Suckley, Worcester

A timber-framed cottage typical of the local building style around 1600, extended over the years with versatile accommodation, surrounded by mature gardens and lovely views.

This beautiful family home is in the most picturesque of settings and has a wealth of accommodation within. There are two reception rooms, a kitchen dining room, a utility area, a study and a shower room situated on the ground floor. The recent extension includes a further reception room, which would make an ideal annexe for independent living if required.

Upstairs, there are three double bedrooms, a wet room and a family bathroom.

Outside, there is plentiful parking, a workshop and potting shed and log stores. The established gardens surrounding the property feature seating areas and are planted for colour and interest throughout the year.

The property is approached via a large, gravelled parking area allowing ample parking for multiple vehicles. From the driveway, steps and pathways lead through the delightful gardens to the oak front door.


Entrance
Bushbank Cottage is entered through a porch, with a further door accessing the entrance hallway. The spacious central hallway features ceramic grey tiles to the floor, a staircase rising to the first floor, under-stairs storage, a further storage cupboard and doors to the accommodation.


Living room
Situated to the right-hand side of the hallway is a spacious living room. This lovely room has oak flooring, painted beams, windows to the front and side aspect, a door accessing the garden and an impressive inglenook fireplace with a multi-fuel log burner at its focal point.


Reception room/study/bedroom four
There is a reception room situated to the rear of the property, currently used as a bookroom/study. This versatile room is perfect for those working from home.

Original features include the bread oven and fireplace pot hook. There is also storage space and a door out to the rear garden.


Kitchen/dining room
Accessed via double doors from the entrance hallway is a fantastic kitchen/dining room. This room has a high, vaulted ceiling and the kitchen includes wall and base units, with granite worktops incorporating a Belfast sink and breakfast bar.

There is space for a slot-in electric oven and a slim-line dishwasher (the space will house a full-size dishwasher if required). Further features include four hot-air plinth heaters, a window to the rear, lantern windows in the apex and French doors to the front.

From the kitchen, there is open access to a useful utility area with further storage and space for a washing machine and tumble dryer. From here there is a sliding door to an office/study.


Office/study
The study has a Velux window and a window to the side and double doors accessing a galleried landing overlooking the double-height extension below.


Shower room
A shower room comprising a low-level WC, a washbasin, a shower cubicle and a window to the front completes the ground-floor accommodation.


Extension/annexe
The reception room/annexe is very spacious and double-height, over 21ft long and has ash flooring with underfloor heating, a Velux window in the vaulted ceiling, windows to the front and side and French doors to the front allowing ample natural light in.

There is a large storage area with sliding doors to one wall. The versatile annexe space has the potential to provide a sitting room, galley kitchen, a bathroom & an open plan mezzanine bedroom extended from the galleried landing.


First floor
The landing gives access to the bedrooms, family bathroom and wet room.

Bedroom one is a good-sized double room situated to the side of the property, featuring a vaulted ceiling with exposed beams, a window to the side, and three small windows set into the ceiling and apex. This bedroom also includes double fitted wardrobes, offering ample and discreet storage space.

The remaining bedrooms are situated to the front and side of the property and are both double rooms featuring oak flooring and windows, with bedroom two also featuring a built-in wardrobe and with one window providing a fire escape exit from the first floor. The third bedroom has storage, hanging space and shelving.


Family bathroom and wet room
There is a family bathroom and wet room servicing the bedrooms.

The family bathroom comprises a low-level WC, a washbasin and a bathtub with a Mira air boost Sports shower over. There are windows to the front and side and a dual-fuel radiator. This bathroom could easily be made en-suite with bedroom one if desired.

Completing the accommodation is a wet room comprising a low-level WC, a washbasin and a walk-through shower with a tower shower. There is also tiling to the walls, a window to the front and a dual-fuel towel radiator.


Garden
The sheltered and enclosed gardens are terraced and include a flat lawn and gravelled areas, with paths and steps leading to several sitting-out areas that take advantage of the views in sun and shade.

The cottage-style borders are planted for year-round interest together with ease of maintenance.

The garden features a productive vegetable garden with raised beds and a greenhouse, with a sloping wildflower bank beyond. A newly built viewing platform provides uninterrupted views of the surrounding countryside, set within a National Landscape (previously named Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty), creating a perfect spot to enjoy the landscape.

The workshop is insulated with light/power and there is also a potting shed, two log stores and a coal store.

Suckley is a popular village in the Suckley Hills National Landscape (previously named AONB), close to the border with Herefordshire.

The village is extremely sought after and boasts an excellent primary school just a short distance away, a local church and village hall and a stylish garden centre offering design-led shopping, a restaurant and beauty salon.

The countryside is superb and offers miles and miles of stunning walking and there are a couple of pubs and restaurants close by.

Suckley is situated conveniently between Bromyard, Malvern and Worcester where you can find more shops and amenities, private schooling and access to further travel networks.

Its great location is appealing to commuters providing easy access to Malvern 5 miles, Worcester 10 miles, Hereford 19.5 miles and Cheltenham 34 miles.

A regular bus service operates between Suckley and Worcester, passing the end of the drive.

The property has mains electricity and water. There is LPG central heating via the combination boiler. Fast fibre broadband is available. The property further benefits from being fully double-glazed.

Council tax band E

Reservation Fee - refundable on exchange

A reservation fee, refundable on exchange, is payable prior to the issue of the Memorandum of Sale and after which the property may be marked as Sold Subject to Contract. The fee will be reimbursed upon the successful Exchange of Contracts.

The fee will be retained by Andrew Grant in the event that you the buyer withdraws from the purchase or does not Exchange within 6 months of the fee being received other than for one or more of the following reasons:

1. Any significant material issues highlighted in a survey that were not evident or drawn to the attention of you the buyer prior to the Memorandum of Sale being issued.
2. Serious and material defect in the seller’s legal title.
3. Local search revealing a matter that has a material adverse effect on the market value of the property that was previously undeclared and not in the public domain.
4. The vendor withdrawing the property from sale.

The reservation fee will be 0.5% of the accepted offer price for offers below £800,000 and 1% for offers of £800,000 or over. This fee, unless specified otherwise, is payable upon acceptance by the vendor of an offer from a buyer and completion of an assessment of the buyer’s financial status and ability to proceed.

Should a buyer’s financial position regarding the funding of the property prove to be fundamentally different from that declared by the buyer when the Memorandum of Sale was completed, then the Vendor has the right to withdraw from the sale and/or the reservation fee retained. For example, where the buyer declares themselves as a cash buyer but are in fact relying on an unsecured sale of their property.

Once the reservation fee has been paid, any renegotiation of the price stated in the memorandum of sale for any reason other than those covered in points 1 to 3 above will lead to the reservation fee being retained. A further fee will be levied on any subsequent reduced offer that is accepted by the vendor. This further fee will be subject to the same conditions that prevail for all reservation fees outlined above.