Location

Manor House sits within the heart of Bulcote village which is a popular and convenient Nottingham commuter village. The village of Bulcote sits adjacent to Burton Joyce and offers an excellent range of shops and amenities.

The City of Nottingham is within approximately 8 miles. The property is also well placed for a number of major road networks, as well as the Minster town of Southwell and market town of Newark which offers fast rail access to the City of London.

Description

The Manor House is a stunning period family house which has been carefully renovated and restored over recent years to an exceptional standard. There is an excellent blend of high quality period living accommodation with first and second floor bedrooms with many original historic features within the property carefully retained.

The principal reception rooms enjoy a fine southerly aspect over the well maintained gardens and onto the adjoining former cricket field and paddock beyond. In addition to the well planned accommodation within the main house there is a detached cottage, suitable for an independent relative or as a home office plus a rear courtyard with a good range of garaging and storage.

The current owners have installed a wonderful tennis court and adjoining gazebo. There is also a heated outdoor swimming pool in a partly walled and private area and there is a carefully conceived fully tiled wet room and W.C to the side of the house.

The property is bounded onto Old Main Road by a deep, mature tree belt and enjoys a very private yet convenient position.

The ground floor accommodation leading off the entrance vestibule and hallway offers well proportioned accommodation briefly comprising: Drawing room with two sets of French doors and a double aspect out onto the partly walled terrace and the main garden area. It has a lovely carved stone fireplace set to an open grate. Both this room and the hall and dining room have oiled hardwood flooring. There is a good sized sitting room, again looking south over the gardens, with a shuttered bay window and an Inglenook set to an open hearth. Spacious dining room with a timber overmantle. Side hallway with a range of fitted cupboards.

Cloakroom and W.C. Access to a useful cellar. The living kitchen breakfast room is finished and fitted to a high standard with an Aga range and side companion Aga gas cooker. Extensive range of fitted cupboards and granite working surface with central island unit and full range of integrated appliances. A rear porch gives access to a useful utility room.

On the half landing is a study with a range of fitted cupboards leading to the main landing and the principal bedroom suite, which has views over the gardens with a large dressing room leading through to the spacious principal bedroom and a lovely, well fitted en suite bathroom with cast iron bath and separate walk in shower cubicle.

There are three further good bedrooms, one with an en suite shower room and W.C and a further shared shower room and W.C.

The period staircase leads to the second floor with exposed beams and timber work. Side lobby leading to bedroom five and on to a very large bathroom with freestanding claw and ball bath with a separate shower. The sixth bedroom also enjoys a large full en suite bathroom with separate shower.

Outside - The property has a wide gated frontage to Old Main Road leading on to a front gravelled courtyard with detached period cottage which is suitable for guest accommodation or independent relative. It has a good sized reception room with kitchen off and a bedroom and separate en suite shower room. It enjoys its own private garden/sitting area.

The driveway leads round to the rear courtyard, accessed via a 5 bar electric gate, where there is a separate, built-in, modern fully tiled shower/wet room and a range of timber framed garaging and carports.

The main gardens lie to the south of the house with a substantial partly walled terrace and sitting area overlooking the main gardens, where there are two majestic Cedar trees which provide a lovely backdrop to the mainly lawned gardens.

The walled area leads round to the outdoor heated swimming pool with paved surround and enjoying a good degree of privacy. The tennis court enjoys a recently constructed gazebo and further entertaining space. Beyond the formal gardens is what was once the Bulcote cricket ground and set now as a further lawned area with well stocked flower and shrub borders and a gravelled pathway with a separate field gate access and a wide screening area to Old Main Road of mature trees and shrubs. There is also a separate orchard and wild flower meadow. In all some 2.75 acres or thereabouts.