{"id":22303,"date":"2016-09-12T11:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T10:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/?p=22303"},"modified":"2016-09-15T17:53:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T16:53:48","slug":"homes-freshford-combine-country-life-city-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/homes-freshford-combine-country-life-city-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes in Freshford combine country life with city living"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22305\" src=\"http:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-1024x615.jpeg\" alt=\"unknown\" width=\"663\" height=\"398\" data-id=\"22305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-1024x615.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-300x180.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-768x462.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown-600x361.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Unknown.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 663px) 100vw, 663px\" \/>A fresh start in Freshford was the solution to a two-year search for a home\u00a0by retired newly-weds<\/h3>\n<p>When former city-dweller Nancy Pitt left the Bristol office of the COI, the Government&#8217;s former marketing and communications agency, to marry her husband Tony who enjoyed country living in the village of Tatworth near Chard, they decided to search for a new home which offered the best of both worlds.<\/p>\n<p>Having scoured the region, they discovered Freshford Fields, a brand new development of just six bespoke country houses built by Cotswold Homes. Located in a rural hillside hamlet on the edge of the village of Freshford in the Avon Valley, it is only about 20 minutes by car from\u00a0Bath.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Construction of our home was at an early stage when we visited and decided to buy, so it was a bit of a leap of faith,&#8221; explains Nancy. She says they made the right decision when they invested \u00a3643,000 in Stone House, a four-bedroom detached home built in a style combining the character and spaciousness of an earlier age with modern practicalities and efficiencies.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-22368\" src=\"http:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-13-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"freshford-13\" width=\"479\" height=\"320\" data-id=\"22368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-13-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-13-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-13-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-13-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nancy and Tony, who are both in their sixties and enjoy entertaining, were particularly attracted by the spaciousness of the kitchen\/dining room as well as the lounge which has French windows opening on to a walled garden. In addition to a family bathroom, two of the bedrooms have ensuites. Among other features are a study and a double garage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have inspected countless properties in the past two years but none of them matched the quality of the specification, fittings and finishes we have at Stone House,&#8221;\u00a0added Nancy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In addition to guiding us through the buying process, they helped us select aspects of our kitchen, tiling, flooring and other finishes. Cotswold Homes turned a potentially stressful exercise into an exciting and enjoyable experience.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u2018Moving in was easy and the friendly neighbours are great, too. Within days of our arrival they visited to welcome us, give us local produce and invite us to a party!\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Pitts\u2019 purchase means that all but one of the new homes at Freshford Fields have now been snapped up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-22369\" src=\"http:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-12-1024x701.jpg\" alt=\"freshford-12\" width=\"454\" height=\"311\" data-id=\"22369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-12-1024x701.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-12-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-12-768x525.jpg 768w, https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Freshford-12-600x411.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/>The price of the remaining five-bedroom property, named Fair Oaks, is \u00a31.1 million \u00a0which includes a contemporary Shaker kitchen with granite worktops, \u00a0SMEG appliances and Porcelanosa floor tiles. The ground floor has under-floor heating and a wood-burning stove.<\/p>\n<p>For more details or to arrange a private viewing visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotswoldhomes.co.uk\">www.cotswoldhomes.co.uk<\/a>,\u00a007989 581236<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fresh start in Freshford was the solution to a two-year search for a home\u00a0by retired newly-weds When former city-dweller Nancy Pitt left the Bristol office of the COI, the Government&#8217;s former marketing and communications agency, to marry her husband Tony who enjoyed country living in the village of Tatworth near Chard, they decided to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22305,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_analytify_skip_tracking":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[44],"yst_prominent_words":[5323,1418,9462,306,5074,9467,265,9464,9463,1363,9465,9466,9461,1772,195,7018],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uk","tag-uk-2"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-30 23:16:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22371,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22303\/revisions\/22371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22303"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newclone.retiremove.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}