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COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE COMPTON VALENCE •

COMPTON VALENCE HOUSE COMPTON VALENCE • DORSET

Dorchester 7 miles (London Waterloo 2½ hours) • 9 miles • Weymouth 14 miles 19 miles • 33 miles • Airport 38 miles (All mileages and times are approximate)

A beautifully presented Grade II listed six bedroom former Rectory set in its own hidden valley with indoor heated swimming pool, detached two bedroom cottage, outbuildings and superb gardens and grounds with further paddocks and woodland

Ground Floor: Porch • Reception hall • Drawing room • Music room • Dining room Study • Home office • Conservatory • Kitchen / breakfast room • Utility room Larder • Boot room with WC • Cloakroom • Wine cellar • Cellars

Attached pool room with heated swimming pool, changing room and shower room

First Floor: Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom and dressing room Guest bedroom with en-suite shower room • 3 further bedrooms • Family bathroom

Second Floor: Guest bedroom with en-suite bathroom

Extensive garaging • Substantial barn • Stables • Well house

Delightful gardens including an historic Roman spring, walled garden, fields and woodland

Grooms Cottage: Living room • Study • Kitchen / dining room • Utility room • Cloakroom 2 Bedrooms • Bathroom • Garage

In all about 40.3 acres (16.31 hectares)

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure.

Situation and Amenities Compton Valence House is idyllically located in a peaceful, secluded position looking up its own private valley on the edge of the village which lies within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The fields and woodland around Compton Valence House contain a wide range of wild flowers and the land is designated as being within an Environmentally Sensitive Area. Compton Valence is a small unspoilt village surrounded by the hills of the and has a pretty early Victorian church with a 15th century tower. The county town of Dorchester and Bridport both provide an excellent range of shopping, educational, recreational and cultural facilities. Sporting facilities in the area include golf at Dorchester (Came Down) and West Bay, National Hunt racing at Wincanton, Taunton or Exeter, hunting with the Cattistock and South Dorset Hunts. Sailing and water sports can be enjoyed at Weymouth Bay (the 2012 Olympic sailing venue) or along the Dorset Jurassic coastline. Independent schools in Dorset include the Sherborne Schools for Boys and Girls, Leweston, Canford, Bryanston, Clayesmore, Milton Abbey and Port Regis, amongst others Communications in the area include mainline railway links available from Dorchester, or Yeovil Junction with services to London Waterloo. A mainline link from Maiden Newton to Bath takes 1 hour 30 minutes. The A35 can be joined to the south providing a route to the A31, M27 and M3 east or the A30 west. Bournemouth Airport provides scheduled domestic and international flights and there are ferry links from Poole or Weymouth to the Channel Islands and France.

Compton Valence House Compton Valence House is a beautifully appointed kitchen / breakfast room with presented former Rectory constructed of granite work surfaces and 4-oven Aga. stone elevations under a tiled roof. There is Both rooms have full height windows and evidence that there has been a rectory on casement doors enjoying spectacular views the site since the mid 17th century but the up the peaceful and private valley. The superb present house was moved to its elevated indoor heated swimming pool has full height position in 1872 when it was rebuilt to a new windows looking out to the terrace and design on a grand scale. Benjamin Ferrey garden with a changing room, shower room (1810-1880) was the architect responsible and cloakroom; it was completed in 2005. for this ambitious project and was at the peak of his architectural fame in the year of Throughout the house the rooms are well construction. The historian Charles Locke proportioned with high ceilings and tall Eastlake describes Ferrey as ‘one of the windows enjoying fine views over the earliest, ablest and most zealous pioneers of secluded garden and grounds. There are a the modern Gothic school’ in “A History Of number of special fireplaces and architectural The Gothic Revival” (1872). features befitting an architect who received the Royal Gold Medal from the Institute of The property is Grade II Listed and was British Architects. The extensive cellars have purchased by the present owners in 2000. excellent ceiling heights. They have since restored Grooms Cottage and substantially improved the main house, The accommodation is shown in detail on providing a fine conservatory and a lavishly the floor plans.

Reception Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Main House - 758 sq m (8165 sq ft) Bedroom Garage Block - 100 sq m (1075 sq ft) Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon Storage as a statement of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure. Terrace Recreation

Basement Ground Floor Second Floor Garage (Not shown in actual location)

First Floor

Gardens and Grounds A pair of electrically-operated wrought iron gates guard a private tree lined drive which sweeps through lawns to a wide parking and turning area in front of the house. Encompassing the southern and western sides of the house is a wide paved terrace with adjoining lawns and established flower beds. There are spectacular views from the terrace over the gardens and up the magical valley across the grounds.

The drive forks below the house and leads on to Grooms Cottage and the valley and outlying land to the south and west of the house.

To the west of Grooms Cottage is a lovely stone walled garden and nearby is a delightful orchard with apple, plum, pear and damson trees. Mature woodland flanks the valley and guards the boundaries, mainly comprising beech, ash, chestnut and hazel and with some very impressive specimen copper beech and chestnut trees.

The spring pool to the south of Compton Valence House was restored in 2010 and the retaining wall rebuilt. The spring was historically the source of the water which flowed into the Roman Aqueduct at Dorchester and fed the bathhouse of the Roman fort, the water travelling a distance of some 9 miles!

There are four principle fields which lie to the south and west of the house with the top field resembling an amphitheatre enjoying the most spectacular views down the valley to Compton Valence House itself and the countryside beyond. There are also magnificent views across the Dorset countryside to Hardy’s Monument.

The property extends in total to about 40.3 acres. Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Grooms Cottage - 141 sq m (1520 sq ft)

Grooms Cottage This detached cottage was completely restored by the present owners and is constructed of attractive stone elevations under a slate roof. Situated in the lower garden away from the main house, it is a privately located building which is ideal for use as a guest or staff cottage. Located to the west of the cottage is a detached garage block. The accommodation is shown on the floor plans.

Grooms Cottage Ground Floor Grooms Cottage First Floor Outbuildings A triple garage block lies to the north of barn (about 75’ x 27’) lies to the north west as well is a stable block (about 30’ x 10’) of the house with electrically operated doors, of the house with separate road access from timber construction with 2 loose boxes and a workshop, an inspection pit, gardener’s WC the lane running through the village. South tack room. and a stable / store room. An open fronted of this and accessed from the bottom drive

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A30 Wadebridge A38 A380 Method of Sale Local Authority Post Code Tanzarra Bodmin Compton Valence House is offered for sale District Council DT2 9ER A39 Torquay A38 A388 Tel: 01305 251010 Newquay Airport Liskeard freehold with vacant possession by private A38 Paignton A386 treaty Directions Newquay A30 A38 Totnes A390 A385 Council Tax From Dorchester take the A35 Honiton Road A392 Plymouth Compton Valence House: Band H and after approximately 2 miles turn right, A391 A38 Easements, Wayleaves and Rights of A38 Way signposted to Compton Valence. Continue Planning straight over the small crossroads and continue A30 St Austell There are no rights of way crossing the land. Compton Valence House is Grade II Listed for about 2.3 miles. Turn right opposite the A public footpath (part of the Macmillan Way) as being of Architectural or Historical finger post for Compton Valence and continue A390 runs along part of the eastern boundary in Importance. into the village. The green metal entrance gates A30 a dip and is not visible from any part of the A390 to Compton Valence House will be found on Truro house. Fixtures and Fittings the left, almost opposite the village church. Redruth Salcombe All fixtures, fittings and garden statuary are Services Camborne excluded from the sale, although some may Viewings St Ives Private and mains water supply, mains be available by separate negotiation. Viewings are strictly by appointment with the electricity, private drainage, intruder and fire Falmouth sole selling agents, Knight Frank LLP. alarm with remote link Penzance

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