Location

The estate lies about 5.5 miles from Stow-on-the-Wold and 5.2 miles from Moreton-in-Marsh, both of which provide excellent day-to-day amenities, country pubs, restaurants and shops. Cheltenham is about 16.6 miles away and offers a broader cultural and commercial centre. Cirencester lies approximately 22.9 miles away and Chipping Norton about 13.5 miles away. London is about 95 miles distant.

There is good access to schooling in the area, including Cheltenham College, Cheltenham Ladies' College, St Edward's Oxford, Tudor Hall, Bloxham, Kitebrook, Hatherop and The Dragon. The Cotswold School at Bourton-on-the-Water was rated Outstanding by Ofsted in March 2025.

For transport, Moreton-in-Marsh station is about 5 miles away and provides regular rail services to London Paddington in around 1 hour 30 minutes. Birmingham Airport, approximately 46 miles north, offers domestic and international flights.

Description

Summary

The Hinchwick Manor Estate is a distinguished residential and agricultural estate in the heart of the North Cotswolds, centred around the striking Grade II listed Hinchwick Manor. Constructed in classic Cotswold stone and set within an exceptional private setting, the estate combines a substantial country house, an extraordinary octagonal courtyard, secondary accommodation, productive farmland and significant sporting potential.

At the centre of the estate, Hinchwick Manor is a commanding period house arranged over three floors plus cellar. Built in 1826 for Sir Charles Cockerell of Sezincote and designed by C.R. Cockerell, it was subsequently enlarged in 1937. The house presents as grand externally, while internally offering a well-balanced arrangement of formal entertaining rooms and more intimate family spaces. The principal reception rooms include a central flagstoned hall, drawing room and dining room, with additional family and service rooms extending through the later wing. Planning and listed building consent was granted in 2008 for the reconfiguration of the family rooms to create a larger kitchen and breakfast room.

The bedroom accommodation is arranged over two upper floors. The first floor includes a principal suite with bedroom, dressing room and en suite bathroom, together with two further en suite bedrooms and a family sitting room. The second floor provides a range of less formal eaves rooms extending to seven bedrooms and two bathrooms.

A particular feature of Hinchwick is the octagon of buildings located to the east of the main house. The central arch and dovecote, which provide the main entrance and approach to the house, are flanked by a symmetrical range of elongated Cotswold stone buildings. These incorporate the converted Scarlet Sub Edge to the south and a threshing barn to the north which has been sensitively renovated to provide a full height entertaining space. The remainder of the buildings provide single storey workshop and storage space and would potentially suit sensitive conversion to provide significant ancillary accommodation, subject to the usual planning process and historic consultation. An Outline Design Proposal has been curated regarding the incorporation of the octagonal courtyard into Hinchwick Manor, which works both from a user and historical perspective. This proposal is available upon request.

Scarlet Sub Edge is a beautifully converted barn, attached to the southern wing of Hinchwick Manor. Finished to an exceptional modern standard, the ground floor features an entrance hall, spacious open-plan kitchen and dining room, en-suite bedroom, plus laundry room and WC. The first and second floors offer four bedrooms (two with en-suites) and a family bathroom. Although the property currently provides immaculate guest or staff accommodation, it also offers significant potential to be incorporated into Hinchwick Manor as a fabulous dining or party barn, enhancing the main house with an additional impressive entertaining space. Outside, Scarlet Sub Edge benefits from a generously proportioned and well-maintained garden to the front, along with a gravel parking area.

The formal gardens and grounds are an integral part of Hinchwick Manor's appeal. To the west and rear of the house, a flagstoned terrace leads out from the breakfast room to stepped lawned gardens, while to the east, within the courtyard walls, lies a delightful enclosed garden with lawns, gravel paths and terraced beds divided by mature hedging. The surrounding land gives control over the immediate setting, views and boundaries of the manor, with flexibility for parkland, equestrian or landscaped use while retaining agricultural value.

Beyond the core house, the estate includes a portfolio of four character cottages, offering additional staff or guest accommodation and diversified income potential. The wider estate also includes Alders Yard, a substantial and well-equipped farmstead centrally positioned within the holding. This includes grain drying and storage facilities for approximately 3,000 tonnes, four 50-tonne wet bins, a grain dryer, modern livestock barns, a Dutch barn for straw storage and silage clamps, together with a detached bungalow.

The estate land is both attractive and productive, comprising a cohesive block of North Cotswolds farmland with approximately 611 acres of arable land, 72 acres of pasture and grazing, and about 136 acres of woodland. The landscape's rolling topography, natural valleys and established woodland structure also provide outstanding scope to re-establish a notable private shoot, with potential for driven pheasant and partridge days, rough shooting and deer stalking.