A country cottage with an indoor riding school sounds a winner.

A family who want to keep their horses on their own land or an entrepreneur looking for an imaginatively remodelled period property sitting in six acres with an opportunity to run a business from home will prick up their ears when they hear about Ramsey Cottage in Bellingdon.

The house dates from the early 1800s but don’t come here expecting nooks and crannies and quaint little rooms with low beamed ceilings.

If it had them once, they’ve gone.

This is a cottage in name only.

Leave muddy boots in the porch outside the front door or in the boot room in the back hall.

The contemporary interior of this hereditament has a designer pedigree.

Ramsey Cottage has five bedrooms, all with five-star hotel-standard en suite bathrooms.

The galleried guest bedroom with en suite bathroom is accessed via a glass walkway from the stairs at the side of the vaulted sitting room for the family (the brochure says “vaulted family room” - that makes the family sound like giraffes).

The master suite has a wet room as well as a bathroom. Bedrooms 3 and 4 also have en suites as has the second floor fifth bedroom.

As well as the 25ft family room on the ground floor, there’s an arena-sized open plan living area incorporating the oak-framed dining room with bi-fold doors onto the terrace and the triple aspect drawing room (limestone floor, woodburning stove in the fireplace and separate seating area at one end large enough for a grand piano).

Both the dining room and drawing room flow into the 20ft kitchen/breakfast room which has a walk-in larder, utility room, central island and integrated appliances concealed in a long sweep of floor units topped with granite. Another of the star features of this 21st century homestead with early 19th century origins is the studio/office complex – an Olympic-sized glazed space with oak beams and vaulted ceiling and separate kitchen and cloakroom leading to the tack room, stable office and food store for the animals.

There are five stables in all, one next to the house and four in a line on the other side of the courtyard.

The indoor riding school measures 15 metres by 30 metres.

The grounds include paddocks of course, a wild flower meadow, large expanses of lawn and a paved terrace with a wooden garden building “for shade and dining”. Ramsey Cottage is for sale at the Beaconsfield office of Knight Frank. Guide price: £2.2m.