For Sale9 Bedroom Detached House in Dorsington, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37£1,650,000

A handsome, large, restored Georgian fronted listed former farmhouse on the edge of the village, with lovely gardens, triple garage/workshop and paddock. Manor Farm is a substantial eighteenth-century family house with great architectural interest, privately situated at the end of a curved drive in a mature garden setting. The vendors have undertaken a very sympathetic restoration of the property, which combines an earlier brick-built farmhouse in Flemish bond with a more imposing ashlar stone Georgian front, with sash windows framed by clipped pyracantha bushes, and which leads to the wide front door with glazed panes and a Georgian fanlight above, to the main entrance hall with a patterned flagstone floor with an elegant timber Georgian staircase, two principal reception rooms and the two main bedrooms all with south-facing aspects. The older part of the house is on three storeys, with the sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, cloakroom and dining room to the ground floor, with bedrooms and bathrooms, the study and hobbies room on the two floors above. The drawing room has a fine marble fireplace surround, there is a woodburner in the dining room and attractive sitting room fireplace with carved pine surround and curved bay window with window seat. Family room with enclosed fire with marble surround. The fitted kitchen has painted units with integrated appliances, Corian worktops and induction hob with extractor over, ovens and microwave, quarry tile floor. Utility room with plumbing and door to outside. Traditional panelled doors with fluted carved architraves and dado rails, traditional cast iron radiators and new copper pipework, exposed ceiling timbers and polished boarded floors. There are a number of hardwood leaded windows and traditional cast iron fireplaces to some bedrooms. Cellar with sump pump. There are large bathrooms on both floors with free-standing baths, separate showers, WCs and, twin basins and Karndean flooring. There are ample storage cupboards throughout some with Georgian panelled doors. From the second floor rooms are attractive far-reaching views. Gardens and grounds Manor Farm is approached from a quiet country lane through a traditional 5 bar gate, down a long sweeping drive to a gravelled parking area to the south side of the house, with a lavender-lined flagstone path to the front door. The gardens are sheltered and lawned with mature trees and shrubs, including evergreen oak, chestnut, birch, spruce and fruit trees. Brick-paved and gravelled seating and outdoor dining areas. There is an oak-frame triple garage/workshop under a tile roof, with three pairs of double wooden doors, with an internal staircase to a studio room above with three roof lights. Accessed by a concrete drive behind the garage beyond the garden is a large grassland paddock with shallow traditional Warwickshire ridge and furrow contouring and traditional boundary hedges. There is a public footpath along the southern boundary of the paddock, giving access to surrounding countryside and with a pond at the far end of the field.