Home with views of minster’s pepperpots

£1,100,000 - Sherwood House at 10 Westgate

A fine Grade II listed Georgian property with Victorian additions, in the heart of Southwell, has come on the market, priced £1.1m, through Alasdair Morrison and Partners, of Newark.

Sherwood House at 10 Westgate has undergone a sympathetic restoration to the highest standard.

It now presents a stylish family home of remarkable calibre, retaining and enhancing a wealth of period features. Southwell Minster’s pepperpots can be seen from this town centre setting.

The impressive period property, beautifully presented throughout, is an individual family home, enhancing elegant period characteristics and combining them with attractive contemporary features.

Arranged over three floors, the substantial accommodation provides flexible living areas with open-plan spaces and well-proportioned formal Georgian rooms.

Completed to an exceptional standard, many high quality and natural materials have been employed including a Barratt and Swann bespoke kitchen, oak and limestone floors and walnut wardrobes.

The property, within the Minster School catchment area, stands in immaculately maintained gardens and grounds providing ideal space to enjoy outdoor entertaining.

The majority of rooms have heated floors — either oak or limestone — and are wired for surround sound. An entrance porch, with quarry tiled floor, leads to an entrance hall and stairs.

The drawing room has a bay window overlooking the front gardens, open fireplace and stone hearth.

The study, which has a wooden floor and fitted bookshelves has a bay window overlooking the front gardens and beyond. It can be used as a study, library or music room.

The cloakroom is fitted with a stylish vanity unit incorporating a wash basin, white wc and inset ceiling spotlights. An inglenook-style fireplace with inset wood burning stove is a feature of the contemporary central hallway.

The sitting room is a flexible family living space with vaulted ceiling, sliding sash windows, and double doors opening on to the courtyard garden to the rear. The family dining area has an exposed beam ceiling with a sliding sash window.

A contemporary bespoke kitchen comprises a range of base and wall units around a central island unit, and a stainless steel 11/2-bowl sink inset into the worksurface with associated mixer tap, and a range of Miele appliances.

Between the kitchen and dining area there is an informal seating area with large feature window overlooking the garden. The kitchen area ceiling features attractive beams. A side porch leads to the kitchen garden. A boot room leads to the courtyard garden. There is a wc and store cupboard.

Upstairs the master bedroom is fitted with walnut wardrobes, reading lights, telephone and television points. There is an en suite shower room. The second bedroom, which has a period fireplace, has an en suite shower room. The third, with a feature period fireplace, leads to the bathroom.

A rear staircase rises from the kitchen to the first-floor rear landing, with vaulted beamed ceiling and Velux window. There is a boiler room and a playroom/ fourth bedroom, divided in two spaces.

On the second-floor is a landing with vaulted ceilings and exposed oak beams, the fifth and sixth bedrooms and a bathroom.

Outside, the front lawned gardens are enclosed by a brick wall and railings. To the side is a block paved parking/turning space leading to a driveway, secured by full-height electric double gates.

Brick-built stores attached to the house are ideal as a potting shed or garden tool store. Detached brick outbuildings comprise a stable, barn with large double doors and a store used as a children’s play area.

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