A delightful Grade II listed Georgian country house standing in idyllic gardens and grounds.
This handsome Georgian house is beautifully set above a sweeping front lawn and approached by a long driveway to a turnaround in front of the imposing front façade. The main entrance is set above Portland Stone steps and framed by a classical portico. The hallway has matching spacious reception rooms to left and right and leads to an impressive central staircase, beyond which are the dining room, study and kitchen areas.
All rooms on both floors have excellent views and many are double and even triple aspect creating a wonderfully light and bright interior. The rooms are well laid out around the central stairs to create a house that is very homely and suited to family life.
The interior of the house retains many period features including 7 fireplaces, 5 of which are original Georgian. The windows are timber sash with traditional lamb's tongue' glazing bars and most of the doors are traditional 6 panelled with elegant double architraves. Deep decoratively moulded skirtings and cornices add refinement in the principal reception rooms.
The terrace faces south west with far reaching views over the lawns, river and woodlands and provides a sunny eating spot for most times of the year. To the rear is a beautiful walled garden, once the vegetable garden for the house, which provides a secure play area for children and dogs and with a shady mature mulberry tree at its centre.
The main lawn was once an Edwardian tennis court and is now used for croquet and ball games. At the end is a round pound which is fed by a spring providing clear water at all times of the year and sheltered by a magnificent oak. The gardens are terraced and include an attractive lavender walk leading up to the orchard which in spring is a sea of daffodils of some 10 different varieties.
At the bottom of the garden the river runs through and broadens out with 2 islands to form what was once the mill pond to Slip Mill the other side of the lane. Local history records that Primrose Hill was built in 1802 by William Ayerst, the miller who made money from the mill but also from harbouring brandy smugglers, an activity notorious in the area. The river has fish including wild brown trout and fly fishing is available subject to the purchase of a licence.
Set in about 21.43 acres.
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