The Slade, Fenny Compton, Southam, Warwickshire, CV47

Fenny Compton Lodge is a handsome Georgian house dating principally from the early 19th Century, with a mid-19th century rear wing, built of dressed Ironstone with a hipped slate roof and a moulded plaster eaves cornice. The property is entered by a handsome front door with Tuscan columns and entablature. Sash windows have stone lintels and with wisteria adorning the walls.

With accommodation extending to over 6,000 square feet, the property has very comfortable, well-proportioned rooms with attractive period features, including two early 19th-century fireplaces, moulded cornices, panelled doors and attractive architraves. Off the reception hall, with its original staircase rising, are a formal south and east-facing drawing room, sitting room with a south-facing bay incorporating a door to the lovely wide patio with views to the south over the garden and parkland. Cloakroom and handsome dining room, and beyond that is a kitchen/breakfast room with a fitted kitchen with appliances and Aga, door to the back staircase to the rear wing bedrooms. Adjoining study, utility room, boot room, pantry and a further reception room, currently adapted to a ground floor bedroom/playroom with en suite shower room. There is a cellar, accessible from both inside the house and externally, providing useful storage, wine cellar and boiler room.

To the first floor, the Georgian staircase rises to a half-landing with south-facing bedroom two and family bathroom and access to the second-floor loft room, store and attic. The stairs continue to the main landing off which are two further lovely bedrooms and the principal bedroom with lovely views to front and rear, with en suite bathroom and a fitted dressing room which leads to the wing with a corridor with a small Gothic stone triangular oriel with arched lights and leaf corbel, serving three further double bedrooms and study/bedroom eight and a further bathroom.

Fenny Compton Lodge Cottage and flat

Across the rear courtyard is a ground floor apartment, suitable for a dependent relative or guests, with a sitting room, fitted kitchen with timber worktops and traditional cast-iron range, bedroom and shower room and a dining room, which has the flexibility to be accessed from the apartment or from the cottage.

The cottage, extending to about 1,800 square feet, is approached from the stable courtyard with a glazed conservatory entrance, hall with a staircase rising leading to the fitted kitchen.

To the first floor is a large sitting room with a central wood burner and pine-clad ceiling. Off the landing/study area are three bedrooms and a bathroom. Bedroom one has access to a Swiss-style covered balcony (the timber floor is in need of repair.)

Gardens, grounds and outbuildings

Attached to the cottage are a range of 5 traditional stone-built stables. The gardens are delightful, private and mature. The main drive is accessed through a gravel drive, with a spur-off leading to the parking area for the cottage and stableyard, with mature trees and shrubs providing a tree screen to the lane and along the drive, which leads to a large gravel parking area in front of the house. The gardens are lawned, with a wide south-facing patio, with yew hedges and topiary children's crenellated castle, summerhouse, herbaceous borders, mature trees including fine specimen Wellingtonia and shrubs, with an orchard beyond leading to a boundary stream.

Behind the house is a large gravelled courtyard accessed off The Slade through double-close boarded wooden gates. There is an all-weather tennis court, greenhouse and vegetable garden, and useful enclosed steel frame garden storage building.

To the south side of the drive and garden, with uninterrupted views over the ha-ha, is the parkland field, gently sloping uphill and providing a lovely setting for the property. By the drive is an enclosed grass yard with barns and a further stable.

Fenny Compton Lodge is beautifully situated on the south fringe of the village, with views to the Burton Dassett Hill Country Park, approached along a private drive with mature trees, and with a secondary access off the rear courtyard on to The Slade.

Fenny Compton is an attractive South Warwickshire village situated close to the North Oxfordshire and South Northamptonshire borders at the bottom of the Burton Dassett Hills. The village amenities include a medical centre, primary school, chemist, village shop, post office, village hall and popular community-owned public house. Larger centres include the market towns of Banbury, Warwick and Leamington Spa, all offering a wider range of shopping facilities. Schools include The Croft Prep School in Stratford-upon-Avon, St John's Priory School in Banbury, Winchester House in Brackley, Bilton Grange in Dunchurch and Arnold Lodge in Leamington Spa. Public and Private schools include Tudor Hall School, Bloxham, Rugby, Stowe, Warwick, Kingsley and Stratford Grammar Schools.

There is excellent access to the M40 (J12) at Gaydon (5 miles) or (J11) at Banbury (8 miles). Rail services run from Banbury to London Marylebone from 53 minutes and to Birmingham, Leamington Spa and Birmingham Airport from 30 minutes.

Sporting and leisure facilities include golf at Hellidon Lakes, Tadmarton and Cherwell Edge (Middleton Cheney). There is horse racing at Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick, walking in the Burton Dassett Country Park and theatres at Stratford-upon-Avon.