Butt Green, Painswick, Stroud, GL6

This delightful end-of-terrace period cottage offers charming and well-presented accommodation and occupies an enviable position in a sleepy backwater of the village with easy access to local facilities and open countryside. The ground floor accommodation comprises a sitting room with exposed beams, timber shutters, a large fireplace housing a gas-fueled stove and limestone tiled flooring with underfloor heating along with a modern shower room with walk-in shower enclosure and a kitchen/breakfast room fitted with a range of oak-fronted wall and base units and ample room for a dining table and chairs. On the first floor, the bedroom has built-in wardrobes and a shuttered window overlooking the front garden whilst the principal bedroom, on the second floor, has a shuttered window in the gable end and has a useful en suite shower room.

Outside

To the front there is gravelled off road parking with a cottage-style garden and space for a table and chairs whilst to the rear, the paved courtyard garden is ideal for al fresco entertaining. A stone outbuilding offers ideal storage and is currently used for laundry appliances.

Situation

Painswick, the “Queen of the Cotswolds”, is a thriving community nestling in a delightful Cotswolds setting. Painswick Churchyard is famous for its impressive array of table tombs and its 99 yew trees about which folklore holds that if a 100th should grow the devil will pull it out.

Recreational outlets include tennis, rugby cricket and bowls clubs with many other groups meeting at the Painswick Centre. There are two public houses and several local shops, galleries, tearooms and restaurants in the village along with a pharmacy, doctor and dentist whilst the surrounding towns provide a range of social, recreational and retail amenities to suit all budgets. Painswick offers a playgroup and primary school with secondary schools in the surrounding towns including Marling School (boys), Stroud High School (girls) and Pate’s (mixed) grammar schools and independent schools including Beaudesert Park School and Wycliffe College in Stroud, Dean Close, Cheltenham College and Cheltenham Ladies College in Cheltenham and Kings School in Gloucester.

Painswick is situated approximately 3 miles from Stroud and around 7, 10 and 16 miles from Gloucester, Cheltenham and Cirencester respectively. The motorway network is accessible via the A46 and A417 trunk roads whilst trains from Stroud to London Paddington take around 90 minutes.