Kingway Farm Cottage, Corston, Wiltshire – Stone Cottage, Annexe and 11.5 Acres

A stone cottage between Corston and Hullavington

Kingway Farm Cottage is a characterful three-bedroom period stone cottage with a self-contained two-bedroom annexe, a Grade II listed 17th-century barn and approximately 11.5 acres of level pasture. The property lies between the Wiltshire villages of Corston and Hullavington, around four miles south of Malmesbury. The price guide is £1,100,000.

The cottage

The cottage is believed to date from around 1650; a plaque on the chimney bears the date 1635. The current owners have lived there for 25 years. Features include oil-fired central heating and a pressurised water system with a water softener.

The entrance opens into a living room with a stone inglenook fireplace and log burner, with stairs to the first floor. A ground-floor bedroom has exposed period timbers and an en-suite shower room. The dining room has glazed double doors to the garden and leads through to the kitchen, which has navy-painted fitted units, oak worktops, a one-and-a-half-bowl sink, plumbing for a dishwasher and washing machine, an electric cooker point, extractor hood and an integrated under-counter fridge. A half-glazed external door also opens onto the garden. Upstairs are two further bedrooms and a family bathroom.

Self-contained annexe

Converted from adjoining outbuildings in 2015, the annexe provides ancillary residential or holiday accommodation. It has oak doors, an open-plan kitchen and living room with two external doors and partly exposed ceiling beams. The kitchen includes fitted units, worktops, an electric oven, a four-ring hob with extractor and a one-and-a-half-bowl stainless-steel sink. The living area has a freestanding log burner. There are two bedrooms, each with an en-suite bath or shower room.

Barn, gardens and paddocks

A wide-splayed entrance from a country road leads via a private gated drive to an arrival courtyard. The rear garden includes a lawn, fruit trees, raised vegetable beds, a greenhouse and a poultry enclosure with henhouse.

The traditional agricultural threshing barn stands beside the cottage. It is Grade II listed and currently provides storage and two internal loose boxes, also described as indoor stables. Planning permission for conversion to a pottery with offices has expired.

The adjoining level pasture is divided into five paddocks, with stock fencing, water supplied to field troughs, a mature hedge and several trees running through the middle. A mobile field shelter measures approximately 20 ft by 12 ft (6 m by 3.6 m). The total land area is approximately 11.5 acres, or about 4.6 hectares.

Location and connections

Malmesbury provides shops and amenities, with Cirencester, Bath and Bristol also named among the nearby centres. The M4 at Junction 17 is around three miles away. Chippenham station has regular mainline services to London Paddington, with journey times stated as little as 70 minutes, and to Bristol in around 25 minutes. Local pubs include the Somerford Arms at Little Somerford, The Vine Tree at Norton and The Potting Shed at Crudwell.

Nearby leisure and sporting destinations include water sports at the Cotswold Water Park, horse racing at Cheltenham and Bath, and eventing at Badminton, Dauntsey and Gatcombe Park.