Property description
* Auction Guide Price £300,000 to £350,000 *
Bank Cottage is a charming property dating back to the 18th Century. The property is being sold by Public Auction on the 28th November 2025. The property comprises a hall, two reception rooms, breakfast kitchen, utility room and cloaks with W.C. To the first floor are two double bedrooms and a bathroom. The property boasts extensive gardens and grounds extending to approximately 3.4 acres.
Location - Bank Cottage is located in Bickley Town, which is a small village located in the heart of the Cheshire countryside. It is surrounded by beautiful rolling hills and lush green fields, offering a much desired picturesque and rural setting. The village has a rich history, with notable landmarks such as St. Wenefrede's Church and Bickley Hall. Cholmondeley Castle is close by boasting parklands, gardens and has various events on throughout the year.
Malpas is a busy and very well regarded popular village in South West Cheshire. The village enjoys the benefits of several very good schools, restaurants, pubs, a doctors surgery and a selection of local shops.
The town of Whitchurch is just 6 Miles away and has four supermarkets, and a more extensive choice of local shops, churches, leisure centres and other activities.
There is excellent road access to Chester, Wrexham, North Wales & the North West.
Brief Description - Halls are delighted to be instructed to sell Bank Cottage by Public Auction on 28th November 2025.
This charming detached cottage that dates back to the 18th Century was used by the most recent tenant as a smallholding. The property will require some cosmetic modernisation and it comprises an entrance hall, sitting room with log burner, dining room, breakfast kitchen with range of kitchen units and drainer sink unit. There is a utility room with work tops, plumbing for washing machine and a floor mounted oil fired boiler. Off the utility is a cloakroom with W.C.
The stairs ascend from the dining room to the first floor landing which has a split staircase. Here there are two double bedrooms and a bathroom. The property has secondary glazed windows and oil fired heating.
Outside & Land - The property is accessed off the lane up a drive to a parking area at the side of the property. There is a pedestrian gate off the drive with a path leading to the front door. There are cottage style gardens to the front and side of the , and to the far side and rear are lawns with a range of mature fruit trees. To the side of the property is a covered, timber framed porch with a door into the kitchen and a separate door into the useful store room. This room was once part of a small animal barn and retains the original feeding troughs.
There is a gate from the garden area to a kitchen garden with paddocks. To the top of the first paddock is a small animal shelter and water trough. Beyond that is a large enclosed paddock ideal for horses or grazing animals.
Directions - From Whitchurch drive out on the A49 heading North and after about 4 miles turn left signposted for Bickley Church. Follow the lane for about 1/2 a mile and turn right into Bickley Lane and the cottage is located on the right after about 200 metres.
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Viewing Arrangements - Strictly through the Agents: Halls, 8 Watergate Street, Whitchurch, SY13 1DW
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Council Tax - Cheshire West - The property is in Band E on the Cheshire West Council Register.
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Method Of Sale - Bank Cottage will be offered for sale by Public Auction on Friday 28th November 2025 at Halls Holdings House, Bowmen Way, Battlefield, Shrewsbury SY4 3DR at 3 pm. The Auctioneers, as agents for the vendors, reserve the right to alter, divide, amalgamate or withdraw any of the property for sale at any time. The Auctioneers, further, reserve the right to sell the property privately, prior to Auction without prior notice or explanation and no liability will be accepted to any intending purchaser in consequence of such a decision.
Contract & Special Conditions Of Sale (Legal Pack) - The property will be sold subject to the Special Conditions of Sale, which are not to be read at the time of sale, but can be requested from Halls, the Auctioneers or the Solicitors Howes Percival in Norwich prior to the date of the auction. The purchasers shall be deemed to purchase with full knowledge thereof, whether he/she has read the Special Conditions of Sale or not.
Guide Price & Reserve - Guides are provided as an indication of each seller's minimum expectation. They are not necessarily figures which a property will sell for and may change at any time prior to the auction. Each property will be offered subject to a RESERVE (a figure below which the Auctioneer cannot sell the property during the auction) which we expect will be set within the Guide Range or no more than 10% above a single figure Guide.