8 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- 8 bedrooms
- 7 reception rooms
- 6 bathrooms
- 3.00 acres
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Detached
- Garden
- Gym
- Rural
Walton Elm House is approached via a driveway to an extensive gravelled parking area to one side of the house. The drive leads round behind the house to a further parking area beside a garage block providing workshop space plus garaging for up to six cars. Beside it are the pool plant room and a raised deck overlooking the heated swimming pool and its adjacent, paved seating area. Beyond the seating area is an attractive, stone-built cottage that has potential as a further self-contained annexe/home office or holiday cottage.
The garden extends around three sides of the house and consists of a series of level or gently sloping lawns fringed by beautiful mature trees, shrubs, colourful borders and a pretty parterre garden of clipped box beneath an Oregon cedar.
The garden at the front of the house is bounded on one side by a length of tall wall providing privacy from the neighbouring property. In one corner are a hard tennis court in need of renovation and a mixed orchard alongside a large fruit cage. Tucked away behind a line of evergreen trees is the property's small paddock which contains a summer house and field shelter.
Walton Elm House has an elevated setting overlooking unspoilt countryside on the edge of the hamlet of Walton Elms, about a mile south of the large village of Marnhull. Marnhull was created from a collection of conjoined hamlets and is an active community with excellent amenities including three churches, village hall, two primary schools, combined GP surgery and pharmacy, garage, two pubs and several local shops (see ). More extensive shopping, business and recreational facilities are available nearby in Sturminster Newton, Gillingham and Shaftesbury, all of which have their own distinct character. There are direct rail services from Gillingham to Waterloo (2 hours) and from Castle Cary to Paddington (90 minutes), with Bristol, Bournemouth and Exeter airports all within a reasonable driving distance. Dorset, in particular the local area around Marnhull, is renowned for its wide choice of excellent schools from both the state and independent sectors. Gillingham School for secondary education is highly regarded and there are many independent schools nearby. Those within a 10 mile radius include Port Regis, Clayesmore, Hanford, the Sherborne schools, Knighton House and Bryanston.
Directions
From the crossroads where the B3092 crosses the A30 on the southern edge of East Stour, head south onto Scotchley Hill/B3092, signed to Marnhull. Drive for about three and a half miles along the B3092 to Marnhull. On reaching the sharp left-hand bend by St. Gregory's Church, continue along the B3092/Schoolhouse Lane for a further three quarters of a mile. The driveway entrance to the property will be found on the right just before the small junction at the top of Walton Elm Hill
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