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MANOR FARMHOUSE SHROTON •

MANOR FARMHOUSE TELEGRAPH STREET • SHROTON • DORSET • DT11 8QQ

An unspoilt Grade II listed country house standing in idyllic gardens and grounds, with a detached cottage, barn, stables and stores

Accommodation Dining room • Sitting room • Family room • Study • Kitchen Larder • Boot room • Cloakroom • Cellar Four bedrooms • Family bathroom • Shower room • Cloakroom Three further bedrooms • Bathroom Dairy Cottage: Sitting room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Utility room • Cloakroom • Boot room Four bedrooms • Two bathrooms • Cloakroom • Private garden Workshop/barn • Greenhouse • 5-bay carport • Former stables with pony stalls • Studio Landscaped gardens and grounds • Kitchen garden • Paddocks About 4.6 acres (1.87 hectares)

Savills, Salisbury Savills, Wimborne Rolfes House, 60 Milford Street Wessex House, Priors Walk, East Borough Salisbury, SP1 2BP Wimborne, BH21 1PB [email protected] [email protected] 01722 426 820 01202 856 800

Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text SITUATION AND AMENITIES Shroton, also known as Iwerne Courtney, is a pretty village sited by the small River Iwerne between the National Trust-owned to the south-west and the hills of to the east. The name Iwerne Courtney supposedly derives from when the Courtenays (a Devon family) owned land here, on the Iwerne stream.

The village has a thriving community with an active village hall, The Cricketers public house and a parish church. The various community- led groups and cricket club provide plenty of local social opportunities. The village itself lies between the two thriving market towns of Blandford Forum (5.5 miles) and (7.5 miles), both of which offer a wide range of day-to-day amenities including medical, dental and veterinarian surgeries. Sherborne (19 miles), Salisbury (26 miles) and Bath (39 miles) all offer a much wider range of leisure, cultural and shopping amenities.

For transport links, there is a direct rail service from Gillingham (12 miles) to Waterloo (2 hours) and from Castle Cary (27 miles) to Paddington (90 minutes).

Bournemouth Airport is about a 40-minute drive away and Bristol, and Southampton offer a wider range of domestic and international flights, all within a reasonable drive.

The surrounding area is renowned for its educational choice from both the state and private sectors. The choice from the latter is extensive and includes Clayesmore, , Milton Abbey, Canford, the Sherborne schools, Hanford, Knighton House, Leweston, Sandroyd and Port Regis. MANOR FARMHOUSE Manor Farmhouse is Grade II listed and, according to Historic , originally dates from the 18th century, with later additions in the early 1800s. The property is also known as Willis’s Shroton Farmhouse and is constructed of brick, rubble and render with a hipped slate roof. The symmetrical east-facing façade has 3 storeys with 3 bays and sash windows of 16 panes on the ground floor, 12 panes on the first floor and 9 panes on the second floor. There is a central doorway with round-headed, radiating fanlight and panelled door. The roof and chimneys were re-done by the current owners about 7 years ago. Manor Farmhouse is a fine example of an unspoilt country house, ideal for both family living and entertaining alike, standing in professionally designed gardens and grounds. The property is approached from the village into a private courtyard with ample parking for both the house and cottage. Like many houses of this age, the property has many entrances and on a day-to-day basis, the boot room provides access from the courtyard to the north of the house. The traditional farmhouse kitchen lies just off the rear entrance hall and boot room, with an oil-fired Aga and adjacent larder. There is a south-facing study, with adjoining cloakroom, and side door to the courtyard. The family room links to the kitchen and main hallway, which runs from the formal front door on the eastern elevation. In turn, the hallway links the formal dining room with dual aspect views over the gardens and farmland beyond. The pretty sitting room has French windows opening onto a glass-covered terrace, overlooking a stunning yew avenue, with deep herbaceous borders on either side, leading to the fields to the south. The inner hallway has stairs leading down to the cellar and also up to the first floor, which provides four double bedrooms, a family bathroom, a shower room and a separate lavatory. A further set of stairs leads to the second floor with a spacious landing area, three further bedrooms and a family bathroom.

OUTSIDE The gardens and grounds have been beautifully enhanced and improved by the current owners, one of whom is a well-known professional garden designer. The gardens provide the perfect foil for this quintessential farmhouse, beautifully framing the house with the picturesque backdrop of Hambledon Hill beyond. There are undulating areas of lawn with specimen species of trees and shrubs interspersed across the grounds. Garden ‘rooms’, enclosed by maturing yew hedges and deep borders, are planted with carefully selected flowers and shrubs, such as euphorbia, box, weeping pear and salvia, providing a myriad of seasonal colours. There are beautiful areas of wild flower meadow and orchard, with an abundance of wild roses, salvias, daisies, poppies, knapweed, peonies and wild orchids. An extensive, organic kitchen garden provides copious vegetables and fruit, including gooseberries, blackcurrants, raspberries and rhubarb and an established asparagus bed. A large greenhouse provides an important focal point for the productive garden. Formerly a tennis court, the croquet lawn, bounded by maturing yew hedging, has been edged with white poplars. An area, known as The Lost Garden, has a path winding through maturing columns of yew and bay. To the north of the house is the courtyard with a large double- height stone barn which is also used as a workshop, with double doors opening into the yard and plenty of natural light from the large windows. There is a five bay car port under a tiled roof and adjoining this are the old pony stables with stalls, currently used for stores. A studio adjoins the end of this traditional brick and stone barn. DAIRY COTTAGE Accessed via the same yard to the side of Manor Farmhouse, Dairy Cottage is a detached thatched cottage lying just to the west of Manor Farmhouse and is Grade II listed. The owners re-did the majority of the thatch about 10 years’ ago and the ridge was done in 2019. It would make a superb guest cottage or can be occupied by family and dependent relatives as it is at the moment. The cottage comprises an entrance hall, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, boot room and utility room. Upstairs there are four bedrooms and two bathrooms. There is also a very pretty private rear garden. TENURE Freehold with vacant possession on both properties. LOCAL AUTHORITY Dorset County Council. SERVICES Mains water, drainage and electricity to both properties. Private borehole water supply in addition. Oil-fired central heating and hot water to Manor Farmhouse. Calor gas central heating and hot water to Dairy Cottage. FIXTURES & FITTINGS All items usually known as tenants’ fixtures and fittings whether mentioned or not in these particulars, are excluded from the sale but some may be available by separate negotiation. Such items include all carpets and curtains, light fittings, domestic electrical items and garden statuary. VIEWINGS Strictly by appointment with sole selling agents Savills. AGENT’S NOTE There is a footpath across one of the paddocks to the west of the house. POSTCODE DT11 8QQ Boot Room 3.78 x 3.23m Manor Farm House 12'5" x 10'7" Utility Telegraph St Shroton 2.44 x 1.80m 8'0" x 5'11" Studio Wilts DT118QQ 6.68 x 2.51m 21'11" x 8'3" Main House Manor Farm House, Telegraph Street, Shroton, Wiltshire DT11 8QQ 4963 Sq Ft - 461 Sq M Bedroom 2 Kitchen/ 4.27 x 3.33m Dining Room 14'0" x 10'11" 4.11 x 2.67m Gross internal area (approx) Boot Room Outbuilding/Green House 5.79 x 4.72m 13'6" x 8'9" 3.78 x 3.23m 19'0" x 15'6" MainManor House Farm 461 House sq m/4,963 sq ft 12'5" x 10'7" 3235 Sq Ft - 301 Sq M Utility Outbuildings/Green House 301 sq m/3,235 sq ft 2.44 x 1.80m Telegraph St Shroton Cottage HW 8'0" x 5'11" Studio Cottage Wilts DT118QQ 217 sq m/2,332 sq ft 2332 Sq Ft - 2176.68 Sq x 2.51m M 21'11" x 8'3" B TotalMain Area House 979 sq m/10,530 sq ft Total Area 4963 Sq Ft - 461 Sq M Bedroom 2 10530 Sq Ft - 979 Sq M Kitchen/ 4.27 x 3.33m Stables Dining Room 14'0" x 10'11" 4.11 x 2.67m 7.44 x 6.68m Outbuilding/Green House 5.79 x 4.72m 13'6" x 8'9" Bedroom 1 24'5" x 21'11" 19'0" x 15'6" Bedroom 4 4.45 x 3.51m 3235 Sq Ft - 301 Sq M 3.48 x 3.45m 14'7" x 11'6" 11'5" x 11'4" Cottage HW 2332 Sq Ft - 217 Sq M B 3.71 x 2.54m Total Area 12'2" x 8'4" Sitting Room Bedroom 3 10530 Sq Ft - 979 Sq M Stables 7.11 x 6.71m 3.68 x 3.15m 7.44 x 6.68m Cellar 23'4" x 22'0" Bedroom 1 4.98 x 4.42m 12'1" x 10'4" 3.43 x 2.77m 24'5" x 21'11" 11'3" x 9'1" Bedroom 4 4.45 x 3.51m 16'4" x 14'6" 3.48 x 3.45m 14'7" x 11'6" 11'5" x 11'4" Wine 2.13 x 1.80m Cottage Ground Floor 7'0" x 5'11" Cottage First Floor 3.71 x 2.54m 12'2" x 8'4" 8.31 x 3.68m 27'3" x 12'1" Sitting Room Bedroom 3 7.11 x 6.71m 3.68 x 3.15m Cellar 23'4" x 22'0" 4.98 x 4.42m 12'1" x 10'4" 3.43 x 2.77m Cellar 16'4" x 14'6" 11'3" x 9'1"

Wine 2.13 x 1.80m B Cottage Ground Floor 7'0" x 5'11" Cottage First Floor Kitchen Bedroom 4 8.31 x 3.68m 6.17 x 5.72m Boot/Utility 4.37 x 3.89m 27'3" x 12'1" 20'3" x 18'9" 4.24 x 3.56m 14'4" x 12'9" Carport 13'11" x 11'8" Green House 14.86 x 6.73m 48'9" x 22'1" Cellar Study Block 4.95 x 4.57m Door 16'3" x 15'0" B

Kitchen Bedroom 4 6.17 x 5.72m Boot/Utility 4.37 x 3.89m Larder Bedroom 3 20'3" x 18'9" 4.24 x 3.56m 14'4" x 12'9" Carport Family Room 3.45 x 1.14m 4.60 x 4.01m 13'11" x 11'8" Green House 14.86 x 6.73m 4.60 x 4.57m 11'4" x 3'9" 15'1" x 13'2" 48'9" x 22'1" 15'1" x 15'0" To Eaves Study Block 4.95 x 4.57m Door 16'3" x 15'0"

Larder Bedroom 3 Family Room 3.45 x 1.14m 4.60 x 4.01m Principal 4.60 x 4.57m 11'4" x 3'9" 15'1" x 13'2" Dining Room Bedroom 2 Bedroom 5 Bedroom 6 15'1" x 15'0" Sitting Room 5.11 x 4.57m 5.26 x 4.55m Bedroom 5.56 x 2.95m To 5.08 x 4.47m 5.23 x 4.60m 5.28 x 4.52m Workshop/Barn 16'9" x 15'0" 17'3" x 14'11" Bedroom 7 18'3" x 9'8" Eaves 16'8" x 14'8" 17'2" x 15'1" 17'4" x 14'10" 11.68 x 4.72m 3.15 x 3.78m 38'4" x 15'6" 10'4" x 12'5"

Principal Dining Room Bedroom 2 Bedroom 5 Bedroom 6 Sitting Room 5.11 x 4.57m 5.26 x 4.55m Bedroom 5.56 x 2.95m 5.08 x 4.47m 5.23 x 4.60m 5.28 x 4.52m Workshop/Barn 16'9" x 15'0" 17'3" x 14'11" Bedroom 7 18'3" x 9'8" 16'8" x 14'8" 17'2" x 15'1" 17'4" x 14'10" 11.68 x 4.72m Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor Outbuilding 3.15 x 3.78m 38'4" x 15'6" 10'4" x 12'5"

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