New to the market is Kites Nest farm, a large Georgian farmhouse in about 13 acres just 12 miles from Tetbury and 2 miles from Wooton-Under-Edge in Gloucestershire. The house has been recently modernised to a very high standard and includes many character features including stone fireplaces, sash windows and timber floors. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire The house has a generous reception hall, drawing room, sitting room, library, orangery, kitchen/dining room, four bedrooms, two bathrooms and a shower room. Additionally there is a cottage Pipkin s Cottage which has a sitting room and two or three bedrooms, as well as its own telephone and broadband connections. Outside are landscaped gardens with lawns and a large entertaining area with carp ponds, flagstones and a raised decked terrace as well as rose and vegetable gardens behind Pipkin s Cottage. There is also young woodland which contains a number of mature fruit trees and a grass bank running down to a duck pond. The equestrian facilities include 15 stables, a covered yard, tack room, horse solarium, three storage rooms and a feed store, and have been developed to an international standard. Guide price: £2.25m. For further information, telephone Knight Frank on 01285 659 771 or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk. * Search for prime property for sale in Gloucestershire
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