An elegant and spacious period (un-listed) country house. Garaging, indoor pool and approaching 10,000 sqft of modernised living space.
Huntsland House is an exceptionally elegant country house, built in the classical style typical of the Regency and Victorian periods, with pale rendered elevations under a slate tiled roof. It is thought that the site has been inhabited since the 13th century, and the current house dates in part from 1811, with subsequent additions in the 1870s.
This wonderful period house was acquired by the current owners in 2020, who undertook a significant, detailed and thorough renovation and refurbishment, including extending the ballroom and adding an elegant paved veranda, a full re-wire throughout the house and a full re-plumb including the heating system. The property also benefits from having an unlisted status.
Huntsland House offers a clever combination of period style and modern convenience, with beautiful period features including high ceilings, decorative plasterwork, wood shutters and an exceptional Regency circular cantilevered stone staircase in the entrance hall, and modern touches including underfloor heating, double glazing and a contemporary glazed porch to the front on the house.
The circular entrance hall and its staircase set the scene for the house, leading in turn to the ball room, an impressive reception hall. There are two superb formal reception rooms, with tall French windows framing the far-reaching southerly views over the gardens and countryside beyond; there is a study lying off the hallway.
The dining room is open to the kitchen, creating a wonderful space that is well suited for relaxed day to day life as well as formal entertaining. A utility room, boot room and cloakroom complete the ground floor.
The lower ground offers excellent leisure space, and is currently arranged as gym, billiards room, cinema room, and shower room, and additionally a wine cellar, boiler room and storage space. This floor offers excellent potential to be reconfigured as additional or secondary accommodation.
On the first floor, the principal bedroom suite occupies the southern elevation, enjoying a wonderful vista and benefiting from a dressing room and bathroom; there are five further bedrooms (four en suite), a family bathroom and a guest cloakroom.
In addition to the staircases, there is a pneumatic lift serving all three floors.
Outside
Huntsland House shares access over the private lane from Turners Hill Road. Its wrought iron, electronically controlled gates open to a gravelled drive, creating an impressive entrance, sweeping past the house to the open bay garaging behind.
Huntsland House sits at the head of its grounds, which stretch gently away to the south and extend to about three acres; the gardens are predominantly laid to lawn with mature trees at the boundary and a large pond to the south.
The veranda offers a superb spot for entertaining, with wonderful vies over the grounds; to the south east of the house is the detached pool house, with additional terrace.
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Huntsland House is obviously special with its grand rooms and beautiful stone cantilevered staircase, but what sets it apart for me if the huge amount of works that have been carried out by our clients, including all the infra-structure works which makes a period house so much more enjoyable to live in and run, works which are often over-looked.
Edward Wain-HeapyProperty agent