5 Bed Detached House For Sale

A detached and extended village house with an 18th-century core, providing versatile accommodation over two floors including five bedrooms and four reception rooms, with off street driveway parking and a double garage as well as further outbuildings, set above the Vale of Aylesbury in a plot of over an acre with established landscaped and vegetable gardens. Named after the pollarded limes that line the front boundary, this village house has been home to many families over the years and extended and modernised accordingly. The core of the house, probably dating back to the mid-18th century, has flint external walls with red brick detailing around sash windows and exposed internal ceiling beams. Major later additions include the author Rumer Godden’s extension of a single storey west wing added in the mid-20th century, but the house has also been refurbished extensively. Under a clay tiled roof, it has casement windows overlooking the front and a mixture of Georgian sash windows and later bay and casement windows at the rear. Some external walls are rendered, some are painted brickwork, and some first-floor areas – the rear gables for example - have painted wooden cladding. Integral to the character of this family house are the formal and informal gardens, orchard, and vegetable plot, designed for aesthetic enjoyment and productivity.