Beauchamp Estates has announced the release of a new development of luxury apartments on an 8.5-acre estate in Ickenham, west London.
Harefield Place is an elegant Grade II listed Georgian manor house, built in 1786 for Sir Roger Newdigate, which has been transformed into 25 converted and new build two- and three- bedroom luxury apartments and penthouse. Residents will also have a spa, gymnasium, swimming pool, tennis court and underground parking
Located off The Drive, Ickenham’s most prestigious address, and close to Ickenham station and the A40 and motorway network. Harefield Place has been developed by Manorgrove Homes in association with Jade Development Enterprises. After two years of restoration, the development and apartments are build complete and ready for immediate occupation. The project has now been launched with interior-designed show apartments and ‘virtual tours’ for remote house-hunting.
It has become a gated development which is approached via a sweeping driveway which opens onto a forecourt and parterre garden in front of the manor house, which sits on an elevated position which offers far-reaching views over the surrounding area. This building provides nine two- and three-bedroom apartments, up to 1,940 sq ft in size. There is also a new build wing which offers 16 two- and three-bedroom apartments, with living space of up to 1,967 sq ft.
All benefit from generous ceiling heights and tall windows, spacious reception rooms, fully fitted custom design kitchens and luxurious bedroom suites. Some come with a study/home office and many have access to a private outdoor balcony or terrace.
In the manor house the original grand entrance hall has been retained and restored. Each apartment has a unique layout with a double reception room, a separate or open-plan kitchen, and a principal bedroom suite with a walk-in dressing room and main bathroom. They also include elegant original or reinstated Georgian and Edwardian bespoke design cornice, ceiling detailing, architraves and skirtings. The apartments in the new build wing offer similar accommodation but are more contemporary in style with floor-to-ceiling glazing, open-plan layouts, and private balconies and terrace.
All£nbsp;the properties have a luxury specification that includes fully fitted bespoke handmade kitchens with granite worktops and integrated Siemens appliances, engineered solid-wood flooring to principal rooms, underfloor heating, Minoli marble-effect tiling to bathroom floors and walls and fully fitted bespoke wardrobes.
Harefield Place has its own private wellness centre which consists of a lower ground floor leisure complex with an indoor swimming pool, glass-walled, fully equipped gymnasium and a spa with steam and sauna room, hot tub and changing room. Outside in the grounds the wellness centre includes a new tennis court with pavilion, built on the site of the old walled kitchen garden.
The 8.5 acres of landscaped grounds have four acres of sweeping lawns and gardens perfect for outside relaxation with space for entertaining friends, picnics, games of croquet, jogs and woodland walks. To the garden façade of the manor house there is a large sweeping lawn bordered by mature trees, this is where Shakespeare’s players once performed to Queen Elizabeth I. Bordering the lawns around the house there are wooded grounds which include graveled pathways, the lake and an orchard.
Harefield Place has an illustrious and colourful history. Since its founding in 1446, the estate has had major, even royal connections since Tudor times. Sir Roger Newdigate, who replaced an Elizabethan building with the current manor house in 1786, was a member of the Newdigate family, who for almost 440 years were the Lords of Harefield Manor. He became a major benefactor to Oxford University, giving the family name to the Newdigate Prize for Poetry still awarded today.
In 1805 and during the early 20th century the house was refurbished, so the current interiors have both Georgian and Edwardian architectural detailing. The final member of the Newdigate family to live at Harefield Place was Conservative MP Charles Newdigate Newdegate (1816-1887) who added a lake and walled kitchen garden.
In 1935 the house ceased being a private home and until 1965 became the Harefield Country Hospital, a maternity hospital specialising in caring for women during pregnancy and childbirth. In 1959 the hospital sold a parcel of land which is now the adjacent Harefield Place Golf Club. At one time, it had the role of headquarters of Blockbuster Video.
Gary Hersham, founding director of Beauchamp Estates says: “With its illustrious history and famous historic visitors such as Queen Elizabeth I and Lord Randolph Churchill, Harefield Place provides beautiful lateral apartments and leisure facilities in a Georgian manor house setting, surrounded by landscaped gardens and parkland. The apartments are perfect for local buyers wanting to upgrade/downsize and will also appeal to relocating Londoners seeking spacious homes in the capital’s green commuter belt that offer an abundance of private outdoor space and hotel-style leisure facilities.”
There are dressed show homes available for purchasers to view. Lateral apartments at Harefield Place are priced from £995,000 up to £1.695million (with a share of freehold)
Find out more at www.harefieldplace.com.
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