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£1,350,0006 bedroom detached house for sale
Pitchcombe, Stroud
Detached house
6 beds
4 baths
3143
EPC rating: D
Key information
Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Band F
Features and description
- Historic Home (not Listed)
- Rich in Period Features
- Sensational Views
- Large Open-plan Kitchen
- Idyllic Village Location
- Pretty Garden
- Parking
- Excellent Schools Nearby
- Renovated and Refurbished to a High Standard
Hillside House offers a distinctive Cotswold home rich in historic character and period features. The property has been thoughtfully adapted for modern living to create beautifully balanced spaces that work equally well for relaxed family life as for entertaining, along with magnificent far-reaching views.
Description - Hillside House offers the perfect combination of period charm alongside modern-day functionality.
The home opens to an exquisite Arts and Crafts hall. Rich terracotta-painted walls, framed by decorative timber detailing, add depth and architectural interest, creating a space that is both welcoming and quietly impressive.
As is often the case with country houses, the kitchen is very much the heart of the home. Original flagstone flooring provides character and practicality, and aged beams originating from a ship create a wonderful sense of history. A modern fitted kitchen provides plentiful, discreet storage, and complements an original walk-in pantry. There is ample room for a large dining table, perfect for informal entertaining.
The kitchen leads open-plan to a further dining/back kitchen area, creating useful additional space, together with a separate, good-sized utility for hiding laundry and muddy boots.
Dating back to 1790, the sitting room occupies the oldest part of the house, rich in character, with exposed, aged beams and an impressive inglenook fireplace with built-in seating and an original bread oven. Large windows draw in natural light and frame the stunning, far-reaching views.
A good-sized dining room is ideal for more formal hosting or large family gatherings with a beautiful wood-burning stove and boarded floors.
A shower room and understairs storage complete the ground floor.
Six bedrooms are located across the upper two floors, one of which is currently used as a family room. All of the bedrooms benefit from plentiful, discreet storage, and the front-facing rooms enjoy exceptional, panoramic views across the valley.
Two modern bathrooms are located on the first floor, one of which is ideally positioned to be reconfigured into an en-suite for the principal bedroom. A further up-to-date shower room services the two top-floor bedrooms.
The Garden & Outbuildings - Steeped in historical interest, the chapel steps leading up to the house once belonged to an abbey located to the rear. Architectural remnants remain in the property’s gardens today.
According to records, Hillside House was also the UK’s first recorded vegetarian guest house, run by nuns who charged two guineas per week for ‘relaxation and countryside air’.
Due to the house’s elevated location, the garden benefits from sensational views. The original abbey lychgate creates a charming entrance from the lane to the garden with a footpath leading to the house.
A choice of seating, including a patio and decking area, provides idyllic spots for a morning coffee or sundowner drinks, whilst soaking up the views.
Fruit trees and a kitchen garden are set to the rear of the house, perfect for those who wish to create a taste of the ‘good life.'
A potting shed provides useful storage, and a covered wood shed stores winter logs and doubles as a summer-time bar area.
Opposite Hillside House, a newly landscaped and gravel parking area for several cars has planning approval for a double garage.
Description - Hillside House offers the perfect combination of period charm alongside modern-day functionality.
The home opens to an exquisite Arts and Crafts hall. Rich terracotta-painted walls, framed by decorative timber detailing, add depth and architectural interest, creating a space that is both welcoming and quietly impressive.
As is often the case with country houses, the kitchen is very much the heart of the home. Original flagstone flooring provides character and practicality, and aged beams originating from a ship create a wonderful sense of history. A modern fitted kitchen provides plentiful, discreet storage, and complements an original walk-in pantry. There is ample room for a large dining table, perfect for informal entertaining.
The kitchen leads open-plan to a further dining/back kitchen area, creating useful additional space, together with a separate, good-sized utility for hiding laundry and muddy boots.
Dating back to 1790, the sitting room occupies the oldest part of the house, rich in character, with exposed, aged beams and an impressive inglenook fireplace with built-in seating and an original bread oven. Large windows draw in natural light and frame the stunning, far-reaching views.
A good-sized dining room is ideal for more formal hosting or large family gatherings with a beautiful wood-burning stove and boarded floors.
A shower room and understairs storage complete the ground floor.
Six bedrooms are located across the upper two floors, one of which is currently used as a family room. All of the bedrooms benefit from plentiful, discreet storage, and the front-facing rooms enjoy exceptional, panoramic views across the valley.
Two modern bathrooms are located on the first floor, one of which is ideally positioned to be reconfigured into an en-suite for the principal bedroom. A further up-to-date shower room services the two top-floor bedrooms.
The Garden & Outbuildings - Steeped in historical interest, the chapel steps leading up to the house once belonged to an abbey located to the rear. Architectural remnants remain in the property’s gardens today.
According to records, Hillside House was also the UK’s first recorded vegetarian guest house, run by nuns who charged two guineas per week for ‘relaxation and countryside air’.
Due to the house’s elevated location, the garden benefits from sensational views. The original abbey lychgate creates a charming entrance from the lane to the garden with a footpath leading to the house.
A choice of seating, including a patio and decking area, provides idyllic spots for a morning coffee or sundowner drinks, whilst soaking up the views.
Fruit trees and a kitchen garden are set to the rear of the house, perfect for those who wish to create a taste of the ‘good life.'
A potting shed provides useful storage, and a covered wood shed stores winter logs and doubles as a summer-time bar area.
Opposite Hillside House, a newly landscaped and gravel parking area for several cars has planning approval for a double garage.
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Painswick, arguably one of the prettiest villages in the Cotswolds, is situated between Cheltenham and Stroud. It contains an exceptional number of fine old buildings dating from the 17th and 18th centuries with a particularly special Grade 1 listed church as its centrepiece. From the village there are commanding views in every direction across a verdant landscape comprising unspoilt valleys, interspersed by a series of little country lanes. The village, which has good local amenities, is popular with all ages but particularly amongst the retired. Painswick is ideally located for Cheltenham and Gloucester and within two hours of London by road, being very accessible to the A417 which links the M4 (Junction 15 with Junction 11a of the M5 motorway). Cheltenham has a main line station (Birmingham New Street from 45 minutes) and this famous Regency Spa town is also famous for its racing, literature, music and science festivals as well as its excellent schools, shopping, restaurants and theatre. The Painswick Office serves the village and a large area from across to the River Severn, round the southern edge of Gloucester and Cheltenham to the villages to the north of Cirencester. It is consequently responsible for selling properties in some of the most sought after locations in the whole region while working closely with its sister offices at Stroud and at Minchinhampton and The Mayfair Office in central London.