Long Itchington, Southam, Warwickshire

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Key Features: • Substantial period farmhouse • 5 reception rooms, kitchen/breakfast room • Cellar, cloakroom, utility room • 5 first floor bedrooms with ensuites and bathrooms • Sizeable attic spaces • Attached outbuildings and garaging • Attractive gardens, with tennis court and parking area • Pond and long driveway • Arable land with potential for equestrian and amenity use

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Full Description: A fabulous opportunity to create a rural family home, with circa 6.18 acres.Jephson Manor House is an impressive detached farmhouse (Grade II) with huge potential set in a desirable rural location with the benefit of circa 6.18 acres of land. Believed to date to the early/mid 18th Century with later additions, with many original period features. Ground floor• Jephson Manor Farm has been in the same family ownership for many decades. It now requires some sympathetic updating and modernisation to create a fabulous rural family home. • The rooms on the ground floor are well proportioned, with good ceiling heights, ceiling beams and wooden or tiled floors. • The sitting room is dual aspect with a feature fireplace. The dining room has a large inglenook fireplace. • The generous kitchen/breakfast room has quarry tiled floor with a good range of units and oil fired Aga. • Adjacent to the kitchen is a large utility/boot room with inglenook fireplace and also a further family/play room.• Completing the ground floor is a conservatory and wc/cloakroom. • The cellar provides additional storage. First floor• The principal bedroom has a walk-in wardrobe and en suite bathroom.• There are four further generous bedrooms, two with en suite bathrooms and also a family bathroom.• On the second floor there are a range of loft rooms, offering potential.Gardens and Grounds• Stunning views over open countryside with 6.18 acres of parkland, tennis courts and a well appointed landscaped garden. • The property is approached via long driveway, with a large pond and land on either side. • There is a double carport with attached storage, and plenty of additional parking. • There is a vegetable garden to the rear, with a tennis court, lawned garden and terrace to the side and a walled cobbled yard at the rear.• There are lovely countryside views to the front and rear. SituationLong Itchington is a popular village with a primary school and nursery, general stores, post office, church and several public houses. The nearby market town of Southam provides secondary schooling and further shopping facilities.Warwick, Leamington Spa, Rugby and Coventry are all easily accessible providing more extensive shopping and leisure facilities. There is a range of well-regarded schooling in the area, including a local primary school at Long Itchington and secondary schooling at Southam College. Private education can be found at Rugby (Rugby School), Leamington Spa (Arnold Lodge Preparatory and Kingsley School for Girls), Dunchurch (Bilton Grange Prep), Princethorpe and Warwick (Warwick School) and Kings High for Girls. Local Grammar schools include Stratford and Lawrence Sheriff (Rugby).Communications are good with the M45 approximately 7 miles away and the M40 approximately 10.6 miles away providing access to Birmingham and the north and to the south to Oxford and London and beyond. There are main line train services from both Leamington Spa ( London Euston) and Rugby (London Euston). There are also train services from Banbury (London Marylebone). Jephson Manor House HistoryThe house was originally called ‘Newfields’, probably in relation to the building of local canals. The name was changed to Jephson Manor House in the early 2000s with the family farm retaining the old name. The house was listed as Grade 2 of Historic Interest in 1987 due to its association with Dr Henry Jephson.The age of the property is difficult to determine, however there is a beam in the kitchen with a date of 1634 inscribed, however many of the beams have evidence of being repurposed/recycled from other uses. The most recent significant change to the property was undertaken by Dr Henry Jephson in around 1856. He added or converted the left hand side of the front elevation at this time and constructed the walled garden which originally contained an intricate parterre. Dr Henry Jephson (1798 - 1878) was a physician and a surgeon-apothecary based in Royal Leamington Spa. He promoted drinking the ‘health-giving mineral waters and regular bathing in them’, known as ‘taking the waters’. He arguably contributed significantly to Leamington Spa being granted ‘Royal Status’ by Queen Victoria in 1838. In 1846 Jephson Gardens was opened in Leamington and there remains his statue and temple in the gardens to this day.The house was modernised in the mid-1980s and the adjacent barns were converted into houses at a similar time. The house retains many period features from its history, such as a patterned cobbled path, including a swan outside the front door, a cobbled yard and ‘wattle and daub’.Fixtures and FittingsAll fixtures, fittings and furniture such as curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments and statuary are excluded from the sale. Some may be available by separate negotiation.ServicesMains water and electricity are connected. Drainage is via a private system. Heating is via oil. None of the services or appliances, heating installations, plumbing or electrical systems have been tested by the selling agents.If the private drainage system requires updating/replacement, it is assumed that prior to offers being made, associated costs have been considered and are the responsibility of the purchaser. Interested parties are advised to make their own investigations, no further information will be provided by the selling agents. Please note that the Pond is currently filled from the farm's well (the windpump is outside the boundary). There would be a requirement for the buyer to find an alternative source of water such as a borehole or use mains water. The estimated fastest download speed currently achievable for the property postcode area is around 1000 Mbps (data taken from checker.ofcom.org.uk on 07/11/2024). Actual service availability at the property or speeds received may be different.We understand that the property is likely to have current mobile coverage (data taken from checker.ofcom.org.uk on 07/11/2024). Please note that actual services available may be different depending on the particular circumstances, precise location and network outages. TenureThe property is to be sold freehold with vacant possession.Local AuthorityStratford on Avon District CouncilCouncil Tax Band: H Public Rights of Way, Wayleaves and EasementsThe property is sold subject to all rights of way, wayleaves and easements whether or not they are defined in this brochure.Plans and BoundariesThe plans within these particulars are based on Ordnance Survey data and provided for reference only. They are believed to be correct but accuracy is not guaranteed. The purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of all boundaries and the extent of ownership. Neither the vendor nor the vendor’s agents will be responsible for defining the boundaries or the ownership thereof.ViewingsStrictly by appointment through Fisher German LLP. DirectionsPostcode – CV47 9QBWhat3words ///edit.unicorns.footpathBrochuresParticulars