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7 bedroom detached house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Period characterful village house
- Six/seven bedrooms with bathroom and dressing room to principal bedroom
- Beamed sitting room with inglenook fireplace
- Over 17 ft. by 16 ft. orangery kitchen
- Vaulted library/music room, dining/family room
- Landscaped gardens
- Triple garage/carport building
- Open views to front and rear
The house has brick and render elevations and is believed to date back to the 1600s with later additions. Retained period features include exposed beams, wood floors and fireplaces. There is over 3,780 sq. ft. of spacious accommodation over three floors. An oak front door leads into the reception hall which has exposed beams, a brick-built fireplace, a cloakroom and access to the two principal reception rooms and the kitchen/orangery.
The gardens are planted for spring and summer colour and extend to approximately 0.25 acres. There is extensive driveway parking and a triple garage/carport.
Rooms
Reception Rooms and Kitchen/Orangery
The three spacious reception rooms have their own character, with a beamed sitting room, a Victorian dining/family room and a vaulted library/music room which was formerly used as the village chapel and has a mural of scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The kitchen/orangery is light and spacious with a range of units, an electric Aga, and bi-fold doors to the garden. The base of a vaulted lantern roof is decorated with a mural of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.
Bedrooms and Bathrooms
There are two staircases to the first floor. The principal bedroom has views over the Common, a dressing area and an en suite bathroom. There are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom on the first floor. The remaining three bedrooms, a store room, and a cloakroom are on the second floor. This second floor accommodation could be rearranged to create a main bedroom suite with bathroom and dressing room.
Outside
The gardens are a particular feature and wrap around the house on all sides. To the rear and front there are large lawn areas with numerous mature trees and established shrub and flower borders. To the side, accessed from the sitting and music rooms, is an extensive stone paved patio seating area. Outbuildings include a double carport with connected workshop, two storage sheds, a greenhouse and a dog kennel/hen house.
Situation and Schooling
Wheeler End is a hamlet on the edge of the village of Lane End. It has a public house, The Chequers Inn, and a large area of grassland common, owned by the Dashwood Estate, where there are wild flowers, ponds, allotments and paths through the scrub and trees. The property is in catchment for grammar schools in High Wycombe and Marlow.
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