£1,250,000 /Sale price

A beautiful detached period house very nicely situated in a quiet setting within a well-regarded and popular Cotswold village.The property has been beautifully reconfigured and extended to provide an impressive detached period home with many attractive features.The property is Grade II Listed, and amounts to circa 3,000 sq. ft of accommodation with an excellent layout and has been refurbished and converted to an excellent standard and is beautifully presented.Approached into an entrance hall, there is an adjacent cloakroom with stone basin and contemporary suite. The sitting room has an open fireplace and French doors to the garden. There is a large separate dining room with French doors to the front and an impressive fireplace. The open plan contemporary kitchen is a vast and beautifully designed room, measuring 64ft long by nearly 15ft wide, with granite work surfaces and zoned into three areas, being a kitchen, breakfast area and family room and two pairs of French doors onto the private and landscaped front garden.A rear lobby leads through to a ground floor en-suite double guest bedroom with a lovely en-suite contemporary shower room. There is also a pair of utility rooms that overall measure 20ft by 16ft.At first floor level the master bedroom has an oak floor and en-suite shower room. There is a further large dual aspect double bedroom, two additional bedrooms and an attractive contemporary shower room on this floor, and there is a large attic room conversion that provides a further characterful bedroom.The property is very attractively approached over an extensive gated driveway with turning area to the front. There are large beautifully landscaped gardens with a central entrance path and water feature pond. The rear garden is large, predominantly lawned with a patio terrace/ outdoor dining area and the plot is partially enclosed by impressive dry stone walling.Ashton Keynes is an unspoilt Cotswold village with good local facilities including a shop, post office, garage, primary school, public house and church, and the nearby town of Cirencester is a renowned Cotswold market town offering excellent local shops and services. The larger centres of Cheltenham, Swindon, Gloucester, Oxford and Bristol are also in daily commuting distance. Road connections are excellent with the village being two miles from the A417/A419 dual carriageway to the M4/M5. There are mainline rail services to London, Paddington from Swindon (8 miles) or Kemble (4.5 miles).Ashton Keynes is in the heart of the Cotswold Water Park and close to lakes where you can sail, jet-ski, windsurf, canoe and fish. The Cotswold Water Park is made up of over 130 lakes and has become increasingly popular due to the large range of leisure activities on offer. The area has also become a renowned conservation area and several of the lakes are now Sites of Scientific Interest and large numbers of waterfowl breed and winter here.