Corn Mill FarmLower Kilcott, Gloucestershire

Corn Mill FarmLower Kilcott, Gloucestershire

Tetbury 8 miles, Bath 17, Cirencester 18 miles, Bristol 18 miles, Cheltenham 31 miles, M4 (J.18) 7 miles, M5 (J.14) 7 miles, Kemble Station 16 miles (London Paddington 70 minutes).

(Distances and times approximate)

An immaculately presented small country estate, situated in a beautiful, secluded Cotswold valley, yet within easy access of important towns, cities, transport networks, and schools.

Accommodation

Ground Floor: Entrance porch | Reception hall | Drawing room | Study

Lower Ground Floor: Den/snug | Wine cellar | Dining hall | Kitchen/breakfast room | Utility room | Cloakroom

Self-contained garden annexe: Bedroom suite | Bathroom | Kitchen | Living room (currently set out as a media/games room) | Store room

First Floor: Principal bedroom suite with bathroom and dressing room | Office | Bedroom 2 | Family bathroom

Second Floor: Bedroom 3 | Bedroom 4 | Bathroom | Access to loft

Coach House: Bedroom | Bathroom | Sitting room | Kitchenette area | Small annexe with access to the leisure complex

Leisure Complex: Entrance hall | Climate-controlled pool room | 40’ heated swimming pool | Gym/fitness area | Gallery | Cloakroom Changing room | Shower/steam room | Subterranean plant room

Outbuildings: The property has many useful outbuildings and barns, with potential for a variety of future alternative uses, and are all

discreetly positioned around the grounds and estate | Secure 4-car heated garaging | Open-fronted 2-car garaging | Gardener’s officeTack room with utility area and wc | Stone workshop, with log store and dog kennels | Tree house with light and heating | Greenhouse

Secure timber agricultural storage barn | Tractor barn and garaging | Refuge huts on the upper land

Grounds: Delightful formal gardens and grounds with numerous sitting areas | 200m of Kilcott brook and millpond | Tennis court Vegetable garden | Greenhouse | Orchard and paddock area | Large agricultural barn, suitable for further garaging or stables

In all about 107 acres (43.3 hectares)

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GloucestershireCorn Mill Farm is situated in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the edge of the hamlet of Lower Kilcott and 1 mile from the picturesque Cotswold village of Hillesley - an exceptionally attractive and unspoilt part of the Cotswold Hills escarpment.

The area has superb communications and is only 2 miles from the A46 and 8 miles from the historic market town of Tetbury. The M4 motorway is only 7 miles away, providing direct access to London and Heathrow Airport, and the M5 is also only 7 miles. There are direct and frequent train services to London Paddington and the west from nearby Kemble, Chippenham Bath and Bristol Parkway stations. Superfast Broadband was installed in the Valley in 2020.

The Kilcott valley is a highly sought after location with exceptionally stunning valleys connecting the Cotswold Hills and Berkeley Vale to the west.

The area is extremely well served, with the former market towns of Tetbury and Wotton under Edge, which both offer daily shopping amenities. The larger centres of Cirencester, Bath, Bristol and Cheltenham are all within easy reach.

Sporting activities are extensive with stunning walks and rides locally, shooting, fishing, equestrian (Badminton is 5 miles), hunting with the Duke of Beaufort’s and Berkeley hounds, racing at Cheltenham, Bath and Newbury, polo at Beaufort and Cirencester, golf at Cotswold Edge, Minchinhampton and Westonbirt, motor racing at Castle Combe, flying at Cotswold Airport (Kemble) and Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton) and Premiership rugby at Bath and Gloucester, to name just a few.

The area has excellent pubs and restaurants, including nearby Calcot Manor, Whately Manor and Castle Combe Manor, highly recommended for their fine dining and spas, or the much praised Williams kitchens in Nailsworth, Quayles in Tetbury, Jolly Nice at Frampton Mansell to name a few.

Education is first class with highly rated local schools, which include Beaudesert Park in Minchinhampton, Westonbirt School, Wycliffe College, plus the renowned schools and colleges in and around Cheltenham, Bath and Bristol.

Corn Mill FarmThe principal house is a former 17th Century ‘gryst mill’, situated in the heart of the Kilcott Valley, an area that enjoyed the prosperity of the thriving wool trade for several centuries.

It underwent an extensive restoration and extension in the early 1990s, under the ownership of one of Margaret Thatcher’s advisers and speech writers, with the guidance of respected local architect Robert Hardwick, taking great care to enhance the character of the property with numerous attractive features.

It was briefly owned by an American oil heir and racehorse trainer, before being acquired by the current family in 2001.

They undertook a further programme of improvements, adding

the leisure complex, additional garaging, tennis court, and a major

investment in the land, to restore the boundaries, hedgerows,

water features, grassland, and wildlife habitats.

In 2006 the ancient woodland of Lizens Wood and Mickley Brake

were also added to the estate.

Approached from the village lane, via a tree-lined drive, the historic

mill is situated in an extremely peaceful and secluded location.

The house has an immediately welcoming feel, and is ideal for

entertaining, with a large galleried entrance hall, overlooking the dining hall, and a beautifully proportioned drawing room, as well as being a lovely family home with open fires, large farmhouse style kitchen and many charming period features throughout.

The bedroom accommodation is split, with four bedrooms in the core of the house and an independent self-contained guest annex on the lower ground floor, looking out over the garden to the millpond, and the woodland above

The house has been meticulously upgraded and maintained by the current owners to provide a comfortable and practical family home.

Approximate Gross Internal Floor AreaMain House: 484 sq m / 5,206 sq ft Coach House: 56 sq m / 605 sq ft

Leisure Complex: 148 sq m / 1,595 sq ft Additional Buildings: 337 sq m / 3,630 sq ft

Total: 1,025 sq m / 11,036 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.

Reception

Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Terrace

Recreation

Ground Floor

Lower Ground Floor Second Floor

First Floor

Coach House

OutbuildingGround Floor

Leisure ComplexFirst Floor

Lower Ground Floor

Leisure ComplexGround Floor

Coach House

Coach House

Further guest accommodation is provided in the Coach House above the secure well-equipped, garaging, which connects to the impressive indoor swimming pool and leisure complex, overlooking fine lawns, without compromising the main house.

The Farmland The ring-fenced farmland flanks the main house and is situated to the south, north and east, comprising of beautifully maintained ancient pastureland, meadows and deciduous woodlands, including a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), with well-maintained private access tracks, rides and walks as well as two lovely ponds, ideal for camping, barbecues, picnics or fishing. The land rises from the bottom of the valley to the top of the escarpment where there are some exceptional views, as far as Wales to the West, throughout the year.

To the eastern boundary it adjoins Midger Wood, a wildlife sanctuary under the custodianship of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust. The land to the far south adjoins the Duke of Beaufort’s Badminton Estate

The present owners do not actively farm the land, but have undertaken a sympathetic programme of environmental improvements for their own personal enjoyment and the encouragement of wildlife.

The farm, grounds, gardens and caretaking roles are carried out by a longstanding manager and income is derived from Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) and Basic Farm Payments, grazing licences (cattle in the summer, sheep through the year), shooting, and wood sales. There are opportunities to further develop the farming enterprise or continue to enjoy it as it is, with limited effort.

In all about 107 acres (43.3 hectares)

A Home for All SeasonsCorn Mill Farm provides an idyllic family home and lifestyle, in one of the most beautiful parts of the English countryside – whatever the time of year.

Whilst the long, simmering, summer days deliver the joys of outdoor living, virtually every day presents a vivid panorama of beauty across the everchanging landscape. Snow in mid-winter, stormy nights and blazing log fires, long walks, the green shoots of early spring, as nature reawakens, rapidly bursting into a glorious summer, before eventually easing into the mists and falling leaves of Autumn, ahead of the wonderful festive Christmas period. Every day there’s something different to see, learn and enjoy.

Rights of way There is a little used public footpath that passes across part of the property, some distance to the east of the main house.

ServicesMain house:Oil fired central heating, calor gas, air source heat pump, mains electricity, mains water and private drainage

Coach house and pool complex:Oil fired central heating, air souce heat pump, mains electricity, mains water and private drainage

Also:High speed Broadband

Automatic ‘back-up’ generator in the event of a power cut

Bore hole

Local authority Stroud District Council Tel: 01453 766321

Post code GL12 7RL

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Fixtures and fittings: All fixtures and fittings are excluded from the sale but may be available by separate negotiation

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Note: “This plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey map with the sanction of the control of H.M. Stationary office. This plan is for convenience of purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. Licence Number. No. 100021721.”