5 bedroom house for sale

Overview

Nearly all rooms are of goodproportion and are naturally light as well as having viewsover gardens and surrounding countryside

Longmead is an impressive Edwardian country home onthe edge of an unspoilt, stunning valley with idyllic countryviews. The house is believed to date to the early 1900sand is not listed.The accommodation is well thought out and is centredaround a spacious hall on the ground floor and a largelanding on the first floor. Nearly all rooms are of goodproportion and are naturally light as well as having viewsover gardens and surrounding countryside.The open plan kitchen breakfast room links the formalreception rooms, that include an impressive dining anddrawing room with large bay windows as well as studyand garden room. the sitting room was originally a billiardsroom and would make a great games or playroom. To theside of the kitchen is a large utility room and workshop/boiler room with direct access to the outside as well as anattached greenhouse.On the first floor is a large principal bedroom in the middleof the house, with en suite bathroom, dressing room andstorage/ box room. Across the large landing are four furtherbedrooms, a family bathroom, WC and second en suiteshower room.Longmead offers an extensive country home of about5,426 sq ft which is ideal for a family living and entertaining.Longmead is situated midway between thedelightful village of Uley and the small market townof Dursley in a beautiful semi-wooded valley on thelower reaches of the Cotswold Hills escarpment inan area designated as being of Outstanding NaturalBeauty. Uley has a parish church, village shop,primary school, a traditional pub, brewery, doctor'ssurgery and art centre.The nearby towns of Wotton-under-Edge, Tetburyand Dursley have a range of excellent shops andservices for everyday needs, including supermarketsand sports centres and in the locality, there areseveral renowned pubs and restaurants, includingCalcot Manor and its first class spa.Education in the area is exceptional, includingBeaudesert Park, Cheltenham College, CheltenhamLadies College, Wycliffe College, Westonbirt School,Katharine Lady Berkeley and many other schoolsthroughout the region.Sporting opportunities include golf at CotswoldEdge Golf Course, Minchinhampton, StinchcombeHill golf course and Westonbirt, racing atCheltenham and Bath, motor racing at Castlecombeand premier rugby at Gloucester and Bath. Theatresin Bath, Bristol and Cheltenham.There is also a network of footpaths and bridlewaysproviding excellent walking and riding in the area,hunting with the Berkley Hounds, while The Dukeof Beaufort's are nearby; polo at The Beaufortat Westonbirt and Cirencester Park; as well aseventing at Badminton, Oxstalls and Dauntsey withmany other equestrian events nearby. For more details and to contact: https://realtyww.info/houses_dursley-d196734/for-sale_i71406064