Ford, Temple Guiting, Cheltenham, GL54

A handsome Cotswold stone farmhouse with outbuildings, landscaped gardens and fabulous views of the Windrush valley. Slade Farm House is a well-presented, detached Cotswold stone property in an elevated position with wonderful views over its own terraced gardens and the Windrush valley. The property is accessed via a large entrance hall with a glazed roof. There is an impressive bespoke kitchen and dining room at the heart of the house with vaulted ceiling and bi-folding doors opening to the rear garden. Both the drawing room and sitting room offer double doors opening out on to the upper terrace. All four bedrooms have ensuites and enjoy attractive views over the nearby countryside. The house has ample loft space and benefits from being eco-friendly with a biomass boiler, solar photovoltaic panels, solar thermal panels and a grey water system for toilets and garden watering, which together, significantly reduce energy costs. Gigaclear ultrafast fibre broadband is available into the property. The ground floor has underfloor heating with the rest of the accommodation being heated through radiators. The property is approached via a block paved driveway. Electric gates lead to parking for several cars and a triple carport with power and light, beyond which wrought iron gates open to a hard-landscaped area. There is also a double garage with two pairs of doors, power and light and a boiler room housing biomass boiler and wood store. The gardens have been lovingly landscaped into terraces which offer fabulous views of the adjoining countryside in the Windrush Valley. A substantial patio lies to the rear of the house with an attractive sunken Cotswold stone fire pit and a well-kept lawn. Steps lead to a number of deep herbaceous borders with two ponds and a large kitchen garden with a traditional greenhouse. The garden is interspersed with a number of mature trees, shrubs and plants. Bounded to all sides most notably to the south side by a hand-crafted dry-stone wall. The garden has access to the side and houses a pretty summer house/home office and substantial workshop with power, light and plentiful storage. Ford is a Cotswold hamlet comprising of period and contemporary cottages and houses situated in a lovely rolling region of the Cotswolds, which is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. This hamlet has an excellent public house called The Plough. Neighbouring Temple Guiting offers a fine old Parish Church, village hall and playing fields. Guiting Power, with a busy community, has a beautiful 12th Century Church, village hall and playing field, village shop with post office and a café, a wonderful deli, two pubs and the Montessori nursery. Adam Henson's Cotswold Farm Park is nearby. The immediate area offers an excellent network of footpaths and bridleways linking all these lovely villages. More extensive shopping is available nearby in the pretty market towns of Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton on-the-Water, and Winchcombe, while a few miles further the larger centres of Cheltenham, Stratford upon-Avon and Oxford. Communications in the area are excellent, with London easily accessible via the A40/M40, and a mainline railway service to London Paddington from both Kingham and Moreton-in-Marsh within a twenty-minute drive from the house. Sports and leisure facilities include golf at Naunton Downs and Cheltenham. Racing at Cheltenham as well as Stratford-upon-Avon and Warwick. There is a popular primary school (OFSTED- good) in neighbouring Temple Guiting and a new Montesorri Nursery in Guiting Power. A bus to the very popular Cotswold School (OFSTED - Outstanding) stops in these villages, with a wide choice of local schools including Pate's Grammar (OFSTED - Outstanding) Cheltenham Ladies College, Cheltenham Preparatory School and Cheltenham College, Dean Close, St Edwards, and Rendcomb.