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UPPER PAVENHILL FARM UPPER PAVENHILL, PURTON, WILTSHIRE 2 UPPER PAVENHILL FARM UPPER PAVENHILL FARM UPPER PAVENHILL, PURTON, WILTSHIRE A LOVELY PERIOD FOUR BEDROOM STONE FARMHOUSE WITH A PARTY BARN, STABLING AND OUTBUILDINGS WITH POTENTIAL TO CREATE ANCILLARY ACCOMMODATION, IN A FABULOUS HILL TOP LOCATION WITH FAR REACHING VIEWS AND EXTENSIVE FIELDS AND PADDOCKS. ALL IN APPROXIMATELY 19.54 ACRES. Ground Floor: Sitting Room • Family Room • Kitchen / Breakfast Room • Study • Store • Shower Room • Utility Room First Floor: Master Bedroom • Guest Bedroom with Jack and Jill Shower Room • Two Further Double Bedrooms • Family Bathroom Outbuildings: Stable Block • Barn • Hay Store • Games Room • Garage Outside: Gardens • Stable Yard • Pony Paddock • Level Pasture • Two Sloping Wild Fields All in approximately 19.54 acres. Royal Wootton Bassett 4.5 miles, Cricklade 5 miles, Swindon 7 miles, Cirencester 12 miles Swindon Railway Station 7 miles (London Paddington from 67 minutes, Bristol Temple Meads from 36 minutes) (All times & distances approximate) The London Office: Cirencester Office: 40 St James’s Place, 43-45 Castle Street, Cirencester, London, SW1A 1NS Gloucestershire, GL7 1QD T 0207 839 0888 T 01285 883740 E [email protected] E [email protected] www.tlo.co.uk www.butlersherborn.co.uk 2 UPPER PAVENHILL FARM 3 DESCRIPTION Believed to be some 400 years old, Upper Pavenhill Farm is an rural location is within easy reach of both the M4 (J16) and Swindon partly open plan to the kitchen/breakfast room, ensuring that this attractive property that would make an idyllic family home. The Railway Station, making it ideal for commuting to London or west end of the house is particularly sociable. The kitchen is light and property was re-modelled and modernised in the 1980’s but to Bath and Bristol. sunny, with windows to three aspects and a door to the garden retains a wealth of character and period detail including original and ample space for a dining table. It has an electric two oven Aga doors, exposed timbers and beams, window seats, a bread oven ACCOMMOdaTION and is fitted with various storage units and a granite worktop with and some stone walls and detailing. The property is not listed, an inset sink, from which the views are spectacular, particularly Ground Floor and it may be possible to extend, subject to planning permission. during the winter months. The property is entered via a hall with access to the large utility Planning has been granted for the erection of an agricultural barn room, with space and plumbing for laundry appliances. A door on the large paddock and there is scope to redevelop the barn on First Floor opens to the broad inner hall, with quarry tiled floor and doors to the stable yard to provide ancillary accommodation. There is also a Stairs rise from the hall to a broad landing with a wealth of the cosy family room, which has an attractive cast iron fireplace and spacious games room / party barn which would be ideal as a home exposed beams and timbers. The magnificent master bedroom is French doors to the garden, and to the study, quietly situated at office. The house is located at the end of a no through lane within particularly spacious and is triple aspect with a far-reaching view. one end of the house with the old bread oven and a useful storage substantial gardens adjoining its land and enjoys spectacular and The guest bedroom adjacent to the master bedroom has a door area. Also off the hall is a large shower room. The hall continues far-reaching views. Eco-friendly improvements include a rainwater to the Jack and Jill shower room. A door leads to a further area of into the spacious sitting room, which has an impressive fireplace storage tanks, supplementary electricity from Photovoltaic (PV) landing and two comfortable and characterful double bedrooms, housing a wood burning stove and the original front door. It is panels and app controlled heating and hot water. This wonderful one of which has a large walk-in cupboard, thought to be a former 4 UPPER PAVENHILL FARM priest’s hole. There is also a family bathroom on this floor. A door ridge, close to 450 ft above sea level. With its elevated and strategic The sporting opportunities are extensive and include golf at leads to a concealed staircase to the attic, which is part boarded position, Purton has historic associations dating back to the Saxon Royal Wootton Bassett and at nearby Bowood, Marlborough and for storage. era. The ‘Earthwork’ scheduled as a National Monument within Castle Combe; polo at Westonbirt and Cirencester; hunting with the acreage of the Upper Pavenhill Farm is reputed to have been the Duke of Beaufort’s and VWH hunts; horse racing at Newbury, OUTSIDE the site of Oliver Cromwell’s camp prior to the Battle of Highworth. Bath and Cheltenham, as well as many equestrian events such as Badminton, Barbury Castle and Dauntsey. A large yard to the side of the house has parking for several vehicles, With many period buildings and a 13th Century Church, Purton is a stable block incorporating four stalls and a tack room, and the now a large village with many day-to-day amenities including pubs, LANNING large workshop / barn. The dilapidated hay store is accessed from Co-op incorporating a post office, one stop convenience store, P the lane behind. A pedestrian gate leads to the gardens, which doctors’ and dentists’ surgeries, veterinary surgery, hairdressers, Wiltshire Council have granted permission for ‘Erection of New are predominantly laid to lawn and surround the house. The rear and an organic farm shop. The Red House Village Centre is the Barn for Storage of Hay, Agricultural Machinery, Animal Food and garden includes a produce area with raised beds, a number of fruit location of several sports clubs including tennis, football and to House Animals in Winter.’ trees and a large chicken enclosure. To the front of the property bowls. are a single detached garage and the party barn, which has a small Ref: N/10/03492/FUL hall with cloakroom off and a spacious main room. To the north The market towns of Royal Wootton Bassett and Cricklade provide Date: 23/12/10 (Believed to be extant) of the property a gate and track lead from the lane to the large more comprehensive amenities and Cirencester, known as ‘The pasture field where the hard standing for the agricultural barn Capital of The Cotswolds’ is within twelve miles and provides an has been installed. There is a pony-paddock with a field shelter array of independent shops, restaurants and boutiques. RIGHTS & RESTRICTIONS adjacent to the garden, and two sloping fields that are designated Scheduled Monument, List Entry No 1004701, Described as as a National Monument. Education in the area is good with a Church of England Primary ‘Earthwork on Paven Hill’ comprising the two sloping, wild fields. School and Braydon Forest secondary school in the centre of the village, both rated ‘Good’ by Ofsted. Independent schools The public highway ends at the white gate. Upper Pavenhill Farm ITUATION MENITIES S & A include Cricklade Manor and Pinewood prep schools, St Mary’s has a right of way for access and services over the remainder of Upper Pavenhill is a small cluster of dwellings at the top of a quiet & St Margaret’s at Calne, Marlborough College and many fine the lane. lane on the outskirts of Purton. Approached over a climbing lane independent schools around Cirencester. with stunning views, it is an exceptional location on a limestone 4 UPPER PAVENHILL FARM 5 Thames Water also have certain rights, contained in the DIRECTIONS (POSTCODE SN5 4DQ) Registered Title, over the southeast section of the field. From Cirencester, take the A429 in the direction of There is one footpath crossing the pasture land west to east Swindon. At the roundabout take the 4th exit onto the to the north of the house Bristol Road / A429. At the next roundabout, take the first exit onto Midland Road. At the following roundabout take the first exit onto Bridge Road. Turn right onto Siddington SERVICES Road and continue onto Ashton Road and onto the Mains electricity. Supplementary electricity from photo- B4696 towards Royal Wootton Bassett. After 5 miles at voltaic panels. These panels benefit from the highest feed- the Braydon Crossroads turn left towards Purton. After 1.3 in tariff (FIT) available. Mains water supply. Private drainage miles turn left onto Upper Pavenhill. The property will be to septic tank. Rainwater storage tanks. Oil fired central found at the end of the lane on the right. heating. Fibre broadband is scheduled to be provided soon by Gigaclear. No tests to the suitability of services what3words: perfumes.sheepish.loves have been carried out and intending purchasers should commission their own tests (if required). FIXTURES AND FITTINGS Only those items mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the sale. Other fixtures and fittings, including garden statuary and ornaments, are excluded but may be available by separate negotiation. LOCAL AUTHORITY Wiltshire Council, Bythesea Road, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, BA14 8JN T 0300 456 0100 W wiltshire.gov.uk COUNCIL TAX Band G VIEWINGS Please telephone Sophie Keogh at Butler Sherborn, Cirencester Office T 01285 883 740 or The London Office T 0207 839 0888. E [email protected] This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES744697). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE.