Neen Sollars, Kidderminster

The Parlour is a charming character property comprising five bedrooms and wonderful walled gardens, located in the beautiful village of Neen Sollars in South Shropshire.

The Parlour is a former milking parlour completely rebuilt in the early 1990s and offers a wealth of spacious and flexible accommodation, arranged over two floors. The property has a wonderful mix of character features and original materials retained from the former milking parlour.

Outside, to the front, is a private gated driveway with parking for multiple vehicles, an integral garage and wonderful walled gardens with lawned areas, mature planting, patio seating areas and raised brick borders. To the rear of the property is a walled courtyard garden


You enter the property via a brick and tiled entrance porch with an original quarry-tiled floor and stable door. This opens into a superb family kitchen and dining room, leading through to a cloakroom WC and utility room. A large, vaulted living room, family bathroom, and two bedrooms complete the ground floor.

Above the living room, on the first floor, there is a mezzanine and a further double bedroom. From the kitchen, there are stairs to another first-floor area with two double bedrooms.


The kitchen
The entrance porch opens into the large family kitchen and dining room with beautiful limestone tiled flooring, classic cream kitchen cupboards with a large pantry unit and wood block worktops, and a two-oven Aga.

There is plenty of space for a large farmhouse dining table, creating a wonderful, “heart of the home” entertaining space.

From the corner of the kitchen, stairs lead up to one of the first-floor bedroom areas, Here you will find two good-sized double bedrooms with wonderful character exposed wooden beams.


The utility
Off the rear of the kitchen, is an inner hallway that leads to the cloakroom WC and a very useful utility room with stainless steel single sink with a drainer, kitchen cabinets, a built-in dishwasher and space for a washing machine or washer-dryer.

Also accessed from here is the integral garage with double wooded doors and a doorway that leads out to the rear courtyard garden.


The living room
To the left of the entrance porch is a stunning, vaulted living room with a huge inglenook fireplace and impressive log-burning stove.

This incredible room features exposed timbers and trusses, and has double patio doors on both sides, leading out to the front garden and rear courtyard.


The family bathroom
Continuing from the living room, another inner hallway leads through to the family bathroom with a bath, toilet and inset vanity basin


Bedroom five
On the left is a small bedroom which would make a wonderful nursery/bedroom or as it is currently being utilised, a home office.


The master bedroom
At the end of the hallway is the master suite. The good-sized master bedroom has dual aspect windows overlooking the front garden and the rear courtyard and an ensuite shower room with toilet, inset vanity basin and separate shower enclosure.


The first floor
From the corner of the living room is a set of stairs leading up to the first floor and a wonderful mezzanine that looks down over the living room.


Bedroom four
You access a further double bedroom from the mezzanine with Velux windows, a built-in wardrobe, under-eaves storage and an inset vanity basin.


Bedroom three
From the kitchen, a separate staircase leads up to another first-floor area and two good size double bedrooms.

To the right is a lovely double bedroom with large Velux windows overlooking the rear courtyard and the front garden. This room also benefits from a large built-in wardrobe and under-eaves storage.


Bedroom two
To the left of the landing is another good-sized double bedroom with a small separate living space and large Velux windows.


The courtyard
To the rear of the property is a lovely walled courtyard area perfect for alfresco dining and entertaining. There is access to both sides of the property via secure wooden gates.


The garage
To the front are a gated gravel driveway leading to the garage, a pathway to the front of the property and the fully enclosed walled garden.


The garden
There are areas of lawn and a host of different patio areas, a stone circle dining/seating area, brick built raised beds with mature planting, perfect for enjoying the afternoon and evening sun.

The Parlour lies in the heart of the village and civil parish of Neen Sollars in southeast Shropshire, England. It is situated close to the border with Worcestershire, six miles north of the small market town of Tenbury Wells.

The fantastic market town of Ludlow is situated 12 miles to the west, and Kidderminster is located 12.5 miles to the northeast. Other major cities nearby include Worcester 40 minutes away and Birmingham and Cheltenham being just over an hour's commute by car.

Neen Sollars has a wonderful public house, the Live and Let Live, which serves fantastic home-cooked food and real ale from local suppliers and has a wonderful large beer garden with incredible far-reaching views. There is a Church of England church located within the village called All Saints.

Services
The Parlour benefits from mains electricity, mains water, a private Drainage Septic Tank, an oil boiler system boiler for Central Heating and Hot Water (Trianco system TRO 20/25 BF) and an oil-fired dual oven Aga.

Council tax band F

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.