Semi-detached house for sale in Aylesbury HP22, 4 Bedroom
Quick Summary
- Property Type:
- Semi-detached house
- Status:
- For sale
- Price
- £ 1,000,000
- Beds:
- 4
- Baths:
- 5
- Recepts:
- 3
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Outcode
- HP22
- Location
- Quainton, Aylesbury HP22
- Marketed By:
- W Humphries
- Posted
- 2024-04-26
- HP22 Rating:
- More Info?
- Please contact W Humphries on 01296 698079 or Request Details
Property Description
Description The current owners have created a unique and quite stunning home with a substantial dwelling and both leisure and equestrian facilities. The inside and outside combine beautifully with a large covered terrace accessing the accommodation and indoor swimming pool complex forming a fabulous entertainment area. For the equestrian minded there is a stable block and storage barns, paddocks and a manege. The property also has offices and an expansive amount of parking. Originally a farm workers cottage the house enjoys a lovely semi rural location with access to superb riding on the nearby bridleway network.
The accommodation
The interior is exceptionally well presented, the windows are upvc double glazed and tilt and turn design, the window sills oak. The doors are latched and braced, again oak, and the finish to the whole of the house is extremely high quality. Solar panels have been installed on the roof (see services). At the entrance is a porch with a patterned glass door leading into the hall which has an Italian porcelain floor that continues through the downstairs living areas. Off the hall is a fully fitted bathroom with a freestanding bath, the sink has drawers beneath it and the walls are panelled up to the dado height then metro tiled. In the principle reception room there is a cast iron woodburning stove in a heavy beam surround, bi folding doors open out to the kitchen garden. There is a splendid open plan kitchen, dining and sitting area with bi folding doors out to the terrace and at the end more to the kitchen garden. The sitting room has a remote controlled lit fan, adjacent is a utility room that is equipped with cupboards, worktops, a one and a half bowl sink and an integrated fridge and freezer. The kitchen is comprehensively fitted with stone coloured soft close units incorporating a larder and corner carousels and a dishwasher. Space is provided for a range cooker. The worktops are of black granite and set within them a double sink. Centrally situated is an island that has a wooden top, the kitchen is triple aspect and in the dining area at the rear sits a ‘Lincar’ solid fuel range with hot plates and an oven that can also operate the heating and water. On the first floor are four double bedrooms, all with ensuite facilities, the master looking over the roof of the terrace which has been turned into a garden with heather, moss and wild flowers.
Outside
Electric gates are at the entrance, hardstanding and parking then extends up to the house, to the front of the office, around the back of the stables and into a large bay suitable for lorries etc.
There are gardens to the front and rear of the house, the front has a lawn with trees and the rear a charming kitchen garden that enjoys a south westerly aspect comprising of a slate patio and an enclosed lawn with plum and cherry trees surrounded by raised planters containing fruit bushes. Adjacent is a greenhouse. The space between the house and the swimming pool has been turned into a sizable seating area all under a canopy which has lighting and a giant chiminea, it links the outside to the buildings superbly. There is then a further deck and a door to the log store.
Indoor swimming pool – The pool itself is 10 metres x 4 metres, heated and the room wired for a sound system. At the far end is a toilet, changing room and the heating/pumping equipment.
Stable Yard – L shaped with a concrete base and apron and of timber construction. There is a hay barn/tack room, 7 12x12 stables and behind the stables a pole barn. The hay barn has power and lighting and the stables all have lighting. In front of the stableyard is a post and railed 40m x 20m manege with a sand and silica surface.
Offices – Currently used for dog grooming with a waiting room and work room, electricity, water and drainage are connected, the work room has a sink, worktop and its own entrance around the side.
The land – Divided into several paddocks by post and rail fencing, six of level pasture and a chicken enclosure with an orchard.
Location Quainton takes its name from the Old English words Cwen + Tun and means ‘The Queens Farmstead or Estate’ prominent on the skyline is the 14th century church which is exceptionally rich in large late 17th and 18th century monuments. The centre point of Quainton is the picturesque village green which looks up towards the 1830 windmill. In the middle of the green is a fourteenth century preaching cross and in a picture from the late 1800’s the old whipping post is visible where miscreants were tied and flogged! Until the outbreak of Dutch Elm disease the village was embosomed by trees. Quainton now has a public house and popular cafe, motor repairs, shop, playing field and floodlit tennis courts. The surrounding market towns and villages provide a wealth of historical and interesting places to visit including Waddesdon Manor, Claydon House and Quainton Steam Railway. Extensive shopping facilities are situated at Bicester Village Retail Outlet, the refurbished Friar’s Square Centre in Aylesbury, and Milton Keynes. The A41 provides easy access into Aylesbury, Bicester and the M40 network. Rail connections are fast and convenient on the Chiltern Turbo reaching London Marylebone in under an hour from Aylesbury. Services to Euston are available from Cheddington and Leighton Buzzard. Aylesbury Parkway now provides a link to Marylebone at Fleet Marston.
Education
Preparatory schools at Ashfold, Swanbourne and Oxford. Village Primary School at Quainton. Waddesdon Secondary School. Public schools at Stowe, Berkhamsted and Oxford. Grammar Schools at Aylesbury and Buckingham.
Services
Mains water and electricity. Lpg heating. Private drainage. The solar panels generate an income of approx. £750.00 per annum.
Viewing
Strictly via the vendors agent W Humphries or joint agent Fine & Country
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