4 bedroom detached house for sale

Approached through a handsome entrance with curved ornate brick walls with electric gates and lighting, the drive lined with an avenue of lime trees rises past grass fields and the wooden stableyard to a block paved drive with a pond with a fountain to the house and buildings.

The house dates from about 1960 and all the principal rooms take full advantage of the stunning southerly views from this elevated vantage point.

From the panelled hall is the triple aspect drawing room with a traditional dressed stone fireplace and sliding doors to the extensive south-facing decking area, next to this is the study/dining room. The kitchen/breakfast room has an extensive range of kitchen cabinets with marble tops, appliances and large island unit/breakfast bar and has double doors opening to the glazed conservatory which enjoys the very best of the view. There is a large boot room with tiled floor and a cloakroom with WC and basin and a covered area behind.

To the first floor the principal bedroom faces south and west with an en suite shower room behind, leading to a large dressing room. Bedrooms two and three also enjoy the south-facing view to the Cotswolds. Bedroom four faces east and there is a family shower room.

The house has a parking area to the front and attractive gardens, with a shrubbery bank behind.

The plot and location would justify replacement with a new mansion house, subject to obtaining necessary planning consents or a buyer may wish to obtain consent to convert the traditional buildings.

Outside

The productive pastureland lies to either side of the drive and below the house. There are paddocks, an all weather manege, lunge ring and a well-designed 6 furlong gallop with a useful gradient for training racehorses or competition horses. There is a roadside shelterbelt of trees and a woodland behind the house. With a paddock behind and parterre garden with box hedging, peacock aviary and chicken house. The land gives great privacy to the house and buildings.

There is a timber stableyard off the drive with 7 stables, tack room and fodder store, and field shelter. Post and rail fenced stableyard. There is planning consent for a large new stableyard to be built if required.

The drive rises to the house and the double height range of traditional farm buildings, with single storey wings to front and rear and with walled yards behind, and incorporating tackrooms, feed room, stores, stables and barns laundry and WC and first floor office. There is a concrete yard and a range of back to back of 12 loose boxes. The total square footage of the house and buildings is around 9,141 square feet.

Below are a series of turn-out paddocks and the all-weather flood lit manege and lunge ring. Extensive grassland, one incorporating a schooling field.

There is a footpath along part of the east boundary of the land.

Comfort Park is in an elevated location outside the attractive village of Clifford Chambers which lies approximately 2 miles south of Stratford-upon-Avon and on the edge of the Cotswolds. This peaceful village has many historic buildings and period properties including the attractive parish church of St Helens. Within the village itself there is the New Inn Public House, a well-equipped village hall, a social club and a childrens recreation ground. Stratford Garden Centre, which offers a wide range of shopping and a café, is 0.5 miles from the village centre, and Waitrose is just 1 mile away.

A wider range of shopping and leisure facilities can be found nearby in the region's cultural centre, Stratford-upon-Avon. These include the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company theatres as well as an abundance of restaurants and dining pubs. The area is well served by state, grammar and private schools to suit most requirements.

For the commuter, Rail services run to Birmingham from Stratford-upon-Avon (2 miles away) to London Paddington from Honeybourne (9 miles away) and to London Marylebone from Warwick Parkway (11 miles away). The M40 (J15) is 9 miles away linking the wider motorway network with Birmingham to the north and London to the south.

Racing at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, Worcester and Cheltenham.The area is home to a number of racing yards, international showjumpers, eventing yards, with Aston-le-Walls eventing centre near Banbury, showing, dressage and polo.