This 19th century country house in New Forest is now up for sale
This 1870 s country house in Boldre village designed by British architect Richard Norman Shaw offers an elegant mix of period styles.
Its highlights include expansive barrel ceilings, sandstone gothic arches, stone window mullions and tall brick chimneys. The New Forest property has original formal gardens and views over its own landscape of fields and woodland.
The renovated, late 19th century Hampshire property, called Boldre Grange, has 24 acres of land, grand scale living and a design that draws on historic vernacular buildings.
According to its marketing materials, it is considered one of the most important houses in the New Forest and mentioned by Nikolaus Pevsner's architectural guides as having all the Shaw features — asymmetrical facades, timber-framed gables, some mullioned and transomed windows, brick laid in English bond. More: Penthouse in The Glass Building in London Lists is updated for 3.35 Million Dollars.
There are three pointed stone arches in its entrance areas, including a stepped front door arch, which gives a sense of grandeur. It has large, high-up stone mullions in its reception rooms, facing its parkland grounds.
The grandest barrel ceiling sweeps above the kitchen and dining room and has a central skylight. Its dining room, meanwhile, has a carved wood chimney piece.
Boldre Grange was previously divided into three separate homes, but the longtime owners have reinstated it as a single property with a flexible layout.
They originally owned its middle section and then bought the other two properties and added additional acreage to its meadow grounds, according to its selling agent Oliver Custance Baker. Its longtime owners have pieced together Boldre Grange and put it back together with a lot of hard work and effort, and have restored its elegant Arts and Crafts bones, Mr. Custance Baker said. It has a great spot at the end of a large private drive with no neighbours, views over your own land and pasture grounds that offer scope for equestrian facilities. The red brick-lined revivalist house was built in 1874 and includes a yew tree walk and wisteria-draped brick pillars. Boldre It has a Grade II listing that gives special interest to properties judged to be of particular special interest.
The 11,000 square foot house has 10 bedrooms, six bathrooms, a kitchen family room, a library, a dining room, an office sitting room, a conservatory, a study and cellars.
The adjoining two-bedroom cottage has 1,930 square feet of space, a double garage with two bedrooms, a wet room, a greenhouse and timber sheds.
The house's attached cottage has its own entrance, gardens and garages and can be rented out as additional income.
Boldre Grange's gardens include Victorian-era formal gardens, a yew walk, orchard, lawns, fields, woodland and a viewing platform. It is about 24.37 acres in all.
Richard Norman Shaw was highly skilled in constructing buildings that drew on the Old English vernacular architecture, and his Queen Anne revival houses are particularly notable. Shaw played a part in the English Domestic Revival Movement, which influenced the Arts and Crafts movement in the 1880s.
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Boldre Grange is located three miles from the coastal sailing town of Lymington, Boldre Grange takes its name from the historic village it is situated in. Boldre Grange village is situated next to the Lymington River with many old trees within the boundaries of the New Forest national park.
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