3 bedroom detached house for sale

This property is ideal for a professional or private equestrian buyer.

The house at Oaklands Stables was built in 2005 of Hornton stone under a slate roof, with a brick single-storey wing under a tiled roof. With air conditioning, flagstone floors, vaulted kitchen with exposed roof truss and roof lantern above, an extensive range of painted kitchen units with timber tops and range cooker, sink and integrated appliances and a pantry. Expansive hall with a glazed and timber-gabled front. The open-plan living space provides a formal drawing room area with fireplace, study area and sitting room with stone and brick fireplace with a wood-burning stove and French doors to the front and rear gardens. Beyond the kitchen is a shower room/ WC, vaulted dining room and utility room.

First floor galleried landing with expansive southerly views and a balcony and en suite shower room to the principal bedroom, two further bedrooms and family bathroom.

Stone-built open-fronted garage, with a secure store, with outside stairs to a one bedroom apartment above with a sitting room, kitchen, bedroom and shower room, and south-facing solar panels, with a lean-to greenhouse to the rear.

The property is not subject to an agricultural occupancy condition.

Stables, gardens and grounds

Approached through electric gates to an extensive gravel parking area. Lawned garden with birch, apple trees and field maple, small pond and fountain. Fenced manège with sand and carpet surface and lighting.

The stables have concrete yards, part covered, staff mess room and WC, yard office, tack rooms, fodder stores and extensive stabling and solarium. Horse walker in need of repair. Secure container storage All-weather lunge ring with lighting.

The paddocks have post and rail fencing, boundary hedges and water, trees include eucalyptus and a young lime tree. Field shelter A footpath crosses the land as shown on the boundary plan at some distance from the house and buildings.

Oaklands Stables is situated between Tysoe and Brailes in open countryside, well-screened from the highway. Upper Tysoe is a hamlet adjoining the thriving village of Tysoe, a conservation area close to the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Tysoe is well served by a village store, post office, doctor’s surgery, hairdresser, public house, parish church, Methodist church, WI, village hall and tennis club. There is a riding school in the nearby village of Radway. It has a highly regarded primary school and
pre-school. There is a wide range of state, private and grammar schools nearby to suit most requirements.

The market town of Shipston-on-Stour and the rural village centre of
Kineton are a few miles away and have a wider range of facilities. Banbury, Leamington Spa, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon are easily accessible. The Royal Shakespeare Theatres are at Stratford-upon-Avon, and Soho Farmhouse, the luxurious members' club in Chipping Norton, is also within easy reach.

There are golf courses close by, and racecourses at Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon. At the edge of the escarpment, the site of the Civil War Battle of Edgehill in 1642 forms a backdrop to the east. The M40 is easily accessed at junctions 11 & 12 (Gaydon) and (Banbury).