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Dairy House Farm Kington Magna • Dorset A handsome period farmhouse house set in pretty gardens with extensive outbuildings and a paddock
• Hall • Drawing Room • Snug • Garden Room • Kitchen/Dining Room • Family Area • Utility Room • Cloakroom • Boot Room • Master Bedroom with En-suite Bathroom and Dressing Room • Double Bedroom with En-suite Bathroom • Further Double Bedroom • Single Bedroom • Family Bathroom • Boarded Loft • Milking Parlour • Timber Barn with Loft • Two Stables • Two Double Car Ports • Gardens and Paddock In all approximately 2.5 acres
Location (all distances approximate) Gillingham 4 miles Wincanton 5 miles Shaftesbury 7 miles Sherborne 12 miles Situation Dairy House Farm is situated at the north eastern edge of the village of Kington Magna which has a church and a village hall. The market town of Gillingham, just to the north east, has a wide range of everyday facilities including shops, banks, a doctors’ surgery, supermarkets, including a Waitrose and a mainline railway station (London Waterloo). There are a wider range of facilities in nearby Shaftesbury and Sherborne and for more extensive requirements there are the regional centres of Salisbury and Bath. The Property Listed Grade II and built in the late seventeenth century with later additions and a full renovation in 1990, Dairy House Farm is constructed of sandstone elevations under a pitched clay tile and slate roof. It has sensibly configured accommodation with large rooms, good ceiling heights and timber framed double glazed windows creating light and bright space. Other attributes include open fireplaces, a wood burning stove, window seats, a clay tiled floor in the Kitchen/ Breakfast Room, Blue Lias flagstone floors and an electric four-oven Aga. Two separate staircases provide independent upstairs accommodation, but could be combined. A garden room with french windows onto one of two stone terraces and a large boot room/dog room complete this comfortable and practical family home. Outside A range of outbuildings make this property very adaptable and also offers scope for ancillary accommodation, subject to the necessary consents. The Milking Parlour, a single storey building of stone elevations under a pitched clay tile roof, is suitable for a self-contained annex or studio, or simply additional bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms. A timber barn has a double car port (accessed from the lane) with storage above, and a large open space suitable for further parking or machinery storage with doors onto the yard. Two stables, one with a large loft and a second double car port complete the outbuildings. Several original features such as the milking stalls and mangers remain from the buildings’ former days.
The Gardens and Grounds The gardens are peaceful and extensive, yet designed to be manageable. A fruit cage, fenced kitchen garden, lawns, various shrubbery and herbaceous borders, numerous roses and climbing plants and an orchard offer both productive and pretty grounds to this handsome house. A stone walled seating area in the lower part of the garden offers a quiet place to enjoy a wonderful outlook. Double gates open from the lane into the yard between the house and the outbuildings, and a flag stone terrace on two levels has doors into the kitchen/ breakfast room, the hall and the garden room. A wooden gate gives access from the bottom of the yard into the kitchen garden and to the paddock beyond. Services Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired central heating. Electric Aga. Tenure and Possession Full vacant possession on completion. Education The area is particularly well catered for with educational facilities; they include Clayesmore, Sherborne Boys, Sherborne Girls, Leweston, St Mary’s Shaftesbury, Milton Abbey, Bryanston, Canford and Millfield. Prep Schools include; Sandroyd, Port Regis, Sherborne Prep, Hazlegrove, Clayesmore Prep, Hanford and Knighton House. Sporting and Recreation There is racing at Wincanton, Salisbury and Bath. Golf at Ashley Wood (Blandford), Rushmore Park, Sherborne and Dorchester Came Down. Theatres at Salisbury, Poole, Bournemouth and Bath. Extensive walking, cycling and riding in this unspoilt part of Dorset. Situated within striking distance of the Cranborne Chase, the property is conveniently placed for the Isle of Purbeck with its rugged coastline and the New Forest to the east. Poole and Bournemouth are within an hours drive, offering excellent sailing facilities in Poole Harbour. There is a pub at nearby Buckhorn Weston, The Stapleton Arms. Local Authorities North Dorset District Council, Telephone: 01305 251000 Dorset County Council, Telephone: 01258 454111 Council Tax Band G.
Directions From Shaftesbury take the A30 west towards Sherborne. After West Stour take the next turn to the right, signed to Sandley and Bourton. After approximately half a mile take the second left turn into Church Hill and Dairy House Farm will be found below the church on the left hand side. Viewing Strictly by appointment with sole agent Jackson-Stops & Staff, Shaftesbury Telephone: 01747 850858 Shaftesbury 01747 850858 [email protected] 6 The Commons, Shaftesbury, Dorset SP7 8JU jackson-stops.co.uk
Approximate Gross Internal Area: Main House (excluding Boot Room): 266 sq m / 2863 sq ft Boot Room: 15 sq m / 161 sq ft Outbuildings: 260 sq m / 2799 sq ft Total: 541 sq m / 5823 sq ft Outbuilding (Not shown in Actual Location, For identification purposes only. Not to scale. Orientation or Relative Size) Outbuilding (Not shown in Actual Location, Orientation or Relative Size)
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