WOOLMERS PARK ESTATE RESIDENCE
GARDENS & GROUNDS
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WOOLMERS PARK ESTATE RESIDENCE
As would be expected for a house of this calibre and provenance, Woolmers Park has extensive grounds which extend to 232 acres. The land is a combination of traditional, rolling parkland, fenced paddocks and beautiful mixed woodland of some 40 acres. There is no public rights of way ensuring the estate offers exceptionally rare privacy and security, so close to central London.
Following comprehensive and hugely sympathetic renovation, the sprawling Woolmers Park estate now includes a Georgian mansion – A Grade II *-listed mansion, eight cottages, stables, equestrian and polo leisure facilities( with indoor swimming pool), tennis courts, outdoor swimming pool, immaculately landscaped gardens, and hunting and fishing grounds— all privately fenced in over 70,000 square feet.
The main mansion boasts eight bedrooms( five en-suite), eight bathrooms, traditional kitchen with side sitting room, five reception rooms, game room and theatre. There is also a two-bedroom staff quarters and an attached indoor swimming pool complex which lays adjacent to the an elegant outdoor swimming pool with colonnade, symmetrical topiary and a newly built bathing pavilion in a classical Palladian style.
The Estate also offers a number of very high quality secondary dwellings suitable for family, guest or staff accommodation; Gardener’ s Cottage is a comprehensively restored 4 bedroom detached house with separate garage, attached to the walled garden. No. s 1 – 4 Woolmers Park Mews are Four properties 2 pairs of identical semidetached cottages each with 4 bedrooms and large private gardens to the rear. A Manager’ s Cottage and Players’ Cottage also offers two single storey staff cottages, with 3 and 2 bedrooms respectively and a New Lodge House in a strategic location at the head of the main drive, built on the site of the original entrance lodge and comprising 4 bedrooms.
GARDENS & GROUNDS
The house is situated at the heart of its land, with richly timbered grounds providing an idyllic, private setting. Formal gardens lie to the south of Woolmers Park and include wide lawns as well as distinctive walnut and pine trees, sloping gently down to a ha-ha then onto parkland with over a mile of the River Lea running through it.
To the east are wooded pleasure gardens with a comprehensive network of interlinked, bespoke designed tree houses. Beyond the parking area and turning circle to the west of the house there is mixed woodland and shrubbery. To the north of the house and private stable yard is further dense woodland. There is an outdoor tennis court with pavilion and between the Estate Offices and original walled kitchen garden is a traditional orchard.
The Italianate garden surrounding the outdoor swimming pool, was designed by Luciano Giubbilei, winner of the Best Show Garden Award at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2014 and a three time Gold Award winner.
The house that has everything: Woolmers Park is as elegant inside as it is outside
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