Home of the Week: Ladygrove, Childwickbury, St Albans

Even the vegetable garden is impeccably designed (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

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 (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

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 (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

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 (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

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 (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

PROPERTY FACTS

Ladygrove, Childwickbury

Guide price: £4,650,000

Savills

The paddocks include a large tack room and all weather menage (Image: Justin Paget Photography Ltd)

01582 465000

www.savills.co.uk