Home of the Week: Ladygrove, Childwickbury, St Albans
The property is set in 45 acres - Credit: Archant
This vast home is set in 45-acres of land, and is available for sale with a guide price of £4,650,000.
Even the vegetable garden is impeccably designed - Credit: Archant
The 5/6-bed property includes equestrian facilities, and is ideally located between St Albans and Harpenden.
Named after the nearby ancient woodland, Ladygrove was once the gamekeeper’s cottage to the Childwickbury Estate.
The sitting room enjoys views of the garden - Credit: Archant
Today, Ladygrove is a wonderful country house, which offers bright and spacious accommodation and is superbly presented throughout.
The house includes a drawing room, sitting room, family room, reading hall, study, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, cloakroom, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and dressing area, four further bedrooms, a sixth bedroom or second study and two family bathrooms.
Doors from the spacious kitchen/breakfast room open out onto the garden - Credit: Archant
A separate two-storey building houses a garage, gymnasium, first floor sitting area and art studio.
The vast grounds include both formal and informal gardens, with a landscaped fruit and vegetable kitchen garden, and a significant area of beautiful and established woodland.
The drawing room benefits from a vast fireplace - Credit: Archant
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There’s also a brick-built stable block with three loose boxes and a tack room with WC, feed store, all-weather manége and over 5.5 acres of paddock land.
The reading hall also opens out onto the garden - Credit: Archant
PROPERTY FACTS
Ladygrove, Childwickbury
Guide price: £4,650,000
Savills
The paddocks include a large tack room and all weather menage - Credit: Archant
01582 465000
www.savills.co.uk
