Preston on Stour, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire CV37

Preston Pastures is an impressive family home, approached via a striking lime-tree-lined driveway and offering substantial, well-balanced accommodation, arranged around a wealth of original character and architectural interest. The house combines elegant reception spaces with comfortable family living, making it well-suited to a wide range of purchasers.

Throughout the property, period features include flagstone floors, exposed timbers, large double-glazed windows and attractive fireplaces, including inglenooks with wood-burning stoves, creating a warm and welcoming atmosphere. At the heart of the house is a fitted kitchen with an AGA and companion cooker, opening into a breakfast room and a west facing conservatory that enjoys views across and access to the garden. The generous reception rooms provide excellent space for both entertaining and everyday family life.

The first floor offers five large bedrooms, all enjoying lovely views over the surrounding countryside, together with two bathrooms.

Complementing the main house is an attached party barn, providing an exceptional vaulted entertaining space with exposed roof trusses, tall driftway windows and doors opening onto the garden. This versatile area also incorporates cloakrooms, a utility room and a gallery study/mezzanine, creating a unique and highly adaptable extension of the living accommodation.

Electric wrought iron gates open to a long lime-tree-lined tarmac drive, to ample parking space beside the house. The gardens are lovely, with lawns, mature trees, rose, lavender and herbaceous beds and borders, flagstone paths and patio and a broad, paved west-facing patio. There are larger areas of mown grass around the garden and along the side of the drive. Vegetable garden, greenhouse and a wildflower orchard with a mown path providing a haven for birds and wildlife.

The large concrete hard-standing parking area gives access to a traditional range of buildings providing garaging and carports and first-floor stores, and incorporates the Herdsman’s Cottage, a three bedroom cottage, with its own private outdoor space and seating area, with an entrance hall. Sitting room, dining room opening to the kitchen, cloakroom and first floor bathroom with a bath and a separate shower.

There is a five-bay concrete frame farm building, enclosed on two sides, for machinery or hay storage, and would also be ideal for incorporating indoor stabling for horses.

The house and buildings are surrounded by their own grassland with hedges and mature shelterbelts, a pond and with views over open countryside beyond. There are no rights of way over the land. In all about 32.32 acres.

Lot 2 - available by separate negation
The detached Lodge is situated by the entrance gates to Preston Pastures and extends to about 1,440 square feet of accommodation and is a well appointed brick-built house with three first-floor bedrooms, a family bathroom and an en suite shower room to the principal bedroom. On the ground floor are an entrance hall, an inner hall with a dual-aspect
sitting room, a large kitchen/dining room with cupboards and a pantry, a cloakroom and a utility room. Accessed through the main gates to Preston Pastures, with private parking and an attractive, mature garden, The Lodge also includes part of the orchard wrapping around the property, with a separate entrance gate off the drive. In about 0.59 acres.

Preston Pastures enjoys a beautiful setting surrounded by open countryside on the edge of the highly sought-after Warwickshire village of Preston-on-Stour. Renowned for its unspoilt rural charm, strong sense of community and picturesque location near the River Stour, the village offers a quintessential English country lifestyle.

Many of the village properties form part of the Alscot Estate, contributing to its well-maintained character and attractive surroundings. Community amenities include St Mary's Church, a village hall and a village shop, while an extensive network of footpaths and bridleways across the Alscot Estate provides excellent opportunities for walking, riding and enjoying the countryside. An estate-owned pub and farm shop can be found nearby in Alderminster.

Despite its peaceful rural setting, Preston-on-Stour is conveniently located just 5 miles from Stratford-upon-Avon, which offers an excellent range of shopping, leisure and educational facilities, including a Waitrose supermarket. Rail services to London and the North are available from both Warwick Parkway and Moreton-in-Marsh stations, making the area well-connected while retaining its tranquil village appeal.

There is an excellent selection of state, grammar and private schools, including boys and girls grammar schools and The Croft Prep School in Stratford-upon-Avon. In Warwick are Warwick,Prep and Public school and King's High School for Girls, as well as Bloxham and Sibford schools near Banbury and Kitebrook near Moreton-in-Marsh.

Racing is at Warwick, Stratford-upon-Avon and Cheltenham with polo at Cirencester. Golf courses are at Brailes, Tadmarton, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Welcombe Hotel.

Stratford-upon-Avon 5 miles, Moreton-in-Marsh 14 miles, Chipping Campden 7 miles, Shipston-on-Stour 8.5 miles, Warwick & Warwick Parkway station 14 miles, M40(J12) 11.5 miles, Banbury 24 miles, Leamington Spa 20 miles. Birmingham International Airport 32 miles. (distances approximate).