Swan Bottom Lane, The Lee £1,250,000

This unique listed farmhouse has been a part of the renowned "Liberty of London" family estate for many years. It has recently been sympathetically updated and is presented in beautiful, walk-in condition. The edge of village position offers the best of country living yet is only a few miles' drive to Chesham and Great Missenden.

The formal entrance leads into the hallway. To the right is the sunken milk parlour and to the left the formal dining room with side garden views and a feature fireplace with log burner. A doorway leads through to the farmhouse kitchen which has been fitted with a range of white kitchen units carefully built around the exposed beams, The kitchen is fitted with the usual appliances including an electric Rayburn, tucked in an alcove, and a Belling, electric range cooker.

Returning back to the main hallway; the main sitting room is behind the dairy with views onto the garden and with a second, open fireplace with a brick surround and hearth. A door from the sitting room leads into the study, kept cosy and warm with a small log burner.
The utility room, ground floor shower room and cellar are opposite the sitting room. The cellar is accessed via a short flight of stairs and has restricted headroom. In common with most subterranean cellars, it is not suitable for the storage of papers or dry goods.

Character properties tend to "evolve" over the years and this farmhouse is no different. Two staircases link the ground and first floor; one from the kitchen into a bedroom and the main flight being opposite the sitting room. The house is L-shaped one arm of the L incorporates the main family bathroom which has been luxuriously fitted with a freestanding bath, shower, W.C. and basin, and one of the bedrooms. The remaining double bedrooms run along the other arm of the L. The quirky nature of the layout is such that two of the bedrooms share another, quality "Jack and Jill" bathroom. This bedroom has a staircase directly down into the kitchen.

Outside, the front of the farmhouse is arranged around a paved courtyard with driveway parking for several cars. There is an open log store and a door into the integral boiler room/store room.

The established gardens for the house wrap around the rear and side of the property however a path from the rear of the house bisects the lawn and leads to a gap in the hedge beyond which is an enclosed 1.33 acre paddock, ideal as extra garden or for equestrian use.

For information only- the listing is described as:
Farhouse. C17 timber framed, recased in brick and enlarged C18. Half-hipped old tile roof. Letter-L plan. Two storeys. West wing C18 addition. Also C18 north bay added. 3-bay lobby-entry plan house. South elevation, 3-bays. Door between right hand bays. Colourwashed masonry-scribed render. East elevation casements, one dormer. West elevation with modern porch, one dormer. Slater roofed dairy in angle. Timber-framing exposed inside. Cuerved purlin braces. Chamfered and stopped spine beams.
Ref: Listing NGR: SP8974304371


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