A grand and spacious family house set within beautifully landscaped gardens in a generous plot and situated in the much sought-after village of Repton.

Situation

Askew Cottage is situated in the heart of the sought-after village of Repton. This historical village offers an excellent range of amenities, shops and pubs and is home to one of Britain’s oldest and finest public schools, Repton School, founded in 1557 by Sir John Port. Askew Cottage is very well positioned for access to the school and to the highly regarded village primary school. Other notable schools in the area include Repton Prep, Denstone College, Derby Grammar School and Derby High School. Repton Prep is just 2.5 miles away at Foremarke and St Wystan’s Pre-Preparatory School is located in Repton.

The area offers a wide range of sporting facilities including the gym, tennis and swimming clubs at Repton School, sailing clubs at Swarkestone, Foremark Reservoir and Staunton Harold Reservoir, and motor racing at Donington Park. The Peak District National Park, with superb walks is about 22 miles from Repton, but there is a great network of footpaths running from the village across adjoining countryside. There is a wide range of social activities and active clubs centred on the Village Hall, where there is also a café.

Repton is very well placed for accessing major road networks including the A38 and the A50, which links the M6 with the M1. A mainline railway station is easily accessible at East Midlands Parkway (approx. 18 miles) with a journey time of 1 hour 25 minutes to London St Pancras, with Tamworth station (approx. 22 miles) also providing a fast service to London Euston. The cities of Derby, Lichfield, Nottingham and Leicester are all within striking distance.

Description

Askew Cottage is a charming and spacious family home extending to about 3,935 sq. ft over two floors. The house has Georgian origins from the 1760’s with later additions including the handsome front elevation of the house added during the Victorian era and an extensive extension to the rear which was added in more recent years. This property offers extensive and highly flexible accommodation which could offer scope for the provision of an attached/integrated annexe, studio, or home office space.

The front elevation is particularly impressive, making Askew Cottage a prominent house within Repton, constructed of red brick and showcasing two recently renovated stone bay windows either side of the original front door. The earlier mid-section of the house includes the kitchen.

The extension has been carefully considered and designed to complement the period architecture of the rest of the house, whilst offering contemporary living accommodation. Internally, the original sections of the property retain many period features including high ceilings and picture rails, whilst the extension has provided comfortable and spacious living accommodation.

Immaculately landscaped gardens adjoin Askew Cottage and are a superb feature of this home, whilst the property is also complemented by a spacious driveway and garage and workshop building.

Accommodation

The front door, retaining its period brass door furniture intact, opens into a spacious hallway with lovely period features including a flagstone floor, picture rails and Victorian balustrade to the main staircase which rises to the first floor. The principal reception rooms lead off the entrance hall. To the right is a spacious formal sitting room with high ceilings, a grand bay window with exposed stone detailing and a fireplace with log burner and White Hollington stone surround. To the left of the main staircase is a spacious study, with identical bay window, gas fire and bespoke fitted oak bookshelves and storage. Also off the entrance hall is a second study with grate fire, and an adjoining cloakroom and WC. Adjoining the kitchen is a music room/snug with exposed ceiling beams, and a second staircase to the first floor. A further door provides access to the cellar.

The spacious dining kitchen includes a good range of wall and base cabinetry beneath granite worksurfaces, with the benefit of an integrated dishwasher. Dual aspect windows let in good levels of natural light, and there is space for a large table.

A second hallway connects the later section of the house with double doors leading to a most impressive and versatile family room with high, pitched ceiling and exposed trusses and three sets of French doors providing a great connection to the gardens. There is a walk-through storage cupboard with an external door to the driveway. Also off the hallway is an extremely well-appointed utility room offering ample storage and floor to ceiling cabinetry providing housing for freestanding appliances, a shower room with WC, a further WC and a store cupboard.
The family room provides great scope to be put to a variety of uses. This might include studio space, an extensive home office (with independent access from the driveway) or conversion into a very large open-plan living-dining kitchen. With the shower room and utility room being close to the Family room there could be scope to utilise this area as an annexe.

On the first floor there is a highly impressive principal bedroom compromising a very spacious bedroom with high ceiling, full height arched window and dual aspect views of the garden, whilst a useful dressing room leads to a large and very well appointed five-piece en suite bathroom, with access to the main landing. The principal bedroom also has an independent staircase leading to the ground floor and which also provides access to the ground floor shower room thereby providing the opportunity to have two en suites serving the principal bedroom.

There are a further four well-proportioned bedrooms which are accessed from the main landing and retain many period features including fireplaces, picture rails and high ceilings. There is also a family bathroom.

Outside

Askew Cottage sits in an elevated position with hedgerows atop a stone wall adjoining Milton Road. There is a pedestrian access via stone steps which lead through a delightful front garden and along the Yorkstone garden path to the front door. To the side, a block paved driveway opens onto a gravelled parking area with EV charge point, in front of a red brick and stone garage building which also offers workshop space.

From the parking area, a formal garden with low box hedging and stocked with plenty of interesting shrubs and perennials directs you along the gravel path to an impressive entrance door, whilst a further pathway leads past a loggia adjoining the house and through to the spectacular rear garden. A wide terrace runs across the rear elevation of the house and offers space for outdoor dining and entertaining. Steps lead down to the exquisitely designed and maintained gardens comprising several different areas which are connected with curved pathways defined by structural hedges and include a productive vegetable garden, trained apple trees, many roses and extremely well stocked, attractive borders.