Broughton Green, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9

With an oak frame designed and constructed by Oakwrights in 2017 with complementary oak cladding. The property won the award for the Best oak-framed house in the 2019 Build It Awards for Oakwrights. The property has a warranty until 2027. The property is raised above the surrounding garden and is constructed with block and beam concrete floors to ground and first floor with underfloor heating throughout.

Sitting room with a gas fire, uplighting and an oak floor. Study with built-in furniture. Dining hall with doors to the front and back gardens. Two stained glass windows. Tiled Cloakroom.

Superb kitchen/breakfast/ family space with a high specification SieMatic kitchen with highly distinctive granite worktops, Gaggenau appliances and with a large island unit with concealed extractor, sinks with Quooker tap, chef's tap, two ovens, warming drawers, dishwasher, coffee machine, top of the range Gaggenau fridge/freezer with wine cooler, ample glazing and bifold doors, integral flyscreens and blackout screens. Eco-friendly wood burner. Utility room and back shower room. Decking for outdoor relaxation, with sunken hot tub and floodlighting. Further decking and wide steps to the recessed solid front door.

The staircase rises with a custom-made chandelier. The first-floor sitting room enjoys the best of the views with a wide east-facing balcony and a galleried walkway to the principal bedroom vaulted to show the wonderful oak roof trusses, with its walk-in closet/dressing room, south-facing balcony with bifold doors. En suite luxury bathroom, colour change lights, tiled walk-in deluge shower, Antonio Lupi twin basins and bath. Lobby with wardrobes to Bedroom two, with Juliet balcony and en suite bathroom with the bath in an oak frame bay and walk-in shower. Bedroom three is dual aspect with en suite shower room.

House specification
• High levels of insulation, double and triple-glazed windows and doors.
• Looped recirculating hot water with 250-litre hot water cylinder.
• Seagull marine water filter for drinking water
• Remotely accessible Lutron lighting and technology system
• Remotely accessed monitored alarm system and 14 CCTV cameras
• Integrated sound system with wireless access points inside and outdoors.
• Underground power and telephone lines.
• Yacht-grade electric blinds to windows.
• High-quality sanitary ware and showers.
• Two mechanical air exchange systems.
• Extruded aluminium guttering and 48 outside lights.
• Video distribution and SKY feed.
• Both the house and garage are built on concrete beam and piled foundations.

Oak frame garage. Additional garaging/workshop and boiler house.

The oak framed garage building, set away from the house provides self-contained accommodation for family or staff with garaging and stores to the ground floor with electric garage doors, garden WC/boiler room and covered entrance to the high specification apartment with underfloor heating and engineered timber floor. Large open-plan kitchen/living space, with fully fitted kitchen. There are two double bedrooms and a shower room. Separate enclosed and secure workshop/garage building with space for a further 4 cars and hoist.

Outside

There is access on either side of the Ford over the Seeley Brook by the entrance to the property, giving access from either direction if the water level in the Ford is high. A pair of remotely operated electric five-bar gates give access to the long tarmac private drive.
Additional boiler room provides heated dog kennel and run.

A large grass paddock with post and rail fencing runs alongside the drive. A footpath crosses the far side of the field, giving access for walking over surrounding countryside.

The gardens are principally wooded and lawned with mature native trees. Expansive gravel parking areas in front of the house and garage. The ponds are stocked with fish. The Seely Brook, which runs along the southeast boundary of the property, has reinforced retaining walls near the house.

The Stews is set well back from the public road at the end of a long private drive, with medieval monastic carp ponds in the garden, denoted as 'stew ponds' in the Doomsday Book Census of 1086. This ancient site is now the setting for a very fine modern home, which fits seamlessly into its setting. The spa town of Droitwich offers a wide variety of shopping and business services, including a Waitrose supermarket and a train station with regular direct connections to Birmingham and onward connections to London. Worcester has all that would be expected of a city, including County cricket in the setting of the cathedral and horseracing on the banks of the River Severn.

There are excellent schools within the city and county, including Bromsgrove School, Winterfold House Preparatory School and The Royal Grammar Schools in Worcester as well as the Malvern Colleges.

There is excellent road access, making the M5, M40 and M42 easily accessible. Regular trains also run from Worcester to London and Birmingham and Warwick Parkway provides a fast train to London Marylebone. Birmingham International Airport is readily accessible.

There is superb walking and riding around quiet country lanes in this picturesque part of rural Worcestershire.