Poolside in seconds: water chute from the first floor drops you straight into an indoor swimming pool at £900k Peak District house

This 400-year-old farmhouse was given a very Seventies makeover, complete with cinema room, library, playroom (with model railway), full-sized antique pipe organ, and a swimming pool with a water flume, dunking swimmers in the deep end.
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Becky Davies2 August 2017

The underground swimming pool at Shaw Bottom Farm in the Peak District National Park is one of the many unusual features of this vast property that began life nearly 400 years ago as a simple one-up, one-down hill farm cottage.

Over the centuries it was expanded, but it wasn't until 1977 that the current owner decided on an exotic and stunning renovation.

Not content with installing the heated pool — and that vital flume — and sauna, the architect realised their wildest imaginings elsewhere, including fitting a full-sized pipe organ dating from 1847 in the aptly named music room.

Elsewhere is a vaulted cinema room, with doors to the garden allowing fresh air to flood in on the most sultry of nights.

There is also a library, a playroom — currently fitted with a model railway track — a kitchen, complete with a working range dating from 1678 and five bedrooms, as well as the expected array of reception rooms, some of which feature pulpits and stained-glass windows. The whole house runs to around 4,000sq feet.

Outside, a stream runs through the 23-acre estate and several ponds also provide the chance for al fresco skinny dipping in complete privacy.

The house is reached from the road by two gated driveways, one through open farmland before the estate is reached, so you'll never be surprised by uninvited guests dropping by.

The adjacent barn has full approval for conversion and is large enough to be converted into one or two more residences.

A cobbled courtyard provides parking for numerous cars, while there is also an oriental garden featuring a pergola and water gardens.

Should you tire of the exotic country life that this house offers, Buxton railway station is three miles away and regular trains to Euston take less than three hours.

Shaw Bottom Farm is for sale for £899,950 through Whittaker & Biggs

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