A handsome country house in a secluded setting with land.

Description

Commanding an elevated position on the edge of the hamlet of Holywell, Holywell House combines village living with its own rural setting.

A six bedroom Victorian house, Holywell House is of brick construction under pitch slate roof. The house has been adapted over the years yet retains much of it’s Victorian charm and character. Whilst the main house is Victorian, it’s attached to a much older timber framed building. Due to the property’s architecture the principal rooms are well proportioned and enjoy high ceilings providing light and airy accommodation. There are a wealth of period features including an open fireplace, shuttered sash windows, entrance porch, 6-panel internal doors, oak and flagstone flooring, simple cornicing, exposed timbers and window seats. There are useful cellars (with reasonable head height) for wine and general storage.

Holywell House has been under the same family’s ownership since 1957 and whilst it has been a wonderful family home, there is now scope for modernisation and improvement.

The property is approached through an automatic wooden gate, opening onto a tarmac drive that leads to the front of the house with a turning circle and a gate into the yard to the rear of the house. The gently undulating gardens are predominantly laid to lawn with herbaceous borders and beds interspersed with mature trees including ash, walnut, beech, cherry, horse chestnut and tulip. Within the gardens are ornamental ponds, rock gardens and a stream. The original “Holy Well”, from which the village is named after, and believed to be the site of a Cistercian nunnery, is understood to lie next to the stream. There is an outdoor heated swimming pool with associated summerhouse which is covered in white wysteria in the summer.

To the rear of the house is a range of outbuildings including a former malt house and stabling. These provide garaging, stables, tack room, implement stores, garden store and gardener’s WC. In addition there is a timber garage and greenhouse. To the side of the house is a detached brick-built double garage with a pitched tiled roof.

Location

The charming hamlet of Holywell lies between Shrewley and Claverdon, five miles west of Warwick. The village of Shrewley has a post office/shop and The Durham Ox public house. This is a fantastic location for commuters and families, with excellent schools in the area, as well as Claverdon and Hatton train stations which service this sought after semi-rural location well. Local shopping is available in Warwick and Leamington Spa and there is easy access to the motorway network via M40 and onwards to the M42, M5 & M6.

There are a number of golf courses locally including the Ardencote Manor Country Club at Claverdon and racing at Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick. There is an abundance of rural walking routes nearby, as well as an attractive flight of 21 locks on the Grand Union Canal and local craft village Hatton Country World.

Square Footage: 4,280 sq ft


Acreage: 53.16 Acres

Directions

From M40 Junction 15, head towards Stratford-upon-Avon and at the first roundabout, take the second exit onto the B4463, signed for Henley-in-Arden and Norton Lindsey. After 1.3 miles you reach a junction where you turn left onto the A4189, signed for Redditch, Henley and Claverdon. Continue to Claverdon, passing Claverdon Railway Station and on to the centre of the village where you turn right into Lye Green Road, signed for Shrewley. After half a mile, having passed a green on the left, turn left for Holywell. Continue into Holywell, following the road around to the right. As you leave the hamlet, the entrance to Holywell House is found on the left with an automatic wooden gate.

Additional Info

Holywell House is offered for sale by private treaty with vacant possession on completion.

Main house: Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating and AGA. Swimming Pool and Pool House: Mains electricity and water.

EPC Rating F.

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Photographs taken: September 2016.