THE RUSHESSPRIGGS ALLEY • OXFORDSHIRE

THE RUSHESSPRIGGS ALLEY • OXFORDSHIRE

Chinnor Village 2.5 miles • Thame 6.2 miles • Princes Risborough 6.5 miles (mainline train to London Marylebone from 41 minutes) • M40 (J5) 5 miles

High Wycombe 9.5 miles (mainline train to London Marylebone from 28 minutes) Oxford 21 miles • London(Baker Street) 41 miles

(All distances and times are approximate)

Beautifully located Chilterns country house set in lovely grounds with separate annexe, cottage and leisure facilities.

The HouseReception hall • Kitchen • Family room • Dining room • Drawing room • Study • Garden room • Cloakroom

Rear hall • Shower room • Second kitchen • Utility/boot room Principal bedroom with en suite bath/shower room (Jack and Jill to bedroom 6)

Two guest bedrooms with en suite bathrooms • 6 further bedrooms • Bedroom 6 with a separate dressing room 3 further bathrooms

The Annexe and OutbuildingsAnnexe comprising – Hall • Kitchen • Large reception room • Bathroom • 2 bedrooms

Garage with loft storage above • Open store Triple car port • Tack room • 2 stables • Detached oak framed double garage

The CottageKitchen • Living room • 2 bedrooms • Bathroom • Separate store room

The GroundsTwo electric, gated driveway entrances • Beautiful secluded mature gardens

Swimming pool • Tennis court • Manège • PaddocksApproximately 8 acres in all (approximately 3.25 hectares)

Savills Country Department 33 Margaret Street

London W1G 0JD

Hugh Maconochie 0207 0163 713

Hmaconochie@savills.com

Savills Beaconsfield 10-12 The Broadway

Wycombe End, Beaconsfield Old Town HP9 1ND

Chris Moorhouse01494731955

cmoorhouse@savills.com

SITUATIONIn an elevated position approached via winding country lanes yet within easy reach of the M40 with access to Oxford, High Wycombe and London. Rushes is situated in an idyllic setting in Spriggs Alley. The house is surrounded by pretty rolling countryside, a designated area of outstanding beauty.

LEISUREThe Chiltern Hills stretch from the River Thames in Oxfordshire to Hitchin in Hertfordshire and are nationally-protected as some of the finest countryside in the UK. Encompassing bluebell woods, rolling hills and ancient woodland, the area is well-known for wonderful walks, pretty villages and country public houses. There are also opportunities for fine dining at The Sir Charles Napier which is within walking distance from the house, being situated approximately 300 yards away, just on the outside of the hamlet, Le Manoir Aux Quat’Saisons in Great Milton (about 13 miles distant) and at Marlow, Old Amersham and Bray, the latter renowned for Blumenthal’s The Hinds Head and The Fat Duck and Roux’s The Waterside Inn restaurants.

Golf at: Princes Risborough, The Oxfordshire, Hazlemere, Aylesbury and Beaconsfield.

Tennis at: Chinnor, Thame and Princes Risborough.

Rugby: Chinnor and Thame.

Cricket: Aston Rowant and Bledlow.

Horse racing: Windsor and Ascot.

Rowing and boating: Marlow, Maidenhead and Henley.

SCHOOLS Oxfordshire is renowned for its choice and standard of schooling in the independent and state sector. The area is one of the few to maintain grammar schools and these include Wycombe High School (girls) and The Royal Grammar School (boys). Independent schools in the area include Wycombe Abbey, High March, Abingdon School, Moulsford, Davenies and Rupert House, Headington School, The Dragon, Radley, St Edwards and Ashfold School.

DESCRIPTION A highly attractive Chilterns country house of brick and flint and rendered elevations with a superb range of outbuildings, leisure facilities and guest accommodation all set in stunning secluded grounds.

The property is approached via a choice of long gravel driveways. The main driveway leads past the sunken hard tennis court, manège, a paddock, and park like grounds with mature trees including a Redwood, grand old Oak, Willow and Yew and arrives at the front of the house at a gravel courtyard with an attractive range of outbuildings.

The house is presented in fine order and offers an abundance of character and space with scope to adapt to an individual’s requirements.

Of particular note:

• Elegant drawing room with good ceiling heights with stone open fireplace and French doors to the side terrace.

• Part open plan kitchen, family room and dining room centred around the Aga and open fireplace with a

beautifully fitted kitchen with a host of integrated appliances and granite work surfaces. This creates a wonderful family space in the heart of the house.

• Peaceful study with views over the frontage with an array of book shelving and open fireplace with carved wood surround and logburner.

• Impressive garden room flooded with natural light from a central roof lantern and views and doors to the well maintained gardens.

• Large secondary fully fitted kitchen with granite work surfaces and room for a breakfast table.

• Large utility/boot room with cloakroom and ground floor shower room perfect for post muddy walks etc.

• Two staircases to the first floor with interconnecting bedroom to both landing areas, offering flexibility to use as two separate sleeping areas or one.

• Principal bedroom with fitted wardrobes and en suite bath/shower room currently shared with a secondary bedroom.

• Guest bedroom with claw foot bath and night cloakroom.

• Further guest suite with en suite bathroom.

• All the bedrooms have lovely views over the gardens and grounds and the majority have fitted wardrobes with one bedroom having a walk in dressing room.

• 9 beds, 6 baths.

OUTSIDE Two sweeping driveways approach the house onto the central courtyard which provides a large parking and turning area. Here there is a recently constructed oak framed double garage, two stables and a tack room with a yard, small paddock and manège to the rear. An open car port provides parking for 3 cars and there is a further single garage/machinery store. Adjacent to this is a large brick and flint annexe building comfortably equipped with a large reception room with wood floor and stone fireplace with log burner, a modern kitchen area and on the first floor, a large studio/double bedroom, a single bedroom and a bathroom.

The mature gardens which surround the house and outbuildings are a particularly fine feature and have been beautifully landscaped over many years to provide year-round interest and a setting to admire. Front and rear paved terraces are ideal for al fresco dining and relaxation and the appealing garden design includes the well-maintained lawns, with colourful and well-stocked borders with mature shrubs

and wild flowers. In addition there are mature trees, clipped hedgerows, shaped hornbeam hedge and ornamental features. The outdoor swimming pool lies behind the main house and annexe and is of an excellent size with a paved terrace, lawn area and shrub borders. To one side of the house is an attractive pond with mature trees and plants including Eucalyptus, Willows and a large expanse of lawn, this is a peaceful spot to sit and enjoy the gardens and two fenced paddocks bordered by woodland beyond. Within the grounds is a timber outbuilding which has been converted to a cottage with kitchen, living room, two bedrooms and a bathroom. Behind this is an external store. The all-weather tennis court is discreetly sunken to one side of the grounds.

The grounds approach 8 acres in all and help to create a perfect lifestyle and leisure residence ideal for enjoying as a family and entertaining friends in a superb semi-rural secluded setting.

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Bedroom 44.85 x 3.6815'11 x 12'1

Bedroom 54.90 x 3.9716'1 x 13'0

Main Bedroom4.92 x 3.9816'2 x 13'1

Bedroom 64.68 x 3.7615'4 x 12'4

Dressing Room

Bedroom 35.02 x 3.4716'6 x 11'5

Bedroom 83.71 x 2.8512'2 x 9'4

Bedroom 73.65 x 3.1912'0 x 10'6

Bedroom 25.38 x 4.2017'8 x 13'9

Bedroom 93.00 x 2.209'10 x 7'3

Drawing Room8.17 x 4.8826'10 x 16'0

Utility / Boot Room4.85 x 3.6715'11 x 12'0

Cloakroom

Reception Hall

Dining Room7.53 x 3.4424'8 x 11'3

Kitchen 6.19 x 3.7020'4 x 12'1

Second HallStudy

4.26 x 4.2114'0 x 13'10

Kitchen 27.63 x 3.6325'0 x 11'11

Garden Room6.81 x 4.5622'4 x 15'0

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Family Room 6.19 x 3.7020'4 x 12'1

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Approximate Floor Area = 495.7 sq m / 5336 sq ftCottage = 64.1 sq m / 690 sq ft (Including Store)Annexe = 135.8 sq m / 1462 sq ft (Including Attached Garage / Excluding Carport / Excluding Reduced height area)Stable / Tack Room = 47.0 sq m / 506 sq ftGarage = 48.9 sq m / 526 sq ftTotal = 833.8 sq m / 8975 sq ftFor identification only. Not to scale.© Fourwalls

Studio / Bedroom6.34 x 5.9320'10 x 19'5

Bedroom 23.01 x 1.939'11 x 6'4

Loft Storage5.90 x 2.9719'4 x 9'9

Kitchen /Reception Room

9.56 x 5.8731'4 x 19'3

Hall

Garage5.94 x 2.9619'6 x 9'9

Carport9.00 x 3.2029'6 x 10'6

Tack Room

Stable5.30 x 3.6017'5 x 11'10

Stable5.04 x 3.6016'6 x 11'10

Garage7.25 x 6.7523'9 x 22'2

Separate Store Room5.58 x 2.7518'4 x 9'0

Bedroom 23.00 x 2.659'10 x 8'8

Bedroom 12.95 x 2.56

9'8 x 8'5

Kitchen

Living Room5.40 x 2.8317'9 x 9'3

Open Store7.00 x 5.5023'0 x 18'1

Pool Plant Room4.75 x 2.3315'7 x 7'8

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Approximate Floor Area = 495.7 sq m / 5336 sq ftCottage = 64.1 sq m / 690 sq ft (Including Store)The Barn = 135.8 sq m / 1462 sq ft (Including Attached Garage / Excluding Carport / Excluding Reduced height area)Stable / Tack Room = 47.0 sq m / 506 sq ftGarage = 48.9 sq m / 526 sq ftTotal = 833.8 sq m / 8975 sq ftFor identification only. Not to scale.© Fourwalls

Important Notice:Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their

client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations

of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary

planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. 20.09.21.FDH. Capture Property. 01225 667287.

Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)

GENERAL REMARKS AND STIPULATIONS

DIRECTIONS (OX39 4BT)From London exit the M40 at junction 6 and turn right along the B4009 towards Chinnor. Follow this road for about 3.5 miles and on entering the village of Chinnor, turn right at the roundabout follow the road straight across a second roundabout and up Hill Road and then Chinnor Hill Road keeping right towards Spriggs Alley, Crowell Hill and Radnage. After 1.4 miles you will reach Crowell Hill where the road bears sharply left, continue for 0.2 miles to the first entrance of The Rushes which is on the left. There is a second entrance a further 0.3 miles on.

TENUREFreehold.

SERVICESMains water, electricity, oil and private drainage.

FIXTURES AND FITTINGSThose items mentioned in these sale particulars are included in the freehold sale. All other fixtures, fittings and furnishings are expressly excluded. Certain such items may be available by separate negotiation. Further information should be obtained from the selling agents.

VIEWINGBy appointment with Savills. Prior to making an appointment to view, Savills strongly recommends that you discuss any particular points which are likely to affect your interest in the property with a member of Savills’ staff who has seen the property in order that you do not make a wasted journey.

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