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Property for sale in Stroud, Gloucestershire
4 Bedroom Detached House
Price: £465000 GBP
Chain free.
When we bought The Cottage 7 years ago we were looking for a detached 4 bedroom period cottage in a quiet rural location with a double garage and within walking distance of the nearest pub. There are surprisingly few of them about!
Inside there's an inglenook fireplace, an Aga warming the terracotta tiled living kitchen and character period features including exposed stone, beams and floorboards.
Outside there is a mature cottage style garden with two gravelled seating areas, orchard, climbing roses, honeysuckle and a level lawn that is not overlooked.
The Cottage faces South East in a picturesquely wooded and sheltered valley in Horsley -- an active village with its own quarterly newsletter. It has a pub, shop with post office, church, primary school, well-used village hall and a recreation field.
Nailsworth, 1.5 miles away, has a range of specialist and everyday shops. Stroud, 5 miles away, has a choice of large supermarkets and a railway station.
Other nearby towns, with distances in miles, are Bath 24, Bristol 27, Cirencester 16, Cheltenham 19, Gloucester 15 and Tetbury 6.
Numerous country walks start from The Cottage both in the wooded valleys and surrounding countryside. The area is blessed with a network of rights of way and bridleways.
Two local estate agents priced The Cottage at £495,000 in November 2004. At £465,000 it's priced to sell.
GROUND FLOOR
ENTRANCE PORCH. Traditional bell pull. Half glazed front door. Feature circular window to front. A half-glazed stripped wood door leads into ...
LIVING KITCHEN. 14’6 x 12’11 (4.4m x 3.9m) Terracotta tiled floor with insulation under floor slab. Oil fired Aga. Two double-glazed windows to front, both with window seats. Shelved display niche. Exposed beams and stone. Four wall lights on three light switches, including dimmer. Telephone point. Thumb latch door to galley kitchen. Stairs to first floor. Open passage to ...
LOUNGE. 13'9’ x 12’1 (4.2m x 3.7m) "Floating" floor on insulation over floor slab. Three double-glazed windows to front, two with window seats. Inglenook fireplace with salt hole and canopy with damper. Feature niche. Exposed beams and stone. Six wall lights on two light switches, including dimmer. Opening to circular staircase leading to Bedroom 1.
GALLEY KITCHEN. 20’3 x 6’10 decreasing to 5’3 (6.1m x 2.0m – 1.6m) Pine fronted base and wall units with white roll top work surfaces and display shelving. Built-in: fridge freezer, electric fan oven with grill, 4 plate hob with conceled extractor hood over. Stainless steel 1-1/3 bowl sink/drainer inset to work surface. Microwave shelf. Plumbing for dishwasher and washing machine. Double aspect double-glazed windows to front and side. White tiled sills and splashback. 6 ceiling spotlights. Water pressure reduction valve, ion-exchange water softener. Half-glazed obscured glass door to garden. Thumb latch door to living kitchen.
FIRST FLOOR
LANDING. Two windows to front with window seats. Exposed beam. Understair cupboard. Airing cupboard with lagged hot water cylinder with immersion heater and automatic light. Thumblatch doors to bedrooms 1 and 2, walk-in wardrobe, bathroom and toilet. Stairs to living kitchen. Stairs to second floor.
BEDROOM 1. 14’ x 12’2 (4.3m x 3.7m) Exposed floorboards. Two windows to front with window seats. Exposed beams and stone. Part exposed fireplace with small stone hearth. Three wall lights on three switches. Three double phone/network sockets. Half glazed stripped wood door to stairs from lounge. Thumblatch door to landing.
BEDROOM 2. 12’4 x 12’2 (3.8m x 3.7m) Window to front. Full width cupboards including hanging space central dressing table recess. Central ceiling light and two spotlights in recess, all on 3 light switches. TV aerial connection. Two double phone/network sockets. Thumblatch door to ...
EN SUITE SHOWER ROOM. Tiled shower cubicle with electric shower, automatic extractor fan and glass door. Vanitory unit with hand basin and tiled splashback. Low level toilet. Bidet. Obscured glass window with tiled sill to rear. Shaver socket.
BATHROOM. 7’x 6’9 (2.1m x 2.0m) White suite of panelled bath with electric shower over, hand basin and bidet. Obscured glass window with tiled sill to rear. Shaver socket. Humidity controlled automatic extractor fan. Shaver socket. Ceiling heater with timer. Thumblatch door to landing.
TOILET. Cream low level toilet and small hand basin. Obscured glass window with tiled sill to rear. Exposed beam. Shaver socket. Ceiling eyeball spot light.
SECOND FLOOR
LANDING. 14’3 x 12’9 (4.3m x 3.8m) A useful split level space, suitable for a study area or for a temporary double matress.
At the lower level: Velux roof light to front. Two old style roof lights with obscured glass to rear. Exposed timbers to ridge. Four ceiling spot lights on three switches. Thumblatch door to bedroom 4. Stairs to first floor landing. Five steps to the upper level.
At the upper level: slatted door to built in boiler room, a useful clothes drying space. Oil fired boiler, serviced from outside and fitted with an energy management controller. Hatch to attic with electric light. Thumblatch door from the upper level to ...
BEDROOM 3. L-shaped, 6' x 5'5 and 11'7 x 12' (1.8m x 1.7 and 3.7m x 3.5m) Currently used as office. Shelves. Velux roof light to front. Single ceiling light. Three double phone/network sockets.
BEDROOM 4. 14'7 min x 12'5 (4.4m min x 3.8m) Old pintle hinge window to side. Velux roof light to front. Old style roof light with obscured glass to rear. Exposed beams, including “A” frame beam to ridge. Exposed stone. Two double phone/network sockets. Thumblatch door to landing.
OUTSIDE
DETACHED DOUBLE GARAGE. 20’8 x 16’4 (6.2m x 4.9m) Remote controlled electric up and over door. Obscured window to side. Pitched gabled roof with storage potential. Personal door to side. Electric power and light installed.
GARDEN STORE. Bench to one side. Electric power installed.
GARDEN Although The Cottage is on a hillside site in its picturesque wooded valley, the garden has several level places -- lawn, gravelled seating areas and a generous drive with parking for several cars and a turning area.
It is mature, cottage style, luxuriant and informal including apple trees, wisteria, climbing roses, honeysuckles, begonias, mint, sage, foxgloves, lavendar etc. There is an area of indigenous hedgerow plants for wildlife.
Pedestrian steps from the lane to the front garden, from the front of the house to the garage and from the drive to the orchard.
Outside water tap.
For convenience at night there are 4 exterior lights with motion detectors.
SERVICES
Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil fired Aga and central heating. Two telephone lines in use until August when one discontinued but wire left in place. Broadband currently used on the remaining line. Mains gas is in the lane, not connected to The Cottage.
MISCELLANY
All windows and Veluxes give views of the valley. Most give views of the garden.
All bedrooms and both landings have mains powered smoke detectors.
Radon gas was measured at 71% below the action limit over the 2002 to 2003 Winter.
Identical 5 lever locks are fitted to both external house doors and the garage door -- so you only have to carry one key!
Charming country cottages are notoriously short of storage space but The Cottage has a walk-in wardrobe, an airing cupboard, an understair cupboard and a small attic. Then there's the garage including its roof space.
A footpath giving access to the back gardens of two neigbours is accessed at the entry to the drive.
All bedrooms are double.
Both The Cottage and it's sheltered location have that "wow" factor if comments from visitors are anything to go by.
The Cottage is in the Washpool part of Horsley village, named after the washpool where sheep were washed in times past.
The oldest part of The Cottage, of Cotswold stone under a Cotswold stone tiled roof, was probably built in the late 1700s. It was extended in the same style not long afterwards then further extended in the 1980s (you can't win them all!). The drive and garage were added in the late 1980s
The Aga is an early 1940s model, reconditioned and converted to oil in 1998.
TENURE
Freehold
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