Location

The pretty village of Stretton is set in a convenient position less than a mile from the A1 and within easy reach of the beautiful surrounding countryside.

The Jackson Stopps Country Inn is a destination public house restaurant within the village, whilst there are fabulous rural walks from the village, including to the fascinating Yew Tree Avenue in the neighbouring village of Clipsham (1.6 miles), which is over 200 years old and consists over 150 clipped Yew Trees in all manner of unusual shapes and sizes. The Olive Branch in Clipsham is another well-renown country inn.


The market towns of Oakham, Grantham (both 12 miles) and Stamford (14 miles) are easily accessible. Each offer a variety of facilities, boutique shops, supermarkets, cafes, pubs and restaurants, as well as sought after state, independent or grammar schools.


The village is well placed for access to Rutland's county town and Rutland Water, as well to the A1 for north-south travel to Grantham (or Peterborough's) East Coast Mainline railway stations for commuters.

Description

The Manor is a substantial listed 17th century house, which is thought to have 15th century origins, positioned in the centre of a Conservation village.


Approached from Manor Lane through a gated driveway and with a driveway that wraps around to garage outbuildings to the rear, The Manor offers elegant and symmetrical principal rooms which retain period grace, proportions and sought after features.


Entered into a spacious and versatile, dual-aspect stone flagged reception stairwell hall, which is currently furnished as a sitting room, the hallway has a rather beautiful brick inglenook within which a stone fireplace houses a wood burning stove.    The reception hallway provides access to the stone flagged, stone walled games room, as well as the dining and drawing rooms, whilst stairs also descend to a cellar.


The drawing room is an elegant reception room with a wide-board wooden floor and a stone fireplace with hooded grate, which is open to an adjoining triple-aspect garden room (2002), with two sets of French doors to the garden. The two rooms are, together, wonderfully convivial; ideal for informal and formal entertaining and for accesses to the garden.


The central dining room has a varnished clay tile floor, a high timbered ceiling and another fabulous fireplace; a stone inglenook housing a raised hooded open fireplace. It offers access to the secondary first floor staircase; a rear entrance lobby with access to a cloakroom/wc and utility; and to the kitchen, within which the clay tiled flooring continues.


The dual-aspect farmhouse kitchen has a double-oven oil-fired Aga and fitted wooden dresser, wall and base units beneath wooden worktops, within which there is an inset Belfast sink, whilst an exterior door opens to the garden.


The central dining room has a varnished clay tile floor, a high timbered ceiling and another fabulous fireplace; a stone inglenook housing a raised hooded open fireplace. It offers access to the secondary first floor staircase; a rear entrance lobby with access to a cloakroom/wc and utility; and to the kitchen, within which the clay tiled flooring continues. The dual-aspect farmhouse kitchen has a double-oven oil-fired Aga and fitted wooden dresser, wall and base units beneath wooden worktops, within which there is an inset Belfast sink, whilst an exterior door opens to the garden.


The first floor landing provides access to the elegant principal bedroom and two further generous double bedrooms, one which is timber panelled with a beautiful fireplace, as well as the house bathroom and house shower room.   The second floor would be perfect for teenage children or visiting guests, with three further vaulted and timbered double bedrooms accessed through a spacious landing.   


Outside: The gardens wrap around the house and are beautifully presented with landscaped lawns and mature evergreen boundaries, including mixed deciduous trees.   An L-shaped brick former stable clock, with a courtyard to its rear, frames one boundary, offering at a basic level two garages and several stores and games room. However, interested parties should note that the linked neighbouring building has been converted to a dwelling, so these stables are thought to offer ancillary potential, subject to all listed consents. The grounds extend to about 0.7 of an acre in total.