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Manor Farm Draycot Cerne, Chippenham, Wiltshire, SN15 5LD

M4 (J17) 2 miles • Chippenham 3 miles (London Paddington 75 minutes) 6 miles • Bath 16 miles • Cirencester 17 miles Bristol 22 miles • London 95 miles (distances and times approximate) A beautifully restored 17th century Grade II Listed country house

Accommodation Manor Farm House Reception hall • Drawing room • Sitting room • Family / Dining room • Study Kitchen / breakfast room • Utility room • Boot room • 2 WCs

Master bedroom with dressing room and en suite bath and shower room Five further bedrooms • Family bathroom and shower room

Cottage Bedroom • Bathroom • Living room • Kitchen

Coach House Home office • Kitchen • Shower room/WC • Wine store • General stores

Outbuildings 9 loose boxes • Tack room • 4-bay carport and stores Formal gardens and grounds All weather arena 60m x 20m Turnout paddocks and fields

In all about 9 acres (3.6 hectares) The main house: 4,317 sq ft • The Cottage 474 sq ft • Outbuildings 4,004 sq ft For sale freehold as a whole

Knight Frank LLP Country Department Gloucester House, 60 Dyer Street, 55 Baker Street Cirencester, Gloucestershire GL7 2PT London, w1u 8an [email protected] [email protected] Tel: +44 1285 659 771 KnightFrank.co.uk Tel: +44 20 7861 1707

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. North Wiltshire Manor Farm is situated on the edge of the picturesque hamlet of commuter rail services running from Chippenham and Draycot Cerne, in a peaceful location at the end of a no through stations direct to London Paddington, taking approximately road surrounded by open countryside. The neighbouring villages 75 minutes and 60 minutes respectively. In addition Bristol of , and Stanton St Quinton are International and Heathrow Airports are both within easy reach. active parishes with popular pubs, village shops, a post office The house is well located for sporting opportunities including golf and a service station. The larger centres of Chippenham (3 miles) at Castle Coombe, Bowood and Westonbirt, polo at Cirencester and Malmesbury (8 miles) offer an extensive range of shopping and Westonbirt, motor racing at Castle Coombe, hunting with and recreational facilities in addition to those available in nearby the Duke of Beaufort’s hounds, rugby at Bath and water sports Cirencester, Bath and Bristol. at the Cotswold Water Park. Education in the area is first class The area is extremely well served for communications with with popular private and public schools; of notable mention are easy access to the at Junction 17. There is Westonbirt and St Mary’s Calne, Marlborough College and the direct access to Bath, Bristol, the M5 and London with regular Royal and Bath High in Bath, as well as nearby Grittleton School. Manor Farm • Manor Farm is a most attractive Grade II Listed former farmhouse which has been completely modernised and presented to a high standard. • To the side of the house is an extensive gravel parking area going past the cottage and leading on to the impressive American barn style stable yard with the home office and the former coach house beyond. • The stable yard forms a pretty courtyard between the coach house and cottage. There are private gardens and an outside entertaining space easily accessible through the French doors and oak bi-fold door which open from the kitchen and family dining room. • Beyond the garden is an orchard area and post and rail paddocks with a hard track leading to the pasture land beyond. • Within the grounds is an all-weather riding arena which, if not required, is an ideal location for a tennis court, swimming pool or vegetable garden. • Manor Farmhouse has many attractive features with striking stone and rendered elevations under a natural Cotswold stone tile roof and fine Ashlar stone chimney stacks as well as mullion windows with leaded lights to the main part of the house, which makes Manor Farm so attractive. • The house has been modernised and improved and is an ideal home for family living and entertaining. The reception hall forms the centre of the house, leading through to the drawing room with an Inglenook fireplace, passing the study and sitting room. • The current owners have added a family room/dining room/kitchen to provide open plan everyday living space with a fine stone fireplace and bi-fold doors and French windows that lead outside to the courtyard garden with views over the formal borders and paddocks beyond. • The spacious master bedroom with en-suite bath and shower rooms as well as a dressing room has views over the garden. • There are a further five bedrooms, family bath and shower room and a third shower room on the second floor. • Bedrooms 5 and 6 have restricted headroom in places and fabulous views over the grounds.

Reception Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area House: 401 m² (4,317 ft²) Bedroom Cottage: 44 m² (474 ft²) Bathroom Outbuildings: 372 m² (4,004 ft²) Kitchen/Utility Total: 817 m² (8,795 ft²)

Storage

Outbuilding Ground Floor Outbuilding First Floor

First Floor Second Floor

Ground Floor

Outbuilding

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. The office The Cottage • Attached to the main house is a beautifully presented cottage providing ancillary accommodation to the main house or staff accommodation. It has an open plan living room with kitchenette at the far end and a bedroom and separate shower room WC. • To the west is a range of open fronted timber framed stores which could be incorporated as a part or whole to provide further accommodation if required and subject to the necessary consent. The Barn is currently being used as a bicycle and open frontage store.

Coach House • Across the courtyard is the former coach house of which the first floor has been beautifully converted to provide a home office with separate ​kitchen and shower room that could easily become ancillary accommodation. Below is a garden store, stable and a secure wine store.

The Stables • The fabulous American barn stable complex has been built of natural stone under a clay tile roof and despite its recent construction, it fits in incredibly well providing 9 stables and a tack room. The stables could easily be removed to create a workshop, garage, studio or other similar uses. • Beyond the coach house, services by a hard track, are turnout paddocks with well maintained post and rails and pastureland divided by a natural hedge. From the fields are fabulous views over the open countryside.

Viewing

Strictly by appointment through the agents Knight Frank Cirencester. Tel 01285 659 771. Country department Tel:0207 8611707

Important Notice:

1. 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 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 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). 2. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate only. 3. Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct. 4. VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice. Services Local authority Photographs: 2014 and February 2015. Mains water. Mains electricity. Mains drainage. Calor Gas. Oil fired North . Telephone 0300 456 0100 central heating. Broadband is available. Particulars: March 2015 Directions (SN15 5LD) Fixtures and fittings From the M4 (J17) take the B4122 signposted towards Sutton Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered Only those mentioned in these sales particulars are included in the Benger. Continue for approximately 1 mile and at the T-junction, in with registered number OC305934. Our sale. All others, such as fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings, garden turn immediately right to Draycot Cerne on the no through road. registered office is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, ornaments etc., are specifically excluded but may be made available Continue past the church, follow the road around to the right where you may look at a list of members’ names. by separate negotiation. passing the cottages on the left. Continue to the end of the lane, Right of way past two mature yew trees on your left and fork left through a pair of There are no rights of way across the property solid wooden gates into the drive of Manor Farm.