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This property is no longer on the market
Farm
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- 6 bedrooms
- 5 reception rooms
- 5 bathrooms
- 40.58 acres
- Leisure Facilities
- Modern
- Outbuildings
- Conservatory
- Detached
- Equestrian
The property is ideal for entertaining, with a spectacular lakeside setting and lovely surrounding countryside. The reception rooms are well-proportioned and include the first-floor lake room. The lake room has an exposed granite stairwell, full-height brick and timber chimney stack and curved mirrored bar. Four sets of French doors open onto the terrace and lake. The second kitchen/utility room has an Aga. There are five further bedrooms and four bathrooms. To the first-floor sitting room, there are outstanding views, a granite fireplace and a balcony. The drawing room has an oak floor and dressed stone fireplace. The dining room has decorative ceiling cornices, double-glazed windows and French doors. The substantial kitchen/breakfast room has a new ceramic tiled floor and
extensive range of hand-painted units with integrated appliances and a breakfast area, with a conservatory off overlooking the lake.
There is an integral heated four-car garage with electric doors to the front and a superb leisure complex, including a swimming pool room with a pine panel ceiling, stone paved floor, saunas and doors to the terrace. Originally built as a recording studio, the snooker room/games room with mahogany bar, gymnasium fully fitted squash court with maple-stripped floor and plate glass rear screen wall.
To the rear of the property is an extensive paved sun terrace with an inset flower border. Beyond the terrace are the beautiful lake and an abundance of wildfowl, with weeping trees and a small island. The lake provides a wonderful backdrop to the property.
A concrete driveway with ornamental shrubs leads to the farm buildings, passing the enclosed kitchen garden area and all-weather tennis court. The extensive farm buildings include four large bay enclosed steel framed buildings (45ft x 60ft) with 18ft eaves, an enclosed steel frame workshop (45ft x 30ft), a 4-bay double span steel frame building (60ft²), lean-to (60ft x 12ft), mono-pitch building
(60ft x 17ft), steel frame stock housing building (105ft x 35ft) with insulated roof and including Monarch traditional internal stables, feed store (40ft x 20ft) with isolation boxes and storage above, 4-bay steel frame barn (80ft x 60ft) with floodlighting, large concrete
forecourt. Gardener's store, workshops and boiler room. There is also an all-weather manager.
The grassland is ideal for equestrian or agricultural use.
Mockley Wood Farm is situated on Gentleman's Lane on the edge of the village of Ullenhall in a most tranquil and unspoilt location. Ullenhall is a sought-after village with a parish church and village hall. Nearby Henley-in-Arden is an attractive market town with a range of shops and recreational facilities, including public houses, restaurants, primary and secondary schools, doctor and veterinary surgeries and various churches. The nearby village of Tanworth-in-Arden also has a doctor's surgery and The Bell Inn restaurant/pub. With its Shakespearean heritage, theatres and amenities, Stratford-upon-Avon is about 11 miles away.
There are state, private and grammar schools in the area to suit most requirements, including grammar schools at Stratford-upon-Avon and Alcester, Warwick Prep and Public Schools and King's High School for Girls in Warwick and The Croft Prep School in Stratford-upon-Avon; Bromsgrove and Solihull Public Schools.
The property is excellently located for the motorway network, with the M40, M42 and M5 within easy reach. There is an intercity train service and an international airport in Birmingham.
There are golf courses in Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick and racing at Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham. The National Indoor Arena, Convention Centre and Symphony Hall are in Birmingham's city centre, and the National Exhibition Centre is about 15 miles away.
Henley-in-Arden 3 miles, Stratford-upon-Avon 11 miles, Warwick 14 miles, Warwick Parkway Station 12 miles (Intercity trains to London Marylebone from 69 mins), M40 (J15) 12 miles, M42 (J3) 6 miles, Birmingham 15 miles, Birmingham International Airport (All distances and times are approximate)