A handsome stone-built Grade II listed village cottage in a most sought-after village extending to over 2,000 square feet, with a detached garage and attractive garden.
Thatch End is a semi-detached period cottage with its own drive, garage, and an attractive garden. The roof is thatched and slate, with a pretty thatched canopy over the front door. The property has lovely period features with wide leaded light windows, deep sills, exposed stonework, and attractive floorings. Ceiling heights are generous. The house has been renovated and updated by the present owners to include an internal damp proof course, a new boiler and radiators, complete re-wire, thatch clean and re ridge, and chimney lined with a heat proof jacket. The accommodation is well laid out with the sitting room, with a stone inglenook fireplace with flagged hearth, a wood burner with panoramic bifold doors, concealed inglenook lighting and log store, and the study/dining room off the traditional reception hall. Behind is the lovely vaulted kitchen/ breakfast room, extended to give the kitchen a greater width and a more contemporary feel, with double doors and a full range of windows looking out on to the patio and garden and with high-level roof lights bathing the room in light. The kitchen has deep timber skirting boards, timber topped kitchen units with a Belfast sink, limestone tiling, recessed with a blue two-oven Aga, a double oven with an extractor over, and a utility room off which houses the boiler, with a Belfast sink and space and plumbing for a washing machine, and a downstairs cloakroom. A large covered rear porch and store give additional access to the garden. The cottage has a traditional cellar.On the first floor is a large principal bedroom with a half tiled family bathroom adjoining with a panelled tile bath and separate shower, dual aspect double bedroom two with exposed stonework and bedroom three with fitted wardrobes.The staircase with a stained glass stairwell interior window rises to the first floor. An open tread staircase rises to the second floor to bedroom four which has an en suite bathroom with a freestanding claw foot bath. There is also an ample loft space with a window to the gable end.The house has a lovely enclosed garden, approached through a pair of wooden five-bar gates to the drive and garage, with a stone wall to the lane. There is a patio off the kitchen, lawn, pergola with climbing roses ideal for al fresco dining, and ornamental fruit trees.
Thatch End is situated on a quiet lane in the Conservation Village of Warmington on the Oxfordshire/ Warwickshire borders. Positioned immediately below the slope of Edge Hill, Warmington is a quintessential English village with stone houses and cottages situated around a large village green and duck pond. The village has an active community, which benefits from a village hall, Parish Church, The Plough public house and a local farm shop. A range of state and independent schools in the area suit most requirements, including Shenington Private and Fenny Compton Primary Schools, Bloxham Public School, Tudor Hall School for Girls, Warwick Prep and public school and King's High School for Girls. Kingsley School for Girls and Arnold Lodge are in Leamington Spa. King Edward VI Grammar School for boys and Shottery Girls Grammar School are in Stratford-upon-Avon.The M40 gives access to Oxford, London, the West Midlands and the more comprehensive motorway network. In the area are National Trust properties, including Upton House and Farnborough Hall. Compton Verney House and an Art Gallery are also nearby. Stratford is the region's cultural centre with its Shakespearan heritage and theatres. There are golf courses at Tadmarton, Brailes, Chacombe and Stratford, and racing at Warwick, Stratford and Cheltenham.Banbury 5 miles (Intercity mainline trains to London Marylebone from 55 mins), M40 (J11) 5 miles, Leamington Spa and Warwick 16 miles, Stratford upon Avon 20