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" A largely extended 4 bedroom detached period house with 4 reception rooms and beautiful gardens in the hilltop village of Flecknoe with no onward chain.

Introduction A handsome Georgian village house dating from the very early 19th century. Largely extended in the late 1980s the property is now a versatile family home. There are 4 reception rooms with an attractive kitchen/breakfast room. The first floor has 4 generous bedrooms with a dressing area and two re-fitted bathrooms (1 en-suite). The gardens wrap around the side and rear of the house and are beautifully maintained with a wisteria covered pergola and a large fishpond and operational well. There is a large garage with off road parking for 2 or 3 vehicles. The property is offered in excellent condition throughout. Accommodation Summary Ground Floor A wide timber door with fanlight above opens to the tiled entrance hall. Stairs rise to the first floor, under stairs storage cupboard, thermostat, alarm control panel and sensor. The sitting room has a central brick backed fireplace with a tiled hearth and a wood burning stove. Quarry tiled floor, panelled walls, wall light points and a front window. Across the hall there is a generous reception room currently used as a large home office. It also has an attractive fire surround with a coal-effect gas fire. Tiled floor, alarm sensor, side and front windows. The generous living room also has a tiled floor with a brick chimney breast with an inset wood burning stove. It has a central beam, alarm sensor with French doors leading to the side garden. There is a TV point, display recess, alarm sensor and wall light points. The cloakroom has a pedestal wash-hand basin and low-level flush WC, tiled floor, opaque side window. Continued ... The impressive kitchen/breakfast room has a range of cream hand painted base units. There are granite tops and Corian work surfaces with an inset double enamel sink and drainer, integrated dishwasher and washing machine. Tall unit housing the fridge/freezer unit, matching eye-level cupboards one housing the Potterton gas-fired central heating boiler. Alarm sensor, tiled floor, down lighters, rear window with double glazed door to the terrace. The extended dining room is a fabulous private room added to the property in the late 1980s. It has a fully tiled floor with wall light points and 4 windows providing fine views over the gardens. Entrance Hall Sitting Room 4.49 x 3.31 (14'9' x 10'10') Dining Room 5.28 x 3.17 (17'4' x 10'5') Kitchen/Breakfast 5.87 x 4.62 (19'3' x 15'2') Snug 4.10 x 3.60 (13'5' x 11'10') Study 4.08 x 2.69 (13'5' x 8'10') First Floor The first floor landing has 2 sets of spot lights, smoke alarm, alarm sensor. The main bedroom has exposed floor boards with an ornamental Victorian cast-iron fireplace. Quality fitted Strachan wardrobes, 2 front secondary glazed sash windows. The en-suite has an oval shaped white bath with fitted mixer tap and showerhead attachment. There is a Victorian pedestal wash-hand basin and low-level WC. The shower cubicle has a Bristan electric shower unit. Quality ceramic tiling, Amtico floor, side window. The second bedroom has 3 windows providing views over the garden and to the rear of the house. There are quality wardrobes with fitted mirrored doors. From an inner lobby there is an airing cupboard housing the lagged hot water cylinder, further quality wardrobes and a rear window. Continued ... From the landing a step leads down to the third double bedroom which has exposed floor boards, down lighters and a side window. The fourth bedroom is also a double room with a secondary glazed front sash window. The family bathroom has a shower enclosure with a Bristan shower unit. There is a fitted mirror with quality reproduction wall tiles and a fitted mirror. Oval bath with a fitted mixer tap and showerhead attachment, bidet, low-level flush WC. Pedestal wash-hand basin, opaque side window. Bedroom 1 with en-suite 5.30 x 4.08 (17'5' x 13'5') Bedroom 2 with dressing room 5.16 x 3.21 (16'11' x 10'6') Bedroom 3 3.82 x 3.44 (12'6' x 11'3') Bedroom 4 4.05 x 2.73 (13'3' x 8'11') Family Bathroom Fore Garden To the front is a shallow fore garden with wrought-iron period railings, shingle borders with a mature holly bush and two holly trees. Garage & Parking 6.16 x 3.03 (20'3' x 9'11') To the left of the house there is vehicular access down a paved driveway which also provides off road parking for 3 standard vehicles. There are two lights with brick walling and a pedestrian gate leading to the rear garden. The detached garage is of block and brick construction with a pitched and tiled roof. It has a light weight door with both light and power connected. There is adequate room at the far end for shelving or a workshop area with a double glazed window and personal door. Rear Garden Directly behind the property is a level private terrace. This very secluded part of the garden has an outside light with cold-water tap and concealed lighting on the garage and brick retaining walls. Behind the garage is a greenhouse and the propane gas bottle serving the central heating. There is a shingle area surrounding two raised flower borders just inside the stock-proof post and rail fencing. There are mature beech and oak trees on the rear boundary and a productive cooking apple tree. From the terrace there is a wooden pergola covered in clematis and wisteria, the pathway swings right and ends up at the fishpond. Continued ... There is a good section of lawn to the side of the garage with two wooden garden sheds just inside the rear boundary. To the side of the house the main lawn area has an operational well with an electrically controlled pump providing water for the garden. The gardens are beautifully maintained with colourful well-stocked flower borders. The far boundary is fully enclosed by close boarded fencing which continues across the front boundary running parallel to the main street. The oval shaped fishpond has an electrically controlled waterfall with remote controlled lighting. The rear extension has a vibrant climbing rose with clematis on the rear and side elevations. The two sections of garden measure 85ft x 45ft and 50ft x 45ft respectively. The gardens are a real feature of the property and directly behind, the village cricket pitch provides a very attractive back drop to this popular village. Location Flecknoe is situated close to the Northamptonshire border. This small, hilltop village has a public house (The Olive Bush just under new management), church, butchers and a village hall. Day-to-day shopping can be found in nearby Braunston, or Dunchurch. A wider range of shopping facilities can be found in Rugby, Daventry or Leamington Spa and a high speed Virgin train service leaves from Rugby to London, Euston arriving in under 50 minutes. The excellent local road network gives easy access to the M1, M6, A5, A14 and the M40, which makes Coventry, Birmingham, Leicester, Northampton, Oxford and Milton Keynes within reasonable commuting distance. There are a good range of state, grammar and private schools within the area including Bilton Grange, Rugby School, Lawrence Sheriff School for boys and Rugby High School for girls, Warwick School for boys. Services Mains water, electricity, drainage, 2 BT lines (telephone and broadband), LPG radiator heating. Local Authority Rugby Borough Council.
Telephone (01788) 533533.
Council tax band G. Viewing Arrangements Strictly via the vendors agents Fine & Country on (01788) 820062. Website Address For more information visit the propertys unique website address www.fineandcountry.com/50022510. Opening Hours Monday to Friday 9.00 am - 5.30 pm
Saturday 9.00 am - 4.30 pm Directions From the centre of Rugby, leave town on the Dunchurch Road, passing Sainsburys on your left hand side, then turn right towards the village of Dunchurch. At the Dun Cow restaurant, turn left at the main crossroads onto the A45 Daventry Road. Continue for approximately four miles turning right where signposted towards Willoughby and Flecknoe. Continue through Sawbridge and onto the village of Flecknoe. As you enter the village at the first T junction turn immediately left where signposted to The Olive Bush and Holly Tree House can be easily recognised second on your left hand side with a Fine & Country for sale board. Agents Notes All measurements are approximate and quoted in metric with imperial equivalents and for general guidance only and whilst every attempt has been made to ensure accuracy, they must not be relied on. The fixtures, fittings and appliances referred to have not been tested and therefore no guarantee can be given that they are in working order. Internal photographs are reproduced for general information and it must not be inferred that any item shown is included with the property. For a free valuation, contact the numbers listed on the brochure. 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. "