House For Sale £1,000,000
An arts and crafts compact manageable country house in a secluded rural and elevated location surrounded by its own gardens with sweeping driveway entrance and within walking distance of Chepstow and the racecourse.
The house has remained in the same family since its creation over a hundred years ago for the owner Edith Clay of Piercefield Park where she bred horses in the stud farm below the house. The property has remained in the same family ownership since then and this is the first time it has been offered for sale since.
The architect was Eric Francis a follower of Lutyens and the school of Sir Guy Dawber and Detma Blow. Francis worked on fine Arts and Crafts projects in Monmouthshire and elsewhere including Itton Court, High Glanau and Mathern Palace as well as Mounton House and Pencoed Castle. At Chepstow he designed the baroque-style war memorial, Wyndcliffe Court, remodelled Eastcliff in Tutshill and repairs at Chepstow Castle. Francis's clients included the Arts and Crafts garden designer Avray Tipping a follower himself of Gertrude Geykell, to whom there is a small reference in the garden here at Goldenhill created by Richard and Flora Clay and maintained and developed by their daughter Jane.
This detached house sits under a stone coloured Delabole slate roof with swept valleys and attractive tilted eaves. The timber casements are filled with leaded light windows on the South and West elevations. Stonework and terracing were created with stonework from nearby Piercefield Park, to which there is refence of its Lions Lodge entrance with a carved keystone of a lion in the southern veranda.
The attached gabled room with loft over to the East is currently used as a garage but was originally designed as Miss Clay's dining room. The house has potential for re-modelling based on the existing proportions or an extension if required.
Internally the house benefits from timber panelling, decorative niche's with Serpentine shelving and open fireplace in a most delightful and comfortable L-shaped drawing room.
The beech staircase with turned balustrades adorns the access to the first floor, where the original fourth bedroom is currently used as an en-suite bathroom.
The two-storey porch is a feature of the North elevation in keeping with the arts and crafts ethos of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Arts & Crafts country house
Beautifully landscaped gardens
Secluded rural, elevated position
The gardens surround the property and include ornamental and native trees and plants and shrubs including Copper Beech, Cedar, Oak and Ash. Flowering species include cherry, magnolia, roses, poppy, spring and autumn naturalised bulbs of cyclamen, narcissi, snowdrop, daffodil and lily of the valley. Delightful herbaceous borders and structural local stone waling features with steps and terraces. There is a greenhouse and vegetable garden with potting shed.
Services: Oil fired central heating, mains water, septic tank drainage.
Coronavirus Precautions
Please read the following carefully before requesting a viewing:
Viewings
We are only able to offer in-person viewings with buyers who are in a 'proceedable' buying position, or if selling, have their own property on the market.
Full details of our Covid Policy will be explained upon booking an appointment but the key points to consider are:
1 - Please make sure you have viewed all of the marketing material to avoid any unnecessary physical appointments. Pay particular attention to the floorplan, dimensions, video (if there is one) as well as the location marker.
2 - Only 2 people from the same household are able to view at the same time and we ask politely that no children attend.
3 - You will have to wear your own face mask. We are unable to provide these.
4 - The viewing will be touchless with doors left open and we will maintain a 2 meter distance as much as possible.
5 - Viewings are limited to 30 minutes.
6 - Printed brochures will not be provided but can be emailed or downloaded.
7 - If you would rather view by FaceTime/Skype/WhatsApp then please let us know (subject to connectivity).
Legal
You may download, store and use the material for your own personal use and research. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make the material available to any party or make the same available on any website, online service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or in any other media without the website owner's express prior written consent. The website owner's copyright must remain on all reproductions of material taken from this website.
The house has remained in the same family since its creation over a hundred years ago for the owner Edith Clay of Piercefield Park where she bred horses in the stud farm below the house. The property has remained in the same family ownership since then and this is the first time it has been offered for sale since.
The architect was Eric Francis a follower of Lutyens and the school of Sir Guy Dawber and Detma Blow. Francis worked on fine Arts and Crafts projects in Monmouthshire and elsewhere including Itton Court, High Glanau and Mathern Palace as well as Mounton House and Pencoed Castle. At Chepstow he designed the baroque-style war memorial, Wyndcliffe Court, remodelled Eastcliff in Tutshill and repairs at Chepstow Castle. Francis's clients included the Arts and Crafts garden designer Avray Tipping a follower himself of Gertrude Geykell, to whom there is a small reference in the garden here at Goldenhill created by Richard and Flora Clay and maintained and developed by their daughter Jane.
This detached house sits under a stone coloured Delabole slate roof with swept valleys and attractive tilted eaves. The timber casements are filled with leaded light windows on the South and West elevations. Stonework and terracing were created with stonework from nearby Piercefield Park, to which there is refence of its Lions Lodge entrance with a carved keystone of a lion in the southern veranda.
The attached gabled room with loft over to the East is currently used as a garage but was originally designed as Miss Clay's dining room. The house has potential for re-modelling based on the existing proportions or an extension if required.
Internally the house benefits from timber panelling, decorative niche's with Serpentine shelving and open fireplace in a most delightful and comfortable L-shaped drawing room.
The beech staircase with turned balustrades adorns the access to the first floor, where the original fourth bedroom is currently used as an en-suite bathroom.
The two-storey porch is a feature of the North elevation in keeping with the arts and crafts ethos of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Arts & Crafts country house
Beautifully landscaped gardens
Secluded rural, elevated position
The gardens surround the property and include ornamental and native trees and plants and shrubs including Copper Beech, Cedar, Oak and Ash. Flowering species include cherry, magnolia, roses, poppy, spring and autumn naturalised bulbs of cyclamen, narcissi, snowdrop, daffodil and lily of the valley. Delightful herbaceous borders and structural local stone waling features with steps and terraces. There is a greenhouse and vegetable garden with potting shed.
Services: Oil fired central heating, mains water, septic tank drainage.
Coronavirus Precautions
Please read the following carefully before requesting a viewing:
Viewings
We are only able to offer in-person viewings with buyers who are in a 'proceedable' buying position, or if selling, have their own property on the market.
Full details of our Covid Policy will be explained upon booking an appointment but the key points to consider are:
1 - Please make sure you have viewed all of the marketing material to avoid any unnecessary physical appointments. Pay particular attention to the floorplan, dimensions, video (if there is one) as well as the location marker.
2 - Only 2 people from the same household are able to view at the same time and we ask politely that no children attend.
3 - You will have to wear your own face mask. We are unable to provide these.
4 - The viewing will be touchless with doors left open and we will maintain a 2 meter distance as much as possible.
5 - Viewings are limited to 30 minutes.
6 - Printed brochures will not be provided but can be emailed or downloaded.
7 - If you would rather view by FaceTime/Skype/WhatsApp then please let us know (subject to connectivity).
Legal
You may download, store and use the material for your own personal use and research. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make the material available to any party or make the same available on any website, online service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or in any other media without the website owner's express prior written consent. The website owner's copyright must remain on all reproductions of material taken from this website.
