22 High Street South

Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, LU7 0HR

Asking Price

£850,000

Property Highlights

Grade II Listed thatched cottage
Three bedrooms
Two bath or shower rooms
Three reception rooms
Kitchen, utility room
Many period features
Two storey brick outbuilding, summer house
Enclosed plot

Property description

A Grade II Listed three bedroom detached cottage with a thatched roof, gardens, a two storey outbuilding and parking for at least eight cars located on a corner plot in the village of Stewkley.

The timber framed brick under thatch property dates back in parts to the 16th century with later additions from 17th and 18th centuries and retains period features such as exposed beams and latch and brace doors. It has nearly 1,700 sq. ft. of accommodation over two floors. On the ground floor, a rear lobby has a staircase to the first floor and accesses the reception rooms. The dining room has a second staircase to the first floor, there is a study, a dual aspect sitting room, both with fireplaces, a kitchen, and a utility room accessing a shower room. On the first floor, there are three double bedrooms, two of which are double aspect and one bedroom with a dressing room and a fireplace; there is a family bathroom Outside, and to the front, are two gated entrances and lawned areas with mature trees. A gravel drive has parking for up to eight cars. There is a separate two storey brick building formerly a bake house still with original ovens, in use as a workshop and store,

Kitchen

The dual aspect kitchen room has a door to the front porch with a further door into the sitting room and exposed ceiling beams. There is a range of base and wall units with wood worksurfaces and upstands, a ceramic butler’s style sink, and space for a range style cooker with an extractor over. There is a tiled floor and room for a breakfast table with chairs. The utility room has space and plumbing for integrated appliances along with access to a ground floor three piece shower room.

Garden

Brick wall boundaries, in keeping with the house, surround the entire property as well as areas of clipped hedging and established borders. Mature gardens wrap round the property on three sides and there is an enclosed garden to the rear which has a further lawned area with a summer house and a patio with space for table and chairs.

Situation and Schooling

Leisure facilities include the Three Locks Golf Club (2 miles) and Aylesbury Vale Golf Club (1 mile). Shopping is at Leighton Buzzard (4 miles) and Central Milton Keynes (12 miles). M1 junction 13 is 13 miles away. The property is in catchment for the Aylesbury grammar and Cottesloe Secondary schools and there is a bus service to these schools. St Michael’s Combined School is 0.3 miles. GP, dental and veterinary surgeries are in Leighton Buzzard.

+ Read more