Chalfont St Giles, Buckinghamshire HP84AS

Close to (1.5 miles) the quaint and ancient village of Chalfont St Giles, is a substantial house dating to pre-Victorian origins. The property sits within its own 25 acres of historic parkland and has an additional attached cottage, stables and barn, pool complex with sauna, spa, gym and steam room, tennis court, croquet lawn and golf hole.

Last on the market in the early 1990s, the main house of blue wisteria clad, brick and timber, with lead light windows, has 6 bedrooms and an attached cottage, with a further 2 bedrooms.

A magnificent triple aspect drawing room, with 3m high ceilings, has ornate timber panelled walls, and light timber floors, and lead light windows looking across the extensive lawns, all centred around a fireplace.

From the main hall, the formal dining room has capacity for a table comfortably seating 14 people and looks through original Victorian glass pane windows to the croquet lawn.

A sitting room/breakfast room, adjacent to the open plan kitchen has a large open fireplace and doors opening out to the raised terrace overlooking the croquet lawn. The solid timber kitchen, with brass handled cupboards, and a traditional granite benchtop, has two Gaggenau ovens, electric hot plate, built in siemens dishwasher and a terracotta tile floor. There are two walk-in pantries and a separate laundry room. From the hallway adjacent to the kitchen, stairs lead down to a wine cellar for 2000 plus bottles.

Overlooking the water garden and koi pond is a sitting room and double-glazed conservatory with a spa like feeling of peace and serenity. The sound of the waterfall echoes around this room which is a surreal space for all year round dining and entertaining. Currently the property has an extraordinary collection of statuary including a large terra cotta statue from French chateau, a pink marble well head of ancient origins and much more.

The pool complex is on a scale very rarely seen in the country house market, with timber vaulted ceilings, and a 15m long tiled pool. The complex has a separate changing room, spa, steam room and sauna as well as a gym. The whole pool complex is double glazed to retain heat, and has doors opening to the water garden, and to a garden terrace, with leads to a tennis court.

The cottage, which is attached to the house, has a charming open plan modern kitchen and sitting room with limestone floors. The kitchen has a double Bosch oven, clothes washing machine and separate drier and a siemens dishwasher. With two bedrooms and an office the cottage also has a separate summer room with double doors opening to a raised outdoor terrace.

The garage block has 3 bays and a loft room presently used as a pool table/ games room.

Grounds

The house sits at the end of a long gravel driveway lined with mature lime trees. Near the entrance is reputed to be Buckinghamshire's largest Sequoia. The seeds for these first plantings in Buckinghamshire were bought from California’s Sierra Nevada range by William Lobb, in the autumn of 1853. William knew this ‘vegetable monster’ the largest of all trees, would trigger an enormous craze for the major houses and their historic Victorian parks.

The formal garden areas are divided into laurel, beech, box and yew topiary rooms with English wildflower, rose and lavender borders providing a sea of colour for the house. From the sweeping driveway you can see excellent and enormous specimen trees of green and red beech, lime, cedar, and oak trees which frame the house. The park further contains a number of rare species of trees. In the driveway turning circle is a French antique, working gas light, held aloft by an imposing statue of what appears to be a Tahitian chief.

Three stables and a tack room are adjacent to a 23.9m long by 8.9m wide barn, suitable for the storage of tractors, hay and timber for the fireplaces.

The garden has a vegetable garden room, topiary garden rooms wrapped around private terraces, sweeping lawns and a golf hole. The paddock to the back of the property is private, surrounded by a mature shelter belt, and provides the opportunity to harvest each year for feed.

Services:

Two gas fired boilers service the main house. A separate gas fired boiler services the cottage, and two condensation gas fired boilers service the pool complex and spa. Three septic tanks, are presently emptied once a year.

Local Amenities:

Chalfont St. Giles, with its duck pond, 18th century cottages and ancient High Street is a picturesque village on the edge of the Chilterns, 25 miles from London and roughly the same distance from Oxford. It has some local bridle ways. The village and surrounds have several well known pubs and restaurants. The nearest station is Chalfont and Latimer (3.8 miles or 9 minutes) with trains to London Marylebone in 37 minutes. Central London is 22 miles via the A4 and 28 miles via the M4.

Buckinghamshire is renowned for its choice and standard of schooling. The county has a traditional grammar school system, with local grammar schools including Dr. Challoners High School and Beaconsfield High School for girls, and Dr. Challoners Grammar School for boys. Local independent preparatory schools include Caldicott, Davenies, Gayhurst and Thorpe House for boys, and Maltmans Green, St Mary’s and High March for girls.
The county hosts one on Englands most prestigious day and boarding schools for 13 to 18 year old boys and girls, Stowe School, on its magnificant Capability Brown parkland.

Locally, sporting and recreational amenities include The Beaconsfield Golf Club (Seer Green) and The Buckinghamshire Golf Club (in Denham). There is an LTA affiliated tennis club in Jordans (3 miles away) together with cricket and tennis clubs in Beaconsfield (6 miles) and Gerrards Cross, with rugby clubs in Beaconsfield and High Wycombe.

The M25 (4 miles away) provides access to London and Heathrow which is 16 miles or approximately 20 minutes away.

Rates:

Council Tax band H: £4547.72 (2024 – 2025)