Turville Heath House Turville Heath | Henley-on-Thames | Oxfordshire Turville Heath House Turville Heath Henley-on-Thames | Oxfordshire
Fine classic house with great potential in prized Chiltern setting
Entrance hall • Drawing room • Library/Study Dining room • Kitchen/breakfast room Utility room • Boiler room • Cloakroom/WC Master bedroom with en suite dressing room and en suite bathroom • 4 Further bedrooms 2 Family bathrooms
Integral garage/barn • Additional garage Barn/store room
Tennis court (in need of resurfacing) Swimming pool • Beautiful formal gardens
About 1.7 acres
Henley-on-Thames 8 miles Watlington 4 miles, Oxford 23 miles Heathrow Airport 30 miles M40 (J5) 7 miles, High Wycombe station 16 miles (trains from 28 minutes to London Marylebone) Directions (RG9 6JY) From the M40 (J6 Stokenchurch): Take the A40 towards Oxford. Turn 1st left signposted Christmas Common, proceed for 3 miles. Turn left in Christmas Common signposted Northend. Proceed through Northend village, across the village common; the road bears left, and follow it to Turville Heath/The Lime Avenue. Proceed to the end of The Lime Avenue and turn left (beside the shelter), and after about 150 yards turn left onto the common and follow the drive towards Turville Grange and then bear left towards Turville Heath, where Turville Heath House will be found on the right.
Situation Turville Heath House occupies a unique Chiltern Hills location, on a wide unspoilt leafy heath with a famous lime avenue, in an elevated rural setting adjoining magnificent riding and walking. It is a highly sought after country location outside Henley, where the opportunity to buy is rare. The heath, common land but protected, being just by the house makes this ideal for families. The short drive to Henley along the Stonor Valley, past the stately home of Stonor Park, enjoys some of the finest scenery in England.
Pishill enjoys an excellent independent free house, The Crown, with village church (with a stained glass window by John Piper) and a fledgling vineyard. Other noted pubs nearby are The Five Horseshoes at Maidensgrove, with fabulous views over the Chilterns, the Frog at Skirmett, The Chequers in picturesque Fingest, The Bull & Butcher in Turville (of Vicar of Dibley fame), the Stag and Huntsman at beautiful Hambelden. Watlington to the north is a pretty, small market town with butcher, delicatessen, petrol station, Co-op and other day to day amenities, with access to the M40 (J6), together with a good primary school. The historic town of Henley-on-Thames has excellent day to day shopping, recreational and educational facilities, with a railway station (via Twyford) to London Paddington. Access to the M40, Oxford and London is via the M40 (J5). This part of the Chilterns is renowned for its beauty, with some substantial private estates in the immediate vicinity ensuring that the countryside is immaculately maintained and a wonderful environment.
There is an excellent range of private and public schooling in the area, and great leisure amenities in Henley-on-Thames including access to the River Thames for boating, the river and rowing museum, theatre and cinema. Henley is of course home to the annual Regatta, as well as the Henley Festival and the Henley Literary Festival. Description Turville Heath House is a classic Grade II Listed period house with fine painted original brick elevations and sash windows under a tiled roof, with later brick and flint and red brick additions in the 19th / early 20th century. The core of the house is Elizabethan. The principal reception rooms are beautifully proportioned with views across the front and back gardens, with fine bays, open fireplaces, generous ceiling heights and excellent natural light. The house has the original charm and character expected of this fine architectural era, but is ready for sympathetic refurbishment and modernisation for the next generation. The late Major Tom Bird DSO, MC who lived here, was a distinguished war hero and veteran of Alamein, but also a noted neo-classical architect (Bird & Tyler Associates) who remodelled the house in 1976 in a most sympathetic manner, retaining all original features.
On the first floor a wonderful master bedroom suite has a generous bedroom with open fireplace, en suite dressing room and bathroom. There are 4 further bedrooms and 2 family bathrooms, and all rooms have pleasant outlooks over the formal gardens, some overlooking Turville Heath itself. Many of the rooms are double aspect and have fireplaces, some with bookshelves and wardrobes. Elegant sash windows are in a number of bedrooms, and there are principal and secondary staircases.
The character of the dining room with beamed ceiling and display shelves has a different feel from the wonderfully proportioned drawing room with handsome fireplace, bay window and cornicing, and library/study beyond with Jetmaster fireplace and bay window. There is a fine fanlight over the front door on arrival. Outside Turville Heath House is approached via a driveway off Turville Heath which arrives at a courtyard parking area adjoining the hard tennis court. There is an integral garage within the attached barn, with additional barn/garage and oil tank/store room.
There was formerly planning permission to provide an annexe conversion to the outbuildings (Planning Ref: 11/06866/REN).
Gardens The wonderful gardens at Turville Heath House, created by Major and Mrs Bird, are approached at the front by a picket gate and path to the front door with mature rose borders either side. The lawns are surrounded by mature herbaceous planting with some fine sculptured hedging, fir trees, a bay bush and part wisteria clad front elevation of the house. Beside the drive archway to the parking is a large fig tree. To the south of the front garden is a kitchen garden with greenhouse and picket gate access onto the common. A terrace/pathway continues round to the rear of Turville Heath House, with a wide terrace overlooking a croquet lawn with expansive herbaceous borders and a pond. There is beautiful boundary tree cover, and beyond evergreen hedging the swimming pool garden has a heated open swimming pool with pool house and filtration unit and heat exchanger. Some fine trees in this part of the garden include apple, cherry, silver birch and holly. The garden is shielded to the east by the mature chestnuts of Mrs Henry Ford’s estate. The attached listed Elizabethan barn to the west has been used for storing hay cut from the heath (common land but grazing and other rights are granted by the Lord of the Manor); the farm owner now offers walkers and riders refreshment (through an honesty box during the week). Turville Heath House General Remarks and Main House gross internal area = 4,461 sq ft / 414 sq m Stipulations External Rooms gross internal area = 734 sq ft / 68 sq m Tenure: Freehold with vacant possession Garage gross internal area = 214 sq ft / 20 sq m on completion. Total gross internal area = 5,409 sq ft / 503 sq m Services: Mains water and electricity. Mains drainage. Oil fired central heating (no mains gas).
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Garage 4.95 x 3.08 Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations 6.10 x 5.20 5.00 x 3.68 4.96 x 4.00 16'3" x 10'1" 20'0" x 17'1" 16'5" x 12'1" 16'3" x 13'1" 2008 (CPR) and the Business Protection from Misleading Marketing Regulations 2008, please note that none of the Boiler room 3.52 x 3.34 services has been tested. 11'7" x 10'11" Larder Local authority: Wycombe District Council. Telephone: 01494 461000
Bedroom 5 Boot room Post Code: RG9 6JY 4.94 x 4.49 Utility Cellar 3.73 x 2.90 16'2" x 14'9" 3.56 x 3.07 12'3" x 9'6" 4.36 x 2.85 11'8" x 10'1" 14'4" x 9'4" Energy Performance: A copy of the full Energy Performance Certificate is Cellar available on request. Bedroom 4 5.00 x 3.05 16'5" x 10'0" Drawing room Sitting room Kitchen/ 8.37 x 4.95 7.07 x 4.58 Viewing: Strictly by appointment Dining room Breakfast room 27'6" x 16'3" 23'2" x 15'0" 4.90 x 4.25 5.81 x 4.32 16'1" x 13'11" 19'1" x 14'2" with Savills.
Bedroom 1 6.83 x 6.16 Bedroom 2 F/P Bedroom 3 22'5" x 20'3" 4.77 x 4.50 4.65 x 4.15 15'8" x 14'9" 15'3" x 13'7" Bedroom 6 4.62 x 3.23 Ground floor 15'2" x 10'7"
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