Warwick Road, Gaydon, CV35

A house that is built to last

Some houses tell you how they were built. This one shows you, in every room.

Run a hand along the stone worktops. Walk barefoot on the wide oak boards, warm from the underfloor heating. Look at the brick, the slate, the anthracite frames. Quality everywhere you look, and none of it shouting.

Then picture the week. Mornings at the island with the bi-folds open and the birds louder than the radio. Working days in the study upstairs, the treetops filling the window and the M40 a mile away for the days you need to be somewhere else. Evenings that start in the kitchen, drift onto the terrace, and end in the sitting room with the door closed and the fire lit.

Weekends take care of themselves: the lawn, the dog, a walk up Burton Dassett, a long lunch that turns into supper.

Walk up the garden steps, turn round and look back at the house. That is when it all makes sense.

Along the drive, with open views

Five-bar gates open onto a private drive, shared with just one neighbour, and the road falls away behind you. The drive curves up between young trees to a house of dark, textured brick, grey slate and anthracite windows, with the redwoods that give the place its name rising above everything else.

The front door sits in a covered porch, so the shopping comes in dry. Inside, the hall is wide and light, with a cloakroom WC to one side and an oak-railed staircase ahead.

Step into the sitting room and the day slows down. Nearly six metres long, with a deep bay to the front and a wood-burning stove, it has its own door, and that is the point. Most houses this size give you one big open-plan room. This one gives you that, and a room where the noise stops: for a film, a book, or a fire and nothing else.

Rest, among the treetops

The principal bedroom sits at the front, 4.53m by 4.89m, with fitted wardrobes along one wall and room for a reading chair by the window. Its en suite is the kind you linger in: a full-size bath, a separate rainfall shower and a wall-hung WC, tiled floor to ceiling in warm taupe.

Two more doubles look straight out over the garden into the treetops, so you wake to branches and sky rather than rooftops.

The fourth bedroom makes a quiet study. Close the door, open the window, and the only distraction is birdsong. The family bathroom has a bath and a separate shower in the same calm tiling.

A garden to retreat, entertain and nourish

Step through the bi-folds onto a granite terrace edged with grasses, verbena and hostas: breakfast out here on a summer morning, supper as the light goes. Lit sleeper steps climb to a raised lawn for the children, the dog and long evenings, framed by a tall evergreen hedge, with a summer house tucked in the far corner and the big trees of the ridge beyond.

At the front: lawn, clipped box, a resin drive with room for two cars and the integral garage.

A garden to retreat, entertain and nourish

Step through the bi-folds onto a granite terrace edged with grasses, verbena and hostas: breakfast out here on a summer morning, supper as the light goes. Lit sleeper steps climb to a raised lawn for the children, the dog and long evenings, framed by a tall evergreen hedge, with a summer house tucked in the far corner and the big trees of the ridge beyond.

At the front: lawn, clipped box, a resin drive with room for two cars and the integral garage.

Sitting Room

4.65m x 5.92m

Kitchen

3.52m x 5.05m

Family Room

3.45m x 5.05m

Dining area

3.45m x 3.34m

Utility

2.78m x 2.28m

Principal Bedroom

4.53m x 4.89m

En suite

2.76m x 2.1m

Bedroom two

3.44m x 4.33m

Bedroom three

3.34m x 3.08m

Bedroom four

3.44m x 2.64m

Bathroom

2.2m x 2.57m

Garage

2.68m x 5.69m

Parking - Garage

Garage and driveway for 3 cars