5 bedroom detached house

7 Popes Manor is a spacious detached executive house and the largest in this exclusive, electric gated community of just seven other properties. It offers peaceful and private living in a very convenient location with open countryside wrapping around this small development.

The living accommodation offers excellent proportions with light and airy living and entertaining space and features that include oak doors, oak flooring to certain rooms and wide oak skirting boards.

The front door is set under a pitched canopy roof porch and opens to a magnificent entrance hall with a door to the cloakroom and the focal point being an eye-catching oak split staircase.

There is a large drawing room with a fine fireplace housing a gas fire and dining room that conveniently has a door opening to the kitchen and double doors opening to the reception hall. A large study meets the needs of modern day living, and extending off the kitchen is a family/sitting room.

The large, fitted kitchen includes a breakfast island, granite worktops and French doors opening to the rear paved terrace. Appliances include a dual fuel range oven, integrated dishwasher and space or an American fridge freezer. Off the kitchen is a rear porch/boot room with a door to a fitted utility room with an integrated washing machine.

Upstairs off the large galleried landing are five double bedrooms and five bathrooms. The exceptionally spacious principal bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe and a generous en suite with a spa bath and a large walk-in shower. There are three further double en suite bedrooms, one with a Juliette balcony. The family bathroom serves the fifth bedroom with a free standing bath, double basin vanity unit and a corner shower.



Gardens and grounds

At the front of the house is a lawned garden and parking in front of the attached double garage. At the rear is a large multi-level enclosed lawned garden with two flights of wide stone steps set centrally within the lawn and a large paved rear terrace for al fresco dining and entertaining. Throughout the grounds are mature evergreen and perennial plants providing all-year round interest and colour.

Management Company
A management company is in place to cover the communal estate roads and electric entrance gates. Further details are available from the agent.

Services
Mains water, electricity and gas. Private drainage. Mains gas fired central heating.

Fixtures & fittings
All items mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others are specifically excluded.

Local Authority
Redditch Borough Council, [use Contact Agent Button]
Council Tax Band: G

M5 (J5) 9.5 miles · M42 (J3) 9 miles · M40 (J15) 18 miles · Redditch 3 miles · Bromsgrove 9.5 miles · Worcester 16 miles · Stratford-upon-Avon 14 miles ·
Birmingham 18.5 miles · Warwick Parkway train station 18 miles · Birmingham International Airport 22 miles (distances approximate)

A long shared private lane leads to an electric gated community of only seven houses on the edge of the sought-after village of Astwood Bank. The village offers country walks yet is conveniently positioned for commuting and provides a range of local amenities. These amenities include a Post Office, pharmacy and several public houses and restaurants. There are also several nurseries, an outstanding rated primary school and a secondary school, all within easy reach. Bromsgrove School is just 10 miles to the northwest, and Worcester City and Stratford-upon-Avon also offer a good selection of private schools.

Redditch has all that would be expected of a town, and the cities of Worcester and Birmingham are conveniently located nearby, offering more extensive social, retail and leisure amenities. The beautiful Shakespearean town of Stratford-upon-Avon is also only a short distance away and has a Waitrose.

There is superb access to the M5, M42 and M40 motorways and regular direct trains from Redditch to Birmingham with onward links to London. Warwick Parkway train station is 18 miles to the east and offers regular direct trains to London Marylebone.

Directions – B96 6DR
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