Description
A Grade II listed 18th century five bedroom detached former farmhouse in need of modernisation on the edge of the village overlooking open countryside. The property has over 3,160 sq. ft. of accommodation over three floors including a cellar. The ground floor comprises a dining hall, drawing room, sitting room, study, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room and a side entrance lobby. There are five first floor bedrooms, four of which are doubles, and a storage room. There is currently a bathroom which has a washbasin, a bath and a shower cubicle, with a WC in a separate adjacent room.
The property needs modernisation but retains many period features including sash windows, parquet flooring, window seats, picture rails, and fireplaces and their surrounds.
The first floor has 10 ft. high ceilings and several of the sash windows have window seats overlooking the rear garden.
Ground Floor The formal reception rooms include the dining hall which has a bay to the front with French doors looking down the centre of the garden arch. The separate sitting and drawing rooms both have dual aspect windows with window seats. All three reception rooms have fireplaces: the sitting room has a built-in wood burning stove and the others have open fireplaces with tiled and wood surrounds. The study leads off the side lobby and there is a utility room leading off the kitchen/breakfast room which has an oil fired Aga.
Outside The south facing garden includes a central trained arch of pear and apple trees flanked on either side by formal lawns and borders. There is also an ornamental pond. A stone wall runs down the length of the garden with gated access at the far end to a second lawned garden that overlooks the fields to the south. There is a stone outbuilding with a clay pantile roof and timber framed greenhouse. Gated access on either side leads to the rear of the property where there is driveway parking.
Situation and Schooling Yardley Gobion has a village shop with post office, a Sports and Social Club, a village hall and The Coffee Pot public house. Yardley Gobion C of E Primary School offers primary education for pupils from age 4 to 11 years. For secondary education, the village is convenient for the Royal Latin, Akeley Wood School, Northampton School for Boys and Northampton School for Girls or pupils can attend The Elizabeth Woodville School in Deanshanger.
