Rippington Manor Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire

Rippington Manor Church Street, Great Gransden, Cambridgeshire SG19 3AF (Postal address Sandy, Bedfordshire) A delightful Grade II* listed former manor house with separate cottage annexe and barn with planning consent for conversion Lot 1 Rippington Manor Reception hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Study Aga kitchen/breakfast room • Laundry room • WC Master bedroom with ensuite bathroom • 4 further bedrooms • Family bathroom • 2 attic rooms Cottage with kitchen/breakfast room • Sitting room Bedroom with en suite and ground floor bathroom Garaging and stores 3.51 acres Lot 2 – Detached Barn and Outbuildings With planning consent for conversion into a separate dwelling Independent access • Further outbuildings and site of former stable yard 0.93 acres Lot 3 – Paddock A 1.98 acre area of grassland In all 6.22 acres

Savills Cambridge Unex House, 132-134 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PA Contact: James Barnett MRICS [email protected] 01223 347 147 www.savills.co.uk Situation Rippington Manor is situated in the heart of the oldest part of the village adjacent to St Bartholomew’s church. Great Gransden is a pretty and thriving village with a mix of period and modern properties, a primary school, village shop/post office and a public house, The Crown & Cushion. There is a “Gransden Show” annually which is an agricultural event put on by the Gransden and District Agricultural Society. There are local facilities for everyday shopping at Cambourne and St Neots with more comprehensive shopping, schooling and recreational facilities available at the high tech University City of Cambridge 12 miles to the east (15 miles to the centre). Mainline rail services are available into London King’s Cross from both St Neots and Royston stations (7.4 & 13.8 miles respectively) and the A1 at St Neots is reached via the A428 which is north of the village and leads (in the east) to the A14, M11 and Cambridge. Renowned independent schooling (St John’s & King’s College prep schools, St Faith’s, St Mary’s The Perse CoEd, Stephen Perse Foundation schools and The Leys) are found in Cambridge and other independent schools within the area include Kimbolton, Oakham, Uppingham and Oundle.

Historical Note This remarkably complete brick-built Tudor manor house sits on monastery remains recorded in the Domesday Book. The H-shaped house has an enormous stone chimney breast and was built by Robert Audley in 1565 of lath and plaster but was brick-encased in 1645. Home to Sir Charles Caesar and son Julius, master of the rolls, the original building, then called Repingdon (later Reppington), was a cell of the Augustinian monastery at Repton. It stood on this site in 660 and was referred to in a charter of 1159, recorded in an inventory of the 1st Earl of Clare. It was destroyed in the Danish Wars, but rebuilt in 1172 by Maud, widow of Ranulph, Earl of Chester. The ponds were apparently used by the monks for fishing. Description Rippington Manor is a fine example of a former manor house dating is the well proportioned drawing room with 18th century panelling At first floor there are 5 bedrooms including a master bedroom with back to the mid-16th Century. The current house was originally which conceals a miniature “library”. Here there is a wide open an ensuite bathroom. Three have large original open fireplaces (now timber framed and was encased in Tudor brick in the 17th Century. fireplace with stone surround, a Georgian corner cupboard and a sealed), with carved stone surrounds and in a number of areas there The plan is typical of the era with a central hall and matching cross French door to the side leading out into the gardens. To the other is evidence of the original timber frame. The attics are also accessible wings of two storeys with “garret” attic rooms either end, all under end of the hall is a study, reached up a short flight of stone steps; via a staircase each at either end of the landing. a plain tiled roof. The house occupies a lovely spot on its own a cross passage with planked door leading out into a loggia and Separately accessed, to the rear of the property, there is a one but is convenient for the centre of the well served village of Great a panelled dining room with wide leaded light casement window bedroom two storey cottage/annexe with a large kitchen, a sitting Gransden. overlooking a small courtyard and the adjacent cottage. The kitchen room, ground floor bathroom and bedroom on the first floor with Grade II* listed as being of architectural and historic interest is well fitted with a range of white units, inset two oven Aga and an ensuite w.c and wash basin. and owned by the current family since 1945, the house is utterly integrated fridge and dishwasher. There is also a cloakroom and a charming. A metal studded plank door opens into the stone flagged separate laundry/utility reached down a flight of stairs beneath the dado panelled reception hall with stone open fireplace. To the left study. Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2017. All rights Scale mapping with permission of the Controller reserved. Licence number 100022432. NOT TO SCALE. of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)

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Outside Lot 2 Fencing The house is accessed by two separate driveways. The “front” drive Period outbuildings with planning consent for conversion to a If Lot 2 is sold separately from Lot 1 and/or Lot 3, the purchasers will passes through woodland and leads down to a shingled oval shaped separate dwelling. be responsible for erecting a post and rail stock proof fence along the parking area adjacent to the garages in front of the house. The other The existing building has been converted to a “gallery” for the unfenced section of the boundary with the adjacent lots. drive serves the back door of the house and the cottage/annexe and current owners but full planning consent (Application number Services runs along the boundary with the adjacent church. The gardens and 1200433FUL) was granted on 18th December 2013 for “Change Mains water, electricity and drainage, oil fired central heating by hot grounds are a particular feature of the property and include woodland of use of barn and refurbishment to create dwelling at Barns at water radiators. which separates the house from the village, lawned gardens, a Rippington Manor, 16 Church Street, Great Gransden”. south facing cobbled courtyard at the rear, with a covered veranda The vendors have recently commissioned further “pre-application” Local Authority supported on columns (originally from Pinewood Studios). The advice from Huntingdon District Council and although their Huntingdon District Council rear elevation of the house is draped in climbing roses and the beds application centred on the suitability of the land to the north of the adjacent feature a wide variety of shrubs including some exotics. The Council Tax: Band H. Amount payable 2017/18 £3,263.82 barn for use as a separate building plot, they were encouraged by remainder of the garden is walled and slopes gently away from the the Local Authority’s view that the consented barn could be made Directions house with topiary running down the centre leading to a large pond larger to take full advantage of the plot. Further enquiries should be From Cambridge proceed west on the A428 heading towards St (thought to have originally been a fish pond serving the monastic cell directed to the vendors’ sole agents. Neots. Proceed along the dual carriageway to Caxton Gibbett Turn which occupied the house in medieval times). To the north there is a left at Caxton Gibbet to Caxton. In Caxton turn right – signposted level paddock and the northern section of the site is divided into two 0.93 acres. ‘The Gransdens’. On entering the village continue down the hill to other lots (see above right). Lot 3 the mini roundabout. Turn left and Rippington Manor is on the right 3.51 acres A parcel of grassland available bordering the Home Dole Brook to the just around the corner. east. 1.98 acres. Gross internal floor area 323.4 sq m / 3481 sq ft Annexe Annexe: 77.4 sq m / 833 sq ft Outbuildings: 193.3 sq m / 2081 sq ft Total: 594.1 sq m / 6395 sq ft Not to scale. For identification purposes only. Annexe: Annexe: Ground Floor First Floor

Barn (Not Shown In Actual Location / Orientation)

Lot 2

Garages (Not Shown In Actual Location / Orientation)

Ground Floor First Floor

Important Notice Savills and their client give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations 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 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. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills has not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Photographs taken October 2016 by Justin Paget Photography Ltd. Details prepared March 2017. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087. 17/03/24 VP