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Greenview Cottage



This is an attractive group of three converted stone barns. The barns dated from Tudor times and retain their original beams, and stone walls. These are now complemented by modern, well crafted upgrades, comfortable bedrooms and well-equipped bathrooms and a farmhouse kitchen.

Each part was named over the years being, from right to left;  The Olde Stable, The Tythe Barne, and The Well Cottage.  The Well Cottage houses an actual well, and was the main ostler's cottage for the coach house affair these buildings were for many years.  The Tythe Barne was a housing for coaches, and a holding store for tithed goods in ages past.  The Olde Stable is precisely that.. an old stable housing the coach and farm horses of bygone eras.

The “barns” are reached by a well-maintained cobbled track and, to the front, look down over a wonderful, terraced flower garden with winding paths, sitting out areas and a small pond. This is a truly peaceful spot in which to "get away from it all".  This large acreage property is bordered to the North by Totterington Road, the west by Church Road, the South by a footpath from the Village Green, and to the East by the village green itself.

TJ had the three buildings melded into one.  The walls that were removed provided most of the material for the connections. The remainder came from various excavations of smaller buildings found on site.  Along with some material from stone-piles that had once been walls dividing fields.

Right... The Olde Stable

The Olde Stable is set back from the other properties. It enjoys the same high standard of furnishing and comfort and has a woodburner, exposed beams and doors to the grounds. The lower level remains as a stable of sorts.  It is actually the garage for TJ’s Range Rover.

Accommodation: Ground Floor: Garage and small workshop. First Floor: Bedroom and Bathroom.  This has an access to the mezzanine area of “Tythe Barn”.

Middle..... Tythe Barn

Tythe Barn stands in the centre of the three buildings and is the largest. The very spacious lounge has exposed stonewalls, beams, a woodburner and French doors front and rear to the grounds. There is a separate dining room and a large farmhouse style kitchen.

Accommodation: Ground Floor: Great Room of lounge and dining room. Kitchen. Cloakroom with WC and washbasin. First Floor:  Front Mezzanine, TJ’s very high tech office. Rear Mezzanine: Bedroom and bathroom, Right Mezzanine: Access to The Olde Stable  Left Mezzanine, sitting area and access to Well Cottage  The Mezzanine is open in the centre looking down into the Great Room.  A large early twentieth century wooden “wagon wheel” chandelier hangs in the upper reaches of this space.   Access to the mezzanine is by a choice of two wide, one and three-quarter turn spiral stairways.  Both of wood, located at the left front, and right rear “corners” of the barn.

 

Left.... Well Cottage

Well Cottage has a pretty lounge with a woodburning stove and French doors to the grounds.

Accommodation: Ground Floor: TJ’s den, which most folks have visited. Games room, jacuzzi. First Floor: Master bedroom suite, with a balcony to the rear and left of the building.

The Balcony, runs to an upper deck from Tythe Barn.  It  forms a cover to the rear patio garden.