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5 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Reception hall
- Study
- Dining hall
- Garden room
- Impressive kitchen/breakfast room
- Utility/Boot room
- Drawing room
- Sitting room
- Principal bedroom with large dressing room and
- luxurious en suite bath and shower room
Although The Mill House is not Listed, it has a fascinating history. It is recorded in the Domesday Book as rendering 10 shillings. The London to Exeter Road forded the river beside the mill until the first bridge was built in the late 18th Century. In the middle of the river stands a statue known as “The Wylye Boy”, depicting a sea sprite blowing a shell-like trumpet. According to Pevsner, it was collected by the Earl of Pembroke on the Grand Tour in the early 18th Century. It was later given by him as a memorial to a young postilion rider who drowned after saving a relation of the Earl from an overturned coach. The mill and it surroundings are also mentioned in William Cobbett’s book Rural Rides, “... I remembered Wylye very well, and thought it a gay place when I was a boy. I remembered a very beautiful garden belonging to a rich farmer and miller. I went to see it; but, alas! Though the statues in the water and on the grass platt were still remaining, everything seemed to be in a state of perfect carelessness and neglect...” Idyllic as this sounds, the house and it’s grounds are now quite the opposite.
Both the Mill Stream and River Wylye meander through the gardens and over to the water meadows. Fishing rights come with the house and both the mill pond and river contain good sized trout and grayling. The current owners have invested a great deal to improve and nurture the watercourse and it’s habitats. Considerable work has also been undertaken with regard to the water management, such as replacement sluices, a new electronically controlled mechanical sluice gate operated by the EA, and significant work to the water facing walls of the house. The outbuildings are accessed off to the gravel drive, namely a garden/mower store and a single garage adjoining. To the rear of the property is a paved area with barbeque for outside entertaining with wonderful river views over the “Wylye Boy” and garden. The principal gardens in front of the house are laid to lawn, with a variety of mature shrubs, hedgerows and borders. A pretty and slightly more formal garden, and also an orchard, lie on the other side of the river. These are accessed via foot bridge from the house or by vehicular access from the village lane.
The Mill House lies on the edge of the popular village of Wylye, situated in the Wylye Valley. The village has an excellent shop and post office, with a pretty Norman church, an active village hall and a well-regarded pub known as The Bell Inn. The village is in a Conservation Area and is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). Wylye is conveniently situated for the A303 which links to the M3 to the North and Exeter to the South West. The A36 bypasses the village providing a direct route to Salisbury and Warminster. For the rail commuter, Salisbury provides a fast link to London Waterloo, whilst Warminster also boasts a mainline station into Paddington. A wide range of educational, shopping and leisure facilities can also be found in in the region too.
The list of excellent schools in the area is extensive and varied, both for private and state education. It includes Salisbury Cathedral School, The Godolphin School, Bishop Wordsworth’s Grammar School for boys and South Wilts Grammar School for Girls. In addition, there is Port Regis, Milton Abbey, Millfield, Bryanston, Clayesmore and Sandroyd offering both prep and public school levels.
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