A wonderful period village house in a popular village.

Description

Old Tythe Barn is a wonderful period village home in a very peaceful and attractive corner of a popular village with a view towards the church. The property benefits from versatile secondary accommodation, lovely gardens and extensive garaging and will appeal to many buyers. There are wonderful period features throughout including flagstone floors, inglenook fireplaces, ceiling and wall timbers and oak paneled doors with thumb latch handles.

You enter Old Tythe Barn via a welcoming reception hall with flagstone floor and handsome staircase with carved newel posts. There is a well-proportioned drawing room with inglenook fireplace and view across the garden and a formal dining room which looks towards the church. To the rear of the property is a generous family room with expansive windows, with window seats, allowing light to flood in. The kitchen is fitted with a range of traditional wall and base units. Completing the ground floor is a cloakroom.

On the first floor is a superb principal bedroom with access to an en suite bathroom and two dressing rooms. This bedroom can be reached via the main staircase and a secondary staircase leading from the family bedroom. There are four further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
There is a detached double garage with a flat above comprising an open plan living room/kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and utility and cloakroom on the ground floor. A wonderful feature of the flat is the vaulted ceiling in the living room/kitchen with magnificent exposed trusses.

The principal garden lies to the rear and is laid to lawn with mature hedging and specimen trees. Steps from the lawn lead down to an extensive paved terrace which is the perfect place for al fresco dining. Attached to the wall of the family room is a loggia.

The property is coming to the market for the first time in over 20 years and offers the opportunity for sympathetic and thoughtful modernisation.

Location

Old Tythe Barn is situated in the attractive and highly regarded village of Tredington, set on the northern fringe of the Cotswold Hills in south Warwickshire. The village, with pub and primary school, is skirted by the River Stour and boasts many stone period properties and a local landmark; the Spire of St Gregory’s Church.

The local market town of Shipston-on-Stour (noted by the Sunday Times March 2016 as one of the best places to live in the UK) is approximately 1.5 miles away to the south providing an excellent selection of independent shops including butchers, deli, fishmonger, greengrocer, supermarkets, pubs, restaurants, boutique hotel, vets, doctor’s surgery, cottage hospital, and secondary school. To the north is the large town of Stratford-upon-Avon providing more extensive shopping and leisure facilities, as well as being the region’s cultural centre and the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
South Warwickshire is renowned for its excellent selection of state, private and grammar schools, including the boys and girls grammar schools in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick schools, The Croft School at Stratford-upon-Avon, Bloxham and Sibford Ferris Public Schools and Kitebrook in Moreton-in-Marsh. School buses run through the village.

Connections are good with a direct train service from Moreton-in-Marsh to London Paddington (from 87 minutes) and Banbury to London Marylebone (from 58 minutes). M40 (J11) at Banbury (about 15 miles) for London and the South or M40 (J12) Gaydon (about 11 miles) for Birmingham and the North. Regular buses run through the village. Tredington House benefits from Superfast broadband.

Sporting and leisure activities in the area include a popular Pool & Gym, Rugby Club and Sports Club in Shipston; golf at Brailes, Tadmarton and Chipping Norton, racing at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick and Cheltenham, as well as easy access to world class theatre at Stratford-upon-Avon with an additional fringe theatre at Chipping Norton.

Shipston-on-Stour 1.5 miles, Stratford-upon-Avon 8 miles Moreton-in-Marsh 8 miles (trains to London Paddington from 90 minutes), Chipping Campden 8.5 miles, M40 (J12) 11 miles, Banbury 17 miles, Birmingham International Airport 30 miles (distances and times are approximate).

Square Footage: 3,057 sq ft


Acreage: 0.25 Acres

Directions

From Shipston-on-Stour head north on the A4300. After about 3km turn right (ignore signpost to Newbold & Tredington on the left). Upon reaching the village take the first turn on the right and Old Tythe Barn will be found on the right next to the Church.

Additional Info

Stratford on Avon District Council. Telephone[use Contact Agent Button]. Council Tax Band H.

Viewing strictly by appointment with Savills.

Particulars prepared: November 2022. Photographs taken: October 2022.

Mains electricity, gas, water and drainage. Gas fired central heating.