Property description

The Forge was originally built in 1795. The current owners have extended the property and made the accommodation spacious and flexible with rooms that are light and bright with a contemporary feel, whilst at the same time rediscovering and revealing many original period features. The forge itself is now a spacious living room, with multi-fuel stove and wood panel vaulted ceiling. Adjacent is the ex-stable, once used for shoeing horses and now a very flexible space used as a utility room and gym, with a useful well-lit mezzanine floor currently used as a hobby workshop area. What was the smith’s cottage has a dining room, with multi-fuel stove in an inglenook fireplace, exposed ceiling timbers and a period-style stud wall divider creating a study or reading area. The dining room is adjacent to a spacious walk-in larder with cold slab, and to the kitchen which also houses an airing cupboard that contains the oil-fired boiler. The small front entrance hall leads to a downstairs bathroom. The new rear extension has a conservatory-style garden room that features Spanish tiles to the dado, with glazed door leading to the rear winter garden, a second sitting room - with a superb picture window to the rear - and Catalan-style staircase to the first floor. A second study also leads off this room, which has windows to the rear and side gardens. Three of the first-floor bedrooms are full of character with exposed beams and timbers, with the main bedroom featuring the original Victorian fire basket whilst another bedroom includes a warm linen cupboard. The final bedroom is part of the extension - another double bedroom - with a Juliet balcony and stunning views over the countryside. A family bathroom with a large shower cubicle, WC and basin completes the first floor accommodation.
The garden is mainly to the side of the property, a mixture of lawn, mature shrub beds and cottage style vegetable/fruit plot. Outbuildings include a Lugard summer house and a potting shed with windows matching the main house, both with power and light fitted, a Hartley greenhouse, a sizeable workshop and a log-store.
The property has high-performance double glazing and oil-fired central heating and is not a listed building.

Garage	9'5\" x 20'7\" (2.87m x 6.27m).
The Forge	22' x 20'7\" (6.7m x 6.27m).
Study	9'11\" x 14'1\" (3.02m x 4.3m).
Bathroom	11'1\" x 5'1\" (3.38m x 1.55m).
Study	6'11\" x 9'4\" (2.1m x 2.84m).
Kitchen	11'6\" x 8'1\" (3.5m x 2.46m).
Dining Room	14'7\" x 14'1\" (4.45m x 4.3m).
Sitting Room	15'6\" x 9'4\" (4.72m x 2.84m).
Garden Room	6'3\" x 9' (1.9m x 2.74m).
Bedroom 3	11'6\" x 8'6\" (3.5m x 2.6m).
Bedroom 4	10'7\" x 9'6\" (3.23m x 2.9m).
Bedroom 1	14'9\" x 10'8\" (4.5m x 3.25m).
Bedroom 2	9'9\" x 14'1\" (2.97m x 4.3m).

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