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Middle Meadow

Middle Meadow I Ilmington I Near Shipston on Stour I I CV36 4LS

Middle meadow

ILMINGTON I NEAR SHIPSTON ON STOUR I WARWICKSHIRE CV36 4LS

A CHARMING 18TH CENTURY LISTED COTSWOLD STONE VILLAGE HOUSE WITH ATTRACTIVE SOUTH-FACING ENCLOSED GARDENS, DETACHED STONE STUDIO/ANNEXE, SEPARATE DETACHED STONE BARN AND ORCHARD.

Situated 3½ miles from Shipston-on-Stour • 5 miles from Chipping Campden • 8 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon • 15 miles from the M40 Motorway

Accommodation and Amenities

Entrance Hall • Sitting Room • Dining Room • Farmhouse Kitchen • Utility/Boiler Room • Cloakroom

Four/Five Double Bedrooms • Large Family Bathroom

Oil-Fired Heating

Separate Studio/Annexe • Attractive Enclosed Landscaped Gardens and Orchard

Large Detached Stone Barn

In all about 0.76 Acres/0.31 Ha

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Viewing through: Shipston-on-Stour office T: 01608 663788 E: [email protected] Situation

Ilmington is an attractive and popular South Warwickshire village In addition the larger centres of , , situated on the northern edge of the Cotswold hills and close to Birmingham, Banbury, Oxford and Cheltenham are easily the North Gloucestershire border. Within the village there is a good accessible. local primary school, village shop, two public houses (one being the well-known Howard Arms) and an active village church. There are also mainline stations at Warwick Parkway and Banbury with services south to London (Marylebone – with a service in just The local towns of Stratford upon Avon, Shipston on Stour, under an hour from Banbury) and north to Birmingham, including Chipping Campden and Moreton in Marsh offer daily shopping, Birmingham International airport. schooling and recreational facilities.

The Property

Middle Meadow is a charming and wonderful detached Grade II listed Cotswold stone house dating from the mid- 18th Century, well-located in the middle of the village and approached down a private drive to a gravelled courtyard.

The house offers spacious and well-proportioned family accommodation that could be extended, subject to obtaining the necessary consents, into the adjoining barn and former bakery (now the utility/boiler room).

Within the house there are many attractive features, including flagstone floors, elm boarded floors, stone mullion window, window seats, shutters, period wooden doors, a wealth of exposed beams and timbers together with a fine elm boarded staircase. In addition there is a spacious farmhouse kitchen incorporating a fine inglenook fireplace housing an oil-fired Aga.

Outside and forming an important part of the property are attractive enclosed landscaped south-facing gardens offering privacy with a separate detached Cotswold stone studio/annexe and detached Cotswold stone barn.

There is an orchard adjoining the drive down to the house from Front Street. The accommodation briefly comprises: Beside the front door is the former bakery, now a Utility/Boiler Room incorporating bread oven feature, Grant oil-fired boiler for Fine oak door into the Entrance Hall with flagstone floor, exposed central heating and hot water as well as plumbing for washing beams and timbers and elm boarded staircase to first floor. In machine. addition there is a Cloakroom. On the first floor theLanding , Two Double Bedrooms and Bathroom Both the Sitting Room and Dining Room have exposed beams and all have elm boarded floors with the principal bedroom having two timbers together with shuttered windows. The sitting room also window seats and each room having fine exposed beams and has two window seats and an attractive dressed stone fireplace. timbers. Within the bathroom is a separate shower cubicle, linen cupboard and airing cupboard. The Farmhouse Kitchen has an attractive inglenook fireplace incorporating a two-hob four-oven oil-fired Aga, flagstone floor, On the second floor areThree Further Double Bedrooms with fine window seat with shutters and fine exposed beams and timbers, exposed beams and timbers, with bedroom five being situated off stone mullion window and a white glazed china sink. bedroom four. Studio/Annexe and Barn gate down a private drive leading round to a gravelled forecourt beside the studio/annexe and barn. A pathway leads across the Situated beside the gravelled courtyard/car parking area is a gardens to the front door. detached Cotswold stone Studio/Annexe incorporating an office/ studio with workshop off incorporating a Flowsure oil-fired boiler The gardens, which are principally south-facing, are enclosed and for central heating and hot water and separate door to outside. offer great privacy. They have been attractively landscaped, are Situated on the first floor is Kitchenettea area with store cupboard split-level, lawned and incorporate well-stocked flower and shrub and separate Cloakroom. borders together with a number of ornamental trees. In addition there is a fine clipped Yew hedge. Situated across the gravelled courtyard is an outstanding detached stone Barn with large double doors either side. Situated beside the barn is a small pond.

The Gardens and Orchard Behind the barn and beside the driveway is an Orchard part- enclosed by beech hedging incorporating a vegetable garden area. The Gardens form an important part of Middle Meadow. The property is approached from Front Street through a five-bar timber The property extends in all to about 0.76 acres/0.31 ha. General Information

Tenure The property is offered freehold with vacant possession.

Council Tax This is payable to Stratford on Avon District Council. The property is listed in band G.

Fixtures and Fittings All items mentioned in these particulars are included in the sale. All other items are expressly excluded.

Services Mains electricity, water and drainage are connected to the property. Oil-fired boiler for central heating and hot water.

Directions Use postcode CV36 4QP for satellite navigation From Stratford upon Avon take the A3400 south for Shipston on Stour and Oxford. After passing Alscot Park, take the second turning right to Ilmington. Continue on this road into the centre of the village and the drive to the property is situated on the right a short distance after the Howard Arms.

From Shipston on Stour take the Chipping Campden Road (B4035) turning first right after the police station for Darlingscote and Ilmington. Proceed through the village of Darlingscote and after about a further mile and a half (and after passing the first turning left to Ilmington) turn left at the T-junction to Ilmington, turn left into the centre of the village and the drive to the property is situated on the right a short distance after the Howard Arms.

Viewing Is by prior appointment through the sole selling agents Seccombes, Shipston on Stour office 01608-663788 email [email protected] Site PLAN

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Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area IMPORTANT NOTICE House: 225 sq m (2,424 sq ft) The attached particulars have been prepared in good faith and are for Outbuildings: 176 sq m (1,900 sq ft) guidance only. They are intended to give a fair description of the property Total: 401 sq m (4,324 sq ft) but do not constitute part of an offer or form any part of a contract. The photographs show only certain parts and aspects as at the time they were This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a taken. We have not carried out a survey on the property, nor have we tested Cotswold Plans Ltd. 01386 430176 the services, appliances or any specific fittings. Any areas, measurements or statement of fact. distances we have referred to are given as a guide only and are not precise. ©www.cotswoldplans.co.uk Shipston-on-Stour T 01608 663788 T 01926 640498 10 Market Place, Shipston on Stour, Warwickshire CV36 4AG 2 Banbury Street, Kineton, Warwickshire CV35 0JS [email protected] [email protected]

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