3 bedroom apartment

One enters the apartment via an entrance hall with doors to the principal reception rooms in particular the wonderful dual aspect drawing room. The breakfast room has a great range of wall and base mounted units beneath a worktop with integrated appliances including an oven, oven/micro combi, dishwasher, washer dryer and fridge/freezer. A principal bedroom with an en suite shower room, 2 further bedrooms and a family bathroom complete the accommodation.

The gardens provide a spectacular setting and complement the classical architecture and elegance of Berkswell Hall. A sweeping drive leads through open fields and widens to a gravelled parking area in front of the main house. The communal gardens sweep the main house and are beautifully maintained. The more traditional paddocks lead to a shaped lake with rustic ferned banks creating a haven for wildlife, with, in the distance, views of open farmland and dense spinneys of copper and silver birch creating a coloured spectacle and making the communal gardens with far-reaching views quite special. Separate garage en bloc.

The service charges includes maintenance and decoration of the exterior of the building including window frames. Maintenance and decoration of internal, communal areas of the building. Buildings Insurance. Plantings and maintenance of communal grounds. Maintenance of sewage plant and drainage systems. The lighting of external pedestrian areas. Window cleaning.

The Manor of Berkswell dates from the late medieval period. The first noted building of a Manor House on this site was in the 1600s. The building we see today was altered in 1814 by Sir John Eardley Eardley Wilmot who later became Lt. Governer of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania). In 1861 the Hall was sold to the industrialist Thomas Walker who extended the building and the estate, creating the lake and planting the two magnificent specimen Wellingtonia trees. Commercial failures forced Walker to sell the estate in 1888, the purchaser being Joshua Wheatley, a wool manufacturer from Yorkshire. The estate remains the ownership of the Wheatley family with the Hall being sold in 1984 and converted into luxury apartments.

Berkswell Hall is situated in a lovely rural location just outside the delightful village of Berkswell which has a primary school, post office and stores, church, public house and railway station, and close to Balsall Common. The large villages of Barston, Hampton in Arden and Meriden are easily accessible. The Hall is within easy access of Solihull, Kenilworth, Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon. The National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham International Airport and Railway Station and Birmingham city centre is readily accessible.

There is a wide range of state and private schools in the area to suit most requirements including Solihull School, Warwick Prep and Public School and King's High School for Girls in Warwick, Arden School in Knowle and Bablake. Balsall Common School was rated Outstanding by Ofsted.

Solihull town centre has an excellent range of shopping facilities including the Touchwood Shopping Centre, restaurants, bars, cinema
complex and other leisure amenities. Berryfields Farm Shop and Restaurant are a short distance from the property. There are golf courses in the area and racing at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. The location is ideal for access to the motorway network,
with the M6, M42 and M40 giving access to all parts of the country

Balsall Common Station 1 mile (regular train services to Birmingham), Solihull 5 miles, Coventry 6 miles (Intercity trains to London Euston from 60 mins), Warwick 11 miles, Birmingham 15 miles, M40 (J15) 13 miles, Stratford-upon-Avon 17 miles, Warwick Parkway Station 10 miles (trains to London Marylebone from 69 mins) (Distances and times approximate).

Property Reference: STR012187181