part Princes Risborough with a good galleried reception hall and variety of shopping facilities landing. The house offers five including a Tescos and Marks and bedrooms with en suite facilities. Spencers Food as well as Doctors The grounds are large and Surgeries, Dentists and a Chiltern secluded and offer a sylvan mainline link to London setting with a quadruple garage Marylebone. The Chiltern line building and a further also runs from and outbuilding, offering further High Wycombe. garaging with a large hobbies room over. To the rear is a High Wycombe has an paddock/orchard with a stable abundance of facilities including yard with loose boxes, store and cinema complex and the Eden tack room. Shopping Centre. A wide covered porch leads to Buckinghamshire is renowned for the impressive reception hall its choice and standard of which is part galleried with a schooling, and is one of the last corner fireplace. Double doors counties to maintain the lead into the sitting room with traditional grammar school brick built corner fireplace and system. three sets of patio doors leading out onto the rear terrace, offering About this property superb views over the grounds. Long Ridge was originally An inner hallway leads to the constructed in the 1920s as two utility room with range of fitted cottages and then became the units and appliances spaces including a door to the rear with mature trees. A large barn garden. A cloakroom lies provides garaging for four cars opposite. The family room has and is flanked internally to either an open fireplace with a log side by two Victorian railway burner, patio doors to the rear carriages which make interesting terrace and double doors leading storage areas. One carriage to a study. To the west side of leads into a workshop/tool store the house is the kitchen with a with access to outside. range of fitted units with granite work surfaces over, built in There is vehicular gated access to appliances include an oven, both sides of the house, with a microwave, induction hob and a gravel drive leading down one large Aga. There is a breakfast side, alongside a kitchen garden bar and a walk in larder. A with greenhouse, to a further conservatory lies to the rear of large modern barn with double the kitchen which offers ample doors to the front, providing room for seating or a breakfast garaging to the ground floor with table with doors to the rear a cloakroom to the rear. Stairs terrace. Adjacent to the kitchen lead to a large room on the first is the dining room which is of floor which would make a great good proportions with further office or hobbies room. Subject doors to the rear terrace. to the usual consents this building could be converted to On the first floor, the large part form a sizeable annexe if desired. galleried landing has a projecting bay, with full width windows The southerly facing gardens overlooking the frontage creating comprise a large terrace a large sitting area with window enveloping the rear and side of seats. The master bedroom suite the house, leading to an expanse lies across the galleried landing of lawn, interspersed with mature with doors opening to a Juliet shrubs and trees. balcony with lovely views over the secluded grounds. There are The equestrian facilities lie to the a range of built in wardrobes and rear of the garden and comprise an en suite bathroom as well as a a stable block with three loose separate en suite shower room. boxes, tack room and store with The four remaining bedrooms all light, power and water. A small have en suite bath or shower paddock lies to the front of this rooms and views to the rear over building and a gateway leads to a the sylvan grounds. Two of the good sized paddock/orchard bedrooms also have study or which is surrounded and dressing areas. secluded by hedgerows and trees. Grounds and outbuildings The house is approached over a The grounds extend to some 3.25 gravelled carriage driveway with acres in all. ample parking for several cars. This is edged by areas of lawn

Services All mains services connected. Gas central heating. Please note that none of the services has been tested.

EPC rating = D

Tenure Freehold

Local Authority Council

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Long Ridge, Cadsden Road, Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire HP27 0LZ Savills (Sales) 01494 731950 [email protected] savills savills.co.uk

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