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"An outstanding Georgian Farmhouse, with an excellent converted two bedroom detached coach house and further outbuildings with an exceptional gardens on a private plot approximately 0.25 of an acre. This Grade II listed Georgian Farmhouse has been much improved by the present owners whilst retaining great respect for the design and materials used during these renovations.
The Old Farm has a traditional layout, ideal for the family occupation and entertaining. Accommodation is laid out over three floors: an entrance hall and attractive oak staircase providing access to the principal accommodation with double doors providing admission to the garden to the rear. The ground floor offers two attractive reception rooms; breakfast kitchen with high quality cabinetry and the centrepiece being an oil-fired four oven Nobel cooker and ceramic hob. The accommodation is completed with cloakroom, utility room, and a cool dairy with brick thralls and wine storage. The first and second floors provide five bedrooms plus a study off the half landing, two ensuites and a family bathroom. All rooms have delightful proportions with the bathrooms being fitted with high quality sanitary and brass wear.
The house with an adjacent barn and the two bedroom converted former coach house are set around a cobbled courtyard. There are exquisitely stocked shrub, herbaceous borders, vegetables gardens and lawns providing year round interest.


In common with many buildings in Hungarton the construction is of hand made local bricks on a marl stone plinth. The roofs are of Swithland and Welsh slate. The house has undergone recent refurbishment including rewiring, re-plumbing, central heating overhaul with a Worchester-Bosch boiler, cat-five-cabling which provides many of the rooms of sufficient media and networking capabilities.<br/><br/>The Old Farm stands close to the Thirteenth Century Church of St John the Baptist, which together with the village hall; The Black Boy public house and Hungartons Millennium Green and Sports Ground provide activity for a closely-knit community.<br/>There is an active Womans Institute and also sports, youth and craft groups.<br/><br/>Immediate countryside offers an excellent network of footpaths and bridleways. There is a Livery Yard at nearby Quenby Hall with stabling also available. Local farmers rent paddocks out for horse grazing if required.<br/><br/>The Leicester Aero Club is three miles away, further afield are race and golf courses at Scraptoft, Great Glen, Evington and Luffenham Heath. Rutland Water-Europes largest man-made reservoir offers a variety of leisure facilities and water sports. <br/><br/> COMMUNICATIONS Communications are particularly good; there is access to the A47 leading west into Leicester and the M1 and East to the A1. The A46 and A6 are easily accessible. Train stations for fast links to London are at Market Harborough and Leicester. EDUCATION Educational needs are well catered for by Houghton-on the-Hill C of E School, with secondary school education at Gartree High School and Beauchamp College in Oadby. There are several well-known public schools within reach, which include Leicester Grammar and Stoneygate Prep School in Great Glen, Loughborough Endowed School, Ratcliffe College, Oakham and Uppingham Schools THE COACH HOUSE The Coach House, a superb two bedroom self-contained home that has the benefit of the same attention to detail as the main house, and offers delightfully proportioned accommodation accessed via a beautiful oak front door, into an entrance vestibule with a ground floor bedroom off and a bathroom. A large dining room has the advantage of a solid oak arched window providing both light and views over the courtyard. A well-fitted kitchen is situated on the ground floor off the living room, with the second bedroom and bathroom provided on the first floor. OUTSIDE Outside the front boundary of The Old Farm is set behind a wrought iron fence and attractive planting and a lovely Magnolia climbs the South facing walls. The access leads between the house and the barn. To the West of the main house, and separating the house from the barn and Coach House is an old cobbled courtyard, which is both beautiful and practical and provides entertaining areas and additional parking. Both the novice and expert gardener can appreciate the beautifully walled gardens with rare trees and shrubs, layered to provide interest throughout the year. The gardens are also very productive with a variety of vegetables grown and also an abundance of top and soft fruit, including figs and dessert grapes. There is a 20ft greenhouse with electric power, also 3 garden frames alongside. By the lawn, there is a brick-built and slated old privy adjacent to a brick-paved and shaded area for alfresco entertainment. There is a slate roofed fireplace for barbeques.<br/><br/> DIRECTIONAL NOTE From the A47 at Houghton on the Hill, head north on the lane to Ingarsby. Turn left at the T junction and then immediately right. Follow this road, bearing left at the drive to Quenby Hall. In Hungarton turn right on Main Styreet. The Old Farm is on your left, by the War Memorial<br/> An outstanding Georgian Farmhouse, with an excellent converted two bedroom detached coach house and further outbuildings with an exceptional gardens on a private plot approximately 0.25 of an acre. The Old Farm has a traditional layout, ideal for the family occupation and entertaining. Accommodation is laid out over three floors: entrance hall, two attractive reception rooms; breakfast kitchen with high quality cabinetry and the centrepiece being an oil-fired four oven Nobel cooker and ceramic hob, cloakroom, utility room, and a cool dairy with brick thralls and wine storage. Five bedrooms plus a study off the half landing, two ensuites and family bathroom. The house with an adjacent barn and the two bedroom converted former coach house are set around a cobbled courtyard. There are exquisitely stocked shrub, herbaceous borders, vegetables gardens and lawns providing year round interest.<br/> You may download, store and use the material for your own personal use and research. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make the material available to any party or make the same available on any website, online service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or in any other media without the website owner's express prior written consent. The website owner's copyright must remain on all reproductions of material taken from this website."