Location

Foxley Farm is situated just outside the Conservation Village of Empingham, a highly desirable location situated just a mile's walk from Rutland Water's beach and headwall.

The village is well placed, therefore, to take advantage of its wonderful choice of recreational opportunities, including watersports, walking, cycling and nature trails, amongst others.

Empingham caters for most daily village amenities. There is a village shop, a public house, The White Horse, a medical centre and primary school.

The village is also 5 miles equidistant between the bustling market towns of Oakham and Stamford, both of which offer a variety of facilities, as well as a number of excellent schools, including the independent Stamford Endowed Schools and Oakham School. Uppingham, with its school and independent shops, is little further, 9 miles from the village.

Rutland is well connected by road, with the A1 Stamford bypass four miles to the east, with mainline rail services to London Kings Cross from 46 mins from Peterborough (18 miles), or from Stamford Station to Cambridge and London Stansted Airport, from an hour.

Description

Approached along a 700m (0.4 mile) privately owned driveway, the striking south facing property occupies a fabulous position in splendid isolation within 8 acres of grounds, with far reaching views to all sides over farmland, and south to distant woodland and Rutland Water, of which there are oblique views.
   
The property was comprehensively renovated in 2020, which included reconfiguration and extension, with a family’s use in mind to maximise the sense of space, light, conviviality and views. The result is a standout home in an unenviable setting. It is also a highly efficient one with, as one example, a 16x8KW panel solar array serving the house and battery packs, to off-set utility costs. Positioned within south facing gardens that can be largely seen from the principal rooms of the house, there is potential for paddocks to be created within the grounds.

Accommodation: The front door opens into a welcoming entrance hallway, with exposed stone walls and French limestone flooring, which continues through much of the ground floor, and a window that offers attractive views to the rear of the house on entering. The hall accesses a sitting room, utility and cloakroom/WC to the west, and to the east, the kitchen and dining room.

The dining and sitting rooms, orangery and family kitchen are all open to one another, to the east of the hall, making for a fabulously convivial wing to the house. It is ideal for families and entertaining, with bi-folding doors opening to the gardens on three sides of the house.

Every room has intense visual interest. The 22’ dining room has exposed stone walls and a fabulous inglenook housing a contemporary wood burning stove. It is a statement room with mullioned window and opening to a similarly proportioned, triple aspect garden room, with full height glazed windows and two bi-folding walls of glass for summer inside-outside entertaining. The particularly spacious, modern, oak floored triple aspect sitting room has both bi-folding and patio doors to the garden, along with another contemporary wood burner.

The heart of the home is the symmetrical, triple aspect family kitchen, which also has an almost full height sliding wall of glass doors that opens to a morning garden terrace. Fitted with an extensive and beautiful Chalon suite, there are Corian worktops, a double Belfast sink and electric Aga, with companion, whilst a dresser unit incorporates integrated fridge, freezer and dishwasher appliances. A large, L-shaped, solid wood topped island, with fitted benching, frames a seating area for informal dining.

From the entrance hallway to the west, there are three further versatile rooms. Double doors open into a full-width sitting room, with high timber beamed ceiling and fireplace with a woodburning stove, beyond which is the spacious home office (which was the kitchen in 2015), also has a wood burner and a glazed exterior door.   

A secondary entrance boot room, with a well-appointed shower room off it, is a perfect informal entrance to the house and with ground floor bedroom 5 (currently a music/play room), these rooms, together, offer potential for an internal annex.   

The oak staircase rises from the entrance hall to the largely oak floored first floor, with four further spacious double bedrooms, served by three further fabulously appointed bath or shower rooms, with Porcelanosa tiling, nickel baths and Burlington sanitary wear. The principal suite is particularly spacious. It incorporates a walk-through dressing room, with walk-in wardrobe and an opulently appointed full-suite en suite bathroom, with wet-room shower and stand-alone nickel bathtub, whilst the bedroom is dual-aspect, with south-west and south-east facing windows and Juliet balconies, from which to take in sun rise to near sun set, along with the fabulous views of open countryside.   Double bedroom 2 also offers an en suite shower room and walk-in wardrobe, whilst double bedrooms 3 and 4 are served by the well-appointed, full-suite family bathroom, which also has both shower and stand-alone bathtub.

Outside: With parking, and electric gates, to both front and rear of the house, the property offers plenty of parking, with attached garaging to the house, as well as a large detached garage block to the rear of the house. Whilst the gardens wrap around the house, they are principally arranged to the south side, with sweeping lawns and formal terraces and flowering and shrub borders. A mixed deciduous woodland lines the northern boundary, to the east of the house. The grounds extend to 8 acres, or thereabouts, in total. The majority of the lawns are maintained by a 'Robomower' which is included within the sale.

Agents note: The property was previously called Windpump Farm.

Directions

From the village of Empingham, continue north on the Whitwell Road/A606 out of the village towards Whitwell. Follow the road for approximately 0.63 miles where the driveway to Foxley Farm is signed on the right hand side.