Tuesday Cottage

19 The Strand, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, HP22 4AS

Guide Price

£935,000

Property Highlights

Grade II listed characteerful village house
Modernised and restored, retaining original features
Three/four bedrooms and three bath or shower rooms (two en suite)
Three reception rooms
Fitted kitchen with orangery
Established cottage gardens with green house
Double garage, driveway, and garden store
Central village location

Property description

A Grade II listed 17th-century, detached thatched village house with exposed beams, feature fireplaces and cottage latch doors, with a drive and a double garage, set in established gardens bordering a neighbouring paddock.

The timber framed house has timbered elevations with rendered infill walls and leaded light windows under a thatched roof. The property has been the subject of improvement programmes over the years and now offers approximately 2,458 sq. ft. of traditional but modernised accommodation arranged over two floors. Approached over a cobbled driveway, a path through a formal garden then leads to the front door. An entrance hall has a cloakroom and doors leading to the utility room, the study, and the sitting room, which has stairs to the first floor and a door to the dining room, which accesses the kitchen. A walkway from the kitchen leads to the orangery. On the first floor are three/four bedrooms with three bath or shower rooms, two en suite. Outside is a double garage, a garden store, and a Hayley Botanical Ltd green house. There are areas of lawn interspersed with shrub and flower borders and mature fruit trees, enclosed by hedging and bordering a neighbouring paddock to the side.

Ground Floor

The reception hall has quarry tiled floors, a brick fireplace, and exposed structural beams, which feature in much of the house. A cloakroom, study and utility room lie off the hall. The main reception rooms include a sitting room with an inglenook fireplace, leading into a dining room with a further original fireplace; both rooms have garden views. Fitted in a range of units with granite worksurfaces and an Aga, the kitchen leads into an orangery with electric roof blinds and doors to the rear terrace.

First Floor

Two staircases access separate first floor areas. In the South end, a sitting room staircase leads to two double bedrooms – one with fitted wardrobes and both with en suite shower or bathrooms. The other area, reached via the dining room staircase, is arranged as a principal bedroom suite comprising a dual aspect, double bedroom with garden views, an en suite bathroom with twin hand basins, and a dressing room with built-in wardrobes (this room could be a fourth bedroom).

Outside

The cobbled driveway leads to a detached, double garage. A gateway leads into the extensively planted, mature gardens with an array of cottage plants including roses, tulips, daffodils, lavender etc. there are areas of lawn with mature fruit trees, a terrace area along two sides of the house and a kitchen garden with a greenhouse with a mature vine and a garden store. A soft fruit cage is at the rear of the house and there is a further seating area at the top of the garden.

Situation and Schooling

The village of Quainton has a Church of England combined school, a village store, tennis courts, a windmill, a football pitch, a playground, a church, and The George and Dragon public house as well as a tea room. Local private schools include Ashfold School (8.6 miles), Swanbourne House School (8.5 miles), Stowe School (14.7 miles), and Akeley Wood School (14.1 miles). The property is also in catchment for Waddesdon Church of England secondary school (2.9 miles) and Aylesbury’s grammar schools (7.8 miles).

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