Steppes Cottage, Clee St Margaret

Agent: Nock Deighton

Offers: £375,000

Call: 01584 875555

SITUATED about seven miles east of Ludlow, Clee St Margaret is one of the prettiest villages in a conservation area of South Shropshire. It is designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty and is surrounded by some of the area's most beautiful rural countryside and truly portrays a style of an old English country living.

Steppes Cottage is thought to date back to the 1600s and was extended by the present owners in 1991 and 2001. It boasts many appealing features of character including flagstone floors, a large inglenook fireplace, an A-frame cruck beam and a wealth of exposed timbers.

The accommodation is quite flexible. The ground floor study could easily be used as a fourth bedroom if required. The main sitting room has a magnificently large stone inglenook fireplace with a flagstone hearth and houses a wood burning stove. There are bathrooms on both floors.

The gardens are a particular delight being south westerly facing and taking full advantage of the daytime sunlight and they adjoin farmland with views towards the Nordy Bank. The garden is interspersed with mature trees and well stocked flower borders.

There can be few tiny villages as pretty as Clee St Margaret, with its cluster of stone cottages nestling below the slopes Clee Liberty.