Solihull unaffiliated & Our House for Sale stables & 10 Acres approx

Massimo was a good boy at his first 80 ode at Sollihull, a 32 dressage, 1 pole SJ and clear XC with a few time. Really pleased as he is progressing so well. Ant stayed at home today as we are busy getting our house ready for selling. (See info at bottom of this post) 

I took Ants niece Lizzy (see pic) who rode her Mums horse Duvet Day, I bred him and then produced him to BE100 level. Lizzy's mum bought him off me as a hunter for herself, but Lizzy has decided he can have a go at some Eventing again. Duvet Day is the most lovely kind and gentle horse, he was named Duvet Day as when he was born he wouldn't get up!!!! They did a super double clear. It was a bit lonely Eventing without Ant and his fab sense of humour, although 13 year old Lizzy made me laugh  she put make up on for dressage declaring there maybe a photo opportunity and then later she complained that the cross country had made her sweat!!!! 

Our house is due on the market soon with Grant and Co of Ledbury. It's 10 (mostly flat) acres, spilt into 6 well fenced paddocks, 44 x 27m manège with spring ride rubber/sand surface, 9 stables (4 of them are huge, 15 foot x 20 foot) There's a large barn used as a lorry/hay store, a large concrete yard and a large walled muck heap storage area. there are also a few XC jumps including 2 ditches and a bank. I love that the stables and manege and XC field can all be seen from the kitchen and bedroom windows. Right outside the property's main gate there is 2000 acres of stunningly beautiful road free riding over the Malvern Hills and Castlemorton Common. Paddocks are either post and rails or horse small wire mesh fencing, designed specially so horses are less likely to get hooves caught in the fence, its more expensive (around 5k to do all the paddocks)  but worth it as we have had some really expensive event horses turned out here.

The house is 3 bedroom with views of the common and hills, the common is right outside the front gate and the property is situated down a no through, quiet country lane which provides easy access to the main road for The Lorry (no tight bends or low trees etc), we are about 700 yards from the main road the B4208. There's a local shop 10 mins walk and M5/M50 are 10 mins drive. 

Price guide is offers over £575,000. Photos due on Grant and Co website later this week and I will put some on here and facebook too.

We have lived here 18 years, the house for some people may need upgrading slightly but we would happily live here as it is for another 18 years. We had it rewired when we moved in and it had new windows fitted only a few years ago and a complete new worcester boiler oil fired heating system installed 3 years ago, all completely brand new pipes and radiators etc. We are only moving as Ant has inherited a similar size farmhouse just a mile down the road which has more land.