3 bedroom cottage for sale in The Green, Ashton, PE8

Simpson & Partners, Thrapston

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£500,000

3 bedroom cottage for sale in The Green, Ashton, PE8

Price:

£500,000

Summary:

Used Green

Location:

Ashton

Description:

A beautifully and sympathetically modernised, stone & thatch cottage offering two bedrooms plus a third in the shepherd’s hut, set in a delightful walled garden of about 0.23 acre, overlooking the Green, in the heart of this Conservation village, part of the Ashton Estate. Honeybee Cottage has, in recent years, been subject to a significant refurbishment and remodelling, resulting in a spacious, high quality, two bedroomed home, set, arguably, on one of the best plots in the village. Constructed in the early 1900s, and Listed Grade II, the cottage is built of pitch-faced stone, beneath a recently re-ridged and restored, thatched roof. The original character has been successfully combined with contemporary styling, resulting in a beautiful and practical cottage. In addition, there is a newly built, high quality shepherd’s hut in the garden, providing superb guest accommodation, with bed-sitting room and en suite shower/WC. The owners have been diligent in their upkeep, and Honeybee Cottage is now ready for new custodians to enjoy a high-quality home, with versatile living space, within a large and beautiful, walled garden of approximately 0.23 acres. The Ashton Estate is one of the few remaining “Model Farms” that exists in a form that might be recognisable to its Victorian/Edwardian creators: much of the fabric is intact. The model settlement is of interest to the economic historian as well as to admirers of period buildings and of traditional English countryside. In 1900 Lord Rothschild commissioned William Huckvale to design not only a house, but a model farm, an entire complement of estate buildings which included the Steward's house, stables, gardeners' accommodation, a building to house a fire engine, a petrol store, kennels and a dog hospital. Most of the cottages at nearby Ashton were rebuilt to create a model village. High quality design and workmanship were consistent themes throughout the estate, employing traditional vernacular. Still available at ListedBuy!

Posted:

June 5 2023 on Simpson & Partners, Thrapston (via ListedBuy)