Valley View Lodge, Gorst Hill, Rock, Kidderminster

Valley View Lodge is a wonderful rural estate offering 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms to include an individually designed Detached Family Home with a separate Detached 2 bedroom Single Story Annex. The property was constructed in 2000, offering an abundance of space with quality fixtures and fittings, marrying attractive character features with contemporary living. The property sits within over 3 acres of private, mature gardens and grounds with a fabulous detached 60ft x 30ft barn.

Directions - From the Kidderminster office proceed in a northerly direction and take the first exit at the roundabout signposted to Bewdley on the B4190. Using the Bewdley by-pass travel up Long Bank and Callow Hill to turn left by the Royal Forester Pub into Bliss Gate Road and take the first turning right into Gorst Hill and after a short distance the Valley View Lodge will be found on the right hand side.

Location - Valley View Lodge is a spacious, detached country home and is set in a most attractive position in north west Worcestershire countryside. Local amenities can be found in the nearby village of Rock, Far Forest which is less than 1½ miles away and includes a Post Office, General Store and public house. The historic Georgian riverside town of Bewdley is 3 miles distant providing a comprehensive range of local amenities including both junior and senior schools. Birmingham is about 28 miles. The Cathedral city of Worcester is approximately 18 miles distant which provides direct rail connections to both London Paddington and Birmingham. There is M5 Motorway Junction access via 5 at Wychbold and 6 & 7 to the north and south of Worcester.

Full Details - Valley View Lodge is approached over a private driveway, through electrically operated cast iron gates onto a sweeping tree lined gravel driveway, intersecting the generous mature lawns. There is a generous hardstanding and parking space with turning circle and the driveway splits allowing access to a fabulous detached barn and also provides access between the annex and the main house to a private hardstanding area to the rear of the annex and the barn.

Valley View Lodge is a fantastic, individually designed, unique detached family home constructed in 2000 offering an abundance of space with quality fixtures & fittings whilst marrying attractive character features with contemporary living.

A paved hardstanding leads to a generous porch of brick construction with pitched tiled roof, with a quarry tiled floor with access into the beautifully spacious entrance hall.

The ground floor accommodation is particularly spacious and flexible with four separate reception rooms, to include a fabulous dining room and separate living room, each with beautiful exposed ceiling timbers and each with fabulous exposed brick fire places with flagstone hearths and attractive wood burning stoves.

Off the living room there are double doors leading to a beautiful oak framed glazed orangery with pitched glazed roof with ceiling lights and fabulous views of the surrounding mature gardens. The orangery also benefits from a raised log burning stove and double doors opening out to the gardens.

There are two further reception rooms to include a sitting room/snug to the rear of the property with beautiful exposed ceiling timbers, attractive views across the surrounding gardens and an exposed brick fire place with generous timber mantle over, flagstone hearth and fabulous log burning stove. The fourth reception room is a useful office with fabulous views to the front of the property across the spawling fore gardens.

The generous fitted kitchen diner offers an oil fired Aga with double hot plate and oven. There is a range of matching base and wall units with marble work surfaces, a matching kitchen island and plenty of space for dining table and chairs.

From the kitchen diner is a well proportioned utility room being fully fitted with matching base and eye level units with one and half sink, single drainer and mixer tap. Off the utility room is a generous ground floor cloakroom with matching white suite of WC and wash hand basin, also housing the oil fired central heating boiler.

There is a second ground floor cloakroom with matching white suite of low level WC and pedestal wash hand basin.

From reception hall is a turning staircase to a galleried first floor landing with double height vaulted ceiling with exposed ceiling timbers.

The master bedroom is a particular feature with a wonderful pitched dormer style oak framed window, allowing for an abundance of light and fabulous views. There is a feature coal effect living flame fire with stone surround, hearth and mantle over. There is a range of fitted floor to ceiling wardrobes and disguised double wardrobe doors allowing access to a generous en-suite bathroom which is extensively tiled with a matching suite of rolled top claw foot bath, generous shower cubicle, low level WC and pedestal wash hand basin.

Each of the double bedrooms are beautifully presented and each offer fitted en-suite shower and bathrooms all benefitting from attractive outlooks across the mature grounds and countryside beyond.

This fabulously designed family home offers a wonderful combination of space, flexibility, sitting within this beautiful private sitting within its own private gardens and grounds of approximately 3.42 acres and also benefitting from a beautiful detached single story annex and a further separate 60ft x 30ft detached barn.

Detached Annex - The detached annex has its own independent outdoor space and access and is situated all one level, being of part timber clad, brick construction and a pitched tiled roof. The annex has its own separate services and has previously been successfully used as rental/AirBNB accommodation and is full of character.

The main open plan living dining and kitchen is a beautiful space interspersed with attractive exposed brick and beautiful exposed wall and ceiling timbers. The living area benefits from an exposed brick and flagstone fire place with log burning stove with timber over. There is a separate fitted kitchen with dining space and an inner hallway which in turn accesses two wonderful double bedrooms, both beautifully presented and there is a fully fitted modern bathroom being extensively tiled with matching white suite of low level close coupled WC, pedestal wash hand basin, panelled bath with wall mounted shower and glazed shower screen. This fabulous annex is beautifully presented combining character and contemporary living, being beautifully light and spacious with UPVC double glazed windows and a total of four French doors to the private outdoor areas.

Detached Barn - The detached barn is a wonderful additional benefit of part block construction with wooden cladding and measuring 60ft x 30ft. This fabulous facility is perfect for a work shop or storage with power and lighting, a large front vehicular access door and further rear pedestrian door. The barn is particularly useful for an array of purposes and conveniently located next to the annex and near the main family home.

Outside - The property sits beautifully and centrally within these fabulous mature private grounds and gardens extending to 3.42 acres. Access is gained off a private drive via electrically operated cast iron double gates onto a sweeping tree lined, gravelled driveway leading to a generous hardstanding and turning space with turning circle and access to the property, annex and to the detached barn. The gardens are extensive and are laid mainly to lawn with mature hedge boundaries surrounding the property. Immediately to the front of the main house is a paved hardstanding area with pathway leading to the sides and rear where there is a generous rear paved patio the length of the property. Further mature lawned gardens interspersed with attractive shrub and flower beds and borders with two garden ponds, plenty of space and light and a large low maintenance brick paved hardstanding area to the rear of the annex providing seating space and additional parking if necessary and also allowing for access to the pedestal door to the rear of the detached barn.

Valley View Lodge offers a unique opportunity to purchase a wonderful recently built unique detached family home in one of the most sought after rural locations in convenient for surrounding towns and villages to include Kidderminster, Bewdley and Cleobury. An internal viewing is thoroughly recommended to appreciate the size, flexibility and quality of this wonderful country home.

Services - Mains water, electricity, drainage via septic tank. The property offers Oil Fired Central Heating. None of these services have been tested.

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

Tenure - Freehold with Vacant Possession upon Completion.