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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