5 bedroom detached house for sale

Dating from the 1920’s, Knapp House is a substantial family home with rendered elevations under a tiled roof situated in landscaped gardens and grounds approximately 1.8 acres. More recently, in 2013 the vaulted pool/entertainment room was added, as was the garden room in 2015 with full width bi-folding doors on two sides opening out into the garden. Knapp House has nicely proportioned accommodation typical of the era with large light rooms and good ceiling heights. The drawing room has two sets of French windows opening onto the rear garden whilst the kitchen is generously proportioned with two separate cooking areas with an oil fired AGA and Lacanche Range Cooker (calor gas). Other attributes include oak flooring in the dining room and hall, open fireplaces in the drawing room and stone floors in the kitchen together with high quality joinery. There are four double bedrooms, the one on the second floor with an en-suite shower room and private west facing balcony.

The property is approached off the lane through timber gates onto a tarmac area with car parking and a single garage. The majority of the garden lies to the south and west of Knapp House. To the south there is an attractive stone terrace accessed from the drawing room together with a large terraced area accessed from the garden room, which leads to an expansive area of lawn flanked by well stocked flower and shrub borders. There are some magnificent specimen trees including oak, copper beech, acacia and conifers. The garden is well screened and completely private.

To the south of the swimming pool, tall beech hedging divides the former orchard (with plum and apple trees) and the vegetable garden from the more formal gardens. Adjoining the swimming pool there is an impressive vaulted pool house/entertaining room with a stone tile floor and separate shower leading out onto the large south facing terrace. Adjoining the terrace to the east of the pool house there is a separate building comprising an office/gym and a separate bedroom with en-suite shower room and a garage.

Services: Mains water, electricity and private treatment plant. Oil Fired Central Heating and Bottled Calor Gas for the Range Cooker.
Council Tax: Band G
EPC: Band E
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Knapp House lies in the centre of Fontmell Magna, a popular village close to the edge of the Cranborne Chase lying between Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum to the South. The village has a thriving community together with a village shop/post office, a pub, a church, a village hall, and a primary school. The village is close to the scenic Fontmell Down and the pretty Springhead Trust Gardens. The local towns of Shaftesbury and Blandford Forum both have a wide range of shops, banks and supermarkets together with secondary schools and small hospitals. There is a mainline railway station at Gillingham with service to London Waterloo. For further shopping, Salisbury is to the east, Bath to the north, Sherborne to the west and Bournemouth to the south; all are within an hour’s drive along with the beautiful Dorset coast.