Whittington, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire Guide price £1,595,000

Situation

The picturesque village of Whittington includes an array of pretty cottages and farmhouses, along with the Norman church of St Bartholmew. The Regency spa town of Cheltenham is about five miles away and offers a wide range of facilities for everyday living with many shops, restaurants and bars as well as a good selection of excellent schools including Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Cheltenham College (co-ed), St Edward’s and Dean Close. The town is also well known for the many jazz, science, literary and music festivals that it holds as well as the cricket and national hunt festivals, including the Gold Cup meeting in the spring.
The village is well located for communications with access to the M5 (J.11a) being about five miles distant along with the M4 (J.15) which is about thirty two miles away. There are fast train services available at Cheltenham and Swindon, both offering access to London Paddington and Birmingham. Birmingham and Bristol International airports are forty five and forty four miles away respectively.

Description

Whittington Manor is a beautifully presented family house which was built in 2004. Great attention to detail has been applied in the design of the property which benefits from limestone flooring on the ground floor and stone mullion windows throughout as well as an oak staircase and oak doors. The drawing room and dining room both have working fireplaces and there are French windows to the garden from the sitting room, inner hall and reception hall. The layout on the ground floor is predominantly open plan with beautiful limestone arches leading from the reception hall and inner hall to the reception rooms and kitchen/breakfast room.
On the first floor, both the master and guest bedrooms have dressing rooms along with en suite bath/shower rooms and there are two further bedroom suites.
Outside there is a double garage with electrically operated doors and a guest suite above which has a bed/sitting room, shower room and a potential kitchen (which would require fitting). This area would also make an ideal home office/annexe.
The property is approached from the village lane to a paved parking area for several cars leading to the double garage.
The gardens lie to three sides of the property with a beautifully landscaped area having herbaceous and shrub borders to the southern side of the drawing room, being predominantly laid to lawn with a path leading around the edge.
From the inner hall French windows lead to a further paved area outside the kitchen and sitting room which would be an ideal area for al fresco dining and having a heated plunge pool, which has a filtration system, to one corner. To the rear of the house there is an outdoor sink and a path leading around to the front.
Steps lead up to a further area of sloping lawn which has been planted with a range of trees and is bounded by Portugese Laurel hedging.

Accommodation

Reception Hall, Drawing Room, Dining Room, Sitting Room, Kitchen/Breakfast Room, Cloakroom, Utility Room. Four Bedrooms with En Suite Bath/Shower Rooms (Two with Dressing Rooms). Double Garage with Guest Suite above. Delightful Gardens with Plunge Pool.

Directions

Leave Cheltenham on the A40 London Road and continue up Dowdeswell Hill. Take the turning on the left signposted to Whittington and at the T-junction turn left. Follow the road through the village and take the right hand fork down a no through lane where Whittington Manor will be found on the right hand side, approached through electrically operated wrought iron gates.