4 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- A beautiful Dower House
- Additional former school / Outbuilding
- 3 reception rooms and 4 bedrooms
- Well established gardens with river frontage
- Enclosed field with lane access
- In all about 6.57 acres
- EPC Rating = E
Description
Approached over the main drive, and set in over 6 1/2 acres of gardens overlooking the Devil’s Brook, the Grade II listed Dower House, formally the Old Rectory for the Church next door, is a wonderful house in its own right. Of stone and flint under a tile roof with stone mullion windows and leaded lights, the house comprises on the ground floor 3 reception rooms, a cloakroom WC, kitchen and boiler room; on the first floor 3 bedrooms and the second floor a further bedroom, bathroom and attic storage.
The Dower House is currently used as offices and will require modernisation and the relevant planning consents to be returned to a private residence.
Linked to the house are outbuildings and a charming Coach House with garage bay and former stables, and provide enormous potential for incorporation into the ground floor living area subject to the usual planning and listed consents.
Location
Bingham Melcombe occupies its own hamlet, the only other building in the cluster of dwellings being the Church, one mile from the slightly larger village of Melcombe Bingham. The estate is surrounded by open farmland which forms an impressive backdrop on all sides.
The A354 is 6 miles to the south giving access to the A31 and A35 and Sherborne is 16 miles to the north with trains to Waterloo in 2.25 hours. Bournemouth Airport is a 45 minute drive.
For immediate needs, there is a good convenience store in Ansty (1 mile) while more comprehensive amenities can be found in Blandford, Dorchester or Sherborne.
The area offers a good selection of Prep Schools, such as Hanford, Bryanston Prep, formerly Knighton House, Sandroyd and Sherborne with Public Schools, Bryanston, Canford, Milton Abbey and Sherborne boys and girls also close by.
Square Footage: 3,445 sq ft
Acreage: 6.57 Acres
Directions
From the A31, take the A35 at Bere Regis and at the junction with the A354 on the outskirts of Puddletown, take the slip road signed to Milbourne St Andrew crossing back over the A35. Take the first left and after 200m, the first right into Long Lane. Follow signs to Dewlish and proceed through the village. After about 4 km the entrance gates are on the right.
POSTCODE: DT2 7PZ
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Additional Info
WAYLEAVES, EASEMENTS AND RIGHTS OF WAY
The estate is sold subject to all such rights of way and easements which may exist.
A public footpath runs broadly east to west through the estate and other public footpaths are shown on the sale plan.
A right of way to the Church exists over the main drive, together with associated parking rights. Access to the church is permitted for church services and for anyone visiting graves by car during the day.
Access rights, services and easements to individual lots are to be negotiated dependent on the split of the sale.
Access to Lot 3 is over the back drive between points F-E, and to Lot 4 over the back drive between F-E-D. Access to Lot 2 is over the main drive only between points A-B-C.
PLANNING
Bingham’s Melcombe is Grade I listed.
The Dower House, Gate piers, dovecote, old mill, garden walls are listed Grade II.
The Park is listed Grade II* on the parks and gardens register due to its scientific interest.
Agents note:
Binghams Melcombe House currently has a commercial EPC rating: D
The Dower House currently has a commercial EPC rating: G
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