Back Lane, Leighterton

 Thistledown is a beautiful Cotswold stone detached house situated in the peaceful rural village of Leighterton set within a fantastic plot approaching half an acre with beautiful gardens, an attached self-contained annexe and further useful outbuildings. The property is truly remarkable and a testament of the current owner’s thoughtfulness and devotion who purchased the property as a modest small barn and subsequently built the attached house in the early 1990s using locally sourced reclaimed materials to meticulously replicate the build of a traditional period house with a very impressive attention to detail. The finished result is a exceptional house which one would assume has stood for centuries.

The main house offers around 2,000 sq.ft. of accommodation and comprises a spacious entrance hall, two reception rooms, a characterful kitchen/breakfast room, and four bedrooms upstairs with two bathrooms. The attached annexe, which was the original barn, offers a further 680 sq.ft of accommodation and is fully self-contained with a kitchen/breakfast room, magnificent reception room with mezzanine above, bedroom and a shower room. The garden also has a private garden to the side.

Thistledown is positioned behind a five-bar gate which opens to a large gravelled parking area leading to the double garage. The garage has an adjoining workshop plus a greenhouse, potting shed and WC at the rear beside the vegetable garden. Over the garage there is further ancillary accommodation comprising a studio open plan kitchen/living/bedroom and shower room. The gardens have been utilised to their full potential incorporating a vibrantly stocked garden of perennials in front of the house, and in addition to the vegetable garden there is a lawned area beside an orchard, fruit cages, pond and a cut flower bed.