8 bed detached house

The property, Ratley House, is a substantial stone-built detached village house covering approximately 6,750 square feet. The main house features a reception hall with an oak floor, a drawing room with built-in bookshelves and a wood burner, a kitchen with a range of fitted and free-standing fittings and appliances, including an electric 4-oven aga, and a vaulted utility/ boot room. Cellars include a wine cellar and the principal bedroom has a dressing room and an en suite shower room. The first floor has four substantial bedrooms, two with blanked-off Thomas Jeckyll Aesthetic Movement fireplaces, and a family bathroom with shower and roll-top bath. A large games room/ playroom is located on the second floor, along with two further bedrooms, a shower room, and attic storage. The annexe, converted from outbuildings in the 1990s, has separate heating and shares access and parking with the main house. The accommodation is versatile, with a ground-floor shower room, a drawing room with windows to three sides, an open-plan kitchen/breakfast room with timber tops, and two first-floor double bedrooms and a shower room. The property is surrounded by a large garden, including lawns, terracing, stone retaining walls, yew hedging, and several mature trees, as well as two greenhouses, a shed, a pergola, and a ktchen garden with views to the church. A westerly-facing patio with a canopy is located off the kitchen and has oak plank decking and blue stone sets. Two stone-built outbuildings adjacent to the rear of the house were former stables and are now used as a small garage and workshop.