Property description

Dove Barn is an exceptional and notable Grade II Listed barn conversion, carried out by revered local architectural designer Stephen Mattick. The quality, sympathy and style of the building was recognised by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors when it bestowed its 1987 Conservation Award on the conversion upon its completion. It was subsequently visited by The Prince of Wales. The conversion is beautifully detailed and clearly carefully created to balance its roles as both an important historic building and a comfortable, practical family home. It stands secluded off Butchers Hill in a small gravelled courtyard opposite a similarly fine home. The splendid three storey reception hall leads to a generous drawing room with an open fireplace and French doors on to a small rear loggia. A second reception room is currently used as a handsome study but is large enough to be a sitting room. There is a formal dining room that adjoins a traditional, comfortable kitchen/breakfast room with two oven Aga and walk-in pantry. All of these main rooms open on to the rear garden. Beside the kitchen a utility/boot room leads on to a further ground floor room that is currently used as a gym with its own en suite shower room. It would work equally well as a guest bedroom or for an au pair or an extended family. The first floor has two impressively large bedrooms plus a spacious and bright bathroom and a further two bedrooms are on the top floor. Attached to the gym is a cart lodge giving under cover parking for two cars plus a third, narrower bay useful for storage. A pull-down ladder gives access to a large, useful loft space that might provide further accommodation, subject to the necessary consents. The frontage is gravelled with attractively shrubbed and lawned gardens that wrap round to the side. The secluded rear garden faces south east and is attractively walled and paved with Yorkstone with raised flower beds.

Property Info:

• FLOOR PLAN