House For Sale £1,350,000
AN IMAGINATIVELY RESTORED AND EXTENDED FORMER LODGE HOUSE, WITH IMPRESSIVE INDOOR SWIMMING POOL, APPOINTED TO A HIGH STANDARD THROUGHOUT, OCCUPYING AN EXTREMELY PRIVATE POSITION WITH VIEWS OVER COUNTRYSIDE.
ACCOMMODATION
- Reception hall
- Lounge, with wine cellar beneath
- Kitchen/breakfast room opening to family room with dining and seating areas
- Utility/2nd Kitchen
- Separate w.c.
- Lower ground floor indoor swimming pool with changing room, seating area and store.
- Master suite comprising double bedroom and en-suite shower room
- 3 further double bedrooms (1 en-suite)
- Family bathroom
- Timber garage
- Extensive parking
- Lawned garden with terrace
DESCRIPTION
Hinderton Hall Cottage occupies a lovely secluded setting within the grounds of Hinderton Hall, close to the market town of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula. Formerly known as the “Back Lodge” to the Hall, the property (and indeed the Hall) was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, a well-known architect who designed the Natural History Museum in London, the Lime Street buildings in Liverpool and Eaton Hall for the first Duke of Westminster. The property was previously used as a holiday let, then subsequently sold to the current owner in 2016 who has undertaken a comprehensive and sympathetic scheme of renovation and extension, to provide well-proportioned, super insulated, high specification and modern living spaces, whilst retaining the integral character of the building.
Constructed of stone and brick under a slate roof Hinderton Hall Cottage is Listed Grade II, offering an abundance of character including exposed timbers and sandstone walls, hardwood replacement window frames, stone sills and headers, whilst benefitting from modern building finishes and technology, as well as the use of high quality materials throughout including insulation, piped under floor heating to the entire property, a heat recovery air filtration system, Lutron lighting, integrated ceiling speakers, pressurized gas fired heating and water system, high spec bespoke kitchen and bathroom fittings and floor coverings to include quality marble tiling, wool carpets and parquet oak flooring. The property is also wired for Fibre broadband, satellite television and Cat 5 networking.
The accommodation is arranged over three floors includes a formal drawing room with Aga wood burning stove fireplace, a superb open plan kitchen with dining area extensive seating area with bi-fold door giving access to the terrace, a large utility room with integrated laundry appliances, oven and hob and offering access to the rear garden. To the first floor there are 4 double bedrooms with two ensuites.
The basement provides a heated swimming pool with feature lighting, massage cannons, magnesium based sanitization system, changing room, shower room and plant room. The solid oak front door, with side windows, opens to a spacious entrance hall with marble floor tiles and plenty of natural light with several windows together with an oak staircase rising to the first floor. Beside the staircase there is a glazed door giving access to the basement pool room. At one end of the hall is the access to the open plan kitchen, with a glass Crittall style screen.
The hallway also gives access to the downstairs w.c. which also benefits from a stylish crittall style screen with reeded privacy glazing. The open plan kitchen/dining room/sitting area features natural stone marble floor tiles, a bespoke fitted kitchen hand rafted from solid oak with Walnut inlaid units beneath marble worksurfaces. Dishwasher, double oven, full height fridge and freezer are all by Miele. There is also a Quooker hot water tap. The island provides breakfast bar seating for 3, along with storage cupboards. There is dimmable under unit lighting throughout. The open plan nature of the room allows for ample and flexible space for a entertaining with both dining and seating areas.
There are French Doors from the kitchen to the terrace and German design aluminum powdered coated bi-fold doors along the whole length of seating area, which also features a part vaulted roof with Velux windows. At the far end of this oom, there is a door to the generous utility room/2nd kitchen with fitted storage cupboards and integrated Miele washing machine and tumble dryer. There is also a Miele hob and single oven. A window to the side allows for lots of natural light and a stable door to the rear provides access to the garden. At this end of the seating area there is a sandstone archway which gives access to the formal drawing room, with new oak block parquet flooring, feature cast iron fireplace with Aga woodburner and large front facing bay window. There is also an exposed sandstone wall giving a characterful insight into this older part of the property. Recessed into the floor, there is access to a brick barrel-vaulted wine cellar with lighting.
The first floor is accessed via an oak staircase with recessed and lit hand rail. Sound reducing materials have been utilised in the flooring ceiling and walls to reduce unwanted noise between floors and rooms. To the right at the top of the stairs, there is a good-sized landing which gives access to two of the bedrooms in the older part of the house. Both of these bedrooms are vaulted and feature interesting architectural roof lines. The first bedroom is a double, with dual aspect to the rear and side.
The second room to this side is larger and has a window overlooking the front of the house. In between these two bedrooms is the luxurious family bathroom, with marble tiled throughout, heated towel rail, overhead waterfall shower with open sided double cubicle, stand alone cast iron roll top bath which sits in front of the window giving views over fields to the side and a Vileroy & Boch wash handbasin vanity unit. Turning to the left at the top of the stairs, a corridor with windows overlooking the garden leads you to the other two ensuite bedrooms. The generous master bedroom faces to the front and side with dual aspect windows, as well as Velux windows in the eaves. This bedroom also enjoys an ensuite shower room with double width Vileroy & Boch basin and vanity unit, marble tiling, double open sided glass shower cubicle with overhead waterfall shower and w.c. – the room enjoys much natural light from the Velux windows above.
The second bedroom to this side, is also a double, with an area inside the door, which would lend itself to a dressing room. The bedroom is dual aspect to the rear with a vaulted roof line with Velux windows along with double doors and a glass Juliet Balcony (yet to be fitted). The bedroom also has access to an ensuite shower room with marble floor and wall tiles, Velux windows, double width Vileroy & Boch basin and vanity unit, w.c. and double open sided shower enclosure with waterfall shower.
The basement is accessed via a Crittall style glazed door from the hallway and a floating oak staircase down to a spectacular pool room, fully tiled in marble. The pool is of constant depth. The magnesium mineral based sanitization system creates a luxurious and soothing bathing experience leaving your hair and skin feeling silky smooth without that chlorine smell or sticky salt feeling you get from swimming in a chlorinated or salt water pool. There is dimmable mood lighting, massage cannons of water emerging from the walls, a store room, a changing room with full shower, wash handbasin vanity unit, w.c. and open sides glass double shower cubicle with waterfall shower. There is also an extensive plant room for the pool’s heating and filtration systems.
LOCATION
Hinderton Hall Cottage occupies an extremely peaceful setting towards the back boundary of the Hinderton Hall Estate. Indeed, one of the main benefits of the setting is the privacy and security that being part of a country estate offers. Neston and the popular village of Willaston are both within 2 miles of the property and provide local services for everyday needs with shops, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, doctors and dentist surgeries, as well as high street banks. Chester and Liverpool are both about 10 miles away which offer a wide range of shopping, schooling and leisure facilities.
On the recreational front there is a wide selection of sporting facilities nearby including the well-known Neston Cricket Club which also offers tennis and hockey, rugby club at Clatterbridge and several golf courses locally including Royal Liverpool and Heswall. Schooling is well catered for with primary schools in Neston, Willaston, Thornton Hough and Heswall and a choice of both state and private secondary schools nearby including West Kirby Grammar, Caldy Grammar, Birkenhead and The King’s and Queen’s Schools in Chester.
COMMUNICATIONS
Despite the property’s semi-rural location, it benefits from excellent road communications with the A540 Parkgate Road providing fast access to Chester and the M56 motorway. Liverpool and Chester are both within easy commuting distance as is Manchester via the M56. For travel further afield there is a 2 hour inter-city rail service from Chester to London Euston via Crewe with a link from Hooton, and there are international airports at both Liverpool and Manchester.
DIRECTIONS
To reach the property from Chester travel in a north westerly direction along the A540 Parkgate Road for approximately 9.5 miles to the crossroads with traffic lights on the edge of Neston, next to which is the Hinderton Arms Public House. Continue straight over and the entrance for The Hinderton Hall Estate including Hinderton Hall Cottage. Continue up the driveway following signs for the property, and to the parking area in front of the house.
OUTSIDE
Hinderton Hall Cottage is accessed via a tarmacadamed drive through the estate, an unmade section and then into a hedge lined driveway leading to full height motorised metal gates giving access to a good-sized parking area for 6+ cars in front of the house on a gravelled driveway. There is also vehicular access via double gates (currently unused) to School Lane. Beside the house is a useful timber garage (17’5” x 9’5” approx.) served with power and light. There is open side access on both sides of the property, with the garden being enclosed by a high Listed wall to the west, offering exception levels of privacy. The garden is mainly laid to lawn, with a raised bed with a mature tree offering some shade in the summer. The sandstone terrace is edged by a small retaining wall and runs along with back of the house. There is ample space to the other side of the house for further garden to be cultivated, or a home office / garden shed / summer house.
PROPERTY INFORMATION
Local Authority: Cheshire West & Chester Council. [use Contact Agent Button].
Services: All main services are connected.
Viewing: Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops Chester office [use Contact Agent Button].
NB: There is a service charge for maintenance of the main gates and certain common area, currently £700 per annum.
ACCOMMODATION
- Reception hall
- Lounge, with wine cellar beneath
- Kitchen/breakfast room opening to family room with dining and seating areas
- Utility/2nd Kitchen
- Separate w.c.
- Lower ground floor indoor swimming pool with changing room, seating area and store.
- Master suite comprising double bedroom and en-suite shower room
- 3 further double bedrooms (1 en-suite)
- Family bathroom
- Timber garage
- Extensive parking
- Lawned garden with terrace
DESCRIPTION
Hinderton Hall Cottage occupies a lovely secluded setting within the grounds of Hinderton Hall, close to the market town of Neston on the Wirral Peninsula. Formerly known as the “Back Lodge” to the Hall, the property (and indeed the Hall) was designed by Alfred Waterhouse, a well-known architect who designed the Natural History Museum in London, the Lime Street buildings in Liverpool and Eaton Hall for the first Duke of Westminster. The property was previously used as a holiday let, then subsequently sold to the current owner in 2016 who has undertaken a comprehensive and sympathetic scheme of renovation and extension, to provide well-proportioned, super insulated, high specification and modern living spaces, whilst retaining the integral character of the building.
Constructed of stone and brick under a slate roof Hinderton Hall Cottage is Listed Grade II, offering an abundance of character including exposed timbers and sandstone walls, hardwood replacement window frames, stone sills and headers, whilst benefitting from modern building finishes and technology, as well as the use of high quality materials throughout including insulation, piped under floor heating to the entire property, a heat recovery air filtration system, Lutron lighting, integrated ceiling speakers, pressurized gas fired heating and water system, high spec bespoke kitchen and bathroom fittings and floor coverings to include quality marble tiling, wool carpets and parquet oak flooring. The property is also wired for Fibre broadband, satellite television and Cat 5 networking.
The accommodation is arranged over three floors includes a formal drawing room with Aga wood burning stove fireplace, a superb open plan kitchen with dining area extensive seating area with bi-fold door giving access to the terrace, a large utility room with integrated laundry appliances, oven and hob and offering access to the rear garden. To the first floor there are 4 double bedrooms with two ensuites.
The basement provides a heated swimming pool with feature lighting, massage cannons, magnesium based sanitization system, changing room, shower room and plant room. The solid oak front door, with side windows, opens to a spacious entrance hall with marble floor tiles and plenty of natural light with several windows together with an oak staircase rising to the first floor. Beside the staircase there is a glazed door giving access to the basement pool room. At one end of the hall is the access to the open plan kitchen, with a glass Crittall style screen.
The hallway also gives access to the downstairs w.c. which also benefits from a stylish crittall style screen with reeded privacy glazing. The open plan kitchen/dining room/sitting area features natural stone marble floor tiles, a bespoke fitted kitchen hand rafted from solid oak with Walnut inlaid units beneath marble worksurfaces. Dishwasher, double oven, full height fridge and freezer are all by Miele. There is also a Quooker hot water tap. The island provides breakfast bar seating for 3, along with storage cupboards. There is dimmable under unit lighting throughout. The open plan nature of the room allows for ample and flexible space for a entertaining with both dining and seating areas.
There are French Doors from the kitchen to the terrace and German design aluminum powdered coated bi-fold doors along the whole length of seating area, which also features a part vaulted roof with Velux windows. At the far end of this oom, there is a door to the generous utility room/2nd kitchen with fitted storage cupboards and integrated Miele washing machine and tumble dryer. There is also a Miele hob and single oven. A window to the side allows for lots of natural light and a stable door to the rear provides access to the garden. At this end of the seating area there is a sandstone archway which gives access to the formal drawing room, with new oak block parquet flooring, feature cast iron fireplace with Aga woodburner and large front facing bay window. There is also an exposed sandstone wall giving a characterful insight into this older part of the property. Recessed into the floor, there is access to a brick barrel-vaulted wine cellar with lighting.
The first floor is accessed via an oak staircase with recessed and lit hand rail. Sound reducing materials have been utilised in the flooring ceiling and walls to reduce unwanted noise between floors and rooms. To the right at the top of the stairs, there is a good-sized landing which gives access to two of the bedrooms in the older part of the house. Both of these bedrooms are vaulted and feature interesting architectural roof lines. The first bedroom is a double, with dual aspect to the rear and side.
The second room to this side is larger and has a window overlooking the front of the house. In between these two bedrooms is the luxurious family bathroom, with marble tiled throughout, heated towel rail, overhead waterfall shower with open sided double cubicle, stand alone cast iron roll top bath which sits in front of the window giving views over fields to the side and a Vileroy & Boch wash handbasin vanity unit. Turning to the left at the top of the stairs, a corridor with windows overlooking the garden leads you to the other two ensuite bedrooms. The generous master bedroom faces to the front and side with dual aspect windows, as well as Velux windows in the eaves. This bedroom also enjoys an ensuite shower room with double width Vileroy & Boch basin and vanity unit, marble tiling, double open sided glass shower cubicle with overhead waterfall shower and w.c. – the room enjoys much natural light from the Velux windows above.
The second bedroom to this side, is also a double, with an area inside the door, which would lend itself to a dressing room. The bedroom is dual aspect to the rear with a vaulted roof line with Velux windows along with double doors and a glass Juliet Balcony (yet to be fitted). The bedroom also has access to an ensuite shower room with marble floor and wall tiles, Velux windows, double width Vileroy & Boch basin and vanity unit, w.c. and double open sided shower enclosure with waterfall shower.
The basement is accessed via a Crittall style glazed door from the hallway and a floating oak staircase down to a spectacular pool room, fully tiled in marble. The pool is of constant depth. The magnesium mineral based sanitization system creates a luxurious and soothing bathing experience leaving your hair and skin feeling silky smooth without that chlorine smell or sticky salt feeling you get from swimming in a chlorinated or salt water pool. There is dimmable mood lighting, massage cannons of water emerging from the walls, a store room, a changing room with full shower, wash handbasin vanity unit, w.c. and open sides glass double shower cubicle with waterfall shower. There is also an extensive plant room for the pool’s heating and filtration systems.
LOCATION
Hinderton Hall Cottage occupies an extremely peaceful setting towards the back boundary of the Hinderton Hall Estate. Indeed, one of the main benefits of the setting is the privacy and security that being part of a country estate offers. Neston and the popular village of Willaston are both within 2 miles of the property and provide local services for everyday needs with shops, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, doctors and dentist surgeries, as well as high street banks. Chester and Liverpool are both about 10 miles away which offer a wide range of shopping, schooling and leisure facilities.
On the recreational front there is a wide selection of sporting facilities nearby including the well-known Neston Cricket Club which also offers tennis and hockey, rugby club at Clatterbridge and several golf courses locally including Royal Liverpool and Heswall. Schooling is well catered for with primary schools in Neston, Willaston, Thornton Hough and Heswall and a choice of both state and private secondary schools nearby including West Kirby Grammar, Caldy Grammar, Birkenhead and The King’s and Queen’s Schools in Chester.
COMMUNICATIONS
Despite the property’s semi-rural location, it benefits from excellent road communications with the A540 Parkgate Road providing fast access to Chester and the M56 motorway. Liverpool and Chester are both within easy commuting distance as is Manchester via the M56. For travel further afield there is a 2 hour inter-city rail service from Chester to London Euston via Crewe with a link from Hooton, and there are international airports at both Liverpool and Manchester.
DIRECTIONS
To reach the property from Chester travel in a north westerly direction along the A540 Parkgate Road for approximately 9.5 miles to the crossroads with traffic lights on the edge of Neston, next to which is the Hinderton Arms Public House. Continue straight over and the entrance for The Hinderton Hall Estate including Hinderton Hall Cottage. Continue up the driveway following signs for the property, and to the parking area in front of the house.
OUTSIDE
Hinderton Hall Cottage is accessed via a tarmacadamed drive through the estate, an unmade section and then into a hedge lined driveway leading to full height motorised metal gates giving access to a good-sized parking area for 6+ cars in front of the house on a gravelled driveway. There is also vehicular access via double gates (currently unused) to School Lane. Beside the house is a useful timber garage (17’5” x 9’5” approx.) served with power and light. There is open side access on both sides of the property, with the garden being enclosed by a high Listed wall to the west, offering exception levels of privacy. The garden is mainly laid to lawn, with a raised bed with a mature tree offering some shade in the summer. The sandstone terrace is edged by a small retaining wall and runs along with back of the house. There is ample space to the other side of the house for further garden to be cultivated, or a home office / garden shed / summer house.
PROPERTY INFORMATION
Local Authority: Cheshire West & Chester Council. [use Contact Agent Button].
Services: All main services are connected.
Viewing: Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops Chester office [use Contact Agent Button].
NB: There is a service charge for maintenance of the main gates and certain common area, currently £700 per annum.
