A large country house with beautiful, bright decor and historical features.
Set in three quarters of an acre with a mature garden, this lovely country property features a wealth of unique features and a large private courtyard. The site is also home to a stable, several outbuildings as well as a rare cast iron bridge across the River Eau. On the ground floor there is a drawing room, music and games room, kitchen, snug, study and a cloakroom. Upstairs there is a master bedroom suite, four further bedrooms and bathrooms. The snug is the oldest part of the house, built in the 1500s, with an inglenook fireplace and two warming ovens with cast irons doors and beamed ceiling, original York stone floor, leaded mullion windows and hand-carved sconces. The central hallway was constructed in the 17th century and also has a York stone floor. The master bedroom suite is also 17th century, and boasts an exposed original brick wall, scroll and foliate cornice frieze on the side walls and an oak fire surrounded with carved motifs. One of the other bedrooms has a Carolingian stone fireplace from the 1640s and exposed oak beams. The music room is within the Jacobean part of the house - the main entrance hall and drawing room were added in the 1700s, and both rooms feature original Georgian architecture and artefacts including an impressive marble effect chequered tiled floor, framed wall mirrors, acanthus leaf patterned coving an bannister in the hallway and marble fire surround. The study was added in around 1800 and has an original oak Gothic style fireplace with an inset of cast iron, featuring hand painted dutch tiles.
Peterborough mainline station, 25 minutes drive, Stamford train station 20 minutes drive
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