- PERIOD GEORGIAN FAMILY HOME WITH A DELIGHTFUL 4 ACRE GARDEN - A GARDENERS DREAM
- BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY
- Sympathetically refurbished
- Retains wealth of original features
- Provides 5* Silver Award B&B accommodation
- Plus Luxury Garden Cottage
- Cascades Gardens are part of the National Garden Scheme
- 6 Bedrooms, 5 Bathrooms
- Reception rooms plus Conservatory
Full Description
Tenure: Freehold
The Cascades is a quality home of different facets, presenting a rare opportunity which will appeal to those seeking to fulfil gardening ambition or to create alternative income streams within a delightful village setting. The house is a fine Georgian residence, providing elegant 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom accommodation across 3 floors, sympathetically refurbished and retaining a wealth of original features and style throughout. The accommodation currently provides 5 star and ‘Silver Award’ B&B accommodation which is complemented by a luxury ‘garden cottage’, yet would equally provide versatile and particularly generous family living.
Cascades Gardens, part of the National Garden Scheme, have been restored over the past 13 years through the devotion of the current owners and have evolved to build reputation and respect from plant and garden enthusiasts throughout the region. Natural features and watercourses from a former corn mill, enhance the setting making a truly unique environment which offers opportunity to capitalise on generating supplementary income through public entrance or plant sales.
Bonsall is situated south of the historic market town of Matlock, providing ready access to the delights of the Derbyshire Dales and Peak District countryside and a further draw for visitors and paying guests. The cities of Sheffield, Derby and Nottingham all lie within daily commuting distance and pay train service in neighbouring Cromford provides rail travel to Derby and Nottingham and mainline links beyond.
ACCOMMODATION
A traditional six panelled door with fan light set within an elegant cutstone entrance and opens to a…
RECEPTION HALLWAY – where period detail is immediately evident and present throughout the house. There are coved mouldings to the high ceiling, original tiled floor and stairs which rise to the first floor. At the foot of the stairs a half glazed door with coloured lights leads from a…
CONSERVATORY providing outside WC facility with external access, tiled floor, central heating radiator and glazing to three sides. By the entrance is a gilt decorated lattice cover with Hopton wood marble reception table.
From the hall beneath the stairs a door opens to a flight of stone steps leading to the flagged…
CELLAR – with ample standing room and offering potential for a number of purposes. A part glazed door allows external access from the rear and partitioned rooms include fuel store, hobby area with aging range to the chimney breast, window and strip light, boiler store with stone thralls, quarry tiled floor and siting the wall mounted gas fired boiler which serves the central heating and hot water system. Workshop again with thrall, lighting and stone fireplace.
To the end of the reception hall a part glazed door encloses an inner hallway with doors off to the…
DINING ROOM – 5.7m x 3.96m (18' 8" x 13') an elegant room with deep plaster mouldings, picture rails and a substantial marble fireplace with herringbone tile inset and solid fuel grate. Deep skirtings, central heating radiator and broad sash window with a shuttered casement looking across the driveway and waterfall.
KITCHEN – 4.4m x 3.3m (14' 5" x 10' 10") with a range of hand built pine low level cupboards topped with granite work surfaces within which is set a twin bowl stainless steel sink. There are similar wall pine cupboards, two windows to the side, quarry tiled floor and a Stanley gas fired range providing cooking facility. A part glazed door allows access to the rear yard, utility room and outbuildings.
DRAWING ROOM – 3.9m x 6.93m (12' 9" x 22' 8") the longer measurement taken into the front facing bay window which allows excellent natural light. There are deep ceiling mouldings, picture rail, central heating radiators and Hopton marble fireplace with solid fuel grate and cutstone hearth.
To the end of the inner hall there is access to a…
BUTLERS STORE – with coat hanging facilities and a full height built-in cupboard with glazed doors to the upper shelved storage. There is an etched glazed window to the rear and curtained doorway.
Off the inner hall a half flight of stairs lead to…
BATHROOM 1 – with pedestal wash hand basin, panelled bath having shower over and bidet complemented by handpainted tiles.
SEPARATE WC – with window to the rear and low flush WC.
Returning to the reception hallway stairs rise to the first floor having turned spindles and newels and pitch pine hand rail. The GALLERIED LANDING again includes a window to the rear, central heating radiator, deep coved mouldings and traditional four panelled doors which lead off to…
BEDROOM 1 – 3.49m x 3.58m (11' 5" x 11' 8") with broad sash window overlooking the waterfall by the drive entrance. Central heating radiator, recessed down lighting, attractive Hopton wood feature fireplace and door opening to the…
BATHROOM 2 – with a white suite including panelled bath, low flush WC, bidet and pedestal wash hand basin. There are hand painted tiles, windows to the front and side allow excellent natural light and there is a separate door leading from the landing. Chrome towel radiator, coved mouldings and modern down lighting.
BEDROOM 2 – 3.95m x 2.61m (12' 11" x 8' 7") with rear aspect window and central heating radiator.
MASTER BEDROOM SUITE 3 – 5.92m x 3.95m (19' 5" x 12' 11") the longer measurement including the broad bay window, front facing and allowing excellent natural light. Central heating radiator, deep coved mouldings and attractive marble fireplace.
BATHROOM 3 – of generous proportion and fitted with a white suite including a modern cast bath with electric shower over, pedestal wash hand basin, bidet and low flush WC. There is also access from the landing and the room is finished with hand painted tiles with central heating radiator, window to the rear and an airing cupboard store siting the foam lagged hot water cylinder.
Bedroom 3 and the adjoining bathroom offer versatility as a private suite with door access off the landing.
A second flight of stairs lead to the second floor having window above the stairwell, access to deep eaves storage and doors off to…
BATHROOM 4 – again elegantly fitted with a modern free standing bath with ball and claw feet and Victorian style mixer shower tap, low flush WC and pedestal wash hand basin. Chrome towel radiator.
BEDROOM 4 – 3.98m x 3.93m (13' x 12' 10") with central heating radiator, access to eaves storage and a high level dormer window allowing a pleasant southerly aspect to the front.
An inner landing has further eaves storage and access to…
BEDROOM 5 – 5.16m x 4.07m (16' 11" x 13' 4") with front facing dormer window, eaves storage to front and rear and access to the roof void. Feature cast fireplace and central heating radiator.
GARDEN COTTAGE
Offering alternative letting opportunity or guest accommodation a luxury detached single storey annexe which has proved a particularly popular addition to the B&B trade. The accommodation includes a spacious combined living/sleeping area plus BATHROOM 5 – a marble floored luxury bathroom suite with spa bath and walk-in shower.
Cascades Gardens
Hidden from roadside view and set around the site of a former corn mill, the walled gardens are spectacular and a true delight. The gardener and expert plantsman will instantly appreciate the setting, planning and layout of the gardens which are complemented by the millrace and canal, fed by holding ponds and which produce the dramatic ‘cascades’.
The gardens extend to around 4 acres and are sheltered beneath part wooded limestone cliffs and banks forming the northern boundary through which nature walks provide superb vantage points and vistas. Lawns and pathways meander through formal and less formal beds, planted with an enviable variety of unusual trees, shrubs and perennials, together with rose shrubbery, winter and water gardens, vegetable patch and others. An expanding array of rare plants has helped build the growing reputation now afforded to the gardens and a selection of plants are offered for sale in the private nursery.
Access to the house is via a sweeping limestone drive, through pillared gates and which pass by waterfalls at the front of the house leading to the parking area. At the opposite end of the gardens a further access has been prepared offering scope for alternative garden visitor parking or maintenance vehicles.
TENURE – Freehold.
Archway Estate Office
Crown Square
Matlock
DE4 3AT
Tel 0843 313 6987
SERVICES – All mains services are available to the property which enjoys the benefit of gas central heating. No tests have been made on services or their distribution.
FIXTURES & FITTINGS – Only the fixtures and fittings mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. Certain other items may be taken at valuation if required. No specific test has been made on any appliance either included or available by negotiation.
DIRECTIONS – From Matlock Crown Square, take the A6 south to Cromford. Turn right at Cromford crossroads into the Via Gellia road. Proceed for around 1 mile before turning right as signed Bonsall. Rise up The Clatterway, passing the turn into Black Tor Road and Cascades is then found on the right hand side.
