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2 bedroom flat
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- 2 bedrooms
- 2 reception rooms
- 2 bathrooms
- 0.25 acres
- Period
- Garden
- Parking
- Single Garage
- Village
- Private Parking
Holnest Park House is approached via a drive off a country lane to a large, gravelled turning circle in front of the house, with a magnificent fountain at its centre, comprising a water fountain set within a large stone bowl supported on the backs of three resting lions. To one side of the house's former main entrance are two dedicated parking spaces (one is immediately in front of the apartment's front door) and on to one side of the turning circle is a timber double garage containing the apartment's dedicated garage. The apartment's garden lies behind the house and extends to about 0.25 acre (0.1 hectare). Extending out behind the apartment are the paved terrace and adjacent, brick walled courtyard, which has its own access to the kitchen. The courtyard also provides sub-terranean access to a suite of five large cellars that extend below the house. The terrace is generously sized and gives way to a lawn bisected by a path that leads to a vehicle access gate beside a large timber deck sheltering in the shade of 400-year old oak tree. This provides a seating and barbeque area that looks out onto a “view in a million” that stretches to Bubb Down Hill about five and a half miles away. Partway along the grassed area is a former ornamental pond shaded by a weeping willow that would make a perfect, sheltered seating area for a fire pit.
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Holnest Park House is set up on a rise overlooking a beautiful stretch of the Blackmore Vale. The house is only a 15 minute drive from the Abbey town of Sherborne, which has a wide range of local amenities and shops including Sainsbury's and Waitrose. Sherborne station has a direct rail service to Waterloo (2.25 hours) and there is a fast service from Castle Cary to Paddington (90 minutes). Bournemouth, Bristol and Exeter Airports are all about an hours' drive. In addition, the local area offers a wide choice of schools, including the highly regarded Gryphon School within the town for state secondary education plus three excellent, independent schools.
Distances - Sherborne town centre & station 6.2 miles (Waterloo 2.25 hours), Yeovil 11 miles, Dorchester 14 miles, Wincanton/A303 15.2 miles, Castle Cary station 20.8 miles (Paddington 90 minutes), Taunton/M5 (J25) 35 miles, Bournemouth Airport 38 miles. (Distances & times approximate).
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