Arrow Lawn House, Eardisland

Agent: Knight Frank

Offers: £1,175,000

Call: 01432 273087

THIS handsome house with its Georgian façade overlooks the River Arrow. Wrought iron double gates open into a large parking area. A glazed porch and front door lead into the front hall with its main staircase, either side of which is a drawing and dining room each with open fireplace and sash windows. The library has a door to the garden. Off the passageway are a back staircase, cloakroom and boiler room. The scullery/utility has a tiled floor and fitted units, as does the kitchen with its four-oven Aga.

On the first floor off the top landing are three bedrooms, one with en-suite shower room. To the rear of the house upstairs are two further bedrooms and two further bath/shower rooms as well as the back landing and stairs.

A rear garden porch gives access via a back hall to 16th century timber buildings incorporated into the house and forming a self-contained sitting room and bedroom with open fire and en-suite shower room beyond which is a garden room with French doors opening out onto the rich flower beds and topiary garden.

At the front of the house, lawn runs along the riverbank with riparian rights. The arts and crafts gardens at the rear are spectacular, with rich perennial beds and topiary yews. The pretty 18th century thatched barn, housing an entire working cider mill and press, is surrounded by lawns. Beyond this is a traditional orchard.

The property also includes a separate cottage, comprising a hall, sitting room, kitchen, two bedrooms, shower room, adjoining great hall with listed planning consent to create an additional bedroom and bathroom. There is also a separate large threshing barn, a pretty garden and store rooms.