14 Broad Street, Pershore, Worcestershire WR10 1AY Telephone: 01386 555368 residential@bomfordandcoffey.co.uk The Thatch Chapel Lane Westmancote Nr Tewkesbury GL20 7ER For Sale by Private Treaty Guide Price 675,000 A BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED PICTURESQUE GRADE II LISTED THATCHED AND EXTENDED THREE BEDROOM COTTAGE, HAVING SEPARATE DOUBLE GARAGE WITH OFFICE OVER, SET IN ITS OWN GROUNDS WITHIN THIS AREA OF OUTSTANDING NATURAL BEAUTY. A Thatched Canopied Entrance, Reception Hall with Inglenook Fireplace, Sitting Room with Exposed Timbers and Wood Burning Stove, Central Separate Dining Room, Well Fitted Kitchen with Aga and Integral Appliances, Utility Room, Cloak/Shower Room, Master Bedroom with En-Suite, Two Further Bedrooms, Family Bathroom and Separate WC. Double Garage, Office, Landscaped Gardens, Off Road Parking.
Situation The Thatch is a very pretty cottage with its dormer elevations and recently thatched roof completed two years ago, set in a conservation area of outstanding natural beauty. Situated on the southern slopes of the historic Bredon Hill, located within Chapel Lane, Westmancote being a picturesque rural settlement between the villages of Bredon and Kemerton. Both the neighbouring villages have useful post office/stores where day to day materials can be purchased. There are village public houses in the area and a doctors surgery in Bredon. Main shopping areas are Tewkesbury (approximately 3 miles distant) and Cheltenham Spa (approximately 10 miles distant). Main railway London/ Paddington is at Evesham (approximately 8 miles distant). The M5 can be accessed at Tewkesbury junction 9 travelling south, and north to the M50 (south Wales) or Worcester City and on to Birmingham being approximately 45 minutes. The property was extended in 1999 with a rendered stone extension attached via link to the original thatched cottage. Within the new kitchen there is a balanced flue Aga with double oven and two hot plates in addition to a gas hob and an electric fan oven. The master bedroom has greatly improved with the extension providing, dressing area and new en-suite. The Jotul wood burning stove in the sitting room is connected to a sleeved chimney which has the required cowl to the top of the chimney. In the garden between the house and the garage there is a metal capped well which holds a constant level of spring water. A modern detached garage for two vehicles, with office accommodation over. Landscaped gardens with ornamental pond, vegetable area, summer houses and barbeque area. There is gravelled hard standing providing off road parking. The present owners have extended and maintained this delightful cottage and can answer any enquiries that would be made to the vendors sole agents Bomford & Coffey. Viewing All enquiries should be made to the sole agents Bomford & Coffey. Our opening hours are 9:00am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and 9:00am to 1:00pm Saturdays or by appointment for weekend viewings. Estate Agents Act 1991 (Misrepresentations Act 1967) (Conditions under which particulars are issued) Messrs Bomford & Coffey for themselves and for the vendors of this property whose agents they are, give notice that these particulars, though believed to be correct do not constitute part of an offer or contract, that all statements in these particulars as to this property are made without responsibility and are not to be relied on as statements or representations of fact and that they do not make or give any representation or warranty whatsoever in relation to this property.
Property comprises The Thatch, Chapel Lane, Westmancote, Nr Tewkesbury GL20 7ER Entrance With thatched canopy over supporting posts. Half panelled glazed front door with furnishings, dead lock and union lever lock security into Reception Hall measuring approximately 14 x 6 9 (4.26 x 2.05m) with exposed wall and ceiling timbers, parquet floor covering. Exposed stone ingle-nook fire place with metal canopy over gas log effect fire on stone hearth having inset timber beam and being illuminated. There is a useful cloaks cupboard to one side with hanging rail, power point and thumb latch to cupboard door with further cupboard over. BT socket, multi socket power points and wall lights. Reception Hall Stairway leads up to first floor from reception and half panelled glazed door leads into Sitting Room measuring approximately 19 2 x 16 6 (5.84 x 5.02m) with exposed ceiling timbers and support posts. Enclosed panelled radiators. Useful under stair book shelving. Front elevation timber framed windows. Multi socket power points, wall light points and ceiling light points. Jotul wood burning stove set into open fire place with exposed mellowed brick, timber beam over and stone hearth. Television aerial socket. Side window and half panelled glazed double doors open into garden.
Sitting Room Off the Reception Hall further half panelled glazed doorway leads into Dining Room measuring approximately 13 x 13 8 (3.96 x 4.16m) with quarry tiled floor covering. Partial timber dado panelling. Panelled radiator. Stone mullioned window and rear timber framed window. Exposed ceiling timber beam. Useful pantry/larder cupboard with light and shelving with thumb latch door. Adjustable ceiling light and wall mounted picture light. Further panelled glazed door leads into
Dining Room Utility Room measuring approximately 6 5 x 5 9 (1.95 x 1.75m) with porcelain Belfast sink with tiled surround, timber draining board, mixer tap and storage cupboard under. Plumbing for automatic washing machine. Useful up-right storage cupboard. Inset ceiling lights, fixture for clothes drying rail. Double panelled radiator. Multi socket power points. Half panelled glazed rear access door with security locks and side windows, stone floor covering and door into Cloakroom/Shower with pedestal hand wash basin having tiled splash back, glazed shelf with mirror over. Low flush WC. Double panelled radiator. Inset ceiling lights. Screen doors to shower cubicle with ceramic tile surrounds over shower tray and plumbed in shower with shower head on wall bracket. Continued stone floor covering. Towel rail. Timber framed window, extractor fan, ledge & braced door with thumb latch. From the dining room exposed stone feature wall covering gives access into a Rear Lobby with timber side access door with security lock and bottle glazed panel. Panelled radiator, base level enclosed consumer unit, multi socket power points and access into
Kitchen/Breakfast Room measuring approximately 14 8 x 12 10 (4.47 x 3.91m) with bespoke fitted kitchen units, comprising of granite work top surfaces over draws and storage cupboards. Central island work unit with vegetable stainless steel sink with mixer tap. Built in oven and grill. There are further storage cupboards and attached breakfast bar. Five burner gas hob top, pan draws with stainless steel extractor hood over. Granite splashback. Built-in dishwasher, fridge and freezer. Upright spice cupboard and wall mounted cupboards and fitted microwave. Built in Miele coffee maker, useful book shelving. Television aerial socket. Side and rear elevation windows. Aga with attractive hand cut Serengeti tiled surrounds extractor hood with exposed timber beam. Further Serengeti cut tile floor covering. Worktop surface lighting and inset ceiling lights. Stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap. Half panelled glazed panelled doors lead out to garden. From the reception hall, stairway leads up to first floor landing with banister rail and exposed wall timbers. Landing with double panelled radiator, wall lights. Exposed purlin timber beam. Bedroom One/ Master Suite measuring approximately 13 11 x 13 9 (4.24 x 4.19m) with fitted wardrobe cupboards with hanging rails and shelving and central dressing table. Exposed purlin timbers, shaped ceiling and inset ceiling lights. Access hatch to roof void. Extended double panelled radiator. Multi socket power points. Front elevation stone mullioned window. Side elevation timber framed dormer window and rear elevation timber framed window. Through to
Master Suite Linked Dressing Area measuring approximately to eave height 7 x 7 6 (2.13 x 2.28m) Inset ceiling lights, having Velux roof light, base level storage cupboards. Through to En-Suite Bathroom with built in wall mounted timber vanity units supporting His & Her hand wash basins with mixer taps. Wall mounted shaver point and wall mirrors, towel rings and tooth brush holder. Side and rear elevation windows. Inset ceiling lights, exposed timbers. Double panelled radiator. Wall mounted bathroom cabinets. Door way through to Shower Room having built in shower with glazed shower door, cut ceramic tiled surrounds over shower tray with plumbed in shower with thermostatic hand control shower head on bracket. Bidet and low flush WC. Painted dado wall mounted panelling and single panelled radiator, towel rail. Side elevation window, inset ceiling lights, extractor fan, towel ring and pull cord light switch.
Airing Cupboard with half panelled glazed doors enclosing Worcester Bosh central heating boiler serving domestic hot water and central heating. Slatted shelving and storage. Bedroom Two measuring approximately 13 3 x 13 2 (4.03 x 4.01m) to eave height. With built in wardrobe cupboards being double fronted, and having clothes rail, shelving and draws. Double panelled radiator. Front elevation dormer window and side elevation window. Exposed wall and ceiling timbers, ceiling light and power points. Bedroom Three measuring approximately 6 3 x 6 11 (1.90 x 2.10m) with front elevation dormer window. Multi socket power points. Panelled radiator. Ceiling light. Bathroom comprising panelled bath with mixer tap and telephone handle shower attachment. Patterned ceramic tile surrounds. Wall mounted bathroom cabinet. Pedestal hand wash basin with tile surrounds. Towel rail. Double panelled radiator, wall mirror and pull cord light switch. Access hatch to roof void. Panelled radiator. Dormer window and exposed purlin beam. Useful linen storage cupboard with slatted shelving. On the landing there is a separate WC with panelled radiator. Partially ceramic tiled surrounds, low flush WC, opaque glazed window, ceiling light point.
Outside the Property Detached Garage with First Floor Office Accommodation. The garage measuring approximately 17 7 x 21 (5.35 x 6.40m) being a modern constructed building of block and stone over concrete base having separate electrically operated garage doors under a pitched tiled roof. Ceiling lights and multi socket power points. Side elevation window and pedestrian curtesy door. Useful under stair storage area. Enclosed stairway with door leads up to first floor measuring approximately 20 9 x 12 3 (6.32 x 3.73m) to eave height. Eave storage, front and rear elevation windows. Multi socket power points. Inset ceiling lights, BT point, and first floor balustrading to access stairway. Garden and Grounds the property is approached over gravelled driveway providing off road parking. There is mains outside water tap and useful wall mounted porcelain sink (ideal for washing vegetables and wellie boots). The picturesque frontage to the cottage has Cotswold stone wall with wrought iron garden gate on to coloured brick pathway to the canopied front door. There are iris s and lavender, old fashioned geranium and rose beds around lawn and gravelled approach which presents this lovely cottage with colour from spring to autumn. There is a centennial cherry tree and prolific fig trees that welcome the approach to the garden. Between the garage and the property there is a productive vegetable area where there are steps that lead up to the well-stocked and colourful rear garden. There is sun terrace surrounded by roses and trellised archway leading onto lawned area which in turn has interesting shrubs within including maple, hibiscus, sliver birch and acer trees. A predominately penstemon boarder provides a colourful centre piece to golden privet screen to a garden store and compost bin area. There is a summer house connected to power and an interesting timber Breeze House which allows garden dining to be taken to the next level around a circular table with down lights. A
particularly pretty area is the ornamental pond with recycled water channelled back into a stream constantly topping up the pond. Ornamental Pond Behind the property there is an interesting cultivated rosemary bush situated next to an alfresco area with paved terrace which can be approached from the double doors off the sitting room. There is pedestrian access around the property. The rear garden is slightly elevated which allows a lovely view of this very special listed building. Alfresco Dining
Services Fixtures & Fittings: Tenure: Local Authority: Council Tax: All main services are connected to this property, telephones and extension points are subject to BT transfer regulations. Only those items specified in these details are included in the sale of the property. The property is freehold Wychavon District Council, The Civic Centre, Station Road, Pershore WR10 1PT Telephone 01386 565000 Band F