A PERIOD country house with a relative’s annexe, gardens and grounds extending to around 1.7 acres and a family home with plenty of style, Ashdene certainly offers something for everyone.

Built in around 1750, this country home is full of character and has many features worthy of preservation, as endorsed by the Grade II status awarded by English Heritage.

First-class family accommodation is provided, along with an element of flexibility in the house’s layout, all creating a lovely environment in which to live and entertain.

There’s a drawing room, a sitting room, a dining room, a breakfast kitchen, a laundry and a studio on the ground floor, plus two WCs and main and rear halls. There is even a barrel-vaulted wine cellar with original pig salting trough and cellar thralls.

The first floor has three bedrooms, an en suite and a shower room and there are three bedrooms and a bathroom on the second floor.

Each room has features of note and there is an overall feeling of welcome throughout the house.

The cottage annexe provides self-contained accommodation that includes a bedroom, a sitting room, a kitchen and a bathroom.

The photographs shown here give an insight into the style and character of the house, where you’ll see English oak cross beaming, a period returning staircase and some beautiful period fireplaces, including a stone fireplace with cast iron solid-fuel grate in the main drawing room.

There are sash windows, shutters, butler’s pantry…the list just goes on.

Of course, as well as beauty there is practicality.

In the breakfast kitchen you’ll find an extensive range of kitchen units, which have been planned around three arched brick recesses. There is a bottle green Rayburn range as well as a double oven and a Meile four-ring gas hob.

Ashdene is set within formal gardens and grounds of around 1.7 acres and is managed as two distinct areas: formal gardens and paddock.

There is an English country garden, part of which is bounded by natural dry-stone walling, lawns, terracing with a Chinese pagoda, a small vegetable garden with greenhouse and brick-built potting shed and a five-bar gated driveway.

To the south of the main garden is a grass paddock/orchard with an embankment running across the southern boundary.

In addition, there is a small stable block and a double garage.

Halam is a small village set in relatively unspoilt countryside less than two miles to the north-west of the thriving mister town of Southwell.

The village has the essential ingredients of a traditional village lifestyle: a highly-rated primary school, a village hall, an active church community and a village pub.