7 Bedroom Detached Luxury House For Sale
The most spectacular luxury home, offering generous living and entertaining space, with an adjoining annex, separate holiday lodge, a heated pool, glass pergola, stables and much more. Situated within 2.5 acres (approx.) of gardens and grounds, all overlooking beautiful countryside, rolling hills and farmland.
Poplars Cottage has been renovated and remodelled into an incredibly versatile property. Finished to an excellent standard with traditional materials, the detached residence offers privacy and convenient country living, just a short commute to either Bristol or Bath.
Sat behind a large stone wall and wooden electric gates, a large driveway with ample parking sits before this handsome stone-built property and separate holiday lodge.
Step inside via a beautiful historic oak door and into a spacious entrance hall featuring exposed oak and stone, a log burning stove and glimpses of the ground floor accommodation where your eyes are immediately drawn to the stunning view beyond the pool and garden.
Semi-open plan to the hall, is the most impressive family kitchen room spanning approximately 53 feet. Whilst spacious, the room has a cosy and comfortable feel and consists of a high specification, shaker style kitchen with built-in appliances and stone worktops, flowing around to the top of a semi-circular breakfast area and table. To the centre of the room is a large dining space sitting in front of bi-folding patio doors and next to a snug also set before further bi-folding patio doors, all overlooking the private gardens.
Leading off from the kitchen is a handy cloakroom and convenient utility. Whilst a generous study currently used as a spa room and a triple aspect, elegant sitting room with a further log burning stove set within an Inglenook natural stone fireplace, are accessible from the hall.
An oak staircase flooded with natural light from a roof lantern welcomes you up to the first floor, which boasts five impressive bedrooms, each having access to four luxurious bathrooms with Porcelanosa fittings. The principal bedroom suite exudes glamour with vaulted ceilings displaying oak beams, large triple aspect windows, bespoke handmade solid oak dressing area and window seat, a stunning en-suite bathroom with French doors opening out to a balcony with breath taking country views.
The annex
The style and exquisite finish continue from the main house into the adjoining annex, making it feel part of the property, yet being completely independent. To the ground floor of the annex is a spacious open-plan kitchen reception room, offering ample space to cook, dine, entertain and relax. The kitchen is beautifully finished with shaker style units, stone tops and a large centre island, while the dining space and lounge area enjoy plenty of space, light and overlook the generous gardens. An oak staircase sits above a ground floor cloakroom and leads you up to yet another impressive bedroom with vaulted ceiling, exposed oak beams and access to a balcony. A second double bedroom and fully tiled bathroom suite complete the picture.
Outbuildings
The Lodge – A lovely oak and timber clad lodge, currently set up as a holiday let generating a considerable income stream boasts air conditioning, a kitchen sitting room with cloakroom and a separate double bedroom with en-suite shower room.
Glass Pergola – one of only a few in the country this clever and stylish garden room was supplied by ‘’Brustor’’ of Belgium. With retractable glass walls and roof, this incredible heated space provides an ‘all seasons and all weather’ place to entertain, relax and dine.
Further outbuildings include a garage, sturdy workshop and two picturesque stone-built stables with pitched roofs.
Gardens and Grounds
The grounds to Poplars Cottage are split into several sections, all wrapping around the property and benefit from not only space, but privacy and stunning views. Different spaces include a vast patio terrace surrounding a heated swimming pool with specialist safety cover, a large lawn with children’s play area, a rockery with flower and shrub boarders, many places to sit in the sun or the shade of several specimen trees including an imposing Cedar Tree and large Willow. Beyond the formal gardens and behind a long hedgerow is a generous paddock perfect for a couple ponies or a horse. The paddock overlooks neighbouring farmland and across to Kelston Round Hill and has separate gated access from both the property and the road.
The Location
Poplars Cottage is found near Queen Charlton and Chewton Keynsham, approximately two miles south of Keynsham High Street and Train Station. The property is all but equidistant to both Bristol and Bath, enjoying great amenities within a short commute, yet stunning Somerset countryside on its doorstep.
Places of interest nearby include the rolling hills of Kelston Round Hill, Bath Racecourse, Bath Spa University, The Pig nr Bath, Chew Valley Lake, Bristol’s Cabot Circus, Bristol Harbourside. Bath Spa and Shopping Centre and the historical landmark of Stanton Drew Circle and Cove – remains of three stone circles dating from 2500 BC