Location

The conservation village of Castle Bytham is surrounded by attractive rolling farmland in south Lincolnshire and has amenities that include two Public Houses; the Norman parish church, St. James’, together with the Bythams Community Shop and Glenside Country Practice Doctor’s Surgery.


The village is conveniently located for the area’s sought after market towns. Stamford, with its favoured schools is eight miles south. Bourne, with its Grammar School, nine miles east and Oakham, with its famous school and Rutland Water, 11 miles south-west.


The A1 lies four miles to the west, offering good access north to Grantham (15 miles) and Peterborough (25 miles), both with East Coast Mainline rail services to London Kings Cross.

Description

The Manor House is a charming Grade II Listed detached residence. It is positioned within a generous plot of approximately 1.2 acres, and offers in excess of 4,000sqft of accommodation. With a versatile configuration that offers up to seven bedrooms, which includes those within a ground-floor wing, the property is thought to have potential for a self-contained annex. It is offered to the market with no onward chain.


The listing suggests that the property dates back to the 1600’s, with extensions in the 1880s, and interestingly has now been in the same family's ownership for 70 years and two generations. It offers a wealth of period character and charm throughout, including carved stone mullion windows and ornate original fireplaces, sold wood floors and high exposed beamed ceilings, coupled with a versatile layout for families that need to combine home and work, or generations.


The well-presented accommodation comprises a spacious entrance hallway with cloakroom, a cosy snug, a farmhouse style kitchen with adjoining scullery and utility room, an elegant dining room, a drawing room and a library. At first floor level, the wide solid wood floored landing corridor leads to five generous double bedrooms, three with en suite facilities, and a main family bathroom.


From the ground floor, a connecting hallway leads through to the property's former stables, which have been converted to offer a second entrance hall, with two further ground-floor double bedrooms and a bathroom, with a first floor games room and home office. This wing is thought to have potential (subject to any consents required) for the creation of a self-contained annex, if desired.


Outside: The property is set back from the the village's road within partially walled private gardens of approximately 1.2 acres. Approached through double gates to an extensive gravelled drive and parking, the delightful and well-maintained gardens lie principally to the south of the house. They offer sweeping lawns, with deep flowering, rose and heather borders, with mature trees, beneath which there is a sea of bulbs in spring, and hedging afford fabulous privacy.