RIVERSIDE ELEGANCE

This impressive home in Syon Park has an adjacent cottage and THE most luxurious treehouse... ever.

Ferry House is an imposing sevenbedroom, 11-bathroom property with beautiful walled gardens on a secluded bend of the River Thames next to Syon Park.

The property has about two acres of land (its own 0.8 acre and 1.2 acres held on a long lease) with attractive lawned areas, a kitchen garden, dining and seating areas and an amazing two-storey treehouse overlooking the length of the river.

There’s also stabling for four horses, a large ménage with sand and rubber surface, a tack room, an outdoor kitchen and a large timber-framed greenhouse.

Adjoining Ferry House is Rosery Cottage, with its own entrance and two bedrooms, kitchen, utility and two bathrooms. The cottage can also be accessed from the main house.

Ferry House was the former home of the late Tory MP and Cabinet Minister Sir Ian Gilmour and his wife Caroline, who lived there for more than 50 years.

Its most famous resident was the artist JMW Turner, who lived there from 1806-1808.

The original 18th-century building was destroyed during a bombing raid in 1940 and rebuilt in the early 1950s.

Today, having been refurbished extensively throughout, it comprises a beautifully appointed kitchen with La Cornue range cooker and rotisserie oven, a large dining room, spacious reception room, study, family room, wine cellar, further sitting room and four guest cloakrooms. The five bedrooms on the first floor each have their own bathroom.

For more information about Ferry House, contact Wellbelove Quested on 020 7881 0880 or visit the website: www.wellbelove-quested.com.