Careby Manor Careby, Stamford, Lincolnshire
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CAREBY MANOR CAREBY, STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE A GRADE II LISTED GEORGIAN STONE MANOR HOUSE SITUATED WITHIN 7 ACRES OF LANDSCAPED GARDENS AND PADDOCKS CAREBY MANOR CAREBY, STAMFORD, LINCOLNSHIRE A GRADE II LISTED STONE MANOR HOUSE SITUATED WITHIN 7 ACRES OF LANDSCAPED GARDENS AND PADDOCKS GROUND FLOOR: Reception Hallway Kitchen Dining Room Drawing Room Snug Rear Hall and Cloakroom FIRST & SECOND FLOORS: 8 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms LOWER GROUND FLOOR: Play Room Store/Pantry Ironing Room Laundry Room Game Room Wine Store Boiler Room LOCATION Careby Manor is well-placed, positioned on a no-through road in the pretty Viking village of Careby, just 6½ miles north of the desirable Georgian market town of Stamford, which was voted “Best Place to Live in Britain” by The Sunday Times in 2013. Stamford is renowned for its beautiful architecture, schools and shopping including the popular weekly Friday market and fortnightly farmers’ market. The train station is well connected to Peterborough, Cambridge, Stansted Airport, Leicester and Birmingham. A little further afield lies the Cathedral City of Peterborough offering direct train services to London and a range of more comprehensive amenities. Careby has a beautiful church, ‘St Stephen’, with its Norman tower. A wide range of recreational opportunities in the area include quiet lanes and countryside for riding and walking. The village of Little Bytham is a mere 1½ miles away within which is the local primary school, the local pub ‘The Willoughby Arms’ and ‘Rasell’s’, a highly regarded garden nursery and tea room. The award winning restaurant ‘The Olive Branch’ at Clipsham is approximately 3½ miles away, and local historic houses and their grounds include Burghley House and Grimsthorpe Castle offering extensive cycling and walking opportunities. The Toft Hotel and Rutland Country Golf Club both have 18 hole golf courses and are around 5 miles distant. Beautiful Rutland Water is only 8½ miles distant and offers a range of land and water based activities. There are a number of prominent state and private schools in close proximity to Careby Manor, most notably at Stamford, Oakham, Oundle and Uppingham. Grammar schools are at Bourne and Grantham, with the preparatory schools of Witham Hall and Copthill also close by. ACCOMMODATION Careby Manor is a substantial Grade II Listed Georgian period property with high ceilings, believed to date in part from the late 17th century. The property sits within approximately 10 acres of landscaped gardens and paddocks and is available as a whole or in three lots. The property is approached via a cast iron gated gravelled driveway which sweeps down past the east side of the house to the garaging. On entering the property from this easterly point, up a series of limestone steps leading to the solid oak front door, there is a reception hallway with stairs to the first and lower ground floors, doors to the kitchen, dining room and rear hall, and a window with working shutters. The spacious kitchen/breakfast room features a range of wall and base cupboards with built in fridge-freezer, granite worktops and a ceramic butler’s sink. There are two sash windows with working shutters. The dining room has a large open fireplace, wood flooring, exposed beam work, two sash windows with working shutters and a fixed window with deep cill, also with working shutters. From the rear hall can be accessed the drawing room which has wonderful proportions, a fireplace with Clearview wood burner, wood flooring, original panelling and a beautiful pair of full-length French doors, complete with shutters, which open out onto formal gardens, as well as a doorway into the rear hall. Double doors open from the drawing room into the snug which has a window overlooking a courtyard and a doorway into the rear hall. The rear hall gives access to the downstairs cloakroom and has a large period door opening onto the formal garden. On the first floor is a partially galleried landing leading to three spacious bedrooms, two with ensuite bathrooms, a family bathroom, additional separate WC and large airing cupboard/dressing room to the master bedroom. The house benefits from a logical flowing layout. The well-proportioned master bedroom is fitted with two large wardrobes and a walk in dressing room, wood flooring, working fireplace with Clearview wood burner and two sash windows offering beautiful views across the landscaped gardens and countryside beyond. The ensuite bathroom also has an attractive sash window with similar vistas over the formal gardens and beyond. The largest bedroom is fully wood panelled with east facing sash windows, wood flooring and a working fireplace with Clearview wood burner. The third double bedroom on this floor is also east facing with wooden flooring, two window seats, sash windows and ensuite bathroom. On the second floor, there are five further bedrooms, three east facing and two south facing with stunning views over the gardens and lime tree. One bedroom has an open fireplace and one a boarded-up Victorian fireplace. There is also a large roof space running the length of the house above the second floor with access from two hatches at either end of the house. The lower ground floor is extensive and runs the full length of the house, with a range of useful rooms with windows to easterly and westerly aspects. Comprising of a boiler room, store/pantry, game larder, wine store, laundry room, ironing room, playroom, as well as further additional space. There is also a door to a large shared sheltered courtyard area at the back of the property where the oil tank and one of the septic tanks is located and where there is access through another set of double gates from the road. GARDENS AND GROUNDS The rich array of gardens at Careby Manor are sheltered and contain a large number of mature shrubs and trees, including a magnificent 400 year old lime tree often surrounded by a carpet of pink and purple cyclamens. Close to the house, hornbeam and purple beech hedges, as well as informal shrub and tree screens, have been developed to create walkways, a sunken garden, south facing formal terrace garden with pond and greener areas where planting is informal but structured. Next to the lime tree an entrance leads to further walkway ‘secret’ style gardens including a large lawned area within a walled garden bordered by shrubs and a beautiful cherry tree walk. From January to May the ground beneath the trees is carpeted with a succession of bulbs and flowers, including snowdrops, aconites, crocuses and narcissi, cowslips and others. Beyond the formal garden boundaries there is an orchard of plums, apples, pears and cherries, a woodland area and land containing a large variety of trees and plants leading down to the River Glen. Areas are separated in part by beautiful limestone and Victorian brick walls. A timber stable block on a concrete hard standing provides three stables, fodder store and tack room. A five acre fenced paddock with the added benefit of a spring water feeding trough can be easily accessed from the stables and is also bordered by the river. The majority of this paddock is sheltered by a double belt of poplar trees. There are also two sheds near the stables and woodland area and there is a large hard-standing area near the double garage and greenhouse for additional parking, composting and/or storage. There are numerous water taps located around the property including at the garage, by an area of vegetable beds and next to the driveway and house. Two further fenced paddocks of approximately 2.25 acres (Lot 2) and 0.75 acres (Lot 3) immediately across the road on the north side of the street are available by separate negotiation. GENERAL INFORMATION TENURE: Freehold and is offered for sale be private treaty with vacant possession available upon completion. LOCAL AUTHORITY: South Kesteven District Council T: 01476 406080. Tax Band G: £2,461.28 payable for the 2016/17 tax year. VIEWING: All viewings will be accompanied and are strictly by prior arrangement through Savills Stamford Office. T 01780 484696 SERVICES: Mains water and electricity are connected with drainage to two private septic tanks. Oil fired central heating (not connected). RECENT IMPROVEMENTS AND ALTERATIONS: The Collyweston slate roof has been repointed and repaired, the stone work on the house and courtyard wall has been repointed and new cast iron guttering and downpipes have been installed. The chimneys have been repaired and there is a new limestone chimney stack on the north elevation. The original windows have been restored and primed. The owners have installed a new oil fired Grant boiler heating system and purchased classic radiators (mostly Clyde brand) which have been powder-coated and are included in the sale – the central heating system needs connecting. Hot water is provided by a new Grant unvented cylinder connected to an accumulator by Trent Clyde. Three phase power is connected, with the house connected, as normal, to a single phase. ENERGY PERFORMANCE CERTIFICATE (EPC): Not Applicable FIXTURES & FITTINGS: All curtains, light fittings, wood burners and garden statutory are specifically excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation. POSTCODE & DIRECTIONS: Post Code: PE9 4EA. From exiting Stamford on the A6121 (Ryhall Road) turn left onto the B1176 (Stamford Road) after about 2½ miles. Continue on this road a further 3½ miles, upon reaching Careby travel over the bridge before bearing immediately right onto Main Street. The driveway to the property can be found after a short distance on the right hand as depicted by our ‘for sale’ board. CAREBY MANOR TOTAL GROSS INTERNAL AREA = 5795 SQ FT / 539 SQ M FOR ILLUSTRATIVE PURPOSES ONLY - NOT TO SCALE THE POSITION & SIZE OF DOORS, WINDOWS, APPLIANCES AND OTHER FEATURES ARE APPROXIMATE ONly.