The Croft is within the hamlet of Padworth Widespread on the Hampshire/Berkshire borders. Facilities can be found domestically within the close by village of Mortimer (two miles), which has a Put up Workplace, village shops, pubs and a main college. There may be additionally a mainline practice station serving London Paddington in below an hour.
Studying station (9 miles) provides quick commuter providers to London Paddington in round 27 minutes, plus a complete vary of outlets and providers. There are additionally trains and purchasing amenities in Newbury (13 miles).
The M4 and M3 may be simply accessed for journey in direction of London and its airports or the West Nation. Mainline trains run from Newbury or Studying into London Paddington, whereas there’s a common service from Basingstoke to Waterloo.
Native equestrian centres embrace Wellington Driving (eight miles), Boomerang Stables (23 miles), Cherwell Competitors Centre (37 miles), and Berkshire Faculty of Agriculture (24 miles).
If looking is extra your factor, you may head out with both the Kimblewick or the Vine & Craven.
Want a vet? The specialists at Donnington Grove Veterinary Group are available that will help you simply three miles away.
The Croft is in the marketplace with Strutt & Parker with a information worth of £5.75m. Let’s have a look round…
Tucked away and accessed from a cut up separate drive, the equestrian amenities have been run as a profitable household enterprise for the previous 30 years.
The 72x30m indoor area is in immaculate situation and features a double viewing space in addition to two places of work, rest room amenities, kitchen and a utility room. The indoor area may be accessed from two factors and has full lighting, a sprinkler system and PA system.
The courtyard stables homes 22 bins with wash rooms, tack room and feed rooms, plus a surfaced area used for lungeing within the centre.
There may be additionally a 55x35m outside college with lighting and PA system. There are two storage barns to accommodate equipment, and an additional storage shed to accommodate jumps.
Between the indoor college and the stables is a big parking space that may match greater than 20 horseboxes comfortably and retains the equestrian space separate from the primary home. This space has full HGV entry.
The land consists of 25 acres of paddocks alongside the drive main as much as the home and equestrian amenities, which sit to the north of property. The paddocks have submit and rail fencing and are almost all fed by troughs. There may be additionally 16 acres of woodland to the north of the home. This property has 42 acres of land in complete.
The Croft is an unlisted household house with well-proportioned, light-filled rooms. The property is approached alongside an extended tree-lined drive, which splits to offer separate entry to the primary home from the equestrian amenities. All land on either side of the drive are included within the possession giving full privateness to the property.
The doorway to The Croft Home is through a reception corridor, which offers entry to all the floor flooring in addition to the steps to the primary flooring.
There’s a sitting room with views of the backyard and grounds. The bottom flooring additionally has an additional sitting room, kitchen/diner, pantry and a reception room with a bar. There may be additionally a utility room that gives entry onto the paved enclosed again backyard.
The principal bed room is within the south jap nook of the home.
There are six additional good-sized bedrooms and 4 loos.
This property additionally consists of one single and two double garages, one in all which has a studio flat above, plus a log cabin workplace with fitness center flooring.
The Croft Cottage is a just lately prolonged and modernised four-bedroom home, which works as ancillary lodging for both additional lodging for the primary home or nanny/employees lodging.
Credit score: Future
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