Frome Vauchurch House

FROME VAUCHURCH •

Frome Vauchurch House FROME VAUCHURCH, NEAR DORCHESTER, DORSET DT2 0DY A delightful country house with a separate cottage, outbuildings and landscaped gardens

Maiden Newton½mile • Dorchester 7 miles • Yeovil 14½miles 17 miles (Waterloo 2¼hours) (Distances and time approximate)

Porch • Entrance hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Morning room • Family room Library • Kitchen/breakfast room • Utility room • Laundry room • Boot room • Cellar Master bedroom with dressing room and en suite bathroom • 2 further bedrooms suites 3 further bedrooms • Family bathroom 2 bedroom Cottage Garaging Main outbuilding with office, store rooms, shower/cloakroom and with a first floor playroom and store room Greenhouse and potting sheds • Outdoor heated swimming pool All weather tennis court • Attractive landscaped gardens In all about 2 acres

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Situation Description Frome Vauchurch House is located in a Frome Vauchurch House is an edge of village small hamlet close to St Frances Church house constructed of colour washed elevations which was built in 1199. under a tiled roof with hexagonal stone is about ½ mile and provides an excellent chimneys and is not listed. The property has range of local services including a petrol predominately stone mullioned windows with station, shops, restaurant, primary school and lead light panes and was formerly a Rectory. a rail link to Dorchester, Bath and Bristol. It is believed that the existing house dates from The County Town of Dorchester and regional circa 1798 with later additions in the Victorian centre of Yeovil are both easily accessible period and the recent extension of the drawing and other towns within easy driving distance room was completed in 2008. The house include the Abbey town of Sherborne and provides well proportioned accommodation Crewkerne. The area is well known for and has undergone a substantial internal some excellent, independent schools refurbishment and re-arrangement undertaken including Sherborne schools, Leweston, by the present vendors. The drawing room is Perrott Hill and Sunninghill in Dorchester. a particularly elegant room with high arched Dorset has further excellent schools including ceiling and plaster panelling and window Bryanston, Canford, St Mary’s shutters. The dining room has an open fireplace and Port Regis amongst others. Mainline and marble mantle with the family room having railway stations in Dorchester, Sherborne a brick lined open fireplace with wood burning and Crewkerne provide a regular service stove. There is a superb kitchen/breakfast to London (Waterloo). The World Heritage room with a good range of fitted wall and designated Dorset Jurassic coast is about ½ base units. There is also a utility room, laundry hour drive and provides a wide range of room and boot room. The first floor comprises water sports and sea fishing opportunities. master bedroom with dressing room and en There is golf at Dorchester (Came Down), suite bathroom, two further bedroom suites, Sherborne and Yeovil, National Hunt racing three further bedrooms and family bathroom. at Wincanton and Taunton and flat racing at The accommodation also benefits from oil fired Bath and Salisbury. central heating throughout. The gardens and grounds provide a fine setting and include a two bedroom cottage, garaging, outbuilding with office, store rooms and first floor playroom, greenhouse and potting sheds, outdoor heated swimming pool, all weather tennis court and attractive landscaped gardens.

Frome Vauchurch House Gross internal area House:- 533.2 sq m / 5738 sq ft Cottage:- 85.4 sq m / 919 sq ft Studio Annexe: - 165.9 sq m / 1785 sq ft (including where headroom is less than 1.5m) Garage & Garden Store :- 20.4 sq m / 219 sq ft (excluding Log Store)

Studio First Floor First Floor

Studio

Ground Floor

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Cellar For identification only. Not to scale Outside The principal outbuildings lie north west of the first floor a large games room/playroom garden has a large level lawn (formerly a timber summer house/changing room and a the house. These comprise a Two Bedroom and additional store room. Adjoining this grass tennis court) flanked by a herbaceous pool house housing the filtration equipment Cottage constructed of stone, brick and is a lean-to timber framed clay tiled garage border with a number of mature trees of both and a Calorex 31 heat exchanger. A timber rendered elevations under a tiled roof which with overhung wood store along one side. deciduous and coniferous varieties. At the gate leads out to the garden lying on the provides excellent accommodation for a Within the kitchen garden area there is a rear of the house is a stone paved terrace western side where the all-weather tennis court dependent relative, separate guest annexe or with timber pergola with climbing roses and is located. There are timber double gates greenhouse and a potting shed. for staff accommodation. Adjoining the cottage adjacent raised bed. A high yew hedge on the in the garden’s western corner providing there is a stone, brick and tiled outbuilding The property is approached through wrought upper tier of the lawn with a wrought iron gate access onto the rear lane. The gardens are providing excellent office or annexe space iron gates with stone piers onto a gravelled leads to a further area beyond enclosed by an important part of the property and have with a ground floor study, kitchenette, drive flanked on one side by clipped topiary hedging with a smaller lawn and an outdoor been well landscaped and tended by the shower/WC together with one large open yew. The drive opens out onto a large expanse heated swimming pool with paved surround. current vendors to encapsulate the house in its room with a further lower store room and on of gravelled parking and turning. The front Within this enclosed rear garden there is a wonderful setting.

Directions Viewing From Dorchester proceed on the A37 signed Strictly by appointment with Savills. to Yeovil. After approximately 3 miles and on leaving the small village of Grimstone, Important Notice Savills, their clients and any joint agents give take the left fork onto the A356 signed to notice that: Frampton. Proceed through the village into 1. They are not authorised to make or give any Maiden Newton taking a narrow left turn into representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or Frome Lane (signed Frome Vauchurch and on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no Cruxton) immediately after the garage. responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of Proceed along this narrow lane over the River any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as Frome and the entrance to Frome Vauchurch statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. House will be found after a short distance on The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only the right. 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 Services tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Oil-fired central heating, (separate boilers for the house and cottage). Fixtures and fittings All fitted carpets, curtains and garden Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s furniture/garden ornaments are excluded Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908) from the sale but could be made available by separate negotiation. Local Authority District Council, South Walks House, South Walks Road, Dorchester, Dorset House EPC DT1 1UZ. Tel 01305 251010 FROME VAUCHURCH HOUSE Energy Performance Certificates A copy of the full Energy Performance Certificates for the House and Cottage are available upon request. Post Code DT2 0DY.

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