Listed for £225,000
August 23, 2024
FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION - 27 September 2024 - Auction Guide Price £225,000 to £250,000.
A highly desirable mature detached cottage, requiring extensive modernisation and offering scope to extend (s.t.p.p.), set with garaging, outbuildings and generous gardens in this beautiful rural location. IN ALL APPROX. 0.23 ACRES.
Directions - From Shrewsbury take the Welshpool road (A458) continue through the village of Ford and then passed Rowton Castle Hotel & Country Club. Carry on through Wattlesborough Heath passing the cafe on the left hand side. At the crossroads in Halfway House, take the right turn by the car repair garage onto Pecknall Lane. Continue along Pecknall Lane and as the road turns sharply to the right proceed straight ahead. On arrival at the next crossroads head straight over and the cottage will be identified after a short distance on the left hand side.
Situation - Stone Cottage is beautifully situated along a country lane positioned amidst a small scattering of properties and benefits from a lovely open aspect to the front. Halfway House provides a village hall and cafe, whilst further amenities can be found in the County town of Shrewsbury, which offers a comprehensive and diverse shopping centre with an excellent range of social facilities and a rail service. Commuters will find that the Welshpool road gives immediate access to the A5, which links to Oswestry in the north or alternatively through to the M54 and on to Telford.
Description - Stone Cottage is a highly desirable mature detached cottage. The property is in need of an extensive scheme of modernisation and improvement and also allows excellent potential for extensions subject to necessary planning permissions and building consents. The accommodation currently comprises two reception rooms, one of which could potentially be utilised as an additional bedroom if required, as there is an adjoining shower room. Also to the ground floor is a useful store room and lean-to giving access outside. To the first floor, there are three bedrooms and a bathroom with separate WC. Outside, twin timber gates lead onto a driveway parking area which in turns leads to the detached garage and adjoining workshops. The gardens, which also require extensive landscaping, provide fantastic potential for all future purchasers to introduce their own ideas and designs. It should be noted that the views to the front overlook fields with the Welsh hills in the distance.
Accommodation -
Storm Porch - Timber framed with panelled door leading into:
Kitchen - With stainless steel sink unit and drainer. Storage cupboards and drawers under. Oil fired ROYAL Rayburn. Door to:
Dining Room - With fireplace, quarry tiled hearth housing log burning stove, beamed ceiling. Window with attractive aspect to front over fields.
Inner Hall - With quarry tiled floor. Staircase to first floor and glazed door to Lean-to.
Sitting Room - With sink unit with storage cupboards under and over. Sliding patio doors to garden. Door to:
Shower Room - With WC, wall mounted wash hand basin, shower cubicle with inset tiles and mains fed shower.
Lean-To - With polycarbonate roof. Glazed door to front and rear.
First Floor Landing - With access to loft space. Built in airing cupboard with lagged hot water cylinder. Doors off and to:
Bedroom 1 - With two recesses with hanging rails and shelving. Window with lovely far reaching views.
Bedroom 2 - With wall mounted Dimplex electric heater. Two built in wardrobes. Lovely outlook to front.
Bedroom 3 - With window overlooking rear gardens and adjoining farmland.
Bathroom - With pedestal wash hand basin, panelled bath, part tiled walls.
Guest Wc - With low level WC, wall mounted wash hand basin with tiled splash.
Outside - The property is approached through twin timber entrance gates onto a driveway parking area giving access to the Garaging and adjoining Store/Workshops.
Garage - With metal up and over entrance door, power and light points. Work pit. Panelled timber door to rear. Archway through to:
Stores / Workshops - With corrugated door to front and lighting. Positioned to either side of the Garage are additional stores/workshops with power and light. With twin timber entrance doors.
The Gardens - To the front are established shrubbery beds and borders with access available down either side of the property to the rear. The rear gardens are a fantastic size but do require extensive landscaping offering superb potential for all garden enthusiasts to introduce their own ideas and tastes. The rear gardens include a nature pond with established surroundings. A well. The gardens extend to a Greenhouse with further space beyond, which is currently overgrown but contains a number of fruit trees and specimen shrubs and plants. Additional sheds/stores.
General Remarks -
Council Tax - The property is currently showing as Council Tax Band D. Please confirm the council tax details via Shropshire Council on or visit
Services - Mains water and electricity are understood to be connected. Foul drainage is to a septic tank. None of these services have been tested.
Agents Note -
Method Of Sale - The property will be offered for sale by PUBLIC AUCTION ON 27 September 2024 AT 3PM AT HALLS HOLDINGS HOUSE, BOWMEN WAY, BATTLEFIELD, SHREWSBURY, SY4 3DR. The Auctioneers, as agents, on behalf of the vendors, reserve the right to alter, divide, amalgamate or withdraw any of the property for sale at any time. The Auctioneers, further, reserve the right to sell the property privately, prior to auction without prior notice or explanation and no liability will be accepted to any intending purchaser in consequence of such a decision.
Boundaries, Roads And Fences - The Purchaser shall be deemed to have full knowledge of the boundaries and neither the Vendors nor their Agents will be responsible for defining any ownership of boundaries, hedges or fences. They will however provide whatever assistance they can to ascertain the ownership of the same.
Contract Of Special Conditions Of Sale - Stone Cottage will be sold subject to the Special Conditions of sale, which are not to be read at the time of sale, but will be available for inspection at the offices of the VENDORS SOLICITORS: Jacinta Walmsley, Hatchers Solicitors, Welsh Bridge, 1 Frankwell, Shropshire SY3 8JY. j. . OR AT THE AUCTIONEERS OFFICES, HALLS, 2 BARKER STREET, SHREWSBURY, SHROPSHIRE, SY1 1QJ. TEL: , approximately 14 days prior to the date of the auction. The purchasers will be deemed to bid on those terms and conditions and shall be deemed to purchase with full knowledge thereof, whether he/she has read the Special Conditions of sale or not.
Buyers Premium - In addition to the contract deposit required, buyers should note when bidding, that on the fall of the gavel, they will be responsible for paying a Buyer's Premium as noted on individual lots. This is additional to the purchase price and set at 2.5% plus VAT, i.e. (3%) of the "hammer price", subject to a minimum fee of £2,500 plus VAT (£3,000).
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Guide Price And Reserve - *Guides are provided as an indication of each sellers minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for and may change at any time prior to the auction. Each property will be offered subject to a RESERVE (a figure below which the Auctioneer cannot sell the property during the auction) which we expect will be set within the Guide Range or no more than 10% above a single figure Guide.
Tenure - Freehold. Purchasers must confirm via their solicitor.
Viewings - Halls, 2 Barker Street, Shrewsbury, Shropshire SY1 1QJ. Tel: . Email:
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