Old Rectory is an impressive and exceptionally well presented, Grade II listed house, positioned beautifully within its land. The generous ancillary accommodation, extensive garaging and leisure facilities compliment the house and setting, making this the ideal compact estate. Over the current owners’ period of ownership, the property has undergone some significant upgrades.

Recent improvements to the house:
The kitchen, dining and sitting room, which offers wonderful open plan living space at the heart of the house, has been renovated. This project encompassed the removal, restoration and redecoration of the kitchen cabinetry, a new marble floor, replacement countertops, upgraded Quooker with boiling tap, cold tap and sparkling water, and a full re-paint of the room. Importantly, a new ventilation and heat recovery system has also been installed. This ensures excellent air quality in the most used space in the house, as well as enhancing the energy efficiency of the home. The cold storeroom, accessed from the kitchen, has been re-plastered and repainted. The HVAC unit has been replaced and re-plumbed and the owners have added an air filtration unit.

Adjacent to the reception hall and drawing room is a magnificent study, with dual aspect and lovely views of the gardens. In this room, the current owners have replaced the panelling, added inlayed mirrors, added new lighting, replaced the carpets, covered the radiators and re-painted. The cellar is another area that has received recent attention. The current owners arranged for asbestos to be removed, the ceiling and staircase to be replaced, walls redecorated and have installed an extractor system, which coupled with the new ventilation system helps to ensure a fully dry basement year-round.

The indoor pool has had a new biological filtration system installed this year. This removes the need for chemicals and creates the effect of a natural swimming pool inside. The system can be controlled remotely and is designed to enhance the energy efficiency of the pool as well. Above the pool, a skylight has been replaced with a new roof structure for improved stability of the building as well as creating a better environment for swimming inside and allowing for better views from the guest suites.

Throughout the house now benefits from Ethernet hardwire, offering better speed, greater security and stability than reliance on Wi-Fi. The house is zoned so that Wi-Fi can be turned on or off in certain rooms at any time.

The grounds at Old Rectory are magical with more formal, structured parts closest to the house and wilder bucolic parkland and pasture beyond. Over the past two years, the entire property has been converted to organic practices, no chemicals have been used on the gardens in the past 2 years. Remedial works to established hedges and trees have been carried out and the beds have been re-designed and re-planted. The pond at the front of the property has been re-lined.

For those keen on growing vegetables and rearing chickens, the vegetable patch has been expanded and the chicken coop has been re-built, to include enhanced fencing to guard against predators.

A new treehouse and children’s adventure course, made from natural and re-cycled materials, has been built in the grounds to the west of the house. The driveway to the property has been re-gravelled and the mechanism and sensors for both entrance gates have
been replaced.

There are two farm business tenancy agreements in place. The land is used for grazing cattle and sheep and for making hay. For further information please ask the agent. From the property there is easy access to a network of bridleways and footpaths across the surrounding countryside.