About this property

Dating back to 1678, Capp Mill is coming to the market for the first time in 44 years. Beautifully secluded sitting alongside the Painswick Stream, yet within half a mile of the heart of Painswick, this is a rare opportunity to acquire a handsome former mill and a slice of history.

Capp Mill is a superb and beautifully preserved example of the vernacular architecture of the era with imposing ashlar elevations, a stone tiled roof, slender diagonal paired chimney stacks and mullion windows topped by carved hood mouldings.

Internally, the house offers tremendous versatility with many rooms being suitable for use as living accommodation or bedrooms. On the ground floor, the spacious kitchen/breakfast room is the heart of the home fitted with a range of painted shaker units topped by granite surfaces and a four-oven AGA. A spacious dining room and drawing room, all with wet underfloor heating running off the main boiler, complete the ground floor accommodation. On the first floor, there is a bathroom and three evenly proportioned rooms, two of which could be used as either bedrooms or living rooms to suit a new owners’ needs. Over the two upper floors, there are five further bedrooms and a family bathroom with scope to create further bathrooms (subject to permission).

The detached cottage sits across the courtyard and offers excellent scope for use as a rental property, a home office or as guest or relatives’ accommodation. Sympathetically renovated, the Cottage offers exposed stone walls, oak window frames, a stone fireplace housing a wood-burning stove and a hand-made elm staircase with pegged mortice and tenon joints. The current accommodation provides a first floor living room and kitchen, with a bedroom and bathroom on the ground floor, and a further bedroom and spacious landing on the upper floor. The cottage has access to a streamside terrace ideal for al fresco refreshments.

Outside
The gardens run alongside the Painswick Stream and are mainly gently undulating lawns interspersed with mature specimen trees and shrubs. Clipped and shaped yew trees to the front of the house mirror the symmetrical nature of the architecture. Mature hedges bound the property with a gravelled drive with a turning circle to the front of the house and ample off road parking and a carport to the rear.

Situation
Largely constructed from local stone, Painswick is a thriving community with many beautiful buildings dating back as far as the 14th Century. Painswick Churchyard is famous for its impressive table tombs and 99 yew trees about which folklore holds that if a 100th should grow the devil will pull it out. There are local shops, galleries, tearooms and restaurants in the village along with a pharmacy, doctor and dentist surgeries and two public houses whilst the surrounding towns provide a comprehensive range of social and retail amenities to suit all tastes and requirements including supermarket outlets for all the leading brands. Recreational opportunities include tennis, rugby, bowls, cricket and golf clubs with many other groups meeting at the Painswick Centre.

Painswick offers a playgroup and primary school with secondary schools in the surrounding towns including Marling School (boys), Stroud High School (girls) and Pate’s (mixed) grammar schools and independent schools including Beaudesert Park School and Wycliffe College in Stroud, Dean Close, Cheltenham College and Cheltenham Ladies College in Cheltenham and Kings School in Gloucester.

Additional Information
Mains electricity, drainage and water with gas-fired central heating and oil-fired AGA.

• Substantial Detached House

Grade II Listed

Period Features

Generous Mature Gardens

Entrance Hall

Drawing Room

Dining Room

Music Room

Study/Snug

Kitchen/Breakfast Room

Additional information

• • Substantial Detached House
• Grade II Listed
• Period Features
• Generous Mature Gardens
• Entrance Hall
• Drawing Room
• Dining Room
• Music Room
• Study/Snug
• Kitchen/Breakfast Room

Key information

Council Tax Band: 7

Tenure: Freehold

Energy Performance Certificate