Full details for 7 Bedroom Village House For Sale in Solihull
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Description
Grimshaw Hall is a handsome brick-built country house dating from 1926,under a pitched tiled roof with leaded light brick mullion windows. The property is in an elevated position with all the principal reception rooms and bedrooms enjoying the extensive views over open countryside to the south. The reception rooms are elegant, with ornate moulded cornices, deep skirting boards.
An oak and leaded light front door with a storm porch opens to the entrance hall. The reception room has parquet flooring, a fine oak staircase and oak doors and architraves. The drawing room has a fine dressed-stone fireplace and a door to the covered loggia.
The beautiful kitchen has marble tops with painted kitchen units and
integrated appliances, including a four-oven blue Aga with handmade tiles
behind, a double sink with a boiling water tap and an island unit. There is a
stone tiled floor and a sitting area with a chimney breast and fireplace. An
attractive garden room off the kitchen has sliding doors to three sides and a ceramic tiled floor and vaulted ceiling, taking full advantage of views over the garden.
A study and a lovely flower room have parquet flooring and a butler‘s pantry with base and wall cabinets. The snooker room has a parquet floor and a bar with a WC off and west-facing patio doors to the terrace.
To the first floor, landing is exposed timberwork off of which is the principal bedroom and bedroom two, both having fireplaces and, along with bedroom four, having access to the south-facing balcony. There is a first floor sitting room to bedroom three with a range of wardrobes along one wall. The principal bedroom has an en suite bathroom, a separate en suite shower room and a dressing room. There is a family bathroom and two further bedrooms, bedroom six with store rooms beyond.
A first floor flat at the east end of the property has an external staircase to a sitting room with a kitchen off, a double bedroom with wardrobes built in and a shower room.
The property has development consent from Stratford-on-Avon District
Council for the erection of a swimming pool and leisure facility (ref
23/03052/LDP) and for the erection of a further garage block and
associated porous hard standing (ref 23/03050/LDP).
Offices
To the east of the house is a privately situated area with two office buildings currently used by the vendor to run a business, with offices, kitchen and WC facilities.
Gardens and grounds
Beside the drive are lawns and rhododendrons, copper beech and shrub
and flower borders against the house, with the walls adorned with wisteria
and pyracantha.
To the south side of the house, beyond the paved terrace, are steps down
to a lawn with a ha-ha at the end and a breeze house with a hot tub. To one
side is a water garden with coniferous trees and other shrubs. The water
garden drops to a dell with mature specimen trees. To the west side, there
is additional parking and garages. Beyond the ha-ha is the parkland and
woodland, with two lakes and mature parkland trees, principally oak.
Grimshaw Hall is in a beautifully mature setting, on the edge of the soughtafter village of Ullenhall, with south-facing views over ancient parkland with fine mature oak trees, formerly the park to Lady Luscombe‘s Barrells Hall. The house is secluded from the road with a tree screen to the road frontage. Tall wrought iron electric gates on brick piers with orb finials lead to the box hedge-lined tarmac drive to a brick wall with inner wrought iron gates to the parking area in front of the property with an arch to further parking and garages.
Ullenhall is a sought-after village with a parish church and a village hall.
Nearby Henley-in-Arden is an attractive market town with a range of shops
and recreational facilities, including public houses, restaurants, primary and secondary schools, doctor‘s surgery, veterinary surgery, churches, nursery schools, playgroups and mother and toddler groups. Tanworth-in-Arden is nearby and has a doctor‘s surgery and The Bell pub/restaurant. With its Shakespearean heritage, theatres and amenities, Stratford-upon-Avon is about 10 miles away.
There are state, private and grammar schools in the area to suit most
requirements, including grammar schools at Stratford-upon-Avon and
Alcester, Warwick Prep and Public School, Kings High School for Girls in
Warwick and The Croft Prep School in Stratford-upon-Avon. Bromsgrove
and Solihull Public Schools are also accessible.
The property is excellently located for the motorway network, with the M40, M42 and M5 nearby. There is an International Railway Station and Airport in Birmingham.
Golf courses are at Henley-in-Arden, Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick and
racing at Stratford, Warwick and Cheltenham. The National Indoor Arena,
Convention Centre and Symphony Hall are in Birmingham City Centre, and
the National Exhibition Centre is about 15 miles away. There are footpaths
from the village giving access to the surrounding countryside.
