Waifs House BELBROUGHTON, WORCESTERSHIRE Waifs House & The Cottage BELBROUGHTON, WORCESTERSHIRE Stourbridge 6 miles • Central Birmingham • 17 miles Worcester 18 miles • M5 (J4) 4 miles • M42 (J1) 5 miles (Distances approximate) A prominent and handsome Georgian family house and cottage in the heart of Belbroughton Waifs House, 19 Church Hill Entrance hall Drawing room Sitting room Dining room Kitchen Breakfast room Utility Boot room Cloakroom Seven double bedrooms Three family shower rooms Family bathroom Cellars Attic Double Garage with workshop/room above Paved parking Inner courtyard Garden The Cottage, 18 Church Road Sitting room Kitchen/breakfast Utility Double bedroom Shower room Waifs House is available to buy separately or with the option to also buy the adjoining one bedroom cottage Knight Frank LLP 5 College Street Worcester WR1 2LU Tel: +44 1905 723438 [email protected] www.knightfrank.co.uk These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure. Situation • Waifs House and The Cottage stand at the heart of the much sought after Worcestershire Village of Belbroughton which nestles beneath the Clent Hills which dominate this part of Worcester offering great walking and riding. • This desirable village has a mixture of period architecture and everyday needs are well catered for with a general store, post office, doctors’ surgery, Primary school, village hall, a number of public houses, Holy Trinity Church and a cricket and tennis club.. Nearby schooling includes Haybridge High School in E Hagley, Winterfold Prep School at Chaddesley Corbett, Old Swinford Hospital School and Bromsgrove School. Many local children also attend King’s and RGS in Worcester. Belbroughton is extremely convenient allowing S good access to Central Birmingham, Stourbridge, Bromsgrove and the Cathedral City of Worcester. The motorway network is nearby with Junction 4 of the M M5 being just four miles distance. Junction 1 of the M42 is approximately five miles away with Birmingham International Airport and the NEC situated just off Junction 6. Local rail services operate from the nearby village T of Hagley into Birmingham whilst a direct service can be boarded at Hagley or Stourbridge to London Marylebone. For sale freehold Waifs House, 19 Church Hill • Waifs House is a handsome attached Grade II listed, three storey Georgian house of substantial proportions standing prominently opposite the parish church and within the Conservation Area of Belbroughton. It comes to market for only the second time in nearly 70 years. • The house dates from around 1783. The earliest recorded owner is Francis Rufford, MP for Worcester, and the family were rich with banking and industrial interests in Stourbridge. He sold the house in 1838 to Jonathan Lord Hobbs who set up a medical practice in the house, and is often mentioned amongst the Poor Law records for the village. His family sold the house and outbuildings, which included a Malthouse and Stables in 1863 and the house was subsequently divided around 1880. Part became a well-known Draper’s shop and part became a Church of England home for young girls. The Draper’s shop continued through to the 1940’s. In the late 1940’s the Holroyd family reunited the two halves of the house. The house was also featured in a BBC episode of the crime drama series Dalziel & Pascoe called ‘Secrets of the Dead’ in 2000. • It offers flexible accommodation with a host or original features including traditional fireplaces, high ceilings, sash windows, panelled doors and original solid wood flooring and flagstone flooring to the entrance hall and kitchen. From all of the principle reception rooms is an outlook to the parish church. • From the grand portico the large entrance door with fanlight above opens to the L shaped entrance hall, off which is the cloakroom, boot room and a door to the cellar. • The reception rooms include a charming sitting room with a Clearview Stove and a grand dining room with a traditional working fireplace with a superb surround, and either side of which are feature recessed cupboards. • The kitchen includes a range of kitchen cupboards including display shelves, solid wood worktops, a central island with a granite worktop, double Belfast sink, mains gas Aga including an electric companion, space for a microwave oven and an integrated dishwasher, fridge and freezer. Off the kitchen is a large utility room and the kitchen also flows through to a pitched roof breakfast room with a Clearview Stove, side door to the inner paved courtyard and a door to a shower room which also has an outside door. • From the entrance hall a traditional sweeping staircase rises to the first floor split level landing. • The first floor offers flexible accommodation that includes a fine drawing room with a fireplace housing a living flame gas fire with a prominent surround and an arched display recess at either side. • There are three double bedrooms, one of which is currently used as a study to the first floor, one of which is ‘Jack & Jill’ to a shower room and another is in use as a study. There is also a fine family bathroom with a ceiling rose, moulded niches and a roll top bath, over which is a shower. • Off the second floor study landing are four further double bedrooms served by a shower room. The Cottage, 18 Church Hill The Cottage, known as 18 Church Road, offers well- proportioned and deceptively spacious accommodation. It includes a sitting room with a working brick fireplace, kitchen/breakfast with a range of cupboards and space for an oven and fridge/freezer, utility room area with space for a washer/dryer, shower room and a large double bedroom with built-in wardrobes. Gardens and grounds Period wrought iron gates open to paved parking in front of the double garage with a workshop/room above. There is a charming inner walled and paved courtyard and the rear walled garden includes lawns, a greenhouse and mature well planted borders of evergreens and perennials providing all year round interest and colour. Services Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage Fixtures & Fittings All items mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others are specifically excluded but some may be made available by way of separate negotiation. Local Authority Bromsgrove District Council, tel 01527 873232 Waifs House, 19 Church Hill (DY9 0DT) Council Tax Band: G The Cottage,18 Church Road (DY9 9TE) Council Tax Band: B Directions (Postcode DY9 0DT) Important Notice: Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of From Junction 4 of the M5 motorway take the A491 or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the towards Stourbridge and after just over 2 miles turn left inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being on to the B4188 towards Belbroughton. At the T-junction with and that all information is correct. factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. within the village turn left on to the High Street, then Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any authority to make any take the first left on to Church Road and then the first Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in representations about the property, and accordingly any information England with registered number OC305934. Our registered office is right on to Church Hill where Waifs House will be found given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a list of immediately on the right opposite the church. or lessor(s). members’ names. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as Ref: 1036254 Photographs: December 2016 they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and Particulars: December 2016 distances given are approximate only. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087. Reception Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area House: 406 sq m (4,370 sq ft) Bedroom The Cottage: 59 sq m (636 sq ft) Outbuilding: 57 sq m (615 sq ft) Bathroom Total: 522 sq m (5,621 sq ft) Kitchen/Utility Storage Outbuilding Outbuilding Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor Cellars Ground Floor First Floor This plan is for layout guidance only. Not drawn to scale unless stated. Windows & door openings are approximate. Whilst every care is taken in the preparation of this plan,please check all dimensions, shapes & compass bearings before making any decisions reliant upon them. .