Buyers looking for a home that’s much more than a house might well find everything on their wish list at Mill Farm, a rural property that encompasses a charming house, stunning gardens, equestrian facilities and both farmland and woodland.
The cherry on the top is the property’s uniqueness, having been created around 35 years ago by the joining of a former mill house and mill, thought to have been built in around the 1800s, which were together converted into a spacious home with bags of character.
The property’s accommodation extends to around 4,670 sq ft and retains much of the character of the original mill house.
Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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This starts, as you would expect, with the entrance hall, which leads into one of the many highlights of the home – a stunning sitting room centred around a fireplace with an open fire and an adjoining garden room which not only provides a wonderful place to relax, but offers access to the gardens via French doors and allows natural light to flood in through its extensive glazing.
Doors from both the garden room and sitting room open into the elegant drawing room – a spacious room also benefiting from an open fire in a feature fireplace and French doors to the gardens.
Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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Completing the extensive ground floor accommodation is a formal dining room, a cloakroom, a snug with fireplace, the rear hall, a laundry/boot room, a spacious office which could easily be converted into a playroom or further reception room, and the kitchen and breakfast room with a comprehensive range of fitted units, an AGA plus electric oven and a central island unit with breakfast bar seating.
One of the property’s two staircases leads up to a family bathroom, double bedroom and the principal suite comprising a spacious bedroom, dressing room and en-suite bathroom, while the other staircase provides access to three spacious bedrooms and a family bathroom.
The house is approached via a tree-lined drive that leads to a gravel sweep at the front. At the back door is a range of useful stone-built outbuildings that include a dog room, insulated wine room, tack room and log store.
Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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The property’s stunning gardens have been created around the old mill lade, sluice gate and mill pond, with mature trees and shrubs framing deep, fully stocked borders; climbing wisteria, hydrangeas, Virginia creepers and cotoneasters adorning the house and a kitchen garden with raised beds.
The gardens are a haven for wildlife, drawing in birds ranging from finches to ducks and geese on the pond. An otter has even been spotted on the Caldwell Beck, which marks the property’s southern boundary.
Behind the outbuildings and a short distance from the back door is a range of stone-built stables which include four good-sized loose boxes and a feed store.
Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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There is also an open-fronted steel-framed barn ideal for machinery and hay storage, plus a fenced and fully drained outdoor schooling arena that was built about 12 years ago and has a sand and fibre surface.
The farmland surrounds the property within a ring fence. It includes about 17 acres of excellent mowable pasture and a further 5.7 acres of permanent pasture, divided into seven fields with three two-bay timber field shelters. Water can be made available to all fields.
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Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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The gardens and grounds of Mill Farm extend to about 27.49 acres in all.
Mill Farm, Caldwell, is on the market at a guide price of £1.795m.
For more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact GSC Grays on 01748 897630.
Mill Farm simply oozes old world elegance
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