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£995,000

Micklebroom, Overley Lane, Alrewas

Bedrooms
5
Bathrooms
3

Key Features

  • Impressive detached barn conversion
  • Desirable rural location
  • Formal drawing room with feature wood burner
  • Two ground floor bedrooms & three first floor bedrooms
  • Guest WC/utility
  • Two en suites & family bathroom
  • John Taylor High School catchment
  • EPC rating F. Council tax band D.
  • Generous gardens with summerhouse

Description

This superbly appointed five-bedroom detached barn conversion offers a unique, charming, and characterful family home within a desirable rural location just outside of Alrewas. Its unique location provides a wonderful sense of privacy, whilst being just moments from the pretty canalside village of Alrewas, with fast road links to the nearby cathedral city of Lichfield and Burton-upon-Trent, which both have excellent rail links. Birmingham is easily commutable, as are East Midlands and Birmingham Airport. Alrewas itself has delightful canalside walks and a good range of facilities, including a Co-op store, a long-established butcher, pharmacy, three pubs and a coffee house, as well as doctors and dentist surgeries. All Saint's Primary is a feeder school for the highly regarded John Taylor High School in nearby Barton-under-Needwood.

Micklebroom is a charming and characterful property offering well-proportioned and presented accommodation, complemented by a range of attractive features throughout. The property boasts a delightful blend of traditional charm and practical living, with appealing details including vaulted ceilings, exposed timber beams and feature brickwork.

The entrance door opens into the welcoming hallway with exposed beams and brickwork, fitted storage cupboard and doors to the guest cloakroom/WC, kitchen and bedroom five.

The ground floor versatile fifth bedroom is a double room but could alternatively be used as a child's playroom or snug.

The guest cloakroom/utility is fitted with a white suite and benefits from useful built-in storage and dedicated utility space, incorporating plumbing and space for laundry appliances.

The spacious kitchen/diner is fitted with an extensive range of matching wall and base units with granite worksurfaces, a Belfast sink and a range of kitchen appliances. There is a vaulted veiling with exposed beams and Velux skylights, windows to the front and rear aspects, tiled flooring, and a door into the drawing room.

The formal drawing room is the heart of the home, having a wood burning stove, both tiled and wooden flooring, windows to the front and rear aspects, doors out to the rear garden, a useful understairs storage cupboard, feature staircase rising to the first-floor landing and a door into the ground floor master bedroom.

The master bedroom has windows to the front and rear aspects, carpeted flooring, spotlights to the ceiling and an en-suite bathroom comprising of a Japanese style bath, shower, low level WC and a wash hand basin.

Upstairs, you are greeted by a beautiful galleried landing with exposed beams to the ceiling, two skylights and doors to the family bathroom and three bedrooms. The second bedroom is spacious and benefits from its own en-suite, bedroom three is a further double bedroom and bedroom four acts as an ideal single or home office. The family bathroom has a bath with mains shower over, low level WC, wash hand basin, heated towel rail and skylight.

Outside, to the front of the property there is generous off-road parking and to the side and rear of the home are delightful well established gardens with various different zones comprising of patio seating areas, a summerhouse, large lawned garden and a variety of plants, trees and shrubs.

To view this property, please contact John German Lichfield office.

Outside, to the front of the property there is generous off-road parking and to the side and rear of the home are delightful well established gardens with various different zones comprising of patio seating areas, a summerhouse, large lawned garden and a variety of plants, trees and shrubs. There is also a larch clad workshop which has electricity and offers ideal storage/hobby space.

Tenure: Freehold (purchasers are advised to satisfy themselves as to the tenure via their legal representative).
Please note: It is quite common for some properties to have a Ring doorbell and internal recording devices.
Property construction: Standard
Parking: Drive
Electricity supply: Mains
Water supply: Mains
Sewerage: Treatment plant
Heating: Air source heat pump
(Purchasers are advised to satisfy themselves as to their suitability).
Broadband type: See Ofcom link for speed:
Mobile signal/coverage: See Ofcom link
Local Authority/Tax Band: Lichfield District Council / Tax Band D
Useful Websites:
Our Ref: JGA/30102026

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
D
Date Posted
2026-10-30

Energy Performance Certificate

Energy Efficiency Rating

Very energy efficient - lower running costs
CurrentPotential
(92+)A
(81-91)B
(69-80)C
(55-68)D
(39-54)E
(21-38)F
(1-20)G
32 F
74 C

Based on UK Energy Performance Certificate standards (EU Directive 2002/91/EC)

Running costs are one side. Planning activity, flood history and ground risks for this location are in the full report.

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

Electricity
Mains
Water
Mains
Heating
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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

Public Rights of Way
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Private Rights of Way
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Listed Property
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Restrictions
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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

Accessibility
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Parking
Off-Street Parking
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

19 Mbps

Standard (10-30 Mbps)

Suitable for

  • Web & social
  • Music streaming
  • Standard video calls

Mobile signal

OutdoorsIndoorsEE Good LimitedO2 Good NoneThree Good NoneVodafone Good None

Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • All Saints Church of England Primary and Nursery School0.9 milesOfsted: Requires improvement
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    210
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • St Stephen's Primary School1.4 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    306
    Type
    Community school
  • Fradley Park Primary and Nursery School1.8 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    133
    Type
    Free schools
  • The Richard Crosse CofE Primary School2.4 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    110
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Yoxall St Peter's CofE Primary School2.4 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    111
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Church of England

Secondary

  • John Taylor High School2.6 milesOfsted: Outstanding *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,523
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Nether Stowe School4.1 milesOfsted report card · Mar 2026
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    692
    Type
    Academy converter
  • The Friary School4.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,255
    Type
    Academy converter
  • King Edward VI School4.9 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,609
    Type
    Community school
  • John Taylor Free School4.9 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 19
    Pupils
    1,315
    Type
    Free schools

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Co-op Alrewas, Alrewas1 mile
Co-op Fradley, Fradley1.9 miles
Co-op Kings Bromley - Manor Road, Kings Bromley2.4 miles

GP surgery

Alrewas1 mile

Pharmacy

Alrewas Pharmacy0.9 miles

Hospital

Barton Under Needwood Cottage Hospital2.3 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces893 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Lichfield Trent Valley Rail Station3.9 miles

Nearest bus stop

Manor Fields968 metres

Typical drive times

Rugeley17 min · 9.1 miles
Brownhills18 min · 13 miles
Lichfield (city)12 min · 6.5 miles
Burton upon Trent13 min · 8.7 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

Environment Agency open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Long-term risk counts flood defences; the planning map's flood zones do not. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Very low risk

Planning map: Flood Zone 1.

Surface water

Medium to low risk (1 in 100 to 1 in 1000)

Not at the pin: mapped about 10 metres away.

These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.

Important notice: Information, maps and tags on this page are drawn from the advertising agent's marketing materials or generated automatically. LandSale has not verified them. Relying on these details is at your own risk, always carry out independent checks before committing to a purchase.

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