The Manor House, Cherry Orton, Peterborough, PE2

A magnificent listed manor house within the most beautiful, mature and private gardens of well over an acre, with extensive outbuildings and garages.

Description

The Manor House
A magnificent grade II listed stone under collyweston manor house of circa 1571, set back within mature and private gardens of 1.15 acres, or thereabouts, with extensive outbuildings and garaging and St Mary’s Parish Church as a backdrop.

The beautiful and striking home combines the grace and proportions of the era, whilst having also been extensively restored and reconfigured in the past ten years by the current owners, which has also enacted consents for the further conversion of adjoining outbuildings. As part of the works, the house has been largely reroofed, electrically rewired, replumbed, with digitally controlled under-floor heating in parts and cast-iron radiators installed, and comprehensively refurbished. The elegant flow and layout incorporate and showcase restored period features, like wide wooden floor boards, shuttered windows, elegant cornices and fabulous fireplaces.

The result is an elegant period home that has been brought right up to modern standards, within the most beautiful gardens that create a terrific feeling of privacy. Sweeping lawns link to various terraces around the gardens, which are sectioned with cottage, walled, parterre and courtyard gardens, framed with mature trees and high hedging. The outlook is simply beautiful no matter where you are within the grounds.

The Accommodation
The Manor House is entered through an entrance vestibule into a wide and impressive entrance hallway, with the principal staircase, panelled walls and a beautiful, hand crafted oval laylight with chandelier, that emphasises the ceiling height.

The hallway is flanked by a dining room with stone fireplace, original wood flooring and exposed beams, and a fabulously proportioned drawing room, with 12ft high ceilings, three large stone mullion windows, hand carved marble fireplace and an ornate stone doorway with pilasters & cresting, accessing the rear hall.

The flagstone floored rear hallway wraps around the rear of the drawing room, accessing a wood panelled, dual-aspect study with stone fireplace, stone mullions and French doors to a private garden terrace. Adjacent to the study is a morning room and cloakroom.

A central living room links entrance and rear halls to the kitchen. Underfloor heated, with an inglenook fireplace and glazed exterior doors to private courtyard, the room offers access to a play room/gym with an adjoining boiler room, and to the kitchen.

The marble floored kitchen/breakfast room is a fabulous statement room, fitted with a bespoke hand-crafted kitchen with a large centre island and silestone worktops, incorporating Wolf appliances, with a dual-fuel range cooker with a charbroiler & griddle and a stand-alone steamer, and an integrated Sub-Zero fridge freezer. A pantry and utility, also with hand crafted units, adjoins, whilst there are three sets of French doors that open to the south facing courtyard, within which there is a two tier water fountain and views of the Church.

The kitchen accesses to the converted Brewhouse, an adjoining wing to the north of the manor, which has been connected to the main house with a glazed roof rear entrance, convenient from the parking and garaging. The Brewhouse could readily convert into an ancillary living space. It is currently a leisure wing and offers a shower room, games room/living room and a staircase to two first floor double bedrooms.

From the main entrance hallway, the principal staircase rises to a large first floor landing accessing the five principal bedrooms.

The principal bedroom suite comprises three rooms. The spacious bedroom has a stone fireplace, wooden panelling and stone mullion window overlooking the front garden. Its adjoining dressing room has handmade fitted wardrobes by The Heritage Wardrobe Company, whilst the luxurious en suite bathroom has a free-standing claw-foot bath, with views of the Church.

The generously proportioned guest suite, accessed by a small flight of stairs, also has a well-appointed en suite shower room, with a connecting dressing room, which can also be the third bedroom. Double bedrooms four and five are in the oldest part of the house, and have original wooden floorboards, and showcase exposed stone walls. They are served by the main family bathroom, fitted with a four piece bathroom suite.

The Gardens
The landscaped formal grounds lie principally to the south and west of the house, bounded by mature deciduous trees and stone walls. They extend to 1.15 acres in total and incorporate sweeping lawns, deep filled flowering beds, fruit trees and stone terraces.

The main driveway leads through the gardens approaching the manor from the west, to a turning sweep with access to the north side of the house, where the garaging and outbuildings form a large courtyard, where there is a second driveway. The courtyard outbuildings benefit from enacted planning consent for their conversion into additional living accommodation (ref. 98/00019/FUL).

Location

Orton Waterville was a historic village in its own right, which over time has been enveloped by the Cathedral City of Peterborough to which it is now a south western suburb. However, the village retains its character and an older core of stone period houses (of which this is one), close to the village’s Parish Church, St Mary’s.

The Cathedral City of Peterborough is a regional centre for commerce, industry, retail, recreation and leisure, with theatres, cinemas, ice skating, bowling, sports centres and varied sports clubs. Peterborough Railway Station (four miles) offers commuter services to London Kings Cross (from about 45 minutes) and to Cambridge, whilst the city also has good north-south and east-west road links via the A1, A14, A47 and A15.

This property is located close to the River Nene and the Ferry Meadows Country Park, with easy access to Peterborough’s “Green Wheel” network of cycle/jogging routes that provide over 45 miles of continuous sustainable routes around the city, riverside and green spaces for residents to enjoy.

Schooling is also well catered for within Peterborough. The King’s (The Cathedral) School and The Peterborough School (an Independent school catering for all ages) are within four miles of the property, among other primary and secondary school options. Further afield, the Georgian market town of Oundle (10 miles) and Stamford (14 miles) both offer renown private schooling, among other options, and fabulous shopping and restaurants.

Square Footage: 6,599 sq ft


Acreage: 1.16 Acres

Additional Info

Local Authority: Peterborough City Council

Council Tax: Band H

Services: Full mains services. Mains gas central & under-floor heating. Fibre-optic broadband.

Fixtures & Fittings: Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. All others, such as curtains, light fitting and garden ornaments are specifically excluded but may be available by separate negotiation.

All journey times and distances are approximate.