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5 bedroom detached house
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- 5 - 7 bedrooms
- 3 - 4 reception rooms
- 3 - 4 bathrooms
- 0.95 acres
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Detached
- Garden
- Rural
- Triple Garage
The versatile accommodation is spacious and light with good ceiling heights and exposed timbers and beams.
There is a wonderful drawing room with Inglenook fire and a dining room with woodburning stove. There is a second staircase off the study.
The well appointed kitchen/breakfast room has an Aga, granite worksurfaces and tiled floor and leads into a boot room with adjacent shower room and utility.
The main bedroom has a dressing area and adjacent bathroom with shower. There are four additional bedrooms, a further bathroom and a second floor attic room.
Within the grounds there is a pretty self contained cottage providing excellent accommodation for staff, guests or family members. It has been let in the past.
The pretty walled garden is mainly laid to lawn with a variety of mature trees and shrubs.
There are sheltered BBQ and firepit areas.
The property is approached by drive which leads to a a gravel parking area and large double garage.
There are exceptional rural views across fields to the front and rear of the property.
Services
Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil heating (house),
electric heating (cottage).
The Old Manor House is a substantial property situated on the edge of Manningford Bruce, a charming Wiltshire village set in the heart of the Pewsey Vale, characterised by rolling countryside and unspoilt downland. The area has been designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
The village has a church and village hall with Pewsey, about 2.5 miles away, having a good range of day facilities and a station. The market town of Marlborough, which has a Waitrose supermarket,
wide range of shops and leisure facilities, is about 8.5 miles away.
The larger regional centres of Bath, Salisbury, Newbury and Swindon provide a wider range of services.
Communications are excellent with trains from Pewsey to London Paddington from 60 minutes, while junction 15 of the M4 is about 19 miles away. The opening of Crossrail (Elizabeth Line) will bring
the City and Docklands within an approximately 90 minute commute from Pewsey.
There are many well regarded state and independent schools in the area including St. Francis, Marlborough College, St John's, St Mary's Calne and Dauntsey's.
Pewsey 2.5 miles (London Paddington 60 minutes),
Marlborough 8.5 miles, Hungerford 17 miles (London Paddington 70 minutes), Andover 18 miles (London Waterloo 70 minutes), M4 (J.15) 19 miles,
Salisbury 19 miles.
(Distances and times approximate.)
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Natural Beauty. The North Wessex Downs is a unique landscape of tranquil open downland, ancient woodland and chalk stream, covering 668 square miles
from Reading and Swindon to Andover and Devizes. At the same time, Hungerford is only four miles from the M4 motorway and has a direct rail link to
London, so is very accessible. The fact that you can have lunch in a proper country pub and yet be in central London an hour later is a great att... Show more