House For Sale £1,650,000
A unique, architect designed 7 bedroom detached family home built within the walls of a Georgian walled garden with excellent energy efficiency, just one mile from Southwell Town centre.
Description
Description
The Garden House was built some 20 years ago by a renowned Nottinghamshire architect and was constructed with energy efficiency at the forefront of the project. Built in the grounds of Westhorpe Hall, the property boasts a walled boundary, offering a high degree of privacy and a unique location. The accommodation is arranged over three storeys with the living accommodation on the ground floor, six bedroom at lower ground floor level, all with underfloor heating and a guest bedroom at first floor level.
Ground floor
Entry to the east aspect leads into a tiled entrance hall displaying an open staircase and providing access to a ground floor shower room and cloaks cupboard. Also off the entrance hall sits the open plan kitchen lounge diner, a bright, expansive space spanning the full depth of the property.
The lounge dining area features oak flooring, an exposed brick chimney breast with inset Morso log burner and a large window opening into the conservatory. The kitchen incorporates a range of cherry oak units with black granite work surfaces and a collection of appliances to include a range style cooker with a 4 burner gas hob, stainless steel sink, an integrated dishwasher and an integral Liebherr fridge. A utility room off the kitchen provides space and plumbing for freezer, washing machine and dryer. A pantry sits to the end of the utility room with ample shelving. Two of the base units within the kitchen open up to steps which lead up to a fantastic roof terrace, predominantly made up of a herb garden with a patio seating area, enjoying views to the south.
The sitting room offers a bright, pleasant reception space enjoying two sets of French doors out, one leading to the garden and the other to a balcony within the conservatory with views over part of the gardens. The sitting room is also laid with oak flooring and displays an exposed brick chimney breast with inset log burner.
Lower ground floor
A wide staircase descends from the lounge diner to a partially sunken lower ground floor level, holding six of the seven bedrooms. Off the hallway to the north end of the property sit two en suite bedrooms, one of which being the principal bedroom, a large bedroom boasting floor to ceiling glazing to the south elevation with French doors into the conservatory, which in turn leads to an enclosed patio seating area. The principal bedroom also enjoys an open en suite, comprising a bath and vanity wash hand basin. The second bedroom at this end of the property is also en suite, with a secret sliding door, disguised as a book shelf leading into the shower room. The main, 4 piece family bathroom sits between bedrooms one and two. The further four bedrooms at this level are in the partly sunken area of the house, all are double bedrooms of a similar size apart from bedroom 3 which is slightly larger, positioned to the end of the hallway.
First floor
Accessed via the staircase off the entrance hall, the first floor, originally one room has now been divided into two, providing a guest bedroom with wood flooring, exposed beams and eaves storage with the connecting door leading into a hobby room.
Outside
Upon approaching The Garden House a cobbled drive provides ample off street parking area and leads on to a triple car port and store. To this side of the plot there is also a vegetable garden with a number of raised bedding planters.
The well-established principal garden has matured over the last 20 years to create multiple areas of well designed landscaping to include a lower lawn with dense, planted borders, sunken terrace off the conservatory, feature ponds, a private patio seating area, an orchard, additional vegetable garden, upper lawn and a chicken coop.
Energy efficency
The Garden House was built with energy efficiency at the heart of the project. The conservatory acts as a solar collector, allowing heat to build up within the conservatory which can then be let into the house by opening the doors on the south elevation to warm the house. When the house is at a comfortable temperature, an opening at the top of the conservatory can be released, allowing the built up heat to escape. This acts as an effective heating method to the majority of the house. However there are log burners in the lounge diner and sitting room as a backup, as well as gas radiators to the first floor and underfloor heating to the kitchen and at lower ground floor level.
Location
The property enjoys an enviable position, occupying a private plot in the hamlet of Westhorpe, just 1 mile from Southwell town centre. Southwell boasts a range of independent retailers, cafes, public houses, convenience stores, a leisure centre and restaurants. The Garden House is within the Minster school catchment, a popular junior and secondary school in the middle of the town which achieved an Ofsted Outstanding rating in 2011. Southwell lies some 15 miles from Nottingham and 9 miles from Newark-on-Trent and the A1. Newark Northgate station provides regular rail links to London Kings Cross in approximately 72 minutes.
Square Footage: 4,297 sq ft
Directions
Approaching Southwell from Nottingham Road you will reach the Westgate junction, turn left on to Westgate and continue for 400m then bear left on to Westhorpe, after 200m on your right hand side will be the entrance to Westhorpe Hall, turn into this drive way and an opening in the wall on your left hand side leads on to the drive way for The Garden House.
Additional Info
Council tax
Newark and Sherwood district council – tax band G
Description
Description
The Garden House was built some 20 years ago by a renowned Nottinghamshire architect and was constructed with energy efficiency at the forefront of the project. Built in the grounds of Westhorpe Hall, the property boasts a walled boundary, offering a high degree of privacy and a unique location. The accommodation is arranged over three storeys with the living accommodation on the ground floor, six bedroom at lower ground floor level, all with underfloor heating and a guest bedroom at first floor level.
Ground floor
Entry to the east aspect leads into a tiled entrance hall displaying an open staircase and providing access to a ground floor shower room and cloaks cupboard. Also off the entrance hall sits the open plan kitchen lounge diner, a bright, expansive space spanning the full depth of the property.
The lounge dining area features oak flooring, an exposed brick chimney breast with inset Morso log burner and a large window opening into the conservatory. The kitchen incorporates a range of cherry oak units with black granite work surfaces and a collection of appliances to include a range style cooker with a 4 burner gas hob, stainless steel sink, an integrated dishwasher and an integral Liebherr fridge. A utility room off the kitchen provides space and plumbing for freezer, washing machine and dryer. A pantry sits to the end of the utility room with ample shelving. Two of the base units within the kitchen open up to steps which lead up to a fantastic roof terrace, predominantly made up of a herb garden with a patio seating area, enjoying views to the south.
The sitting room offers a bright, pleasant reception space enjoying two sets of French doors out, one leading to the garden and the other to a balcony within the conservatory with views over part of the gardens. The sitting room is also laid with oak flooring and displays an exposed brick chimney breast with inset log burner.
Lower ground floor
A wide staircase descends from the lounge diner to a partially sunken lower ground floor level, holding six of the seven bedrooms. Off the hallway to the north end of the property sit two en suite bedrooms, one of which being the principal bedroom, a large bedroom boasting floor to ceiling glazing to the south elevation with French doors into the conservatory, which in turn leads to an enclosed patio seating area. The principal bedroom also enjoys an open en suite, comprising a bath and vanity wash hand basin. The second bedroom at this end of the property is also en suite, with a secret sliding door, disguised as a book shelf leading into the shower room. The main, 4 piece family bathroom sits between bedrooms one and two. The further four bedrooms at this level are in the partly sunken area of the house, all are double bedrooms of a similar size apart from bedroom 3 which is slightly larger, positioned to the end of the hallway.
First floor
Accessed via the staircase off the entrance hall, the first floor, originally one room has now been divided into two, providing a guest bedroom with wood flooring, exposed beams and eaves storage with the connecting door leading into a hobby room.
Outside
Upon approaching The Garden House a cobbled drive provides ample off street parking area and leads on to a triple car port and store. To this side of the plot there is also a vegetable garden with a number of raised bedding planters.
The well-established principal garden has matured over the last 20 years to create multiple areas of well designed landscaping to include a lower lawn with dense, planted borders, sunken terrace off the conservatory, feature ponds, a private patio seating area, an orchard, additional vegetable garden, upper lawn and a chicken coop.
Energy efficency
The Garden House was built with energy efficiency at the heart of the project. The conservatory acts as a solar collector, allowing heat to build up within the conservatory which can then be let into the house by opening the doors on the south elevation to warm the house. When the house is at a comfortable temperature, an opening at the top of the conservatory can be released, allowing the built up heat to escape. This acts as an effective heating method to the majority of the house. However there are log burners in the lounge diner and sitting room as a backup, as well as gas radiators to the first floor and underfloor heating to the kitchen and at lower ground floor level.
Location
The property enjoys an enviable position, occupying a private plot in the hamlet of Westhorpe, just 1 mile from Southwell town centre. Southwell boasts a range of independent retailers, cafes, public houses, convenience stores, a leisure centre and restaurants. The Garden House is within the Minster school catchment, a popular junior and secondary school in the middle of the town which achieved an Ofsted Outstanding rating in 2011. Southwell lies some 15 miles from Nottingham and 9 miles from Newark-on-Trent and the A1. Newark Northgate station provides regular rail links to London Kings Cross in approximately 72 minutes.
Square Footage: 4,297 sq ft
Directions
Approaching Southwell from Nottingham Road you will reach the Westgate junction, turn left on to Westgate and continue for 400m then bear left on to Westhorpe, after 200m on your right hand side will be the entrance to Westhorpe Hall, turn into this drive way and an opening in the wall on your left hand side leads on to the drive way for The Garden House.
Additional Info
Council tax
Newark and Sherwood district council – tax band G
