This Elizabethan house featuring a secret preacher hole has been lovingly renovated with fine results.
The owners of Moorgreen Hall had been looking for a property that didn’t need any work when they came across the house in Radford Road, on Weatheroak Hill.
Much in need of renovation, the Hall, which is reputed to have been built in Elizabethan times, definitely did not fit that criteria.
However, it was love at first sight. They bought it and proceeded to give it a thorough refurbishment, while being careful to keep its more colourful characteristics.
This Grade II residence was first documented in 1647 as the house of Richard Moore, a puritan preacher who was ejected from Alvechurch upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660.
After this time he preached from the Hall through a large hole cut in the wall reached by a flight of stairs concealed in a false wall. The hole is still visible today.
Modern improvements to the house include a refitted breakfast kitchen with full length glazed folding doors leading to decking, new oak framed windows, new oil heating system, re-wired electrics and piping.
The porch and reception hallway have been opened up and the ground floor cloakroom updated. The cellar has also been tanked and refurbished.
On the first floor the old bathroom has now been converted to a bedroom and a former spare bedroom turned into a bathroom.
Ground floor reception rooms include a sitting room that comes with an inglenook fireplace and a dining room with a fine stone fireplace with a deep recess, brick inset and stone hearth.
In the family room there is original flooring and another inglenook with flagstone hearth and wood-burning stove.
There is also a study with feature fireplace and a utility.
On the first floor there is a master bedroom with en suite bathroom, three further bedrooms, one with en suite shower room, and a family bathroom.
Up on the second floor are two more bedrooms, a playroom/snug and a shower room with toilet.
Superb gardens and grounds complement the house. A paved terrace has steps to a large croquet lawn with yew hedges and borders stocked with a wide array of flowers, roses and shrubs.
To the side is a further lawn and orchard area. An archway through the yew hedge leads to the heated swimming pool (renovated approximately four years ago) with pool house that includes a bar as well as changing rooms. There is also a tennis court.
The house sits in 1.6 acres of land in the pleasant hamlet of Weatheroak near Alvechurch, sitting between Barnt Green and Solihull.
VIEWING INFORMATIONAgent: Fine and Country
Tel: 0121 746 6400.
Web: www.solihull.fineandcountry.co.uk
Guide Price: £1,150,000
