Property Details
You can find us located at the end of a long private drive, which will lead you across The Herefordshire Golf Course and through some beautiful woodland before the area opens up to Wormsley Grange situated on its own with uninterrupted views of the magnificent Herefordshire countryside.
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Sleeps 24 guests.
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12 bedrooms and 8 bath/shower rooms.
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Separate Self Contained Cottage
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Games room with pool table.
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Media room with 65” TV, table tennis and children’s toy cupboard.
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Outdoor dining table and chairs for all guests
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Walled garden with firepit and lounge chairs.
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Spectacular countryside views.
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Children and infants welcome.
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Travel cot and highchair available on request (please provide your own cot linen).
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*Up to 3 well-behaved dogs welcome
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WiFi.
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3 log burners
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Driveway parking for 15 cars.
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Boot Room
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Exposed beams.
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Flagstone floors.
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Charcoal BBQ
*A maximum of 3 well behaved dogs are welcome at the property for a small additional charge of £25 per dog. We do not allow dogs upstairs or on soft furnishings but they have full run of the ground floor.
Sitting room
With a log burner, three 2-seater sofas, an armchair, television and a spacious window seat.
Dining room
With a log burner and dining table with seating for all guests.
Kitchen
With a 5 door Aga, electric oven, induction hob, combi/microwave oven, 2 fridges, 2 freezers, 2 dishwashers, table with seating for everyone, a sit-up island with two stools and underfloor heating.
Drawing Room
With four 2-seater sofas, one armchair and a large window seat.
Games Room
With a 7ft pool table and a high bar table with three stools.
Utility room
With a washing machine, tumble dryer, iron and ironing board, clothes airer and underfloor heating.
Cloakroom
With underfloor heating, wash basin and WC.
Ground Floor
Bartlett
With a 6' super-king size bed, fitted cupboards, original fireplace, chest of drawers and dressing table.
Family bathroom
With a bath, a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Baldwin
With a 6' super-king size four poster bed, fitted cupboard, original fireplace, chest of drawers and basin.
Conference
With a 6' super-king size bed (which can be configured as twin 3' single beds on request) fitted cupboard, original fireplace, chest of drawers and basin.
Family bathroom
With a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Seckel
With twin 3' single beds and an en suite shower room.
En-suite shower room
With a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Taylor's Gold
With a 6' super-king size bed (which can be configured as twin 3' single beds on request), chest of drawers and armchair.
Hood
With a 5' king size bed and a chest of drawers.
Family bathroom
With a bath and hand-held shower, a separate walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
First Floor
Concorde
With a 6' super-king size bed (which can be configured as twin 3' single beds on request) and also a day bed suitable for a child, a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and en-suite shower room.
En-suite shower room
With a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Comice
With a 3' twin single beds (which can be configured as a 6' super king-size bed on request) a wardrobe, a chest of drawers, a dressing table and en-suite shower room.
En-suite shower room
With a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Anjou
With a 6' super-king size bed (which can be configured as twin 3' single beds on request), armchair and basin.
Forelle
With a 6' super-king size bed (which can be configured as twin 3' single beds on request), chest of drawers, armchair dressing table and basin.
Family shower room
With a walk-in shower, heated towel rail, wash basin and WC.
Second Floor
Ground Floor:
Open-plan sitting/dining/kitchen area
With a log burner, one two-seater sofa, two armchairs, television, kitchen table seating four guests, electric oven and hob and fridge/ice box.
First Floor:
Braeburn
With a 4'6 double bed and dressing table.
Bramley
With twin 3' single beds and chest of drawers.
Bathroom
With bath, overhead shower, wash basin and WC
The Cottage
About the house
Our drawing room and sitting room are filled with natural light from our large traditional bay windows, making each a lovely space to socialise, relax & take in the stunning rural views.
We have seating for formal and informal dining as well as a large outdoor terrace with wonderful views with tables and chairs for all to enjoy some al fresco dining. Our formal dining room offers charm and character with original flagstone flooring, as well as a log burner to keep you & your guests warm and cosy.
The gorgeous kitchen offers plenty of space, with 2 large breakfast tables, a traditional 5 door Aga, separate conventional cooking facilities, 2 fridges and freezers and 2 dishwashers, making preparations for meals & celebrations a joy!
The original wide staircase leads from the main hallway up to the first and second floors where 10 bedrooms are located. Each of our bedrooms have been individually decorated to compliment the style of the house and our guest’s needs. We have a mixture of en-suites and shared bathrooms scattered throughout both floors.
With parking outside the front of the house and in the courtyard at the back of the house, there is plenty of parking for all the guests.
From the central courtyard you can access our large boot room which is also a perfect place for dogs to stay, an additional shower room and on the second floor is our Media room with table tennis, a 65” TV and a toy cupboard. There is even a darts board if you are keen to throw a few arrows!
The Cottage is accessed separately and is home to 2 cosy bedrooms and its own open plan living space with a log burner and a small kitchen with hob, oven and fridge.
Wormsley Grange is surrounded by rolling hills and idyllic landscapes. The main walled garden is located at the rear of the property and consists of a vast expanse of lawn with neat walkways and stepped terraces. The house sits within 4.5 acres of grounds and there is a further 200 acres of farmland and woods to explore - please be mindful of the wildlife and farm animals!
Just a little History
Wormsley Grange has a long history, dating all the way back to the 12th century, when it is believed the surrounding land was first cultivated. Wormsley Priory was then founded for Canons Regular of St. Augustine by a member of the Talbot family, probably in the reign of King John. It was positioned a few hundred yards below the current house and few signs remain today other than a series of dry sinkings, representing fish-ponds and an irregular bank, perhaps representing the precinct enclosure. There are two further ponds about 200 yards S.S.W. of the house.
In the early years of the priory many gifts of the land were given for its upkeep, and it soon became a thriving medieval hamlet, the monks farming mostly sheep on the rich grass fields that lay around them.
The original Priory was demolished and it is thought that some of the original materials were used to construct Wormsley Grange.
Wormsley Grange has seen various families come and go over the years, the most notable being the Knight family. It was birth place to Richard Payne Knight, the famous landscape theorist and his brother Thomas Andrew Knight, the renowned horticulturalist who planted his hugely successful experimental fruit orchards in the grounds.
Thomas Andrew Knight was responsible for developing much of the fruit and vegetables that we enjoy today now, by creating disease resistant varieties. He wrote and published a book called ‘The Culture of the Apple and Pear, and on the Manufacture of Cider and Perry’. We didn’t want the knowledge of Thomas’s work to perish with time so we have incorporated a pear into our brand to show our proud heritage!
Both Richard Payne Knight and Thomas Andrew Knight are buried in the churchyard at Wormsley Church.
More recently the house has been used as a country retreat, lived in by various tenant farmers and most recently, as a family home. It now enters a new phase and will hopefully create many more happy memories for people who come to stay, relax, enjoy and celebrate.