HOME FARM HOUSE ICOMB, CHELTENHAM,

HOME FARM HOUSE ICOMB, CHELTENHAM, GLOUCESTERSHIRE GL54 1JD A fine Grade II listed village farm house

Reception hall • Drawing room • Sitting room • Dining room • Family room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Gallery Utility • Cloakroom • Study • Three bedroom suites Two further bedrooms • Family bathroom • Garaging /stabling Spacious barn with planning • Outbuildings • Landscaped gardens • Orchard and paddock with road access About 2.7 acres Freehold

Mileages Stow-on-the-Wold 4 miles, Kingham 4 miles (mainline station to London Paddington from 85 minutes), Burford 8 miles, Cheltenham 21 mile, Stratford-upon-Avon 24 miles, Oxford 27 miles (all distances and times are approximate).

SAVILLS COUNTRY DEPARTMENT SAVILLS STOW-ON-THE-WOLD 33 Margaret Street Cotswold House, Church Street, London Stow-on-the-Wold, W1G 0JD Gloucestershire, GL54 1BB +44 (0) 20 7016 3825 +44 (0)1451 832 832. [email protected] [email protected]

Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text SITUATION AND COMMUNICATIONS The highly regarded village of Icomb is situated in the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and offers sweeping panoramic views. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and most of the properties were built in the seventeenth and eighteenth- centuries from local stone. The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin was built in the thirteenth-century and contains the tomb of a knight who fought with Henry V at Agincourt. Icomb is an active and thriving village with a strong sense of community. The historic market town of Stow-on-the-Wold provides an excellent range of shops and facilities to meet day-to-day needs as well many excellent restaurants, pubs, antique shops, boutiques and delicatessens. Bourton-on-the-Water, Moreton-in-Marsh and Burford provide further shops and services. The celebrated Daylesford Organic Shop and Spa is about 4.5 miles away. The exclusive leisure facilities of Soho Farmhouse are only 16 miles distant. There is an excellent range of private and state schools in the area and further afield including the Cotswold School in Bourton- on-the-Water, Kingham Hill, Cheltenham Ladies’ College and St Edward’s in Oxford. The area offers a range of leisure pursuits including fishing on the Evenlode, national hunt racing at Cheltenham, Stratford-upon- Avon and Warwick, hunting with the Heythrop, Warwickshire and North Cotswolds hounds, polo at Kirtlington and Cirencester Park, golf at Naunton Downs, Lyneham, Burford and Chipping Norton and sailing at the Cotswolds Water Park. There are excellent theatres in Chipping Norton, Oxford and Stratford-upon-Avon. The surrounding countryside provides many attractive walks along the extensive network of country lanes, bridleways and footpaths. The area is well-served by road and rail links with the nearby Fosse Way/A429 providing links to Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick to the north and Cirencester to the south. The A40 are Burford connects to the M40 at Oxford and onwards to London. Kingham Station is just four miles away providing direct trains to Oxford, London Paddington and Worcester.

HOME FARM HOUSE Home Farm House is situated in the heart of the village overlooking the War Memorial. The property, which was formerly a farmhouse, is Grade II listed with the original part dating back to the late seventeenth-century. The property is constructed of coursed, squared and finely dressed limestone beneath a concrete tiled roof. Home Farm House was extensively refurbished to a high specification just prior to the current owners purchase of the property. Great care was taken to retain the period features including flagstone floors, exposed timbers, mullion windows, inglenook fireplace and exposed floorboards.

Internally the property provides 4,135 sq ft of accommodation over three floors. Access is via an open-sided gabled wooden porch which leads into a welcoming reception hall with original stone mullion window and flagstone flooring. There are four superb reception rooms, all of which are presented to the highest standards. The kitchen is fitted with bespoke floor cabinets, with integrated appliances, designed around a four oven Aga. A spacious island unit provides extra preparatory space and a separate Gorenje electric oven. There is plenty of space for a large table and chairs. Beyond the kitchen/breakfast room is the utility and cloakroom with door to garden.

The principal bedroom and bathroom accommodation is situated across the first floor comprising three bedroom suites. On the second floor are two further bedrooms which share a bathroom. The arrangement of rooms is versatile and lends itself to a number of uses. HOME FARM HOUSE Approximate Gross Internal Area: 384 sq.m. / 4135 sq.ft. Outbuilding: 206 sq.m. / 2217 sq.ft. Total: 590 sq.m. / 6352 sq.ft.

SECOND FLOOR OUTBUILDING (Not shown in actual OUTBUILDING location/orientation) (Not shown in actual location/orientation)

FIRST FLOOR

GROUND FLOOR

OUTBUILDING (Not shown in actual location/orientation) A particular feature of the property is the wonderful Grade II listed detached barn. Planning consent was obtained in 2006 for conversion of the barn to ancillary accommodation (ref 06/02741/ FUL). There is also a stable block which the current owners use as a three bay car port with store rooms. The predominantly west facing garden lies to the rear of the property. Beyond the barn is a level lawn which rises up to an orchard planted with numerous blossoming fruit trees. Beyond this is a paddock of about 2 acres with separate road access. The property offers an abundance of Cotswold charm which together with the wonderful outbuildings provides the peace and privacy of a small country estate. GENERAL INFORMATION Local Authority Council. Telephone 01285 623000. Band G. Services Mains water, drainage and electricity are connected. Butane fired central heating. Telephone line subject to BT transfer regulations. Town and Country Planning HOME FARM HOUSE The property lies within the area administered by Cotswold District Council, to whom interested parties are advised to make their own enquiries in respect of any planning issues and development opportunities for the property. Wayleaves, Easements and Rights of Way The property is sold subject to the benefit of all rights including rights of way, whether public or private, light, support, drainage, water and electricity supplies and any other rights and obligations, easements and proposed wayleaves for masts, pylons, stays, cables, drains and water, gas and other pipes, whether referred to in the Conditions of Sale, or not.

Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908) Directions GL54 1JD From Stow-on-the-Wold head west on the A436. After about a mile turn right onto the B4450 signposted to /Kingham. Continue for about 1.2 miles, cross the bridge and turn immediately right. Follow the road towards the War Memorial. Viewing Strictly by prior accompanied appointment with Savills Stow-on- the-Wold. Date of Information Particulars prepared: February 2020. Photographs taken: spring 2017. Tenure Freehold.

Important Notice: Savills, their clients and any joint agents 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 have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. HR 06/03/20 Kingfisher Print and Design Ltd. 01803 867087.