Location

A vibrant village community, Baston combines a busy village lifestyle, supporting the parish church of St John the Baptist, a primary school, village shop with Post Office, village hall, children’s play area and sports pitches, with tennis courts available for hire. Further, the village has two public houses, The White Horse on Church Street, near this property, and The Black Horse, with Waterside Garden Centre on the edge of the village, offering homewares, as well as a butcher and restaurant, in addition to plants.


The area is blessed with a choice of state, grammar and private schooling. The village primary school feeds to secondary education at Bourne, where there are both well-thought of Academy and Grammar Schools. In addition, the village is also home to the Independent Kirkstone House, with Copthill and Witham Hall Prep Schools and the Stamford Endowed Schools all within an 11 mile radius of the village.


Located just off the A15, the nearby market towns of Market Deeping, Bourne and Stamford are close by for an extensive range of shops, supermarkets, restaurants and amenities, whilst rail links from Peterborough take you to Cambridge and London King’s Cross from just under an hour.

Description

This beautiful late 16th century grade II listed stone and collyweston house, a former farmhouse, occupies a fabulous, private setting in the core of Baston, with St John the Baptist’s parish church as a backdrop.


Centrally positioned within largely walled gardens of an acre, or thereabouts, the house is approached through electric gates to a wide gravelled driveway which leads past the house to a turning sweep at its detached granary garaging.


The house has been subject to a lavish programme of modernisation and care during the current owner’s tenure, and combines fabulous period detailing, including stone, limestone flagged and solid wood floors, high beamed ceilings, together with beautiful fireplaces and stained glazing, coupled with modern electrical rewiring and replumbing, the installation of CCTV and installation of a modern bronze casement double glazed windows, seated within the stone mullions, are just some of the fabulous modernisation works.


This is a thoroughly modern historic house with a fabulous flow to its circa 4,900 square feet of accommodation and a high standard of finish.


Accommodation: The front door opens into a wide limestone floored entrance stairwell hallway, which makes an immediate impact, with generous proportions, stained glass window, exposed stonework walls.   


Wide wooden doors open into the two formal reception rooms, each of which is impressively proportioned and symmetrical, dual aspect and with wood burning stoves within their period stone fireplaces. The drawing room has a fabulous stone flagged floor, whilst the dining room wide board solid wood flooring and both imbued with elegance and character.


Across the entrance hallway, the kitchen/breakfast room also blends the historical with the contemporary, with an inner stone mullion with window seat, the perfect alcove for a dining table, partial panelling and beamed ceiling, contrasting to an elegant, modern and perfectly designed Neptune kitchen suite. The kitchen combines shaker-style cabinetry, a sociable breakfast bar positioned within a large central island, integrated appliances and a Rangemaster double oven cooker range, with wooden worktops and a Belfast style sink.


Adjoining the kitchen, there is a vaulted utility, with intriguing stonework and the same cabinetry; a limestone flagged rear hallway, with timber trussed beams, that offers external garden access, as well as access internally to a boot room and cloakroom/wc. In addition, double doors also open from the kitchen to the wonderfully convivial triple aspect garden room, from which French doors open to the garden terrace. As formal or informal as you, nestled off the kitchen with its handy access to the garden, this room has been utilised as a family room, a children’s play room and a gym at various points in recent years.


The Old Hall has six bedrooms and three bathrooms arranged over its first and second floors, coupled with a further attic room that has potential, subject to consents for further sub-division. There are four first floor bedrooms, the principal and second bedroom being particularly generously proportioned, with a well-appointed, full-suite family bathroom, with slipper bath and separate shower, is also Jack & Jill en suite to the principal bedroom.   


The landing passes through a stone archway to double bedrooms three and four, which are served by a second fabulously appointed full-suite family bathroom, with walk-in shower and rolltop clawfoot bath, together with an elegant window seat,


At second floor, a charming timbered landing accesses two further beam-bedecked bedrooms and a third full-suite bathroom, with freestanding clawfoot bath and separate shower, whilst a cavernous vaulted games room, is thought to have potential, subject to consents, for the creation of further en suite bedrooms.


Outside: The Old Hall is centrally positioned within extensive gardens of about an acre, which wrap around the house, providing interest and intrigue at every step. The gardens are beautifully landscaped, with beautiful lawns, with gravelled pathways leading to various seating terraces around the gardens. Sunlight dapples down through mature trees, whilst a resplendent copper beech commands attention to the centre of one lawn. The gardens are beautiful and serene.


At the head of the driveway, a large detached granary outbuilding offers storage and garaging. The building previously was granted planning permission (now long lapsed) for conversion into a two bedroom annex.