Location

The village of Ashton lies within beautiful countryside in an elevated position to the east of the River Nene, two miles from the historic market town of Oundle.


Ashton has a fascinating history. It was rebuilt in 1900 by the Rothschild family as a Model Village and the cottages are all generally of Tudor style, thatched and listed. This property is one of very few family houses. The village is arranged around a large Green, with The Chequered Skipper Public House Restaurant at its core.   There are plenty of beautiful, peaceful walks around the area.


The A1 is eight miles east, at Stilton, and the cathedral city of Peterborough, 15 miles east, with its East Coast Mainline rail services to London Kings Cross (from 46 minutes).


Oundle is a charming Georgian market town, which offers a full suite of services, a fabulous selection of shops, restaurants and supermarkets, along with state and private schooling for all ages, including the independent Laxton Junior and Oundle Schools. The neighbouring village of Polebrook, 1.5 miles, also has a primary school and The Kings Arms Public House.

Description

This fabulously appointed four bedroom stone barn conversion provides impressively proportioned accommodation over three floors, with character and style, coupled with fine views over its garden and 0.95 acre paddock.


Honeysuckle Barn forms part of a first class residential farmyard conversion that was carried out and completed in 2016. This private and gated development is positioned on the edge of the Conservation village of Ashton, amidst rolling Northamptonshire countryside, just 2 miles from the Georgian market town of Oundle.


The house blends the traditional barn conversion materials and features that you might hope to see, partially exposed stone and brickwork walls and a fabulous granary window that spans two floors of the house, with modern, aesthetically pleasing contemporary fittings. These combine to create a fabulous, spacious and stylish home, with wonderful far reaching views over its garden and paddock.


Ground floor accommodation:
Approached through an attractive front garden, the front door opens, within one of two double height granary walls of glass that flood the interior with natural light, into a sensational open plan, travertine floored reception dining kitchen, which forms the core of the ground floor of the house.


The kitchen is fitted with an extensive array of wall and base units, beneath Silestone worktops, which incorporate integrated dishwasher, microwave oven, fridge/freezer and wine fridge appliances, with a electric Rangemaster double oven range. A central incorporates a breakfast bar for informal dining, and provides additional storage, with rising plug socks, whilst the central dining area, which has views through both floor to ceiling granary windows of the garden and rear terrace, is perfect for family life and entertaining.


A set of glazed double doors open from the dining kitchen into a fabulously proportioned sitting room, which combines exposed brick and stonework walls with a contemporary wood burning stove and views of the garden through a window with working shutters. It is at the same time both an impressive reception room and, after the southern light of the bright kitchen, a cosy and more intimate space.


The ground floor is completed with a downstairs W.C and a utility room, with plumbing for white goods and additional storage.


First floor:
An oak and glass staircase ascends from the dining kitchen to a sensational first floor living room landing, beautifully lit by the upper arch of the granary window, from which there are lovely views over the garden and paddock to woodland. This is a convivial and versatile contemporary space, which access the two first floor bedroom suites, with a staircase that continues to rise to the second floor.


The principal bedroom suite combines a spacious double bedroom, flooded with natural light from two large windows offering the paddock views; a fabulously appointed full-suite en suite bathroom, with separate shower and double sinks and, a fitted dressing room.


The other side of the living room landing, double bedroom two also has an en suite shower room, with the same attractive rural views.

Second Floor:
The staircase continues to ascend to the second floor, where a fabulous galleried landing links to two further double bedrooms and the family bathrooms.


Double bedroom three is particularly spacious, with a high vaulted ceiling and dual aspect light from two Velux windows. At the other end of the landing, double bedroom four is currently a hobby room/office, but also has the high vaulted ceiling, with Velux rooflights, whilst a large walk-in wardrobe adjoins the family bathroom and offers potential for an ensuite.   The two bedrooms lie either side of a central full-suite family bathroom, with a free standing bath and large walk-in shower.


Outside:
The Chapel Farm Barn properties are all approached via a remote controlled gate, with intercom to each property, and past parking and the open fronted cart house garages, of which this property owns a double fitted with an EV charger. The drive continues around to Honeysuckle Barn itself, where five-bar gates allow further parking within the garden or the paddock entrance.


The house is approached through the front garden, which has been landscape designed to create a private space, combining a formal lawn with flowering borders and a wide stone flagged terrace, with a water feature that provides a background sound of moving water. The terrace provides the perfect area for entertaining, formal and informal dining, overlooking the paddock.


Honeysuckle Barn’s paddock is directly across the drive from the garden, within which there is additional parking, a kitchen garden and a detached timber barn; an ideal workshop or party barn. The paddock measures 0.95 acres, or thereabouts, and is currently managed as a wildflower meadow, with meandering pathways leading around and through the field, complete with a central pond, to a wonderful seating area at the northern boundary. The field has been planted with an abundance of fruit trees including, Crab Apple, Wild Cherry, Victoria Plum, Pear and mix of Himalayan and weeping birch and Acers, to provide all year colour, tone and interest. It is a marvellous wildlife haven and a fabulous asset for families, and for those who hanker for a pony or a small holding.