Summary

The Hinchwick Manor Estate is a distinguished residential and agricultural estate in the heart of the North Cotswolds, centred around the striking Grade II listed Hinchwick Manor. Constructed in classic Cotswold stone and set within an exceptional private setting, the estate combines a substantial country house, an extraordinary octagonal courtyard, secondary accommodation, productive farmland and significant sporting potential.

At the centre of the estate, Hinchwick Manor is a commanding period house arranged over three floors plus cellar. Built in 1826 for Sir Charles Cockerell of Sezincote and designed by C.R. Cockerell, it was subsequently enlarged in 1937. The house presents as grand externally, while internally offering a well-balanced arrangement of formal entertaining rooms and more intimate family spaces. The principal reception rooms include a central flagstoned hall, drawing room and dining room, with additional family and service rooms extending through the later wing. Planning and listed building consent was granted in 2008 for the reconfiguration of the family rooms to create a larger kitchen and breakfast room.

The bedroom accommodation is arranged over two upper floors. The first floor includes a principal suite with bedroom, dressing room and en suite bathroom, together with two further en suite bedrooms and a family sitting room. The second floor provides a range of less formal eaves rooms extending to seven bedrooms and two bathrooms.

A defining feature of the property is the remarkable octagonal courtyard to the east of the house. Entered through a central arch and dovecote, this symmetrical range of elongated Cotswold stone buildings includes Scarlet Sub Edge to the south and a sensitively renovated threshing barn / party barn to the north, now providing a dramatic full-height entertaining space. The remaining buildings currently provide workshop and storage accommodation, with further scope for sensitive ancillary conversion subject to planning and listed building consents. An outline design proposal has been prepared regarding the incorporation of the octagonal courtyard into the main house and is available on request.

Scarlet Sub Edge is a beautifully converted barn finished to an exceptional modern standard. It provides an entrance hall, spacious open-plan kitchen/dining room, en suite bedroom, laundry room and WC on the ground floor, with four further bedrooms on the upper floors, two of which are en suite, together with a family bathroom. Although currently ideal as guest or staff accommodation, it also offers potential to be incorporated into the main house as an additional dining or party barn. Outside, it benefits from a generous garden and gravel parking area.

The formal gardens and grounds are an integral part of Hinchwick Manor’s appeal. To the west and rear of the house, a flagstoned terrace leads out from the breakfast room to stepped lawned gardens, while to the east, within the courtyard walls, lies a delightful enclosed garden with lawns, gravel paths and terraced beds divided by mature hedging. The surrounding land gives control over the immediate setting, views and boundaries of the manor, with flexibility for parkland, equestrian or landscaped use while retaining agricultural value.

Beyond the core house, the estate includes a portfolio of four character cottages, offering additional staff or guest accommodation and diversified income potential. The wider estate also includes Alders Yard, a substantial and well-equipped farmstead centrally positioned within the holding. This includes grain drying and storage facilities for approximately 3,000 tonnes, four 50-tonne wet bins, a grain dryer, modern livestock barns, a Dutch barn for straw storage and silage clamps, together with a detached bungalow.

The estate land is both attractive and productive, comprising a cohesive block of North Cotswolds farmland with approximately 611 acres of arable land, 72 acres of pasture and grazing, and about 136 acres of woodland. The landscape’s rolling topography, natural valleys and established woodland structure also provide outstanding scope to re-establish a notable private shoot, with potential for driven pheasant and partridge days, rough shooting and deer stalking.