Aylburton,Lydney,GL15 6DX

- PROPERTY TYPE
Country House
- BEDROOMS
9
- BATHROOMS
5
- SIZE
14,456 sq ft
1,343 sq m
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Key features
- Distinguished early 18th-century country house with later 19th-century additions
- Nine bedrooms in the main house, with scope to remodel (unlisted)
- Elegant reception rooms with fine period detail and superb ceiling heights
- Exceptional views across the Severn Estuary from principal rooms
- Bespoke kitchen with AGA, log burner, underfloor heating and garden room
- Three additional cottages in a private courtyard, ideal for guests or holiday lets
- Extensive outbuildings including stables, barns, gym and workshops
- Heated swimming pool with greenhouses, raised beds and terraces
- Secluded tennis court and landscaped gardens with specimen trees
- 70 acres of Estate grounds, parkland, ponds, woodland and fenced grazing fields
Description
Priors Mesne enjoys a wonderfully private setting at the end of a long lime-tree avenue, opening into a secluded estate that extends across gardens, parkland and woodland. The main house, thought to date back to the early 1700s with later 19th-century additions, combines generous proportions with fine period detail and far-reaching views.
The Main House
The impressive entrance hall sets the tone with a handsome 19th-century staircase, original tiled floor and soaring ceiling heights. The principal reception rooms are light-filled and elegant, including a large drawing room with bowed sash windows, ornate cornicing and a substantial stone fireplace. Both the sitting room and study take in magnificent views over the Severn.
At the heart of the house, the kitchen and breakfast room centres on an oil-fired AGA, with bespoke cabinetry, underfloor heating and a log burner. Bi-folding doors open onto a conservatory-style garden room, creating a seamless connection to the terrace and gardens.
Upstairs, the principal bedroom suite is generous and light, with an ensuite bathroom and dressing room. Four further bedrooms occupy the first floor — two ensuite and two sharing a Jack-and-Jill bathroom — each with exceptional ceiling heights. The second floor provides four further bedrooms and a family bathroom, offering ideal space for children or guests. With the house being unlisted, there is scope to reconfigure the layout if desired.
The Courtyard Cottages
A former gamekeeper’s courtyard has been sensitively developed to create three successful holiday cottages: Garden Cottage, Keeper’s Cottage and The Coach House. Alongside are a gym, laundry, workshops, stables, storerooms and the former coach bay. A separate driveway allows the cottages to operate independently from the main house.
Outbuildings & Equestrian Facilities
Within the grounds are a substantial steel-framed agricultural barn, a Dutch barn with four stables, lambing pens and wood stores, offering excellent scope for farming or equestrian use.
Gardens & Grounds
Priors Mesne is framed to the north and east by protective woodland, while terraced gardens unfold in a series of lawns, herbaceous borders and specimen trees. There are extensive greenhouses and raised beds overlooking the swimming pool, heated by an air-source heat pump, together with a secluded tennis court.
The wider parkland includes two ponds, horse chestnut, lime, oak and copper beech trees, with fenced grazing fields interspersed with woodland — once forming part of the estate’s historic deer park.
Services
Mains water and electricity, private drainage, oil and solid wood biomass fired central heating (biomass also heats Keepers Yard benefitting from non-domestic RHI payments). There are c.7 kw PV solar panels on the main house and 3kw on the Coach House benefitting form FITs as well as solar thermal to the main house for hot water.
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Location
St Briavels 3.5 miles
Lydney 4 miles
Chepstow 8 miles
Monmouth 11 miles
Bristol Parkway 21 miles (London Paddington from 75 minutes)
Bristol 25 miles
Cheltenham 31 miles
Bristol Airport 35 miles
Cardiff 40 miles
London 133 miles
- COUNCIL TAXA payment made to your local authority in order to pay for local services like schools, libraries, and refuse collection. The amount you pay depends on the value of the property.Read more about council Tax in our glossary page.
- Band: H
- PARKINGDetails of how and where vehicles can be parked, and any associated costs.Read more about parking in our glossary page.
- Garage,Driveway,Off street
- GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
- Private garden
- ACCESSIBILITYHow a property has been adapted to meet the needs of vulnerable or disabled individuals.Read more about accessibility in our glossary page.
- No wheelchair access
Aylburton,Lydney,GL15 6DX
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