5 bedroom house

The most stunning five bedroom Mews house in Gayhurst Court, boasting 3000 square feet, a stunning reception room with vaulted ceiling, off road parking, a double garage and very rare private gardens in addition to the Parkland setting and communal grounds and lakes.

Key Features - Ground floor:
This impressive period property is approached over a gravelled courtyard where you are faced with a solid wooden door which opens into a small porch area with some visible exposed stonework to one wall. Double doors open into a large reception hall with stone coloured floor tiling and recessed lighting to the ceiling. An inner lobby has continuous floor tiling and sees a staircase rising to the first floor and a door opening to a rear courtyard which is shared with the neighbouring properties. An arched doorway in stone mullions opens into the cloakroom gaining natural light through leaded light windows. Within the cloakroom stands an integrated WC and wash basin. Also accessed from the inner lobby is a delightful room offering great flexibility of use possibly as a snug, TV/cinema room, home office or gym, patently it could have a multiplicity of uses to suit personal requirements. Also accessed from this area through a substantial wooden door with wrought iron furniture, is a vast and magnificent reception room combining sitting and dining areas. This room is rather breath taking and eyes are drawn to the vaulted ceiling and arched windows within the dining area and the splendid fireplace housing a large wood burning stove in the sitting area. Flooring here is in engineered wood. The windows throughout this room are at differing levels and are all in traditional leaded lights. Look upwards from the dining area where there are exposed roof trusses and be amazed to see a unique turreted window looking down from a room on the floor above. Continue into the kitchen/breakfast room with its bespoke hand crafted furniture. A central island unit features and includes drawer units and cabinets with quartz worktop and inlaid induction hob with an extractor hood over. There are matching cabinets at base and higher levels some having internal lighting and glazed fronts. A door sympathetic in design and colour blends into the kitchen furniture and allows access to a store area also housing the central heating boiler. Integral to the kitchen there is a built in oven, steam oven and warming drawer also a dish washer, washing machine and fridge freezer. Steps up from one corner access a circular porchway from where a doorway opens into the garden.

First Floor - First Floor
The property enjoys two staircases to access the first floor, one from the reception area and the other off the hall. The staircase from the reception area reaches a landing on the first floor which diverts in two directions. On one side there are two bedrooms, one double bedroom and one single bedroom and on the other side is the master bedroom and a family bathroom which has a four piece suite inclusive of a shower cubicle and freestanding bath. On this floor there are many exposed roof trusses and all windows are leaded light in keeping with the properties original era.
Using the spiral staircase from the hallway we reach a landing with two double bedrooms and a large shower room with an integrated WC and wash basin. The aforementioned turreted high level window is located in one of the bedrooms whilst both bedrooms boast leaded light windows and exposed roof trusses.

Outside - To the front of the property stands a double width garage with a remote controlled door, power, light and water outlet. There is also a shared store area where logs can be kept under cover and bins stored.
The delightful walled garden to the rear of the property has a large paved patio area fronting a well tended lawn with attractive comprehensively planted borders.

Agents Notes - The kitchen and both bathrooms have electric underfloor heating. Central heating to all other parts of the property is by oil fired radiator.
Historical interest.
In 1581 Queen Elizabeth 1st gave the estates of Gayhurst and Stoke Goldington to Sir Francis Drake, partly as a reward for the treasures that he had collected for her on his round the world voyages. Drake who needed cash to finance further voyages sold the villages within a couple of days of being presented with them.
In 1596 Everard Digby married Mary Mulso and so started the ill fated Digby dynasty at Gayhurst. Everard was one of the principal plotters in the Gunpowder Plot, in fact much of the planning took place in the yew tree lined walk at the back of the house, still known as "Digby's walk".

As any school boy knows the plot failed on November 5 1605. Digby and the other plotters were hunted down. Everard was caught by the Sheriff of Warwickshire and following the subsequent trial was hung drawn and quartered.

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