Dry Leys Farm, Quainton, Buckinghamshire, HP22

A Grade II listed early 18th-century detached farmhouse set within 6.8 acres of land including formal, landscaped gardens and paddocks with a driveway approach, detached outbuildings, and open country views. The double fronted house, with brick elevations and sash windows under a clay tile roof, has over 4,050 sq. ft. of accommodation set over three floors with a cellar. The ground floor has an original front door with a rectangular fanlight approached via stone steps. A new rear entrance is via the utility boot room and through a glazed garden room. This garden room accesses the open plan kitchen/breakfast and dining/family area, and the utility/boot room and the modern ground floor shower room. The entrance hallway leads to the separate drawing and sitting rooms. A door in the sitting room accesses a staircase leading to the cellar beneath.

The staircase in the hallway rises to the upstairs landing, which accesses the three first floor double bedrooms, a dressing room, and the family bathroom. Bedroom two has en suite shower room. The second floor, reached by the continuing main staircase, has a 33 ft. long, dual aspect principal bedroom, bedroom five and a walk-in store/loft room.

Ground Floor

The current owners have added a garden room at the rear, with floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors to a patio and a covered terrace. This extension includes a utility/boot room and a three piece shower room. Stone flooring in this area extends into the kitchen/breakfast room. The modern kitchen has a central breakfast island with stone worksurfaces and seating, with a recessed sink and an integral wine fridge. Kitchen appliances include a range oven, a fridge/freezer and a butler’s sink below a window over the patio. The kitchen is open plan with the dining area with windows overlooking the front drive.

Outside

The front of the house has a carriageway drive, mitigating the need to reverse and offering ample parking. At the rear there are two outbuildings, one comprises a fenced yard with gravel parking for eight cars ahead of a double car port and a garage with first floor storage space. The yard has lawned gardens with an opening to the formal topiary gardens. The second is a two storey 2,530 sq. ft. barn, currently used as a mechanics’ workshop, with space to work on many cars.

Grounds

The 6.87 acres plot is set in its own farmland in the Aylesbury Vale, with a mixture of formal gardens, a topiary garden, a landscaped patio/entertainment area and paddocks, all set against a back drop of open countryside. The gardens around the farmhouse and yard are enclosed by timber fencing and lead to a lawned garden flanked by mature trees with a copse and a naturally fed pond. Surrounding the copse is the paddock land.

Situation and Schooling

Quainton (1.2 miles) has a village store, tennis courts, a football pitch, a playground, a church and The George and Dragon public house and tea room, as well as a pre-school and a primary school. The property is situated between Aylesbury (8.8 miles) and Bicester (11 miles) and both towns have rail links to London and shopping, social and sports facilities. Catchment schools include Waddesdon School and Aylesbury grammar schools. There will also be a new station opening in Winslow (6.4 miles) for the East West trainline.