Withington, Shrewsbury

A particularly impressive and deceptively spacious detached house, offering versatile and flexible accommodation, set with excellent outbuildings and lovely large gardens, in this highly sought after rural village.

Directions - From Shrewsbury take the A5064 to Atcham and then turn immediately left over the bridge signposted Uffington. Follow this road along the straight and then turn right to Upton Magna. Continue along through Upton Magna itself and proceed onto Withington. Proceed through the village and after reaching the pub on the right hand side take the next available left turn and the property will be identified set back after a short distance on the right hand side.

Situation - The property is attractively situated within the popular and thriving village of Withington which provides a church, village green, village hall and pub. At the neighbouring village of Upton Magna there is a further pub/restaurant, primary school and church. The surrounding area offers extensive unspoilt farmland served by a maze of country lanes, which will no doubt be attractive to keen walkers and cyclists. Withington is located approximately midway between the towns of Wellington and Shrewsbury, both providing a good range of amenities, particularly Shrewsbury with its excellent shopping centre. Slightly further on is Telford town centre. Commuters will find ready access to the M54 motorway linking to the M6.

Description - Arbutus Haven is a particularly spacious and highly desirable detached house originally built during the 1960s. The ground floor accommodation offers a flexible modern living environment which currently comprises: three reception rooms, a breakfast kitchen, spacious utility room and guest WC. To the first floor, there are four bedrooms, a wash room and family bathroom. Outside, there is a generous amount of driveway parking which leads to the integral garage. The gardens are a particular feature and are especially generous in size providing fantastic entertaining areas, beautiful flowing lawns and a variety of established shrubbery beds and borders. There are also a useful range of outbuildings including a large timber garden office/hobbies room, a brick and tile work shop and a lovely decked timber garden room. The property is set in all approximately 0.56 acre.

Accommodation -

Entrance Porch - With tiled floor, panelled part glazed entrance door leading into:

Entrance Hall - With staircase rising to first floor. Doors off and to:

Guest Wc - With low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin, part panelling to walls.

Living Room - With attractive fireplace, tiled hearth housing an EFEL multi fuel burning stove. Oak mantle. Bow window to front. Sliding glazed patio doors providing beautiful aspect and access out to the rear gardens.

Dining Room - With lovely outlook over gardens.

Breakfast Kitchen - Providing an attractive range of eye and base level units comprising cupboards and drawers with generous work surface area over and incorporating a ceramic sink unit and drainer with mixer tap over. Space and plumbing for dishwasher. Part tiled walls and tiled splash. SMEG range cooker (gas fired) with double oven, separate grill and warming drawer. Seven ring hob unit with fitted extractor hood. Breakfast bar eating area with oak top. Additional worktop with base level units above and below. Contemporary wall mounted radiator. Beautiful outlook over gardens.

Utility Room - With fitted worktop containing ceramic sink unit and drainer with mixer tap over. Base level storage cupboards. Space and plumbing for washing machine. Space for tumble dryer. Part tiled walls. Space and plumbing for American style fridge freezer. Additional tall built in storage cupboard. Part glazed access door to rear garden and door to garage.

Family Room / Study - With built in dresser unit with fitted shelving.

First Floor Landing - With doors off and to:

Bedroom 1 - With generous built in wardrobes with overhead storage cupboards. Picture window overlooking gardens. Door to Washroom.

Bedroom 2 - With lovely outlook over garden.

Bedroom 3 - With pleasant outlook.

Bedroom 4 -

Bathroom - With low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin and panelled bath. Generous shower cubicle with mains fed shower. Sliding splash screen and inset tiles. Access to loft space. Part panelling to walls. Built in airing cupboard housing the pressurised hot water cylinder. Door to:

Wash Room - With low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin, part panelling to walls.

Outside - The property is approached over a generous and sweeping tarmacadam driveway which provides parking for numerous vehicles, whilst also giving access to the integral garage and pedestrian access to the front and side of the property.

Garage - With electric remote controlled up and over entrance door. Power and light points. Wall mounted electric car charging point. Access to loft storage area over which houses the gas fired central heating boiler.

The Gardens - The property is set beautifully in its plot and offers attractively maintained lawns to the front which flank the driveway and contain established shrubbery beds and borders. The majority of the gardens are positioned to the rear and provide a pleasant south easterly facing aspect. Sitting adjacent to the garage is a gated path which extends to a raised section containing 2 greenhouses and gravelled areas for potted plants. This extends onto a crazy paved patio entertaining area which is a fantastic space, allowing for full appreciation of the delightful surroundings. From the patio, timber steps then rise to a decked terrace which in turn leads through to the impressive timber garden room.

Positioned next to the Garden Room is a brick and tile FORMER WHEEL WRIGHT SHOP which is currently utilised for garden STORAGE/WORKSHOP and benefits from power and light.

The majority of the gardens are then laid to beautifully manicured and maintained flowing lawns flanked with various pathways and herbaceous shrubbery beds and borders together with a number of different specimen and mature trees. The current owners have created a wild
ature section with useful composting area and timber and felt storage shed. Lovely nature pond with established surrounding plants. Further raised borders. Located two thirds of the way down the garden is the feature timber GARDEN OFFICE/HOBBIES ROOM with power, light and internet connection. Two pairs of glazed French doors. The room could be used for a multitude of purposes including those wishing to work from home, a home gym or an particular leisure/hobby.

General Remarks -

Fixtures And Fittings - Only those items described in these particulars are included in the sale.

Services - Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage are understood to be connected. None of these services have been tested.

Tenure - Freehold. Purchasers must confirm via their solicitor.

Council Tax - The property is currently showing as Council Tax Band E. Please confirm the council tax details via Shropshire Council on or visit

Viewings - Halls, 2 Barker Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QJ. Tel: . Email: