BROADMEAD FARM WEST KNOYLE, WILTSHIRE BROADMEAD FARM ACCOMMODATION WEST KNOYLE, WILTSHIRE Main House • Entrance Hall A HANDSOME GRADE II LISTED STONE • Drawing Room • Dining Room FARMHOUSE WITH A COTTAGE, EXTENSIVE • Sitting Room OUTBUILDINGS, GARDENS AND GROUNDS • Study • Kitchen/Breakfast Room EXTENDING IN ALL TO ABOUT 40 ACRES • Conservatory • Utility/Boot Room • Cloakroom • Master Bedroom with ensuite Bathroom and Dressing Room • Three further First Floor Bedrooms • Two Bathrooms (one ensuite) • Two further Second Floor Bedrooms (one ensuite)
Cottage • Sitting Room • Kitchen/Dining Room • Two Bedrooms • Bathroom
Outside • Indoor Swimming Pool • Extensive Outbuildings, Loose Boxes, and Modern Barns • Manege • Lake • Gardens and Grounds, • In all about 40 Acres jackson-stops.co.uk DISTANCES GILLINGHAM 5 MILES TISBURY 9 MILES BRUTON 14 MILES SHERBORNE 19 MILES SALISBURY 24 MILES BATH 30 MILES (ALL DISTANCES APPROXIMATE)
SITUATION Broadmead Farm is situated on the western edge of West Knoyle, a small Wiltshire village surrounded by countryside, much of which has been designated as an area of outstanding natural beauty. The village has a pretty church (St Mary the Virgin) reputedly dating from the twelfth century and a village hall. East Knoyle is within a couple of miles, and has a highly regarded village post office, store and Inn while Shaftesbury has an excellent range of facilities including a supermarket, cafes, restaurants, niche retailers, a boutique hotel, banks, a small hospital, a library, a health centre and an arts centre. Nearby Bruton is a fashionable and popular town in the heart of the Somerset countryside. The town has several well-known restaurants, pubs and bars including At the Chapel, The Roth Bar at the world-renowned Hauser & Wirth Gallery and the newly opened Newt Hotel and Gardens. In nearby Gillingham there is a Waitrose as well as a mainline railway station (London Waterloo); there are a wider range of facilities in Sherborne, Bath and Salisbury, all of which are within easy motoring distance. The A303 lies approximately a mile and a half to the north giving access to the south west and London, via the M3.
THE PROPERTY Listed Grade II and dating from the late 17th century with a later 18th century extension, Broadmead Farmhouse is a handsome period stone farmhouse under a clay tiled roof situated on the edge of the village with a lovely outlook over its lake to undulating countryside. Once owned by Jesus College, Cambridge, and bought by the current owners 11 years ago, the property has been well tended in recent years, with sensibly configured accommodation, good ceiling heights and nicely proportioned rooms. Attributes worthy of particular mention include both open and inglenook fireplaces, beamed ceilings, and a conservatory with lovely views over the carefully landscaped gardens and grounds. In addition there is an oil fired AGA, and flagstone flooring in the hall and kitchen. The current owners have imaginatively converted one of the prep schools include Port Regis, Sandroyd, Knighton House, Hanford, outbuildings into an indoor swimming pool with a large changing Sherborne Prep and Clayesmore. Senior schools include Bryanston, room and studio and also converted the attic in the main house into Sherborne and Sherborne School for Girls, Milton Abbey, Millfield and additional accommodation. Clayesmore. There are primary schools in the area and Gillingham School, which is an extremely popular secondary school is within catchment. OUTSIDE The property is approached from the village down a drive which runs onto a gravelled forecourt with ample car parking and turning areas. SPORTING AND RECREATION This extends past the front of the house to the outbuildings. Either Extensive walking and riding in the unspoilt surrounding area and at side of the drive are small paddocks with post and rail fencing, flanked nearby Stourhead. Racing at Wincanton, Bath and Salisbury. Golf in by a variety of trees including silver birch. To the right of the drive Bourton, Sherborne and Warminster. Theatres at Salisbury and Bath. there is a lawned area with colourful flower and shrub borders with a Watersports on the south coast. stone wall separating the garden from the outbuildings.
The rear garden is accessed from both the drawing room and the PROPERTY INFORMATION conservatory with a stone terrace which extends the full width of Services: the rear façade; steps lead down to the landscaped gardens bordered Mains water and electricity. Private treatment plant. Oil fired central on one side by a large flower and shrub border with beech hedging. heating. Beyond this is a further area of lawn extending down to a lightly wooded area with a lake and a central island and a smaller pond, both Tenure and Possession: flanked by a wide variety of flowering and ornamental shrubs. The Freehold with vacant possession on completion. owners have carried out extensive planting with fine specimen trees. Local Authorities: To the west of the house there is an attractive stone terrace with a rose clad pergola, adjoining which is a further terrace with a sunken seated Wiltshire Council area. www.wiltshire.gov.uk Council Tax: There is a brick and part boarded cottage under a clay tiled roof. Please see floorplans. Farmhouse - Band G Cottage - Band A EPC: LAND AND OUTBUILDINGS Exempt The land extends to approximately 40 acres and lies to the north, east and west of the property. The land is all fenced, the majority with post DIRECTIONS (BA12 6AE) and rail and has water connected; to the west of the property there is a From Shaftesbury, take the A350 north; at the traffic lights (well plantation with a wide variety of specimen hardwood trees and elsewhere before the A303) turn left signed to West Knoyle and continue to an a small apple orchard. There is an extensive range of outbuildings, both Esso petrol station, turning left down the hill signed to West Knoyle. period and modern. These include three large barns suitable for a variety Continue down the lane, passing the church, and the turning right to of uses, a former slate and brick building has been converted into an Charnage; carry on through the village and the drive to Broadmead indoor swimming pool with an adjoining reception room and studio. Farm will be seen on the right hand side after a short distance. Alongside this is a further outbuilding with four loose boxes, a tack room and a full size manege. Please refer to the agent for details of Rural Land Payments. VIEWING Strictly by appointment with the sole agents Jackson-Stops, Shaftesbury Telephone: 01747 850858 EDUCATION The area is renowned for its schools, both state and private. Nearby
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TOTAL APPROX. FLOOR AREA 3998 SQ FT / 371.4 SQ M (OF WHICH 16.3 SQ M / 175 SQFT IS REDUCED HEIGHT)
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