Silver Street, Bradford on Avon £1,450,000 Freehold

• Four Bedrooms
• Open Plan Living Space
• First Floor Snug
• Bathroom & En-Suite Shower Room
• Large Basement
• Garden
• Parking
• Aluminium Double Glazing
• Gas Central Heating
• MVHR System

Located in the heart of Bradford on Avon, The Vintners is a stunning Grade II listed former wine warehouse, originally built in c. 1890 and converted in 2019 by award winning local architect Klas Hyllen into a warm, light-filled family home. Designed with an unapologetically crisp and contemporary touch, this property blends a historic warehouse atmosphere with a modern ‘Scandi’ feel, creating a wonderfully bright and open home perfect for a young family, professional couple or anyone seeking a connected, stylish lifestyle.

The Vintners
The home features thoughtfully curated interiors, blending historic charm with modern living that exude character whilst offering functional elegance. Private gardens within a landscaped walled garden provide a peaceful retreat right in the centre of town, while off-road parking ensures everyday convenience.

Designed to the highest environmental standards, based on the Passivehouse principles, the property expertly balances heritage with environmental performance and boasts remarkably high air-tightness for a listed building conversion and an MVHR system ensuring exceptional air quality to all rooms. The use of sustainable materials further adds to the overall health of the house and those occupying it.

The Vintners (cont.)
The home has been internationally recognised and was longlisted for the prestigious Dezeen Awards in 2020 in the Residential Rebirth category and has featured in several publications. It is a house ready to move into where the prospective buyer would enjoy a carefree, sustainable and low-maintenance lifestyle in the centre of the town and within a short walk of shops, restaurants and the railway station. Viewing is highly recommended to experience its unique blend of character, design and modern living.

Internally: Ground Floor
The entrance is accessed off a charming archway leading into a generous open plan ground floor with kitchen, dining, living room and play space. Within the entrance a convenient cloakroom and loo partly separates the entrance from the remainder of the generous social spaces to the ground floor.
A beautifully crafted birch plywood clad staircase is suspended within a triple height space over the dining area. The staircase is the centrepiece of the home around which all rooms are organised.
The floor is laid to a porcelain tile over integrated underfloor heating. The tile is called Fossil and is based on a concept around archaeology using stylised patterns of fossils.
Existing exposed stone walls have been painted in white breathable silicate paint from Devon based supplier Mike Wye, with new walls in stylish highlight colours from the Little Greene range. The exposed original steel column and beam hint of the building’s industrial use.

Internally: Ground Floor (cont.)
The kitchen, from Made by Husk and with a birch plywood worktop, is Scandi simple with Neff and Bosch appliances, sink from Villeroy & Bosch and tapware from Lusso Stone.

Internally: First Floor
The stair to the first floor is finished in white-washed Danish Dinesen Douglas Fir. It leads to a snug/family room from where the intricacies of the contemporary design can be fully appreciated. Internal heritage aluminium windows look into the triple height void over the dining table. It is exquisitely considered and a fabulous space to enjoy a book, or a glass of wine with friends.
The existing warehouse floor has been sanded back and stained to a deep chocolate colour lending the first floor an elegant earthy interior by comparison to the ground floor. Window surrounds, to all windows throughout, have been superbly crafted, again in birch plywood, creating a unifying theme throughout in the balance between heritage and modern.
An open corridor leads to the master bedroom and guest double bedroom (or study). It also gives access to the fun and playful hammock net suspended within the void.

Internally: First Floor (cont.)
The master bedroom looks over the garden with far reaching views over the town with large sliding doors opening to a Juliet balcony. There are generous wardrobes to one side, and a luxurious en-suite tucked away seemingly hidden into the floor plan.
The en-suite, finished in Moroccan Zellige tiles and marble, with tapware and sink from Lusso Stone, is a generous retreat. With integrated underfloor heating and with carefully integrated storage it has been designed to remain looking clutter-free.
The guest double bedroom/study again looks back towards the triple height void through internal windows.
The first floor is heated by industrial cast-iron radiators adding to the warehouse feel of the home.

Internally: Second Floor
Climbing up the exquisite, suspended staircase you find two generous double bedrooms and a bathroom/laundry within the loft of the property.
Historic timber beams have been left exposed within each bedroom and exude character. Finished to a very high standard, these playful children’s rooms balance Little Greene colours with charming wallpaper, exposed white painted stonework and fun lighting. The floor has been finished to a loop pile carpet with skylights to both rooms and to the western-facing room there are fantastic views over the town.
The large bathroom, with tapware and sink from Lusso Stone, is finished to a fun mix of terrazzo and green tiles and with electric underfloor heating. It is wonderfully bright and has laundry facilities tucked away to one side.

Internally: Basement
A cavernous basement extends below the adjacent building. At nearly 3m tall it offers lots of potential for further development with approved consents already in place for functional spaces as well as a cinema room, playroom, wine cellar and/or a home gym/spa.
In its current state it offers generous storage and is defined by some remarkable historic features such as an old goods lift and stone shelving.

Internally: Sustainability & Energy Performance
Remarkably high air-tightness for a listed building, the roof is super-insulated using wood fibre insulation, with heritage aluminium double-glazed windows throughout. The MVHR (mechanical ventilation and heat recovery) system ensures exceptional air quality to all rooms with consistent temperatures and humidity levels during all seasons. The house is very healthy to live in, with huge advantages in terms of allergies and general well-being.
The house benefits further from passive solar gain which is stored internally through the extensive thermal mass of the house. This ensures the house remains cool in the summer and warm in the winter and keeps heating bills remarkably low for a such a generous house volume.

Internally: Sustainability & Energy Performance (cont.)
The house is currently heated by gas central heating (radiators to the basement and first floor, and underfloor heating to the ground floor). The second floor is heated by air source heating. The EPC rating is a high C (77), which is very high for a listed building, and would likely be a B should the gas central heating be upgraded to an air source heat pump (consents in place and existing pipework system designed to not need replacing).
Furthermore there are also consents in place for solar panels to be added to the rear roof slope.

Externally
The gated archway gives access to a gravelled courtyard and lawned walled garden with space for 2 vehicles. The south-west facing garden is a secluded haven with views from the tucked away contemporary timber deck to the hillside of the town in the distance.
The garden has been carefully landscaped with the main garden raised up behind a stone planter wall filled to the brim with purple Verbena. The honey-coloured stone to the walled garden encloses a generous level lawn with a climbing Wisteria and three recently planted trees.
The garden has integrated and sensor-controlled lighting and there is a large shed with covered bike storage to one side. There is also a second sitting area immediately outside the generous sliding doors to the living room providing an east-facing terrace for the morning coffee.

History
The building was originally built in 1880-90 as a wine warehouse by the Taylor brothers who built the adjacent building in 1860 as an office from which they traded in alcohol (now Studio Bacchus). It was taken over by the Bowyer family in the 1950s who used the two buildings, including the courtyard from 1950-1990 as a carpenter’s workshop and builder’s merchant yard. From 1990 the Bowyers converted the buildings into office and workshop spaces which were leased individually to smaller businesses. The current owners bought the site in 2015. As such the buildings have only ever had 3 owners to date.

Other points:
- The house is fully wifi integrated with Ubiquity boosters and fixed data points throughout. Electrical fittings are from Astro Lighting and Enigma Lighting with faceplates in brushed aluminium.
- There is permission in place for an approx. 160m2 new building within the garden, current consents as a workspace/studio.

Council Tax:
Band F - £3,517.38 (April 2024 - March 2025 financial year)

Tenure:
Freehold. A section of the basement is a 'creeping freehold' as it extends underneath the neighbouring building.

Viewing:
Strictly by appointment through the Agent Kingstons.

Please Note:
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