5 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Superb dual occupancy living or income generator.
- 5 bedroom detached house
- Indoor swimming pool complex
- Separate sizeable ancillary 3 4 bedroom cottage
- Beautiful landscaped grounds of circa 4.37 acres
- Wildlife pond and a large, thatched roof gazebo
- Plentiful garaging and workshop space
- Vegetable garden
- Floodlit grass tennis court/football pitch
- Adjacent field of 5.84 acres available separately
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The house has origins dating back to the 1600’s with exposed beams and later additions. Both the house and cottage have their own independent entrance gates and each offers very generous well-maintained living space. The dwellings offer superb dual occupancy living or as an income generator.
The Alms House
Ground floor
• There are two charming pitched roof porch entrances at the front and side of the house.
• A Harvey Jones fitted kitchen/breakfast room with Quartz worktops, a range of appliances and a utility room and a cloakroom. It’s offers a unique dining and entertaining space with two sets of French doors opening from the kitchen to the swimming pool complex.
• There are three large reception rooms all with oak flooring and fine fireplaces.
• The superb indoor swimming pool complex includes an underwater changeable light system, hot tub, a glass fronted sauna, male and female changing rooms and built-in Bose speakers with Bluetooth connection.
First floor
• A principal bedroom suite with a dressing room and spacious en suite with a Jacuzzi bath and separate walk-in shower.
• Guest en suite with a walk-in shower.
• Three further double bedrooms served by a family bathroom with a freestanding roll-top bath and a large walk-in shower.
The Alms Cottage
Ground floor
• Glazed double doors open to a reception hall.
• Fitted kitchen with granite worktops, an island with attached dining table, a range of appliances and complemented by a utility room.
• The sitting room has a built-in entertainment wall and bi-fold doors opening to the paved terrace.
• There is a cloakroom, office, boot room and a further bedroom.
• Off the boot room is a door to an exceptionally large garage/workshop, with a shower room and staircase to a full-length eaves room that offers flexibility in its use as an office, bedroom or family room.
First floor
• Bedroom 1 has a spacious dressing room and an en suite with a full width walk-in shower
• Bedroom 2 also has a sumptuous en suite with a bath and a separate walk-in shower.
• Both en suites have mood lighting and an integrated Alexa sound system.
Gardens, Grounds and Outbuildings
• There are two sets of electric gates opening to the grounds, one of which has a video intercom system and opens to the gravel circular drive.
• The beautifully landscaped grounds have an an irrigation system. They are arranged in compartments with various strategic seating areas for outdoor entertaining and enjoying a view of the wonderful gardens.
• There is an expanse of well-manicured lawns, mature shrubs and a number of mature trees throughout the grounds.
• There is a fountain and adjacent summerhouse with a toilet and mature wisteria.
• Adjacent to the wonderful wildlife pond is a gravel terrace and a large, thatched roof gazebo creating an outstanding entertaining space with power.
• There is a vegetable garden with a traditional greenhouse and brick raised beds.
• At the bottom of the garden is a floodlit, grass tennis court/football pitch and adjacent state of the art Kompan playground, with a range of play equipment.
• In the rear garden is also a large concealed modern garage/workshop that contains the bore hole private water supply equipment.
Agents Note
• The occupation of The Alms Cottage is limited to close relatives of the occupier of The Alms House and shall not be sold, let or used as an independent unit of accommodation.
• The adjacent field outlined in blue on the plan extending to 5.84 acres, is available by separate negotiation. It can be accessed from the gardens and also has a 5-bar gated access off Worcester Road.
Situation
Situated in the heart of Harvington, a small quaint north Worcestershire village, with a public house and Harvington Hall, which is a near untouched, moated medieval Elizabethan manor house open to the public. The attractive village of Chaddesley Corbett is nearby and provides excellent local amenities to include a post office/general store, butcher, two public houses, hairdresser, dry cleaners and a primary school. There are a number of renowned schools in the area including Winterfold House School just outside Chaddesley Corbett, Bromsgrove School, Old Swinford Hospital School, Stourbridge and the Royal Grammar School and King’s in Worcester.
The property is well located for access to regional centres including Bromsgrove, Kidderminster and the Cathedral City of Worcester together with Birmingham and the West Midlands conurbation. Junction 4 of the M5 motorway connects to the M42 which in turn leads to the M40.
Rail services operate locally from Kidderminster and Blakedown to Birmingham Moor Street, where inter-city trains connect to London.
Fixtures and Fittings
All fixtures, fittings and furniture such as curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments and statuary are excluded from the sale. Some may be available by separate negotiation.
Services
Mains drainage and electricity (three phase and a standby generator) to the House and Cottage.
Treated private water supply for both properties, however the Cottage has an independent mains water supply too.
Heating and hot water for the House is oil fired, whilst the Cottage is mains gas fired.
The swimming pool heating and gas cooker in the House are mains gas fired.
None of the services or appliances, heating installations, plumbing or electrical systems have been tested by the selling agents.
The estimated fastest download speed currently achievable for the property postcode area is around 37 Mbps (data taken from checker.ofcom.org.uk on 20/06/2024). Actual service availability at the property or speeds received may be different.
We understand that the property is likely to have current mobile coverage outdoors (data taken from checker.ofcom.org.uk on 20/06/2024). Please note that actual services available may be different depending on the particular circumstances, precise location and network outages.
Tenure
The property is to be sold freehold with vacant possession.
Local Authority
Wyre Forest District Council
Council Tax Bands:
The Alms House - H
The Alms Cottage - A
Public Rights of Way, Wayleaves and Easements
The property is sold subject to all rights of way, wayleaves and easements whether or not they are defined in this brochure.
Plans and Boundaries
The plans within these particulars are based on Ordnance Survey data and provided for reference only. They are believed to be correct but accuracy is not guaranteed. The purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of all boundaries and the extent of ownership. Neither the vendor nor the vendor’s agents will be responsible for defining the boundaries or the ownership thereof.
Viewings
Strictly by appointment through Fisher German LLP.
Directions
Postcode – DY10 4LN
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