House For Sale £250,000
Heenay Joshi Property Experts - period homes collection is proud to offer the Grade II listed, 16th Century Cottage, located in the popular village of Stoneleigh.
The cottage comprises a living room with exposed beams and central stone inglenook fireplace with a Godin Colonial wood burner, kitchen breakfast room and downstairs cloakroom. Upstairs is the bedroom, which has built in storage, exposed beams and opens into the bathroom which has a freestanding bath. Outside offers a generous sized enclosed rear garden which is mainly laid to lawn. The property is offered for sale with no forward chain. There is also an opportunity to errect a hard standing for parking or a garage to the rear of the garden, subject to planning permission.
Sellers comments
What first attracted you to the home?
We had always wanted to live in a Tudor cottage, but so many we viewed over the years had been altered so much they had little charm left. This one is just so pretty, with a huge inglenook, and a great view of the village green from the front windows, ideal for our 'study', and a spacious (for a cottage!) bedroom under the eaves, so we forgave it's nod to modernity in the form of a 1980s kitchen extension, added when the Stoneleigh Estate sold off the row of cottages. The cottage has a lovely courtyard off the kitchen, providing a very happy and secure home for our tortoise, with a raised terrace and a typical long cottage garden adjacent to the shared drive, which gives it a really open, sunny aspect, enabling us to benefit from a skyline of our neighbours' trees to the rear of the property. There is space to park and we had considered building a garage, (which we confirmed that Warwick District Council would give permission for) but we have never felt the need to do so, as we have a 'natural' botanical garden, and tend to park around the edge of the village green.
Tell me a little more about the history of the home
Dating back to the 1530s, it was the first to be built in the current row of cottages on The Bank, originally part of the Stoneleigh Estate, and very likely to have been built using stone foraged from Stoneleigh Abbey. There's more background info in a local text on historic buildings in Warwickshire villages, showing that the original cottage was just the square comprising the inglenook (which would have been the 'kitchen') and the current sitting room, and that our 'study' area was added on to the front when the cottage next door was built as an 'extension'! The row of four cottages was once all one house, and were then sub-divided by the Stoneleigh Estate. The cottage has featured on a number of postcards over the years, and you feel that you are playing a small part in its history by living here. The cottage is now ready to be cherished by a new custodian.
What will you miss the most about your home?
Oh, so much! We originally bought this cottage as simply a 'stopgap' but we could never find anything we liked more to move on. We will especially miss the view from the study, great for writing inspiration, the wonky 3-d walls, the inglenook, the original elm floorboards we found under the carpet in the bedroom, sleeping under the beams in the eaves, the en-suite bath behind the sandstone chimney, walking through the living honeysuckle, pink jasmine and rambling rose archway in our lovely garden on a summer's evening, and the feeling of being all cosied up in the sitting room on a winter's night. When we bought the cottage, we also valued the access to the Midlands' transport network, but now retirement beckons, we plan for single-floor living with a small courtyard on the south coast.
The cottage comprises a living room with exposed beams and central stone inglenook fireplace with a Godin Colonial wood burner, kitchen breakfast room and downstairs cloakroom. Upstairs is the bedroom, which has built in storage, exposed beams and opens into the bathroom which has a freestanding bath. Outside offers a generous sized enclosed rear garden which is mainly laid to lawn. The property is offered for sale with no forward chain. There is also an opportunity to errect a hard standing for parking or a garage to the rear of the garden, subject to planning permission.
Sellers comments
What first attracted you to the home?
We had always wanted to live in a Tudor cottage, but so many we viewed over the years had been altered so much they had little charm left. This one is just so pretty, with a huge inglenook, and a great view of the village green from the front windows, ideal for our 'study', and a spacious (for a cottage!) bedroom under the eaves, so we forgave it's nod to modernity in the form of a 1980s kitchen extension, added when the Stoneleigh Estate sold off the row of cottages. The cottage has a lovely courtyard off the kitchen, providing a very happy and secure home for our tortoise, with a raised terrace and a typical long cottage garden adjacent to the shared drive, which gives it a really open, sunny aspect, enabling us to benefit from a skyline of our neighbours' trees to the rear of the property. There is space to park and we had considered building a garage, (which we confirmed that Warwick District Council would give permission for) but we have never felt the need to do so, as we have a 'natural' botanical garden, and tend to park around the edge of the village green.
Tell me a little more about the history of the home
Dating back to the 1530s, it was the first to be built in the current row of cottages on The Bank, originally part of the Stoneleigh Estate, and very likely to have been built using stone foraged from Stoneleigh Abbey. There's more background info in a local text on historic buildings in Warwickshire villages, showing that the original cottage was just the square comprising the inglenook (which would have been the 'kitchen') and the current sitting room, and that our 'study' area was added on to the front when the cottage next door was built as an 'extension'! The row of four cottages was once all one house, and were then sub-divided by the Stoneleigh Estate. The cottage has featured on a number of postcards over the years, and you feel that you are playing a small part in its history by living here. The cottage is now ready to be cherished by a new custodian.
What will you miss the most about your home?
Oh, so much! We originally bought this cottage as simply a 'stopgap' but we could never find anything we liked more to move on. We will especially miss the view from the study, great for writing inspiration, the wonky 3-d walls, the inglenook, the original elm floorboards we found under the carpet in the bedroom, sleeping under the beams in the eaves, the en-suite bath behind the sandstone chimney, walking through the living honeysuckle, pink jasmine and rambling rose archway in our lovely garden on a summer's evening, and the feeling of being all cosied up in the sitting room on a winter's night. When we bought the cottage, we also valued the access to the Midlands' transport network, but now retirement beckons, we plan for single-floor living with a small courtyard on the south coast.
