Overstone Park, Overstone, Northamptonshire, NN6

A spacious contemporary house of about 3,800 sq.ft. in a parkland setting. Hall, cloakroom, 3 reception rooms, oak framed garden room, games room, office, 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. Triple garage and stables. Garden and paddock. About 1.47 ha (3.6 acres). Available end of April Pets considered Directions From the A45 dual carriageway and Northampton take the A43 north east in the direction of Kettering. At the large roundabout on the north east edge of Northampton (Round Spinney) take the A45 signed to Kettering. After about one mile, turn right signed to Overstone and Sywell (The Avenue). At the next junction continue straight ahead into Sywell Road and into Overstone village. After about half a mile, pass Woodland Avenue and take the next right hand turn marked ''Court Farm 600 yards'. This turn is opposite the Post Office. Continue down this private road through woodland and then into the parkland and Court Farm House will be found on the right hand side. Please note that satellite navigation will not get you to the property based on the post code. To get to the end of the private road use the post code NN6 0AN Location Court Farm House lies to the south of the village of Overstone in the parkland of the once grand country house of Overstone Park. The house is approached over a long private road shared with neighbouring properties. Within the parkland is Overstone Park Golf Club, which has a leisure pool, gym and an 18-hole golf course. There is a primary school in Overstone with secondary schooling in the nearby village of Moulton. The village is conveniently placed for access to Northampton, Wellingborough and the A45 dual carriageway which gives access to the M1 motorway and the A14 (M6/M1 to A1 link road). Wellingborough has a train station with trains taking 55 minutes to London St Pancras. Northampton station has trains to London Euston in a little under 1 hour. Leisure facilities in the area include a number of excellent golf courses, sailing and trout fishing at Pitsford Reservoir and flying from Sywell Aerodrome. Northampton 6 miles A45 dual carriageway 2 miles Wellingborough 7 miles M1 (Junction 15) 8 miles Ground Floor The front door opens to the entrance hall with staircase rising to a galleried first floor landing. Off the hall is a cloakroom. The well-proportioned drawing room has an open fireplace with a stone mantelpiece and French doors to the west facing terrace. The adjacent study is reached both from the kitchen and drawing room by double doors. The kitchen/breakfast room is very well fitted with appliances including a gas-fired Aga, oven, ceramic hob, concealed fridge and dishwasher. An archway leads through to a small sitting room with wood burning stove and fitted cupboard and shelves. Beyond the kitchen is a beautiful oak framed garden room, south and west facing doubling as a dining room and summer sitting room. It has French doors to the terrace, a freestanding wood burning stove and an oak floor. There is a utility room off the kitchen and a rear lobby, with a second cloakroom. A large games room is reached from both the rear lobby and utility room and this has stairs up to a first floor office. First Floor Off the galleried landing is the principal bedroom with a bath/shower room en suite, a further large double bedroom with an en suite shower room, a third double bedroom and the family bathroom. Second Floor There are two further bedrooms, a double and a single, and a large shower room. Outside The approach to the house is over a gravelled drive to a turning circle in front of the house. Off the drive is a triple garage with an outside staircase rising to the loft above. Two timber stables are used as machinery and garden stores. A well landscaped garden surrounds the house with a south and west facing terrace, lawns and herbaceous borders, an orchard and a kitchen garden with greenhouse. The paddock land wraps around the garden on its west and south sides. The extent of the grounds is about 3.6 acres and can be let under separate negotiation.