An overview of Sunnyhill Farm
To the south, the first-floor principal bedroom and the internal balcony have doors overlooking the formal garden and fields, while bedrooms in the north immediately overlook the manège and the stables and paddock beyond. There is an integral but independent one bedroom annexe and a two-bedroom mobile home near the stables provides potential accommodation for a groom. There Is an all-round view of the horses in the stables, manège and paddocks from inside the barn.
A three-sided convex porch shelters the glazed front door with flanking windows which opens to the stone tiled entrance hall with the floating staircase to the first floor. Entrance hall doors on the north side open to the utility room, plant room, and the integrated garage; the south side has doors to the office, ground floor bedrooms four and five and the cloakroom. Further doors in the east wall access the annexe kitchen and the bedroom/sitting room with a door to the shower room. The first flight of stairs in the entrance hall reaches a small landing and turns fully to continue up another flight to the open plan main reception room. This has an obscured door to the principal bedroom and accesses the interior balcony. Another flight of steps from the first landing reaches a higher landing which accesses the principal bedroom suite and bedrooms two and three, both with en suite shower rooms.
Ground Floor
Entrance Hall with Cloakroom, Utility/Boot and Plant Rooms
The entire house has underfloor heating beneath either high spec wood-effect laminate, or stone tiled floors in the entrance hall and cloakroom. The doors throughout the house are solid oak. The entrance hall contains the unusual contemporary handmade staircase with open oak treads and double glass balustrading, which make the staircase appear to float and allow light to pass throughout the area from the front door and the triple Velux windows above the stairwell. There is a cloakroom with marble tiled walls and a floor-to-ceiling window. A utility/boot room has laminate flooring, a floor-to-ceiling window overlooking the drive and fitted gloss fronted units with a contrasting worksurface and space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer.
Plant Room and Technical Features
The property has ground source heating (there is a Renewable Heat Initiative grant from OFGEN of over £6,400 pa until 03/2028). The plant room acts as the control centre for the advanced features in the house including the manifolds for the ground source heat pump, the Vent-Axia air extraction system which recovers heat from around the house, and the solar panels on the roof which heat the hot water cylinder in the plant room. (There is also a back-up Immersion heater for sunless days in winter and a water softener unit.) There is a free-standing comms cabinet - each room has hard wired internet from a private server - and the house is hard-wired for TV, USB, and a fire detection system. The Electrolux internal vacuum system, connectable in each room, is operated from the plant room, where there are also fuse boxes. An integral Sonos sound system also operates to speakers in each room from the kitchen area, which also has a smart kitchen appliance system.
Office, Bedrooms Four and Five and Jack and Jill Bathroom
The office measures over 19 ft. by over 11 ft. and has a floor to ceiling window overlooking the drive and patio doors opening to the patio and south facing formal garden.
Bedrooms two and three are the same size, over 19 ft. by 12 ft., and both have sliding doors opening to the patio overlooking the south garden. Both bedrooms share a Jack and Jill bathroom with stone tiled flooring, partially marble tiled walls, a marble panelled bath with a shower over and a glass screen. There is a modern basin over a vanity unit with drawers, a mirror with a light sensor above, and a WC with a concealed cistern.
First Floor
Kitchen/Breakfast/Dining/Sitting Room and Interior Balcony
Accessed from the staircase with a glass balustraded gallery, this open plan room spans the full width, and half the area of the entire first floor. The over 49 ft. by over 24 ft. space has exposed structural steels supporting a vaulted roof with Velux windows. The north gable end has two sets of Danish state-of-the-art aluminium sliding doors with glazed balusters overlooking the manège and stables beyond. Two further tilt-and-open full-height windows overlook the front drive. The doors/windows in this room have full-length, rechargeable lithium battery powered wireless blinds. A glass sliding door spans the width of the room towards the south end, opening to the interior balcony; there is also a secret door into the principal bedroom suite. The seating area has a modern electric fireplace with changeable light effects set in a Corian surround.
The fitted kitchen area has a bespoke floor-to-ceiling pull-out cupboard, and base and wall units with storage and pan drawers under a Dextron Orix worksurface and splashback. There are two matching islands, one with a breakfast bar seating six, an inset champagne cooler, and a wine fridge, the other with an inset double Blanco sink with a Quooker hot and cold tap. Gaggenhau integrated appliances include: two fan ovens, a microwave, a warming drawer, a dishwasher, full height separate fridge and freezer and there is an inset induction hob with an extractor over. The dining area has room for a dining table seating up to a dozen people.
The south facing end of the interior balcony has bi-folding doors which span the entire width of the gable with a glazed baluster running parallel. This creates a reception space that brings the formal south-facing garden and the far-reaching views of the landscape beyond into the room, even when the bi-folds are closed. The vaulted ceiling and walls have exposed tongue-and-groove panelling furthering the sense of nature.
Principal Bedroom Suite
The principal bedroom measures over 24 ft. by over 15 ft. and has the same vaulted height and exposed structural steels as the open plan reception space. It also has a similar arrangement of double opening doors filling the gable end as in the north end of the kitchen area, but here taking in views of the formal south facing garden and beyond. (The windows have the same automatically operated blinds as the kitchen area.) A walkthrough from the bedroom leads into a similarly vaulted dressing area with a Velux window and built-in bedroom furniture including a dressing table and chest of drawers alongside three walls lined with wardrobes with drawers, hanging, or shelved storage. A door leads to the vaulted en suite bathroom which has a Velux window and strikingly-figured outsize marble wall tiles. There is a walk-in double shower with a glass screen, a modern hanging vanity unit with double basins, a mirror with a sensor over, and a hanging WC with a concealed cistern.
Bedroom Two and Three and En Suite Shower Rooms
The gable end overlooking the north aspect, with first-floor views of the menège and stable beyond, is divided into two similarly sized bedrooms (over 18 ft. by over 11 ft.) with opposingly pitched roofs. Each room has the half gable end filled with opening patio doors with a glazed baluster. Both rooms have en suite shower rooms with partially marble tiled walls, a walk-in shower, matching WCs, and basins in modern vanity units. All five bathrooms in the house have heated towel rails.
Annexe
The annexe is accessed from doors off the entrance hall (which could be locked to isolate the annexe), from externally from sliding doors from the south patio into the bedroom/sitting area or from an east facing external door into the kitchen. The over 24 ft. by over 11 ft. bedroom/sitting area has doors overlooking the formal garden and a door leading to the en suite shower room with a stone tiled floor, partially marble tiled walls, and a window to the side. Like all the shower rooms in the house, there is a rainwater shower and sanitaryware is made by Villeroy and Boche, with Grohe taps, and the WC has a Geberit cistern. A further door leads from the sitting area to the annexe kitchen which has base and wall gloss fronted fitted units with a stainless steel sink set in the worksurface and space and plumbing for two appliances. There are an integrated oven and fridge/freezer (Lamona) and a hob with an extractor above.
Integral Tandem Garage/Gym
The garage is accessed via a remotely-controlled roller door off the front drive or through a personnel door off the entrance hall. An internal roller shutter, also automatically operated, can be lowered to bisect the over 48 ft. by over 16 ft. space. There is a treated concrete floor with underfloor heating in the rear, eastern part, with windows over the side, which is currently used as a gym. It has light and power connected as well as a further fuse box.
Outbuildings
Mobile Home
Potentially useful as accommodation for staff or additional guests, this two-bedroomed timber clad mobile home is currently positioned near the stable block and has central heating. A door opens to a corridor with a cloakroom, which accesses two bedrooms, both with windows, one with en suite shower. The triple aspect sitting area has a walkthrough to a fitted kitchen with a window.
Stables and Manège
The timber-built stable block with a traditional clock tower, overlooks a paddock in front of the manège, adjacent to the north side of the house. It is flood lit and visible from the south and west of the property. The L-shaped block has four stables measuring 12 ft. by 12 ft. facing south, each with stable doors, opening windows, and a skylight strip in the roof. There is a centrally positioned feed room which accesses a laundry room behind with hot and cold water, a sink, and a washing machine. The tack room, with a single door, and the hay barn and store with double doors face west. The concrete floor extends outside the front under the overhang. There is post and rail fencing with a three-bar gate separating it from the paddock.
The rubber and sand manège measures approximately 130 ft. by 78 ft. (40m x 23.5m) and is enclosed by post and rail fencing with a five-bar gate into the paddock in front of the stable block.
Grounds
Garden
A tarmacadam drive lined by lawn and floodlit silver birch trees passes the stables, paddock and manège as it approaches the front of the house before widening into a circular driveway. The block paved drive has a central specimen tree and raised borders on the north side. The house feels secluded because it is surrounded by its own land and the south-facing formal garden is deceptively low-maintenance, being laid mainly to lawn. Within the lawn is a sunken paved seating and fire pit area, reached by steps, its raised borders planted with clipped lavender and standard bay trees. The side border has a sculptural planting scheme with phormiums and eucalyptus against open wire fencing which visually includes the mature hedges and trees. The expanse of windows in the south end of the house provide far-reaching views of the garden and countryside beyond. A paved patio at the south end with a jacuzzi also allows the patio doors of the ground floor accommodation immediate access to the garden.
Paddock Land/Fields
To the south of the house, beyond the formal garden are the four fields attached to the property, three of which are enclosed by post and rail fencing, the fourth by indigenous hedging with farm fencing. The field immediately overlooked by the garden has the field shelter and three five-bar timber gates to the next field.
Locality
Great Horwood is a village in Buckinghamshire, located between Aylesbury, Buckingham, and Milton Keynes, with a village hall and The Swan Inn public house. The extensive facilities of Central Milton Keynes are 9 miles away. The property is in catchment for the Royal Latin School and there is a village primary school. It is also close to independent schools at Swanbourne, Akeley Wood, and Beachborough. It is within 2 miles of the station due to open in Winslow in 2026.
