A fabulous Grade II* listed Georgian country home at the centre of the historic village of Winster. With a wealth of character and period features. Private courtyard, walled garden, summer house, driveway & forecourt parking plus double garage. 6/7 bedrooms, 3 en-suites plus Jack and Jill en-suite/family shower room, ground floor wash room & utility with shower, large dining hallway with ornate ceiling and log burner, generous breakfast kitchen with conservatory off, cellars, elegant 1st floor drawing room.
WINSTER HALL
Discover the timeless charm of this magnificent Grade II* listed residence, nestled in the heart of the sought-after village of Winster, within the breathtaking Peak District National Park. Originally built in 1628 and elegantly remodelled in 1720 with a striking Palladian-style façade, this historic home is a true architectural gem that forms the grand centrepiece of the village. Spanning three spacious floors, the property offers six to seven bedrooms, including three luxurious en suites and a Jack-and-Jill family shower room. Living spaces are equally impressive, featuring a majestic first-floor drawing room, an elegant reception hall, and an expansive breakfast kitchen opening into a charming conservatory. Additional amenities include a ground-floor shower room, utility room, and extensive storage cellars. Outside, beautifully landscaped gardens await, including a picturesque walled garden with a summer house—perfect for relaxing or entertaining. The home also benefits from off-road parking and a detached double garage, making it as practical as it is enchanting.
Winster is a quaint and picturesque village nestling on a hillside in the Peak District National Park. It has winding side streets of delightful stone-built cottages leading off Main Street, and there are a wealth of historic buildings including an early market house under the care of the National Trust. The village amenities include shops, post office, pubs, church, and medical centre. The towns of Bakewell (6.4 miles) and Matlock (5 miles) are just a few minutes’ drive away, and the village is within commuting distance of the cities of Sheffield, Nottingham, and Derby.
Entering the property via a broad panelled entrance door, which opens to:
RECEPTION HALL
Currently used as a dining room, this elegant room has front-aspect sliding sash windows, stone flags to the floor, and an original fire opening with dressed stone surround and heavy corbelled lintel with a raised hearth, housing a log-burning stove. To either side of the chimney breasts are built-in storage cupboards. The room has a grand plastered ceiling, with two large circular plaster reliefs depicting canthus leaves, fruits, and flowers. The inset panels are painted, depicting cherubs, putti, and other figures. The room has central heating radiators with radiator covers, and wall lamp points. A panelled door opens to:
RECEPTION ROOM TWO
Currently used as a ground-floor bedroom, having dual-aspect sliding sash windows, the side windows overlooking the walled garden. The room has a fine feature fire opening with a dressed stone surround, having a raised hearth, housing an electric flame-effect stove. There is cornice to the ceiling, the two ceiling panels being painted with mythical and human figures, including Pegasus, Zeus, and Ganymede. The room has central heating radiators with radiator covers, television aerial points, and table lamp circuits.
From the reception hallway, a panelled door opens to:
INNER HALL
Having an elegant original staircase rising to the upper-floor accommodation. The hallway has polished travertine-style tiles to the floor, central heating radiator with a radiator cover, and built-in storage cupboards. There are sliding sash windows on the turn of the stairs, with superb far-reaching views to the open countryside that surrounds the village. From the hall, a panelled door opens to:
GROUND-FLOOR CLOAKROOM
Having a side-aspect sliding slash window overlooking the garden. There are polished travertine-style tiles to the floor, and suite with WC and contemporary wall-hung wash hand basin with tiled splashback. There is coat hanging space, and a central heating radiator with radiator cover. A panelled door leads to:
UTILITY SHOWER ROOM
Again, with a sliding sash window overlooking the garden. There is a worksurface with an inset stainless sink with mixer tap, having storage cupboards beneath, and wall-mounted storage cupboards over. There is space and connection for an automatic washing machine. Within the room is a tiled shower cubicle with a Mira mixer shower, along with a low-level flush WC, and central heating radiator with radiator cover. The room has an extractor fan.
From the inner hallway, a further panelled door opens to:
REAR ENTRANCE LOBBY
Having a half-glazed entrance door opening onto the rear of the property, and a panelled door, which opens to a quarter-turn stone staircase descending to storage cellars:
CELLAR ONE
With a rear-aspect hopper light window, and door openings leading to:
CELLAR TWO
With original stone thrawls and a salting bench.
CELLAR THREE
Again, with original stone thrawls, power, and lighting.
From the reception hallway, a further panelled door opens to:
BREAKFAST KITCHEN
A delightfully spacious room with side-aspect sliding slash windows with fitted window seats. The room has polished travertine-style tiles to the floor, and an exceptionally good range of hand-painted kitchen units, with cupboards and drawers set beneath a polished granite worksurface, which returns to form a peninsular island. There are wall-mounted storage cupboards with under-cabinet lighting, as well as open-display shelves, glass-fronted display cabinets, pull-out basket drawers, and tray space. Set within the worksurface is a one-and-a-half-bowl stainless sink with mixer tap, and a four-ring ceramic hob. Sited within the kitchen is an electric AGA cooker with twin-lidded hot plates and double oven, over which is an extractor canopy. Beneath the worksurface, there is space and connection for a dishwasher. Within the kitchen is a double oven and grill, and built-in microwave. Set within an alcove is an American-style side-by-side fridge-freezer. The room is illuminated by downlight spotlights, and there is ample space for a breakfast table if required. A half-glazed door leads to:
CONSERVATORY
An elegant conservatory, having double-glazed panels set upon a dwarf wall, and having an apexed glass roof. There are polished travertine-style tiles to the floor, following through from the kitchen, and a pair of doors which open onto a cobbled terrace, from where there are superb views to the open countryside that surrounds the village.
From the inner hallway, an elegant original staircase with turned spindles and swept handrail, rises to:
FIRST-FLOOR LANDING
Illuminated by windows on each turn of the stairs, the spacious landing has a central heating radiator with thermostatic valve, and a broad original panelled door opening to:
FIRST-FLOOR DRAWING ROOM
An exceptionally spacious room with seven dual-aspect sliding slash windows, flooding the room with natural light and enjoying views over the village and the garden. The room has elegant cornice to the ceiling, and a pair of fluted columns adorn a broad opening to the centre of the room. The room has a feature fire opening with a decorative surround, and Victorian cast iron and tiled insert and hearth, creating a display feature. The room is illuminated by wall lamp points, and there are central heating radiators with radiator covers. A panelled door opens to a useful deep storage cupboard.
From the landing, further original panelled doors open to:
HADDON SUITE
Having an entrance lobby with doors leading to a spacious double bedroom with side-aspect sliding sash windows with views over the surrounding properties to the open countryside of the Derwent Valley. The room has a good range of built-in wardrobes, providing hanging space and storage shelving, along with over-bed storage lockers, and bedside cabinets with open shelving. There is a central heating radiator with thermostatic valve and radiator cover, and a point for wall-mounted TV. From the lobby, a door opens to:
EN SUITE BATHROOM
Being fully tiled with natural limestone tiles, and having a side-aspect sliding sash window. Suite with: panelled bath with mixer tap; pedestal wash hand basin; and close-coupled WC. There is a central heating radiator and shaver point.
From the landing, a door opens to:
ASHFORD SUITE
A double room with a side-aspect sliding sash window, central heating radiator with thermostatic valve, point for a wall-mounted TV, and a pair of doors opening to a boiler cupboard, which houses two combination gas-fired boilers, supplying hot water and central heating to the property. From the bedroom, a panelled door opens to:
EN SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Having a side-aspect sliding slash window overlooking the enclosed garden and the village beyond. The room is fully tiled, with marble tiles to the walls and floor. Suite with: corner shower cubicle, with mixer shower with multifunction head; wall-hung wash hand basin with illuminated mirror and shaver point over; and concealed-cistern dual-flush WC. The room has downlight spotlights and a vertical central heating radiator.
From the first-floor landing, the staircase continues via two quarter-landings – having sliding sash windows, taking advantage of the fine view – to:
SECOND-FLOOR LANDING
Where doors open to:
HEATHCOTE SUITE
Having an entrance lobby with doors opening to a spacious double bedroom with side-aspect sliding sash windows with far-reaching views over the village rooftops to the wooded hills in the distance. The room is fitted with a good range of built-in wardrobes, providing hanging space, storage shelving, open-display shelves, and storage drawers. There is a central heating radiator with thermostatic valve with radiator cover, and a point for wall-mounted TV. From the entrance lobby, a door leads to:
EN SUITE SHOWER ROOM
Being fully tiled in natural limestone polished tiles, and having a suite with: shower cubicle with mixer shower with monsoon rain head and handheld shower spray; contemporary wall-hung wash hand basin, over which is an illuminated mirror; and concealed-cistern dual-flush WC. The room has an extractor fan and shaver point.
From the second-floor landing, a broad opening leads to:
INNER LANDING
Where panelled doors lead to:
ROWSLEY BEDROOM
With front-aspect sliding sash windows, central heating radiator with thermostatic valve and radiator cover, and television aerial point.
BONSALL BEDROOM
Having a front-aspect oeil-de-boeuf feature window with views over the village. The room has a good range of built-in wardrobes providing hanging space, storage shelving, and fitted drawers. There is a column-style central heating radiator.
HARTINGTON BEDROOM
A spacious double room with dual-aspect sliding sash windows overlooking the village and the gardens. There is a central heating radiator with thermostatic valve and radiator cover. The room has a dressing unit with knee-hole space, having fitted drawers, open-display shelves, and a mirror. A panelled door opens to:
JACK-AND-JILL SHOWER ROOM
An exceptionally spacious shower room with side-aspect windows overlooking the gardens. The room is fully tiled with polished travertine-style tiles to the floor, and has a suite with: his-and-hers wash hand basins set upon a marble-top wash stand, with storage cupboards and drawers beneath; double-entry wet-room-style shower cubicle with mixer shower having overhead and handheld shower sprays; and a concealed-cistern dual-flush WC. The room is fitted with a good-range of built-in wardrobes, providing hanging space and storage shelving. There are downlight spotlights, shaver point, and extractor fan. A panelled door opens back to the second-floor landing.
From the second-floor landing, a further panelled door opens to a narrow staircase with original splat balustrade rising to an access door, leading to the roof.
OUTSIDE
To the front of the property is a stone-set forecourt driveway with a pair of majestic gates (independently Grade II Listed), providing off-road parking spaces. To the side of the driveway is a deep border well stocked with ornamental shrubs and mature trees. From the driveway, an oak batten door with ring latch opens to the walled garden. To the front of the property is a climbing wisteria, the facade having ashlar blocks, dressed chamfered quoins, and a pair of square pilasters rising to decorative stonework capitals with paterae and fleur-de-lys decoration, above which is a cantilever cornice, surmounted by stone balustered parapet. The main entrance door has a pediment set upon half-doric pillars. The classical-proportioned windows have decorative stone architraves with keystone features, and there is an oeil-de-boeuf window to the upper storey.
To the rear of the property is a large, flagged terrace enclosed by natural stone walls with borders stocked with flowering plants and climbing roses, creating a delightfully private space, where a door opens from the rear entrance lobby. Steps rise to a brick-set terrace where doors open from the conservatory. Within the courtyard is a stone-built garden store. An oak batten door leads to a pedestrian access to the right-hand side of the property.
A further oak batten door with ring latch leads to the walled garden, having a large central lawn, with borders stocked with a good variety of flowering plants and ornamental shrubs. To the end of the garden is:
SUMMER HOUSE
A spacious summer house with floor-length glazed windows and a pair of glazed entrance doors. There is a conservation rooflight, stone flags to the floor, and a feature exposed-stone wall with planted camellias.
From the garden, an oak batten door with ring latch opens to a driveway to the side of the property, over which the neighbouring properties have access. There is parking space on the driveway for further vehicles. The driveway gives access to:
GARAGE
A detached, stone-built, double garage with power and lighting.
SERVICES AND GENERAL INFORMATION
All mains services are connected to the property.
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TENURE Freehold
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DIRECTIONS
From the A6 at Darley Dale: take the B5057 signposted Wensley and Winster. Follow the road over the river at Darley Bridge, through the village of Wensley and on to Winster. After passing the National Trust Market House, the property can be found on the right-hand side.
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All measurements in these details are approximate. None of the fixed appliances or services have been tested and no warranty can be given to their condition. The deeds have not been inspected by the writers of these details. These particulars are produced in good faith with the approval of the vendor but they should not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact and they do not constitute any part of an offer or contract.
