7 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Very attractive principal house ideal for a family
- Free from any listing constraints
- Delightful and private walled garden
- Wonderfully proportioned rooms
- Large kitchen
- Swimming pool
- Walking distance to amenities
OUTSIDE
The gardens are a major feature of the property and are almost entirely enclosed by pretty stone walls. To the front a lawn is dissected by a stone path leading to the front door. To the rear, the kitchen spills out onto a large terrace on the south west elevation beyond which is the main lawn with mature borders with the church as the backdrop. There are some fine trees dotted around the garden. Separate walled garden including a small orchard, kitchen garden and outdoor swimming pool with recently fitted air source heat pump facing almost due south. A part shared driveway on the east leads to a gravelled parking area with a garage, store, cloakroom and pool room.
SITUATION
The Old Vicarage is located close to the centre of Henstridge next to the pretty Church of St Nicholas. The village has a good range of facilities including pubs, garage, restaurant and primary school with the nearby village of Stalbridge providing a further variety of amenities including a popular independent supermarket. Other towns of note in the area include Shaftesbury and the fine Abbey town of Sherborne with lots of facilities including Waitrose and Sainsburys supermarkets, Wincanton, Blandford Forum and Sturminster Newton. The village is conveniently located to access the A303 to the North at Wincanton and there is a mainline railway service available from nearby Templecombe with a regular service to Exeter and London Waterloo. Sporting activities include golf at Sherborne and Yeovil, horse racing at Wincanton, Exeter or Bath and watersports are available on the Dorset coastline to the South. The area is well served by independent schools with Sherborne School for Boys, Sherborne School for Girls, Leweston, Sherborne Preparatory School, Hazelgrove, Port Regis and Bryanston
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