Description
A characterful family house with a detached garage with accommodation over and gardens of approximately 0.5 acres, set in a semi-rural position with countryside views. The house is believed to date from the 17th century and is of mellow brick under a tiled roof with character features including exposed beams. It also has a detached double garage with a bedroom and shower room over.
The reception hall has exposed beams, a cloakroom, and stairs to the first floor. The family room is an extension to the property and has an open fireplace and painted ceiling beams. The beamed older part of the house has a dining room with a door to the outside, a feature fireplace with a vintage decorative stove, and an opening to a sitting room which has storage cupboards, and is open plan to an Orangery with a large roof light and French doors to the rear terrace. The kitchen has an adjoining utility room and is open to the breakfast room which has bi-fold doors to the rear terrace.
There are four bedrooms on the first floor two with en suites and a family shower room. One of the bedrooms has a walk-in wardrobe.
Reception Rooms The triple aspect family room has a corner open fireplace and overlooks the front of the house. The remaining reception rooms interconnect and have character features with exposed beams to some, a feature stove in the dining room and an open fireplace with a wood burning stove in the sitting room. The breakfast room has a wood floor and connects the kitchen and sitting room creating free flowing accommodation for modern family life and entertaining. There are views and access to the garden from the breakfast room and the Prime Oak Orangery.
Outside Approached via a country lane the house has garden areas on all sides. The driveway at the front provides parking for four cars, screened by fruit trees and hedging, and leads to a detached double garage with an internal door to the accommodation over. The rear terrace leads to an expanse of lawn with established shrub borders, yew hedging and a gravel path, lined with further fruit trees, to an enclosed kitchen garden with raised beds. The garden backs on to open farmland.
Situation and Schooling In Stone and nearby there are a village shop/post office, a Church of England combined school, restaurants, public houses, and a hotel and spa. Aylesbury (2.9 miles) has shopping, social and sports facilities, restaurants, schools, a college, and a university. The property is in catchment for the Aylesbury grammar schools and local private schools include Griffin House and Ashfold.
