Preston House
IWERNE MINSTER • DORSET PRESTON HOUSE IWERNE MINSTER • BLANDFORD FORUM • DORSET An outstanding Grade II listed village house occupying a delightful position with separate Cottage, gardens, woodland and paddocks of about 7 acres Entrance hall • Reception hall • Drawing Room • Dining Room • Inner hall • Cloakroom • Kitchen/Breakfast room Walk in larder • Utility room • Bar • Cloakroom • Rear Hall Master bedroom with dressing area and en suite bath/shower room Bedroom two with en suite shower room • Two further bedrooms • Family bath/shower room Second Floor suite of rooms comprising: Sitting room, bedroom, dressing area and bathroom Attached Cottage with sitting room, kitchen, bedroom and bathroom Indoor Swimming Pool with shower room, plant room and gym Granary Extensive gravelled driveway/parking area Adjacent oak framed barn comprising two bay open fronted garage Double Garage with workshop • Two stables First floor studio/party/games room Formal gardens, woodland, stream and paddock
In total about 7 acres
Savills Wimborne Savills Country Department Wessex House 33 Margaret Street Wimborne, Dorset London BH21 1PB W1G 0JD Tel: 01202 856800 Tel: 020 7016 3718 [email protected] [email protected] savills.co.uk
SITUATION DESCRIPTION Preston House is situated in a quiet location Preston House is Grade II Listed, has stone close to the edge of the conservation village elevations under a tiled roof with Tuscan columns of Iwerne Minster which is surrounded either side of the front door and is believed to by attractive countryside. The village lies date from the 17th Century and altered in the between Blandford Forum to the south and late 19th Century. Constructed around 1620 by the hilltop town of Shaftesbury to the north. the Bower Family who resided there for the next Iwerne Minster has amenities including 250 years and their family crest, a Talbot Hound village shop, public house, parish church survives in the name of the village pub, The Talbot and the independent school Clayesmore. Hotel. The accommodation is light, spacious and Other villages of note in the area include well presented and includes two reception rooms, Fontmell Magna, Durweston and Child kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, bar/study, Okeford which have between them a variety of five bedrooms and four bath/shower rooms, everyday facilities. The towns of Shaftesbury, most of which are en suite. There is also a useful Blandford Forum and Wimborne Minster attached one bedroom Cottage, indoor swimming all provide a good variety of shopping, pool and gym with changing and shower room and educational, recreational and cultural a superb oak framed barn combining stabling, facilities. Communications in the area garaging and a splendid party room. There is include the A303 to the north of Shaftesbury oil fired central heating and features include and the A31 to the south at Bere Regis, both panelled walls in the entrance hall and staircase of which provide a route to London and hall, fireplaces in the drawing room and dining Home Counties. Mainline railway services are room, many rooms with exposed oak floorboards, available from Tisbury to London Waterloo. kitchen/breakfast room with beamed and vaulted ceiling and Limestone flooring, many windows with Sporting facilities in the area include golf shutters and stylish bathroom suites. The gardens at Sherborne, Blandford, Rushmore and and grounds are a splendid feature of this fine Remedy Oak, racing at Wincanton, Exeter house and include lawns, many young and mature and Bath and water sports can be enjoyed trees, well stocked beds and borders, an attractive along the Dorset coastline to the south at area of woodland, small stream and paddock. Poole Harbour and Weymouth Bay. The area if well served by good independent schools at Sherborne, Clayesmore, Bryanston, Port ACCOMMODATION Regis, Hanford and Knighton House. Please see floor plans.
Second Floor
First Floor
Ground Floor Approximate Gross Internal Area Main House: 6365 sq ft / 591 sq m (Including Cottage) Outbuildings: 4777 sq ft / 443 sq m Not to scale. For identification purposes only.
Main House Cottage Outbuildings
First Floor
Ground Floor
OUTSIDE Electric gates provide access to gravelled lawns, terrace, well stocked flower/shrub drive leading to extensive gravelled parking/ beds and borders, yew hedging, variety turning area. Oak framed barn with tiled of wild flowers, young and mature trees roof comprising two bay open fronted including Flowering cherry, ash, oak and garage, double garage with workshop, two horsechestnut. There is also a delightful stables and a splendid studio/party/games area of woodland interspersed with paths room with cloakroom. The heated indoor which includes wild flowers and trees swimming pool with Porcelain timber effect including oak, Indian bean and Japanese flooring and dehumidifier, plant room, Ginko a small stream with bridge providing shower room, gym room and Granary. access to a paddock which is currently laid to The formal gardens comprise extensive pasture.
PRESTON HOUSE
Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)
SERVICES excluded but may be available by separate paddock for a period of 10 years from any Mains electricity and water are connected. negotiation. purchase. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. Please note that the working condition of LOCAL AUTHORITY DIRECTIONS On entering the village of Iwerne Minster any of the services or kitchen appliances North Dorset District Council, on the A350 from the south (Blandford have not been checked by the agents. Nordon, Salisbury Road, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11 7LL. direction), you will find a layby on your Tel: 01258 454111. left hand side and just before this layby is a private lane. Proceed down this lane, FIXTURES AND following the road round to your right FITTINGS POST CODE where there are electric gates providing DT11 8QS. Only those mentioned in the sales access to Preston House. particulars are included in the sale. All others such as curtains, light fittings, PURCHASER’S NOTE VIEWING garden ornaments etc are specifically There will be an uplift clause on the Strictly by appointment with Savills.
Important Notice Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. 17/05/17 PL. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087.