Preston House
IWERNE MINSTER • DORSET PRESTON HOUSE IWERNE MINSTER • BLANDFORD FORUM • DORSET An outstanding Grade II listed village house occupying a peaceful location 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
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SITUATION DESCRIPTION Preston House is situated in a quiet position Preston House is Grade II Listed, has stone close to the edge of the popular conservation elevations under a tiled roof with Tuscan columns village of Iwerne Minster which is surrounded either side of the front door and is believed to by the attractive Dorset countryside. The date from the 17th Century and altered in the village lies between Blandford Forum to the late 19th Century. Constructed around 1620 by south and the hilltop town of Shaftesbury the Bower Family who resided there for the next to the north. Iwerne Minster has amenities 250 years and their family crest, a Talbot Hound including village shop, public house, survives in the name of the village pub, The Talbot parish church and the independent school Hotel. The accommodation is light, spacious and Clayesmore. Other villages of note in the well presented and includes two reception rooms, area include Fontmell Magna, Durweston kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, bar/study, and Child Okeford which have between five bedrooms and four bath/shower rooms, them a variety of everyday facilities. The most of which are en suite. There is also a useful towns of Shaftesbury, Blandford Forum attached one bedroom Cottage, indoor swimming and Wimborne Minster all provide a good pool and gym with changing and shower room and variety of shopping, educational, recreational a superb oak framed barn combining stabling, and cultural facilities. Communications garaging and a splendid party room. There is in the area include the A303 to the north oil fired central heating and features include of Shaftesbury and the A31 to the south at panelled walls in the entrance hall and staircase Bere Regis, both of which provide a route hall, fireplaces in the drawing room and dining to London and Home Counties. Mainline room, many rooms with exposed oak floorboards, railway services are available from Tisbury kitchen/breakfast room with beamed and vaulted to London Waterloo. Sporting facilities ceiling and Limestone flooring, many windows with in the area include golf at Sherborne, shutters and stylish bathroom suites. The gardens Blandford, Rushmore and Remedy Oak, and grounds are a splendid feature of this fine racing at Wincanton, Exeter and Bath and house and include lawns, many young and mature water sports can be enjoyed along the Dorset trees, well stocked beds and borders, an attractive coastline to the south at Poole Harbour and area of woodland, small stream and paddock. Weymouth Bay. The area if well served by good independent schools at Sherborne, Clayesmore, Bryanston, Port Regis, Hanford ACCOMMODATION 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 LOCAL AUTHORITY DIRECTIONS Mains electricity and water are connected. North Dorset District Council On entering the village of Iwerne Minster Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. Nordon on the A350 from the south (Blandford Salisbury Road direction), you will find a layby on your Please note that the working condition of Blandford Forum left hand side and just before this layby is any of the services or kitchen appliances Dorset a private lane. Proceed down this lane, have not been checked by the agents. DT11 7LL following the road round to your right where there are electric gates providing Tel: 01258 454111 FIXTURES AND access to Preston House. FITTINGS PURCHASER’S NOTE There is a restrictive covenant on VIEWING Only those mentioned in the sales Strictly by appointment with Savills. particulars are included in the sale. All residential development. others such as curtains, light fittings, garden ornaments etc are specifically excluded but may be available by separate POST CODE DT11 8QS. negotiation.
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. 18/03/08 SB. Photographs taken May 2017. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087.