Hornton Grounds, Banbury, Oxfordshire, OX15

Small North Oxfordshire Estate

Description

Hornton Grounds comprises a 5/6 bedroom Grade II listed Queen Anne style farmhouse, 1 bedroom apartment, 3 bedroom farm cottage, traditional buildings and stabling, range of modern farm buildings, set in about 157.83 acres of arable, pasture and woodland.

The Cottage and much of the farm is let subject to a Farm Business Tenancy.

Hornton Grounds
Hornton Grounds is a situated at centre of the farm and enjoys views over the surrounding farmland and beyond. The house is Grade II listed and is estimated to have been built between 1680 and 1690 in a Queen Anne Style, with a later Victorian extension and courtyard. The house is constructed of Hornton stone with a cut façade with stone mullions and sash windows.

The house is entered through a front porch and reception hall, with a range of formal reception rooms complete with high ceilings and traditional features. A sitting room with Arts and Crafts Style open fireplace; drawing room with open fireplace and French doors onto the patio garden and dining room with views over the garden. Through to the breakfast room, is an Esse 2-door oven set within Alkerton stone and kitchen with cast iron Hobbs Hart & Co safe featuring. There is an office, two downstairs WCs, utility room and boot room with atrium roof and in the centre, lies a glass-covered well, which was historically an Victorian rainwater catcher. There is access onto the rear courtyard.

A large cellar with blue ironstone floor provides storage space and houses the biomass boiler which provides central heating to the house.

The main staircase leads up to a galleried landing. The master bedroom-suite and dressing room benefits from views over the surrounding land to the west. There are four further bedrooms, all of which are good sized doubles with timber beams and fireplaces, and four bathrooms.

Apartment
On the second floor, is a self-contained apartment with views over the courtyard and walled garden. This comprises a kitchen/breakfast room, living room, bathroom and double bedroom.

Cottage
Forming the east wing of house over two floors, the cottage comprises three bedrooms, two bathrooms, kitchen and sitting room. The cottage has a separate entrance onto the courtyard and is currently occupied under a Farm Business Tenancy agreement.

Gardens and Grounds
The formal gardens comprise a walled garden, patio and lawned area with mature trees and shrubs. There is a walled orchard and avenue of trees leading to a former Edwardian tennis court, now used as a menage, and down towards the pond and purpose-buit log cabin. A hard tennis court sits to the front of the house.

There is also a Tesla Powerwall II which supplies the house.

Farm Buildings
The traditional buildings and stables, are in-hand and set around a courtyard. They comprise a traditional Hornton stone barn, store with mezzanine loft and single storey stone building previously used as a farm shop.

There is a timber frame stable block, of part concrete block, part profile vented tin walls and comprising 10 loose boxes and feed room, set in a yard.

The majority of the modern farm buildings are of steel portal frame construction and are occupied under a Farm Business Tenancy agreement. On one of the farm buildings, are 50 kWh Solar Photovoltaic Panels.

Farmland
Set within a ring fence with the farm buildings at the heart of the farm, the land is predominately down to arable and pasture with some woodland and ponds. There is a temporary log cabin situated beside the larger pond which has been used as holiday accommodation.

The land currently split between the following uses:
* House, buildings and miscellaneous areas: 10.12 acres (4.09 hectares)
* Arable and pasture: 130.90 acres (52.97 hectares)
*Woodland: 15.88 acres (6.43 hectares)
* Ponds: 0.93 acres (0.38 hectares)

Location

Hornton Grounds is located south west of the rural village of Hornton on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire on the edge of the Cotswolds Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Hornton is situated 6.9 miles northeast of Banbury, and 15.5 miles north of Chipping Norton. Hornton is a quaint village known for its golden Hornton stone and with the benefit of a public house, pre school and primary school, St John the Baptist Church and Hornton Methodist Church.

Banbury provides high street shopping with independent shops and supermarkets including, Waitrose, M&S, Lidl, Tesco and Sainsburys, and a range of local amenities including historic pubs, restaurants, cafes and cinemas. Chipping Norton is a popular community, well-known for Soho Farmhouse members’ club and Daylesford Organic Farm Shop in the locality.

Further afield, Stratford-upon-Avon and Oxford provide a wider choice of cultural, shopping and recreational activities.

The area enjoys good road connections, equidistant between Junction 11 and 12 (7 miles) of the M40 and railway services to Birmingham and London from Banbury station.

The area is renowned for its excellent educational facilities including Tudor Hall, Bloxham, Sibford and Warwick Boys’ School.




Acreage: 157.83 Acres

Directions

Post code: OX15 6HH

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Additional Info

Hornton Grounds is offered for sale as a whole by private treaty with part vacant possession, part let on a Farm Business Tenancy under the Agricultural Tenancies Act 1995.

Viewings - Strictly by appointment with Savills.