Catesby House

LOWER CATESBY • NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Catesby House LOWER CATESBY • NORTHAMPTONSHIRE Elegantly spacious in an elevated position with far reaching views Lot 1: Catesby House Reception hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Library • Sitting room • Family room • Play room Savills Country House Department Kitchen/Breakfast room • Utility room • 2 cloakrooms • Lower ground floor with cellars and games room 33 Margaret Street Principal bedroom suite with dressing area • 8 further bedrooms • 6 bath/shower rooms London Study • Separate WC • Indoor heated swimming pool • Shower room W1G 0JD Courtyard outbuildings comprising laundry/plant room, gymnasium,workshop, loggia Tel: 020 7409 8856 (potential for conversion to annexe subject to relevant consents) Contact: Helen Whitfield [email protected] Range of outbuildings including stabling with tack room and feed store Savills Banbury General purpose machinery barn (planning permission for a further general purpose barn) 36 South Bar Extensive hardstanding and greenhouse Banbury OX16 9AE Terraced west facing gardens and grounds • Series of lakes with boathouse • Woodland • Pasture Tel: 01295 228000 In all about 51 acres Contact: Nick Rudge Lot 2: The Gardens [email protected] Separate 4 bedroom cottage. Range of outbuildings. Walled garden. About 1 acre www.savills.co.uk Lot 3: Pasture field suitable for grazing of about 9 acres.

As a whole about 61 acres For sale as a whole or in 3 lots

Howkins & Harrison LLP 7-11 Albert Street Daventry 5 miles Rugby Long Buckby 10 miles (London Euston 60 minutes) CV21 2X Rugby 14 miles (London Euston from 50 minutes) Tel: 01788 564680 Banbury (M40 J11) 16 miles Contact: Tim Howard Northampton 16.5 miles (London Euston from 52 minutes) [email protected] Milton Keynes 28 miles (London Euston from 31 minutes) www.howkinsandharrison.co.uk (All distances and times are approximate)

1 SITUATION • Lower Catesby is a hamlet situated in peaceful unspoilt rural south • The nearest motorway connections can be made via the M1 Junction Northamptonshire, close to the River Leam. 16 (about 12 miles) or M40 Junction 11 at Banbury (about 14 miles). • An area of historic interest having originally been the site of an • The area is well served for schools including the Staverton, Braunston 11th Century Priory and former Manor House, with only the small and Badby primary schools. Independent schools include preparatory Parish Church remaining. The Priory fishponds are still in evidence. at Bilton Grange (Dunchurch), Winchester House (Brackley), and Quinton House (Northampton) and senior independent schools at • Local facilities can be found at the neighbouring villages of Hellidon Rugby, Princethorpe, Stowe, Northampton High School, Tudor Hall and Staverton and include:- Church, village hall, primary school, and and Bloxham. public house. • Leisure activities in the area include golf at Hellidon, Staverton and • The nearby market town of Daventry provides local amenities Farthingstone Golf Clubs; horse racing at Towcester, Warwick and including supermarkets (Waitrose, Tesco and Aldi), schools and banks. Stratford Race Courses; motor racing at Silverstone; health club Banbury, Northampton, Rugby and Milton Keynes provide for more facilities at Hellidon Lakes and Staverton; theatre at Stratford-upon- extensive leisure, retail and cultural facilities. Avon; sailing at Boddington Lakes and Draycote Water. • Mainline railway services to London Euston can be taken from Rugby (50 minutes), Northampton (52 minutes) and Milton Keynes (31 minutes) or to London Marylebone from Banbury (from 54 minutes).

2 3 DESCRIPTION Lot 1 – Catesby House and parkland statuary marble chimneypiece, panelled internal doors. elegantly proportioned principal rooms with generous ceiling heights offering (shown shaded pink on the lotting plan) space and light. • Catesby House commands an enviable elevated rural position with • Extensive family sized accommodation. There are six bedrooms far-reaching views to the west. and five bathrooms on the first floor, whilst the second floor accommodation offers three further guest bedrooms or could be used • The property is believed to have been built in 1863 in a Jacobean as a staff flat, thereby offering versatility. style, but incorporating material from Old Catesby House. The house • Useful lower ground floor with cellars and games room was then enlarged towards the end of the 19th century. Ironstone ashlar with limestone dressings, string coursing under a pitched tile • Indoor heated swimming pool takes in the view to the west with a roof with coped parapet and elaborate shaped gables with obelisk series of French windows across the garden. The pool is currently finials. The house is Grade II Listed. empty with a solid floor installed. The entire pool complex could be altered to provide a modern, extensive kitchen and breakfast room, • A wealth of period features include open fireplaces, mullioned subject to the relevant consents. and transomed windows, shuttered windows with window seats, linenfold panelling, door cases with open segmental pediments, Accommodation elegant staircase with barley sugar balusters, plasterwork with See floor plans below.

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Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area: Main House: 1040.0 sq.m. (11194.1 sq.ft)

For identification only. Not to scale.

Second Floor

Lower Ground floor First Floor 8 9 Outside • Across the courtyard, to the front is a gymnasium and • To the far west is a grass paddock with an ancient avenue of motorcycle workshop which offer scope for alteration to annexe trees currently grazed by a neighbour’s sheep. accomodation. Planning permission was previously granted to • A glorious rural position offering considerable presence, space convert this to a staff annexe. This has now lapsed. and privacy. • There is an excellent range of modern stabling and a spacious • About 51 acres. machinery barn. Planning permission to create a further • This is a wonderful opportunity for a buyer who wishes to take outbuilding (of the same size). There is ample hard standing for advantage of excellent local educational facilities, those wishing parking, horse lorry, machinery etc..... to entertain, or enjoy the history, gardens and wonderful views • Extensive landscaped terraced west facing gardens, predominantly associated with Catesby House. laid to grass interspersed with extensive tree planting, rhododendron and roses. Stone paved terracing, Box parterre, croquet lawn and gravelled entertaining areas. Ornamental ponds and fountains. Lot 2 - The Gardens Mature tees include cedar of lebanon, beech, horse chestnut, (shown shaded blue on the lotting plan) ash, sycamore and wellingtonia. Lime tree lined driveway. • Separate four bedroom detached house set within the former walled gardens to Catesby House, ideal for staff or income stream. • A series of tiered lakes lie to the west. A timber boathouse and studio with light and power connected and timber decked balcony, • Further to this is a range of traditional outbuildings and stores ideal for summer entertaining. including a garage. Walled gardens of about 1 acre.

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The Gardens Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area: 241.1 sq.m. (2595.2 sq.ft) For identification only. Not to scale.

Lot 3 - Agricultural land (shown shaded green on the lotting plan) • Grazing of about 9 acres with post and rail fenced boundaries. A productive and level pasture field which is currently let to the neighbouring farmer for grazing sheep. It is registered with the Rural Payments Agency and entitlements are available.

14 15 GENERAL REMARKS AND STIPULATIONS Services Main house: Mains water and electricity. Separate private water. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. BT connected, Broadband available. The Gardens: Mains electricity and water. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. BT connected, Broadband available.

Tenure The properties are offered for sale freehold with vacant possession on completion.

Local Authority Daventry District Council – Tel: 01327 871100 CATESBY HOUSE Council Tax Main House: Band H The Gardens: Band D

Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale Fixture and Fittings mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s All fixtures, fittings and furnishings i.e. carpets, curtains and light Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908) fittings are expressly excluded. Certain items may be available by separate negotiation. Further information should be obtained from Directions (NN11 6LF) the Vendor’s joint agents. From Banbury and M40 Junction 11, take the A361 north towards second roundabout where you turn left to Staverton on the A425. At Daventry travelling through the villages of Wardington, Chipping the next roundabout turn right into the village of Staverton and after Designations Warden, Byfield and Charwelton. As you leave Charwelton take the 400 yards turn left at the sign to Hellidon. Follow this road for 2 miles turn to the left signposted for Hellidon and Priors Marston. Continue and after an ‘S-bend’ turn right signposted Lower Catesby. Follow this Catesby House is listed Grade II and buildings are listed Grade II along this road for 1.5 miles and take the first turn to the right for single track lane down hill. Cross a cattle grid and then bear right onto and lie within the Village Conservation boundary. There are Tree Hellidon. On entering Hellidon, follow the road, taking a sharp right the tree lined driveway to Catesby House. Preservation Orders on a number of trees. A map is available from bend past the Red Lion public house. Continue on this road for a the joint selling agents. further mile and then take the first left as signed to Lower Catesby. Viewing Follow this single track lane down hill. Cross a cattle grid and then By appointment with the Joint Agents. Prior to making an Wayleaves, Easements and Rights of Way bear right onto the tree lined driveway to Catesby House. appointment to view Savills and Howkins & Harrison strongly The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all rights, From M1 Junction 16 take the A45 towards Daventry and continue recommend that you discuss any particular points which are likely to including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support through the villages of Flore and Weedon. On reaching Daventry bear affect your interest in the property with a member of staff from the drainage, water and electricity supplies and any other rights and left at the first roundabout and continue round the ring road to the joint agents who has seen the property. obligations, easements and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, IMPORTANT NOTICE Savills, Howkins & Harrison and their clients give notice that: They are not authorised to make or give any representation stays, cables, drains and water, gas and any other pipes, whether or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no referred to in the Conditions of Sale or not. Please note two public responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are guidance only and footpaths cross the property. are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills and Howkins & Harrison have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. The reference to any mechanical or electrical equipment or other facilities at the property shall not constitute a representation (unless otherwise stated) as to its state or condition Postcode or that it is capable of fulfilling its intended function, and prospective purchasers/tenants should satisfy themselves as to the fitness of such equipment for NN11 6LF their requirements. The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. Photographs taken: October 2013 / May 2016. 16/06/27 NR. Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2016. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:3926. This plan is published for the convenience of identification only and although believed to be correct, its accuracy is not guaranteed and it does not form part of the contract. This plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of HM Stationery Office. Crown Copyright Reserved.

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