Tenantrees Lewell • Near Dorchester • Tenantrees Lewell • Near Dorchester • Dorset • DT2 8AW

A fine late Victorian country house offering extensive accommodation of great style within most attractive grounds.

Accommodation Reception Hall • Drawing Room • Dining Room • Ante-room • Kitchen • Breakfast Room • Utility Room • Conservatory • Cloakroom Master Bedroom Suite • Guest Bedroom Suite • 5 further Bedrooms • 2 further Bathrooms • First Floor Sitting Room Snooker/Games Room with Kitchen • Office Suite with WC and Office Store Room • Indoor Swimming Pool

Apple Lodge: Hall • Sitting Room • Kitchen/Dining Room • Bedroom • Wet Room

Garage/Store Rooms/Additional Double Garage • Attractive garden and adjacent level paddock with planning permission for loose boxes

in all about 10.67 acres (4.32 hectares) • EPC Rating = E

Dorchester 3½ miles (Waterloo 2½ hours) • Weymouth 11 miles • / 25 miles (Bournemouth International Airport). (Distances and times Approximate)

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Situation whose father Reginald had been the Rector at West Stafford. The house was designed Now called Apple Lodge, this provides a superb self contained cottage suitable for a Tenantrees occupies a secluded position in the small hamlet of Lewell which is located by Charles Edwin Ponting FSA, a renowned gothic revival English church architect dependent relative or for live in staff. close to the attractive village of West Stafford. This comprises a collection of mainly who designed a number of secular buildings and was constructed by the Salisbury period properties, together with a public house and historic church. The county town of builder Henry Kite. The imposing gateposts at Tenantrees are crowned by hounds in Accommodation Dorchester, about 3½ miles to the west, is the oldest town in Dorset. Dorchester has an acknowledgement of the heraldic traditions of the Smith family. Please see floor plans. excellent range of shops, schools and restaurants enhanced by the recent development at Brewery Square. There is also the county hospital and a main line railway station Description Outside to London Waterloo. There are also trains to Bristol. There are excellent schools in Tenantrees is a large family home constructed of brick, part rendered and colour A pair of electrically operated wrought iron gates set within imposing brick gate piers Dorchester and the surrounding area including Sunninghill Nursery and Prep School, washed elevations under a tiled roof with brick chimneys. The house is not listed capped with stone hounds opens onto a gravelled drive which widens to form a parking Thomas Hardye and St Osmunds, schools, Leweston, Bryanston, Milton and the present owners have over recent years undertaken an extensive programme and turning area at the front of the house. The drive continues around on the east to Abbey and Canford. Other towns within easy driving distance include Weymouth, of sympathetic restoration and maintenance of the property and grounds to provide further extensive gravelled parking and on the west to garaging. There is a modern , , Sherborne, Bournemouth and Poole. There are good a particularly spacious, flexible family home ideal for extended family living. The timber double garage/workshop with extensive electrics/lighting, additional timber sporting and recreational facilities with golf at Dorchester (Came Down), Yeovil and accommodation generally features well proportioned rooms, high ceilings and is garden store and concrete parking space. Forming part of the house between the main Sherborne. The channel port of Weymouth has a marina and is nationally renowned light and well appointed. There are many original features including chimney pieces, house and Apple Lodge is original garaging. At the rear of the house, there are a number for its sailing facilities, together with its lovely sandy beach and safe swimming. All the fireplaces, parquet floors, panelled ceilings and cornicing, leaded light windows and of storerooms and a tool store, one housing the oil tank. There is a separate gardeners sailing events for the 2012 Olympics were held at Weymouth and Portland. intricate architectural ironmongery. The kitchen and breakfast room are well appointed wc. and include a four oven oil fired Aga. A magnificent indoor swimming pool complex The gardens and grounds are an important feature of the property with stands of with changing rooms and WC was added on the north-west elevation in about 1995. A Historical Note mature trees providing privacy. They extend to about 2 acres and have been carefully large self contained office suite with WC and adjacent storeroom is ideal for a work at Tenantrees was built in around 1896 for Colonel Caledon Egerton who was the landscaped and planted over many years. The main garden lies to the north and west of home situation. The former Coach House was converted by the present owners in 2003. officer in charge of the 39th Regiment in Dorchester and for his wife Blanche Smith the house.

A low brick wall at the front of the house divides the parking and turning area from the formal lawned garden with a wide stone path flanked by planted borders. The western garden is level lawn with mixed rhododendrons and a variety of trees. The rear garden includes a large brick paved terrace with access to the indoor pool and level lawn with magnolia, azaleas and other fine specimen trees. There is a rear timber pergola with mixed climbers and roses flanked by stocked borders and an apple orchard with mixed varieties located in a formal garden area. A large natural pond situated in the north-east corner of the garden has a variety of water flora and fauna including lilies and iris and a timber jetty. There is a working area with gardeners’ store and large composting facility. The adjacent level paddock (approximately 7.86 acres), with easily available water supply, has outline planning permission for loose boxes/hay store and lies to the west of the garden across the lane.

Directions From Dorchester, follow the signs to the A352 (Wareham). At the roundabout on the edge of town, take the left turn signed to West Stafford. Continue around the West Stafford bypass for just under 2 miles to a T junction. Turn left, signposted Woodsford, and continue under the railway bridge with traffic lights. Take the next left, signposted West Stafford, and then take a sharp right by a red post box (seen in a wall). Tenantrees is on the left.

Services Mains water and electricity, private drainage. Oil fired central heating and Aga (Apple Lodge has under floor heating from the same supply). Please note that the working condition of any of the services or kitchen appliances have not been checked by the agents but at the time of taking particulars we were informed they were all in working order.

Fixtures and Fittings All fitted carpets, curtains and garden furniture/garden ornaments are excluded from the sale but could be made available by separate negotiation.

Local Authority District Council, South Walks House, South Walks Road, Apple Lodge Dorchester, Dorset DT1 1UZ - Tel: 01305 251010.

Energy Performance A copy of the full energy Performance Certificate is available upon request.

Postcode DT2 8AW

VIEWING Strictly by appointment with Savills. Living Area/Reception

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