North Hill Farm STEART HILL, WEST CAMEL, SOMERSET

Home , Queen Camel, Templecombe, West Camel

A recently restored period farmhouse situated in open countryside off a quiet country lane with delightful gardens and grounds, large cider apple orchard and pasture land totalling about 19 acres

Entrance hall • Drawing room • Dining room • Study • Kitchen/breakfast room Larder Utility room • Home Office/Playroom • Cloakroom • Wine store

Principal bedroom with en-suite bathroom • 3 Further bedrooms • 2 En-suite shower rooms Family shower room Playroom/Potential Bedroom 5

Home Gym • Double Garage • Log Store • Timber outbuilding • Summer house • Garden Kitchen garden • Cider apple orchard • Paddocks

In all about 19 acres (7.69 hectares)

A303 ½ mile • Yeovil 7 miles • Sherborne 8 miles (London Waterloo 2¼ hours) • Castle Cary 7 miles (Paddington from 1¾ hours) (Distances and times 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. Situation North Hill Farm is situated off a quiet, narrow country lane just north of the small village of West Camel and is set in gently rolling countryside and farmland. Whilst the lane is shared with only a handful of other properties, the village has a public house, church and village hall. Further local amenities such as post office/village store, primary school and health centre are located in the nearby village of Queen Camel, about 2 miles away. There is a wealth of excellent schools E in the local area from both the private and state sectors covering both primary and secondary education. Nearby Sherborne is renowned for its schooling which includes Sherborne Prep School, Sherborne Boys and Girls Schools and The Gryphon School (state secondary). Other nearby schools include Hazlegrove (Prep) and Millfield. Sherborne, Yeovil, Bath, Exeter, t Salisbury, Bruton and Bristol all provide excellent entertainment venues. There are a number of bistro pubs and e restaurants within the local area. The old market town of Castle Cary and S the abbey town of Sherborne provide a wide range of local shopping and business facilities and are 7 and 8 miles away respectively. The regional centre of Yeovil is 7 miles away. The cities of Bath and Exeter are both about 1 hour’s drive. Courses at Sherborne, Yeovil and G Lovington (Nr Castle Cary). The A303 is less than half a mile away M and provides access to London via the M3 and also to the West Country. Rail links are excellent with a mainline T station at nearby Templecombe, offering a regular service to London Waterloo (2¼ hours), whilst trains run to Paddington (1¾ hours) from Castle Cary. The regional airports of Bristol, Exeter, A Bournemouth and Southampton can all be reached in about 1 hour. North Hill Farm With origins dating back to the 16th Century, the present North Hill Farm building is believed to date from the late Georgian period and was extensively refurbished and improved by the present owners in 2011 to create a fine family home designed for ease of maintenance. It is a detached south facing former farmhouse built of local stone under a clay tiled roof with timber framed windows. Set beneath a tiled porch, the front door opens onto a broad entrance hall with a flagstone floor providing through access to the garden and with doors off to a large drawing room, study and an open-plan kitchen/dining room with a flagstone floor. The kitchen is fitted with an extensive range of floor and wall mounted units under granite work surfaces, a double Belfast sink and a Falcon 2-oven/5-ring gas-fired range/cooker. Beyond the kitchen is a service area incorporating a large walk-in larder, utility room and office/playroom with a door to a temperature and humidity controlled walk-in wine store. On the first floor there is a large master bedroom with an integral dressing area with built-in wardrobes and an en-suite bath/shower room, 2 further double bedrooms, one with an en-suite shower room, family shower room and a walk-in laundry room. On the second floor the stairs open on to a broad play area/landing/potential 5th bedroom and a single bedroom with an en-suite shower room. There are excellent southerly views over the garden and land.

Garden and Outbuildings North Hill Farm is approached through a timber five-bar gate into a paved area in front of the house, providing ample parking space for several cars. Attached to the house and fronting onto the parking area is a home gym and on the opposite side is a timber double garage, log store and a hobbies room/home office. Also fronting onto the parking area is a door leading to a walk-in room housing the boiler, hot water tank and controls for the ground-source electric central heating system. A wrought iron gate set between dry stone walls leads round to the garden, which lies principally to the rear of the property. The garden comprises twin lawns bisected by a paved path flanked by dwarf box hedging leading to a working well, which provides ample on-site water for the garden. On either side of the lawns are herbaceous borders planted with a broad variety of flowering perennials and shrubs and there are two paved terraces suitable for al-fresco dining. From the formal garden, stone steps lead up to a broad grassed area planted with a variety of trees including walnut, plum, crab apple and a number of species of acer including Japanese maple. To one side of the garden, and screened by a hornbeam hedge, is a productive kitchen garden with an aluminium-framed greenhouse and a large timber garden shed. The kitchen garden comprises a number of raised beds planted with a variety of vegetables and soft fruit including strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, rhubarb and seasonal vegetables. Orchard and Paddocks Beyond the garden there is a large and productive cider apple orchard planted with 40 mature trees and a further 120 young cider apple saplings. Located within the orchard is an African summer house sited to afford views back towards the house and gardens and over the surrounding countryside. Beyond are 2 paddocks bounded by post and rail fencing. The paddock closest to the house incorporates the subterranean elements for the ground-source central heating system and a rainwater harvester. In all the whole property totals approximately 19 acres.

Council Tax Band G

Fixtures and fittings All those items regarded as vendor’s fixtures and fittings, together with the fitted carpets, curtains and light fittings, are specifically excluded from the sale. However, certain items may be available by separate negotiation including the garden statues.

Services Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Ground- source electric central heating and water heating.

Tenure Freehold

Local Authority South Somerset District Council: Tel: 01935 462462

Viewings Viewings are by appointment with the sole agents Knight Frank LLP. Important Notice: Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations Directions (Postcode BA22 7RF) or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the Approaching on the A303 from an easterly direction, travel inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being straight over the Hazlegrove Roundabout towards Yeovil. with and that all information is correct. factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither After the roundabout the road narrows down from a dual Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any authority to make any VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. to a single carriageway continue on for just over one mile representations about the property, and accordingly any information Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in until you reach a crossroads. Turn right signed to Babcary. given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) England with registered number OC305934. Our registered office is Continue along the lane for about half a mile and the or lessor(s). 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a list of entrance to the house will be found on the left at the end members’ names. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as of a tall stone wall. they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and Photographs: June 2015 Particulars: March 2016 distances given are approximate only. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087. Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area 3,931 sq ft / 365.2 sq m Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Licence number 100021721. Plotted Scale - 1:2500 Outbuildings, Gym and Pump Room = 721 sq ft / 67.0 sq m Total = 4,652 sq ft / 432.2 sq m

Outbuilding (Not shown in actual location/orientation)

NOT TO SCALE

Reception Ground Floor Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Second Floor

First Floor

This plan is for layout guidance only. Not drawn to scale unless stated. Windows & door openings are approximate. Whilst every care is taken in the preparation of this plan,please check all dimensions, shapes & compass bearings before making any decisions reliant upon them.