Sitting room, drawing room, kitchen/breakfast room, conservatory, 4 bedrooms, family bathroom and outbuildings. Landscaped mature gardens & paddocks extending to approximately 2 acres.
2 reception rooms, 4 bedrooms.
Kitchen/breakfast room.
Conservatory & outbuildings.
Landscaped mature gardens.
Paddocks, in all apprx 2 acres.
Freehold
SITUATION:
Apple Acre stands down a quiet country lane nestling into glorious rolling countryside with far reaching views. Rural but not isolated, the house is close to the popular residential village of Ashley which adjoins the larger village of Loggerheads, with good local amenities.The house is well placed for the market town of Market Drayton with its attendant amenities and the larger centres of Shrewsbury, Telford, Stafford, Newcastle and Stoke. The house is also within easy commuting distance of most Midland business centres and the M6 corridor. There is an excellent rail service from Stafford from where the direct service to London takes 1 hour 25 minutes. Regional airports include Manchester, East Midlands and Birmingham.
DESCRIPTION:
Rural Retreat
ACCOMMODATION:
Apple Acre is a charming extended cottage with glorious gardens, paddocks and superb far reaching views.The house has been a much loved family home and comes to the market for the first time in many years. Whilst in need of updating, it has comfortable accommodation with a good flow of rooms with good access to the beautiful south facing garden. It has a number of character features including exposed beams, leaded windows and open fireplaces.The front door opens to a reception hall from where a staircase leads to the first floor, and doors lead to the kitchen and both reception rooms. The kitchen has a garden door and connecting door to the spacious and well lit drawing room with parquet floor and open fireplace. Beyond is the dining room with a wide bay window with seating. Apple Acre has at present 4 bedrooms and a family bathroom with store area beyond. Views from the bedrooms are far reaching and to the east views are thought to range for about 30 miles.OutsideThe house is approached from Lower Road by a tarmac driveway which offers parking spaces for several cars and leads around the house to a detached double garage, to one side of which is a workshop.GardensThe gardens are an exceptional feature of the property having been established over the past 40 years of clever planting and nurturing. Designed to create all year round colour and interest, the garden includes banks of rhododendron, azalea and lilac. There are a number of mature trees including a well established Monkey Puzzle, Atlantic Blue Spruce, Maple and Cherry together with productive apple and other fruit trees. A feature pool is surrounded by stocked borders, flower beds and sweeping lawns. To one end there is a separate road access and a vegetable garden. There are 2 paddocks of permanent organic pasture suitable for grazing horses and livestock.
DIRECTIONS:
From Market Drayton take the A53 and on reaching the village of Loggerheads take the third exit towards Eccleshall. Continue for approximately one mile before taking the fifth turning to the right into Lower Road. Continue for approximately half a mile and the gateway to Apple Acre will be found on the right hand side.