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Freehold
Guide price
£1,350,000
(£468/sq. ft)
4 bed detached house for sale
Main Street, Woodend, Towcester NN124 beds
2 baths
3 receptions
2,885 sq. ft
Key Information
Tenure:
Freehold
Council tax band:
G
Local area information
Property location
Nearby amenities
- Blakesley Church of England Primary School 0.9 miles
- St Loys Church of England Primary Academy, Weedon Lois 1.8 miles
These distances are calculated in a straight line. The actual route and distance may vary.
Features and description
- Freehold
- 4 bedrooms
- 3 reception rooms
- 2 bathrooms
- 0.95 acres
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Detached
- Garden
- Village
- Farm House
Home Farm House is a 17th-century stone former farmhouse understood to date from 1732, situated in the centre of the village in the Conservation Area. The property is Grade II listed and has lovely traditional period architectural features, including exposed beams, an inglenook fireplace, flagstone flooring and window seats. Extensive renovation works were undertaken by the present owners, including re-roofing, replacing a number of the windows, a new kitchen and bathrooms, and a boiler.
The accommodation extends to about 2,885 square feet, with three handsome reception rooms, a drawing room, an inglenook fireplace with a wood burner, a door to the garden, and access to the wine cellar. This room leads to the sitting room, again with an attractive fireplace and wood burner. The kitchen/breakfast room has an extensive range of kitchen units, electric Aga, a door to the garage, a fireplace with a wood burner and integrated appliances. Off the hall is the guest WC and the dining room, with windows to the east and west and a concealed utility closet with plumbing for a washing machine and dryer.
There are two traditional staircases to the first-floor landing. The principal bedroom has windows to the south and east, an extensive range of fitted wardrobes, and an en suite shower room.Two further south-facing bedrooms with cupboards and a family bathroom with bath, twin basins and separate shower. To the second floor is a large space with exposed roof timbers and trusses, with a bedroom to one end and a study/teenage sitting room at the other end.
The house is beautifully placed and screened from the village street by the extensive range of stone-built barns suitable for a variety of possible uses with power and lighting. The outbuildings extend to over 2,300 square feet. At the south end, the two-storey barn has lapsed planning permission for conversion to a separate dwelling, which is ideal for an extended family. Guests or an income stream. The barn houses the oil tank and has cobbled flooring.
The gardens are lovely and mature with a flagstone terrace by the house, lawns, bulbs, borders, trees and shrubs, a vegetable garden and stone-built potting shed, yew and beech hedging and a summerhouse. There is a secondary access to the garden. A box hedge separates the garden from the orchard with a summer house. Fruit trees include apple, pear, walnut, mulberry and hazel.
The access is at the front of the house, with private parking.
Woodend is an attractive west Northamptonshire village, close to the villages of Bradden and Blakesley, which has a village shop and post office, parish church, public house primary school and village hall. The property is very well placed for the market towns of Brackley and Towcester for banks, supermarkets and day-to-day shopping, with more extensive shopping and recreational activities in Northampton, Milton Keynes and Banbury.
Horseracing at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, motor racing at Silverstone, theatres at Northampton and Milton Keynes and golf courses at Farthingstone, Whittlebury and Stowe.
The area has a wide range of state and private schools to suit most requirements, including Winchester House and Beachborough preparatory schools, Stowe, Bloxham and Tudor Hall Public schools.
Towcester 6 miles, Banbury 14 miles (InterCity trains to London Marylebone from 55 mins), Northampton 14 miles, Milton Keynes 18 miles (InterCity trains to London Euston from 35 minutes). M1 ( J15A) 11 miles. M40 (J11) 14 miles (time and distances approximate).
The accommodation extends to about 2,885 square feet, with three handsome reception rooms, a drawing room, an inglenook fireplace with a wood burner, a door to the garden, and access to the wine cellar. This room leads to the sitting room, again with an attractive fireplace and wood burner. The kitchen/breakfast room has an extensive range of kitchen units, electric Aga, a door to the garage, a fireplace with a wood burner and integrated appliances. Off the hall is the guest WC and the dining room, with windows to the east and west and a concealed utility closet with plumbing for a washing machine and dryer.
There are two traditional staircases to the first-floor landing. The principal bedroom has windows to the south and east, an extensive range of fitted wardrobes, and an en suite shower room.Two further south-facing bedrooms with cupboards and a family bathroom with bath, twin basins and separate shower. To the second floor is a large space with exposed roof timbers and trusses, with a bedroom to one end and a study/teenage sitting room at the other end.
The house is beautifully placed and screened from the village street by the extensive range of stone-built barns suitable for a variety of possible uses with power and lighting. The outbuildings extend to over 2,300 square feet. At the south end, the two-storey barn has lapsed planning permission for conversion to a separate dwelling, which is ideal for an extended family. Guests or an income stream. The barn houses the oil tank and has cobbled flooring.
The gardens are lovely and mature with a flagstone terrace by the house, lawns, bulbs, borders, trees and shrubs, a vegetable garden and stone-built potting shed, yew and beech hedging and a summerhouse. There is a secondary access to the garden. A box hedge separates the garden from the orchard with a summer house. Fruit trees include apple, pear, walnut, mulberry and hazel.
The access is at the front of the house, with private parking.
Woodend is an attractive west Northamptonshire village, close to the villages of Bradden and Blakesley, which has a village shop and post office, parish church, public house primary school and village hall. The property is very well placed for the market towns of Brackley and Towcester for banks, supermarkets and day-to-day shopping, with more extensive shopping and recreational activities in Northampton, Milton Keynes and Banbury.
Horseracing at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon, motor racing at Silverstone, theatres at Northampton and Milton Keynes and golf courses at Farthingstone, Whittlebury and Stowe.
The area has a wide range of state and private schools to suit most requirements, including Winchester House and Beachborough preparatory schools, Stowe, Bloxham and Tudor Hall Public schools.
Towcester 6 miles, Banbury 14 miles (InterCity trains to London Marylebone from 55 mins), Northampton 14 miles, Milton Keynes 18 miles (InterCity trains to London Euston from 35 minutes). M1 ( J15A) 11 miles. M40 (J11) 14 miles (time and distances approximate).
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Knight Frank - Stratford Upon Avon Sales
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