VALE HOUSE HALSTOCK, DORSET VALE HOUSE HALSTOCK, DORSET

A large, detached Georgian farmhouse set in just over 3 acres on the edge of a village

Dining hall • Drawing room • Sitting room • Kitchen/breakfast room Garden room • Cloakroom • Boot room • Laundry room

5 Bedrooms • Bath and shower room • Shower room

Parking • Double garage • Cart barn • Garden shed Greenhouse • Garden • Paddock

In all about 3.27 acres (1.32 hectares)

Evershot 4½ miles • Yeovil 6½ miles (London Waterloo 2¼ hours) Beaminster 7 miles • Crewkerne 8¼ miles • Sherborne 10½ miles (Distances and time approximate)

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. Vale House Situation & Amenities Built in the mid-18th Century and still a working dairy farm until are the boot room, which also doubles as a workshop, and Vale House backs on to open farmland and is situated off a 1964, Vale House is a detached house with local stone walls the laundry room. The staircase in the hall rises to the first floor peaceful lane on the edge of the village, which has a parish under a clay tiled roof, with later Victorian additions under Welsh landing off which are five bedrooms, family bath and shower room church, village hall and shop/Post Office. The neighbouring slate roofs to the rear and one side. The property has been the and a further shower room. villages of Corscombe and East Coker have public houses family home of the current owners for the past 17 years and and nearby Evershot (4½ miles) has a more extensive range of during that time has been renovated and updated, including re- Garden & Grounds amenities including a public house, post office/shop, bakery, roofing the property in 2013. The light and airy accommodation The property is approached up a tarmac drive to a gravel parking doctor’s surgery and the 5-star Summer Lodge Country House is arranged on two floors with generous sized rooms and good area to one side of the house. Adjacent are an open-fronted barn, Hotel. head height throughout. On the ground floor the front door, under double garage and gate leading through to a 2 acre paddock. The Evershot is also the site of Sticklands CE VA Primary a stone canopy porch, opens to a large dining hall, which has garden extends around three sides of the house, with the more E School, with the closest secondary school in Beaminster an impressive and original flagstone floor, with doors off to the formal area of garden to the front comprising a lawn with borders about 7 miles away. Alternatively the Gryphon School in cloakroom, drawing room, sitting room and kitchen. on two sides, with one backing on to a south-facing red brick Sherborne is 10¾ miles away. Nearby private schools The drawing room and sitting room have wood-burning stoves, wall and in one corner is a mature horse chestnut tree. Beyond include Hazlegrove, the Sherborne schools, Millfield and working window shutters and beamed ceilings. The kitchen/ the wall are a mixed orchard, vegetable garden, greenhouse and Perrott Hill. breakfast room has a beamed ceiling and tiled floor and is fitted timber garden shed backing on to a small copse. Behind the The town of Crewkerne 8¼ miles away has a good with a range of painted timber units and 2 oven oil-fired AGA house is a paved terrace with brick barbeque, a pergola hung S range of shops and services, a weekly country market (white) inset in a fireplace designed for a range. Off the kitchen is with wisteria, clematis and roses and a number of flower beds and a monthly farmer’s market. Yeovil and the county the recently built garden room, which has French windows leading set between meandering paths. In all the garden and paddock town of Dorchester are also only 6½ and 19 miles away out to the garden and overlooks the paddock. Also off the kitchen extend to 3.27 acres (1.32 hectares). respectively. Reception

Bedroom Sherborne, Dorchester, Yeovil and Exeter all provide Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Bathroom t excellent entertainment venues. 330.5 sq m / 3557 sq ft There are a number of bistro pubs and restaurants within Kitchen/Utility (Excluding Void) e the local area. Storage The A37 is about 4 miles away providing quick access M to the main road and motorway network. Recreation There is a mainline rail service from Yeovil (6½ miles) to T Waterloo taking about 2¼ hours and from Castle Cary (22½ miles) to Paddington in about 90 minutes on the fast train. The airports at Bournemouth and Exeter are both just A over an hour’s drive away offering connections to UK and many international destinations.

Services: Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil-fi red central heating. Fixtures & Fittings: All those items regarded as tenant’s fi xtures and fi ttings, together with the fi tted carpets, curtains and light fi ttings, are specifi cally excluded from the sale. However, certain items may be available by separate negotiation. Tenure: Freehold Council Tax Band: G Local Authority: West Dorset District Council Ground Floor Tel: 01305 251010 Directions (Postcode BA22 9SF) From Yeovil travel south on the A37 for just under 1½ mile and turn right signed to Halstock. Carry on down the lane passing the Sutton Bingham Reservoir for 3 ½ miles and shortly after passing the Halstock village shop fork right signed Halstock Leigh. Vale House is on the left after 250 yards. Viewings All viewings are by appointment with the sole agents First Floor Knight Frank LLP.

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.

Important Notice: Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the 01935 812236 particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP nor 15 Cheap Street, Sherborne, any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s). Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, Dorset DT9 3PU measurements and distances given are approximate only. Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean [email protected] that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must fi nd out by inspection or in other ways that these KnightFrank.co.uk matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct. VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England with registered number OC305934. Our registered offi ce is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may look at a list of members’ names. Photographs: 2015. Particulars: May 2016. Kingfi sher Print and Design. 01803 867087.