Beautiful former Victorian vicarage on the market for £2.1m
The Old Vicarage in Penrhos, Monmouthshire, enjoys an elevated position with stunning unimpeded views over its own 50-acre grounds.
This historic property, built in 1867, has been well maintained over the past two decades.
(Image: Blue Book via Rightmove) It boasts beautifully proportioned rooms with period features, such as high ceilings, large windows, and wooden floors.
The interior is designed to flow well for family life and entertaining, with spacious and bright reception rooms.
The main house is accessed through a neatly clipped hedge and two sets of double gates, leading to a gravelled driveway.
The driveway curves through a charming assortment of shrubs and trees to a parking area in front of the house, and continues past outbuildings to a courtyard with additional parking.
The drawing room, sitting room, and study are all equipped with fireplaces and large bay windows, offering peaceful views of the mature gardens and paddocks.
(Image: Blue Book via Rightmove)
The kitchen/breakfast room is described as a "charming and highly practical space", complete with fitted kitchen, traditional inbuilt dresser, and an AGA.
It has ample space for a large breakfast table and sitting area, as well as plenty of storage.
(Image: Blue Book via Rightmove)
Upstairs, the principal bedroom shares the same stunning south-facing view as the drawing room and has access to a dressing room or further bedroom.
There are two more bedrooms and bathrooms on this floor, and another two bedrooms on the second floor.
The property also includes a separate one-bedroom cottage, outbuildings with potential to be converted, and a large barn.
(Image: Blue Book via Rightmove)
The cottage has a kitchen/dining room downstairs, and a sitting room, bedroom, and bathroom upstairs.
It has its own private access and garden at the rear.
The barns, separate from the house and with their own access from the road, offer flexible space for storage or conversion to garaging, stabling, or additional accommodation.
The estate also boasts mature gardens and grounds, which have been opened annually as part of the National Garden Scheme for the past 20 years.
The gardens include a parterre, kitchen garden, wildflower meadow, and ponds.
The current owners have focused on planting trees over the last two decades, with species including oaks, cedar, acer, mulberry, flowering handkerchief, lime, tulip, and male ginko trees.
(Image: Blue Book via Rightmove)
The property comes with approximately 50 acres of land, including extensive paddocks currently used for sheep grazing through a formal agreement with a local farmer.
The paddocks near the house are planted with mature trees and separated from the garden by estate fencing, giving it the feel of rolling parkland.
Beyond the paddocks are several ponds, a woodland area, and a stream, providing great habitats for wildlife.
Penrhos is a small rural hamlet with an active community centred on the medieval church of St Cadocs.
The nearby village of Raglan offers several shops, pubs, a post office, pharmacy, doctor's surgery, church, primary school, and an award-winning local family butcher.
The historic towns of Usk, Abergavenny, and Monmouth offer a further choice of independent shops and supermarkets.
Penrhos is well-connected by road, with easy access to the A40 and A465, providing direct routes to nearby towns.
The hamlet also has easy access to major transport links, such as the M4 motorway and A40, ensuring convenient access to both Cardiff and Bristol.
Cardiff and Bristol airports are both just over an hour's drive away.
The first resident vicar at Penrhos was the Rev. William Feetham, who moved here in 1866 and remained vicar until his death in 1902.
He commissioned the Welsh architect George J.J. Mair to build the Old Vicarage as a home for his large family.
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