CHURCH HOUSE FARM WEST CHELBOROUGH, DORCHESTER, DORSET

CHURCH HOUSE FARM WEST CHELBOROUGH, DORCHESTER, DORSET

A Grade II Listed period farmhouse with a walled garden and paddocks tucked away in a glorious and peaceful setting with lovely views

Entrance hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Kitchen/breakfast room • Back hall • Utility room WC Garden room • Shower room/WC • Cellar/Wine cellar

Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom • 4 further double bedrooms • Family bathroom Study/bedroom 6 WC

Garage • Parking • Outbuildings • Stable block • Walled garden • Kitchen garden • Paddocks • Ponds

In all about 5 acres (2.02 hectares)

Evershot 2½ miles • Beaminster 7½ miles • Yeovil 9 miles (Waterloo 2½ hours) Crewkerne 10½ miles • Sherborne 13½ miles • Dorchester 15 miles (Distances and time approximate)

Knight Frank LLP 15 Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3PU Tel: +44 1935 812236 [email protected] www.knightfrank.co.uk

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure. Church House Farm Believed to have been rebuilt in the late 17th Century, from an earlier dwelling and subsequently modified during the Georgian period, Church House Farm is a detached, Grade II listed former farmhouse built of Forest Marble limestone with hamstone quoins under a Welsh slate roof. Bought in 1994 by its present owners, it has since been totally and sympathetically renovated to create a lovely family home. The house has retained many period touches including Blue Lias flagstone floors, open fireplaces, a stone-flagged cellar and tall sash windows at the front of the house affording a charming outlook to the adjacent parish church of St. Andrew. On the ground floor the accommodation comprises a flag-stoned entrance hall with an elegant staircase to the first floor and doors off to a drawing room and a dining room with a door through to a charming kitchen/breakfast room with a window seat, flagstone floor and fitted with a 4-oven oil-fired AGA (blue), bespoke timber kitchen units with a built-in ceramic sink and a walk-in pantry. Beyond is a rear hall with steps down to a cellar, utility room, cloakroom, shower room and a garden room with views over the walled garden and unspoilt countryside beyond. Above the garden room is an independent double bedroom accessed via its own staircase. On the first floor there is a master bedroom suite with en-suite bathroom, guest bedroom with wash hand basin, further double bedroom and a family bath and shower room. On the second floor two former attic rooms have been developed to create a bedroom with en-suite WC and a study and TV room, which could be used as an additional bedroom. Situation & Amenities Situated at the end of a No-Through lane, West Chelborough is a small community of houses grouped around the parish church. Surrounded by pretty, rolling West Dorset countryside in a very tranquil setting, the village is only 2½ miles from the neighbouring village of Evershot, which has a church, The Acorn Inn public house, post office/shop, bakery, village hall, doctor’s surgery, primary school and the 5-star Summer Lodge Country House Hotel. For further details go to www.evershot.org. Sticklands CE VA Primary School in Evershot E is 2½ miles away, with the closest secondary school in Beaminster about 7½ miles away. Alternatively the Gryphon School in Sherborne is 13½ miles away. Nearby private schools include Hazlegrove, the Sherborne schools, Millfield and Perrott Hill. Beaminster 7½ miles away is an attractive little S town with a number of shops, 3 restaurants and 2 pubs. The town of Crewkerne, 10½ miles away also has a good range of shops and services, a weekly country market and a monthly farmer’s market. Yeovil and the county town of Dorchester are also only 9 and 15 miles away respectively.

Sherborne, Dorchester, Yeovil, Bridport and t Exeter all provide excellent entertainment venues. There are a number of bistro pubs and e restaurants within nearby towns and in the local area. The A356 and the A37 are both about 4 miles M away providing quick access to the main road network. There is a mainline rail service nearby from Yeovil T to London Waterloo, taking about 2½ hours. Bristol, Bournemouth, Exeter and Southampton A International Airports are all just over an hour’s drive away offering connections to UK and many international destinations. Gardens, Grounds & Outbuildings Behind the house is a parking area for several cars and a number of outbuildings including a timber garage with attached stores, small barn, timber home office and a stable block comprising 2 loose boxes. To one side of the house is a delightful walled garden, comprising lawns and borders planted with a wide variety of roses, shrubs and flowering perennials, and a separate area of garden to the front dominated by a mature wisteria. Beyond the formal garden is a kitchen garden with a second drive, fruit cage and greenhouse. Situated around the grounds are 2 summerhouses and an area of hardwood decking, all sited to allow the setting and the views of the surrounding countryside to be enjoyed. Beyond the walled garden there are two paddocks and 2 ponds. In all about 5 acres (2.02 hectares). Services Mains electricity with back-up private generator. Septic tank drainage. Oil-fired central heating. Water to the house is supplied automatically from a bore hole with a reservoir tank, backed up from a well. Water for the garden and livestock is supplied from a natural spring. Fixtures & Fittings All those items regarded as tenant’s fixtures and fittings are specifically excluded from the sale. However, certain items may be available by separate negotiation. Tenure Freehold Council Tax Band F Local Authority West Dorset District Council. Tel: 01305 251010 Important Notice: Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any Directions (Postcode DT2 0PY) part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part From Yeovil take the A37 towards Dorchester for just over 3 miles and building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer of one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP turn right, signed to Closworth. Continue on this road for 4 miles to a or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is staggered crossroad. At this crossroad turn right onto a No-Through correct. road to West Chelborough. Continue along the lane just over 1 mile into as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change the village. Church House Farm is the first house after and overlooking without notice. the church. authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England with registered number OC305934. Our registered office Viewings on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s). is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a All viewings are by appointment with the sole agents Knight Frank LLP. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the list of members’ names. property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, Photographs: 2015 & 2016 Particulars: April 2016 measurements and distances given are approximate only. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087. Approximate Gross Internal Area 303.9 sq m / 3271 sq ft (Excluding Void) Cellar = 26.3 sq m / 283 sq ft Total = 330.2 sq m / 3554 sq ft

Second Floor

Reception

Bedroom Ground Floor First Floor Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

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