8 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Available on the open market for the first time in over 35 years.
- A substantial one of a kind property with over 11,000 square feet of buildings.
- Approached from the electric gates and half a mile long private driveway.
- Extensive equestrian facilities with 13 internal stables, 29 acres, tack room, feed room, solarium, menage, walker, other outbuildings and direct bridleway access.
- Detached high specification two bedroom annexe.
- Two triple garages as well as a gym.
- Six bedroom main residence with five reception rooms approaching 5000 square feet.
- Potential to extend and further develop subject to necessary consents.
- Excellent school catchments for all ages including the grammar schools as well as a selection of public schools.
- Transport links including the M1, train access to London in under half an hour as well as Luton and Heathrow airports under an hour away.
House And Gardens - Approaching your new home from the gated 650 meter long tree lined driveway gives you plenty of time to appreciate Dean Farm’s imposing frontage, understated and elegant.
The sweeping, circular driveway lets you take in the main house, annexe and showroom garage.
445 square foot of practical, flexible space, your showroom sits to the left of the main house, with seven panel bifold doors, and glossy tiling underfoot. The size and high grade finish of this versatile asset give you a taste of what you'll find throughout the property. Stairs lead up to the room above, beautifully finished as an extra bedroom and snug, with its own shower room. This is the perfect setup for further independent living if required. Although currently used as a show room this space can also be used in a number of ways such as a games room/play room/offices or independent accommodation.
Head over to your main entrance now, and step inside for your large and welcoming hallway, filled with natural light from floor to ceiling windows either side of the door. Turn left to find a bright play room, with 130 square feet of space that children will be excited to make their own.
Across the hall is a WC, then you'll come to your sixty five square foot study, that most contemporary of essentials. When you've finished work for the day, you can bask in your sunlit conservatory, also connecting you back to that substantial garage as well as to the front and rear gardens.
Back in the entrance hall, you'll find double doors straight ahead. These swing open onto your wonderful family room and kitchen, a spectacular open plan space of over 550 square feet. There's marble tiling underfoot and recessed lighting above. Several stylish vertical radiators ensure you'll be comfortable all year round.
Your kitchen is to the left, with a wealth of sleek neutral units topped by glossy contrasting worktops. A pair of butler sinks sit under a window, and there's the added little luxury of a glass fronted drinks fridge. There is a feature island with matching stone worksurface providing extra kitchen storage. There are also three sets of double pantry cupboards for all of those kitchen essentials. Dual aspect bifold doors open up the space to the garden, with a vast raised expanse of stone patio from which to admire your perfect lawns, the grounds, lake and countryside beyond.
The kitchen offers the definition of open plan living as it leads into the family room with so much space for sofas and a breakfast table. More of those bi-fold doors opening into the garden, perfect for entertaining all year round.
It's impossible to overstate the sheer grandeur of your grounds, with approximately 30 acres of sweeping lawns, thriving orchards, ranks of mature trees, artfully landscaped gardens, broad gravel drives, hedges and treelines all coming together in perfect natural geometry.
Your splendid family home truly sits at the heart of an incredible estate. Let's head back inside to enjoy more of what it has to offer.
Yet another set of bifold doors take you back inside, to your impressive dining room. This sunny 275 square foot space is perfect for entertaining, with hardwood engineered flooring underfoot, and a cast iron electric fire nestled inside an exposed brick chimney breast.
After dinner, simply take your drinks a few steps down into your sitting room, yet another vast, statuesque space - a grand 430 square foot with jaw dropping vaulted ceilings set with timber beams soaring overhead. Another exposed brick chimney breast rises all the way to the distant ceiling.
There are windows on three sides for plentiful natural light, including sliding doors for yet another option for exploring the garden and grounds and provides an impressive social flow when entertaining.
Back out to the hallway now, where you'll find stairs to the first floor.
As you'd expect, the first floor accommodation is impeccably finished. Each of your five double bedrooms is dressed in serene neutral shades, with soft carpet underfoot, and your three bathrooms are fully tiled with high end fittings. Far from being uniform, every single spot has its own subtly distinct character.
Turning left at the top of the stairs you'll come to the first of your bedrooms. There's a bay window and 170 square foot of space, with a closet to one corner. You also have a full en suite bathroom here, with shower cubicle as well as tile sided tub. Your second bedroom adds another 135 square foot.
Next to that is bedroom three, with a view over the garden, space for wardrobes and 185 square feet to spread out in.
Your main bathroom has a step in shower and stylish freestanding tub, along with twin sinks. Your fourth bedroom has 150 square feet of space with wardrobe in the corner, and dual aspect windows flooding everything with natural light.
Finally, your primary bedroom gives you another glorious garden view, a wall of bespoke wardrobes, and a splendid 225 square feet of tranquillity. Naturally there's another en suite off to the side, with ceiling mounted rainfall shower, and floating vanity sink.
Head back outside to discover your substantial annex to the right of the main house.
Annexe
This fantastic addition gives you another 2000 square foot plus of space, with a second substantial garage at its centre. To the left is a separate 220 square foot gym, with ample room for all the equipment you might want.
The living space here has its own front entrance and hallway, for fully independent multi-generational living or effortless hosting. There's a WC on the right, and shower room next to that. Opposite you'll find your first bedroom, a large double of 225 square feet.
The hallway leads to your stairs, taking you up to the first floor, where you'll find another WC. This one is tucked into the corner of your superb 780 square foot living space, with kitchen neatly fitted at one end and the rest open to arrange as you please beneath a high vaulted ceiling.
Your second bedroom, a little larger than the first, is at the end of this superb space with two built in wardrobes. Of course it has its own shower room, finished to the same exacting high standard as every other washroom across the property.
Equestrian Facilities - Your professional level equestrian facilities are all any horse lover could ask for, and are bound to impress anyone with an appreciation for the sport.
The stable block is close to 5000 square foot in its own right, with thirteen separate stables. There is a hay barn, storage barn, plus feed room with hot wash bay and large tack room. There's also a solarium/ treatment room. Outside you'll find the ménage as well as a 5 horse Claydon horse walker. With near thirty acres of grounds split into paddocks with post and rail fencing, this is an equestrian facility in its own league.
This magnificent modern country house has everything you could ever want and more. As luxurious as it is generous, the sheer size of the property and grounds is impossible to overstate.
A genuinely grand estate and a unique, one of a kind find.
Business Potential - Dean Farm has been enjoyed as a family home and has been extended in order to have created what is there today. It also lends itself to the potential of running a business whether that being equestrian based or lifestyle based such as a wedding/event venue given its fantastic secluded position. (subject to necessary permissions)
Local Area - Dean Farm is gloriously secluded and surrounded on all sides by countryside. Yet you're still just a short ten minute walk from the Buckinghamshire village of Soulbury, recorded in the Domesday Book as Soleberie.
A mile away you'll find your new local waterside pub, The Three Locks, loved by locals and visitors alike for its relaxed atmosphere and superb menu. Other close by pubs and restaurants include The Dolphin in Stoke Hammond or The Old Red Lion in Great Brickhill.
You'll have a choice of seventeen schools within three miles rated 'Outstanding' or 'Good' by Ofsted, including St Leonards Lower School and St Michael's CofE Combined School. Being in Buckinghamshire it is located within the grammar school catchment area and there are an array of public schools within easy reach.
For golfers options include Leighton Buzzard Golf Club, The Three Locks and Woburn Golf Club which is currently the only club in the UK to have three courses all ranking in the top 100 in the UK.
Milton Keynes is around twenty minutes away by car and has all local shopping and amenities required.
Drivers can be on the nearby, arterial A4146 in around five minutes to take you to junction 11a of the M1 in around 20 minutes. For air travel, Luton airport can be reached in circa 30 minutes and London Heathrow in around an hour.
Finally, an eight minute drive to Leighton Buzzard Station will get you to regular fast trains, whisking you to London Euston in just thirty three minutes.
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