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The Priest HouseFOSSE WAY • MORETON MORRELL • WARWICKSHIRE
The Priest HouseFOSSE WAY • MORETON MORRELL • WARWICKSHIRE
A handsome stone property in a wonderful location situated down a broad tree lined drive
Entrance hall • Reception hall • Cloakroom • Drawing room with garden room off
Sitting/music room • Study • Kitchen/breakfast room • Laundry
Utility room • 3 Bedrooms • 2 Bathrooms (1 en suite)
Planning consent applied for to extend the property to provide: Large reception hall
Drawing room with garden room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Dining room • Large utility room
Cloakroom • Additional sitting room • Garden store • 3 Carports • 5 Bedrooms
Dressing room • 3 Bathrooms (2 en suite) • Gallery landing • Studio
Farthings Cottage: Detached cottage with living room with kitchen area,
bedroom and shower room
Attractive stable yard with double garage/machinery store, tack room and 6 stables
Fine mature gardens and grounds with specimen trees, manège,
railed paddocks with field shelters and woodland
In all about 10.5 hectares (26 acres)
Stratford upon Avon 8 miles • Warwick 6 miles • Warwick Parkway Station 7 miles
(trains to London Marylebone from 69 mins) • M40 (J12) 5 miles • M40 (J15) 7 miles
Banbury 14 miles • Birmingham International Airport 27 miles
(All distances and times are approximate)
These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text.
Situation• The Priest House is situated at the end of a long drive
lined with lime trees, past a gate house, with stone
pillars and carved figurines
• The property used to be a hunting lodge and is set in
the grounds of the former Moreton Paddox Mansion in
a private, yet not isolated location
• Moreton Morrell is a thriving small community
dominated by the renowned Warwickshire Agricultural
College with other facilities including a public house,
primary school, village hall and fine parish church
• The village is particularly well placed for shopping
and leisure facilities in the immediate area including
Stratford upon Avon, Warwick and Leamington Spa
• The area is extremely well served with excellent
schools including Stratford upon Avon girls and boys
grammar schools, The Croft Prep School and at
Warwick; Kings High School for Girls , Warwick Junior
and public schools and in Leamington Spa, Kingsley
School for Girls and Arnold Lodge School
• For the commuter, Moreton Morrell lies half a mile off
the Fosse Way providing routes to the north and the
Cotswolds to the south, and easy access to the south
via the M40 and the wider motorway network
• Regular intercity trains run from Warwick Parkway
Station to Birmingham and London Marylebone
• There are a number of golf courses in the area,
racing at Warwick and Stratford upon Avon, polo at
Southam and Rugby and equestrian activities at the
Warwickshire Agricultural College
Description of property• The Priest House is most attractively designed of local
Hornton stone under a tiled roof with leaded light part
stone mullion windows and dates back to the turn of
the century
• The property has attractive four panel doors with brass
handles
• The property has been upgraded by the present
owners including updating of the central heating and
ceiling lighting, redecoration and bathrooms updated
• The accommodation is attractively laid out around the
reception hall which has a fine studded oak door to the
enclosed porch with carved stone detailing above
Farthings Cottage
Farthings Cottage
• The drawing room has a fireplace with wood burner
and lovely views over the garden. This room opens to
the garden room which has a flagstone floor and doors
to the south facing terrace
• The sitting/music room also has stone mullion
windows, a range of china cupboards to one wall and
access to an attractive study
• The kitchen/breakfast room has a Chinese slate floor
and painted kitchen units incorporating oven, ceramic
hob with extractor, Corian worktops, one and a half
bowl sink, integrated microwave, dishwasher and
fridge
• Utility room with doors to outside
• The main reception rooms take advantage of the south
facing aspect overlooking the garden and mature
grounds beyond
• To the first floor are three fine double bedrooms; the
master bedroom with and en suite bathroom. Family
bathroom with separate shower
• Planning consent allows for significant extension to
both the ground and first floor accommodation if
desired whilst maintaining the high architectural quality
of the property
Farthings Cottage• A short distance from The Priest House is Farthings
Cottage, a single storey detached cottage with a living
room, windows to three sides with fitted kitchen area,
attractive double bedroom with en suite shower room
• The cottage has been refurbished by the present
owners and produces a good rental income as a
holiday let
• Farthings Cottage has an electric radiator central
heating system and is ideal as staff, relative or guest
accommodation
Stable yard• There is a modern, traditionally designed enclosed
stable yard with a large concrete apron
• Stables are well appointed with Scott’s of Thrapston
doors and partitions with a wide overhang to the front.
Block work with pebble dashing.
• The stable yard comprises 5 stables and a foaling box,
with archway to a storage area behind
• Tack room with a range of cupboards, plumbing for washing
machine, stainless steel sink, separate wc
• Double garage/machinery store with secure roller door
Gardens and grounds• The setting of The Priest House is very special.
• A tree lined avenue with tarmac drive leads to the north side
of the house with lawns and spinney with fine mature pine,
beech, cedar and acacia trees
• A beech hedge screens the large south facing lawned garden
with shaped shrub beds
• Flagstone paving around the house
• All weather manege (40 x 25m)
• The paddocks are of fine permanent pasture with post and
rail fencing, water and 2 large field shelters with concrete
floors
• The property incorporates about 6 acres of woodland with a
variety of trees, shrubs and bushes including ash, sycamore,
oak and poplar. The woodland is a haven for wildlife and is
an asset to the property
• There is a separate right of way to the woodland from the
Fosse Way
• There is a further right of way from the Wellesbourne Road
through Moreton Paddox via the archway through the stables
driveway
ServicesMains electricity, water and drainage are connected to
property. Oil fired central heating with electric central
heating to the cottage. Broadband and telephone.
Service chargeThere is a small annual service charge of around £65 a
year as a contribution to the maintenance of the drive
through Moreton Paddox which forms a back drive to the
property and a useful access for riding out.
Fixtures and fittings Only those items mentioned in these sales particulars are
included in the sale. All others are specifically excluded
but may be made available by separate negotiation.
Directions (CV35 9BX)From the M40 (J12) Gaydon, turn left towards Gaydon
on the B4451. At the roundabout turn right on the A4100
towards Warwick. After about 3 miles at the roundabout
junction with the Fosse Way turn left towards Cirencester.
Proceed on the Fosse Way past two right hand turnings
to Moreton Morrell. The entrance to the property will be
found on the right hand side, about a third of a mile past
the second right hand turning to Moreton Morrell and
may be identified by two large stone pillars and a lodge
cottage, called East Lodge. Go past the East Lodge,
through a wooden gate and down the tree lined drive to
the property.
TermsTenure: Freehold
Local Authority: Stratford on Avon District Council
(01789) 267575.
Council Tax Band: G
ViewingBy prior appointment only with the agents.
Existing Ground Floor
Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area
Existing House: 252 sq m (2,713 sq ft)
Farthings Cottage: 36 sq m (388 sq ft)
Stable Block: 136 sq m (1,464 sq ft)
Total: 424 sq m (4,565 sq ft)
Proposed House: 521 sq m (5,608 sq ft)
This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement of fact. Attention is
drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text of the Particulars
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Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2014. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:2500
This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES763454). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.
Right of way to Wellesbourne Road
Right of way to Fosse Way
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