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This property is no longer on the market
Floorplan
Map4 bedroom detached house
Sold STC
Detached house
4 beds
3 baths
2,758 sq ft / 256 sq m
Key information
Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Ask agent
Features and description
- Library
- Sitting Room
- Dining Room
- Office
- Kitchen/Breakfast Room
- Study/Store
- Four Bedrooms (two en-suite)
- Family Bathroom
- Double Garage and Workshop
- Garden and Grounds - In all about 1.4 acres
Dating back to the mid 19th century, Well House was originally a pair of woodsman’s cottages, which over the years have been re-modelled and extended. It has attractive brick and flint elevations under a clay tile roof with sensibly configured accommodation; in recent years many improvements have been carried out by the current owners, including a new water softener and boiler, re-tiling part of the roof, improving internet connectivity and work to the trees. Planning permission (now lapsed) was granted in 2012 (Reference No. FPO/0380/2012) for an imaginative extension to the kitchen with large utility room connecting to the existing garage/workshop, which could be put to a variety of different uses including ancillary accommodation. This would create a large kitchen and a significantly increase the scope of the accommodation. Other attributes worthy of mention include timber floorboards in some of the rooms, an oil fired AGA, Jetmaster fires in the hall and sitting room, and lovely views from all the rooms over the garden and grounds.
OUTSIDE
The property is approached off the lane through electrically operated gates onto a tarmac drive culminating in a gravelled car parking and turning area, adjoining which is the double garage with workshop. The formal gardens lie primarily to the front of the house and are principally to lawn, with attractive raised flower and shrub borders together with a well and two ornamental ponds. There is an attractive terrace to the front and side of the house, while at the rear, the gardens run into woodland with a variety of trees including larch, spruce, walnut, wild cherry, beech and hornbeam.
Well House is situated in a woodland setting between Fontmell Magna and Ashmore, reputedly Dorset’s highest village, which has a church, village hall and cricket field. There are nearby shops/post offices in the villages of Fontmell Magna, Iwerne Minster and Ludwell. The Saxon hilltop market town of Shaftesbury has a wide range of shops, a boutique hotel, market, churches, a health centre, dentist, a small hospital, veterinary surgeries, library and arts centre. For more sophisticated shopping and recreational facilities there is the Cathedral city of Salisbury to the east and Bath to the north west. Nearby Tisbury has a mainline railway station with services to London Waterloo (under two hours) and the A303, approximately 12 miles to the north, gives access to the south west and London via the M3, while the A350 gives access to the South Coast.
OUTSIDE
The property is approached off the lane through electrically operated gates onto a tarmac drive culminating in a gravelled car parking and turning area, adjoining which is the double garage with workshop. The formal gardens lie primarily to the front of the house and are principally to lawn, with attractive raised flower and shrub borders together with a well and two ornamental ponds. There is an attractive terrace to the front and side of the house, while at the rear, the gardens run into woodland with a variety of trees including larch, spruce, walnut, wild cherry, beech and hornbeam.
Well House is situated in a woodland setting between Fontmell Magna and Ashmore, reputedly Dorset’s highest village, which has a church, village hall and cricket field. There are nearby shops/post offices in the villages of Fontmell Magna, Iwerne Minster and Ludwell. The Saxon hilltop market town of Shaftesbury has a wide range of shops, a boutique hotel, market, churches, a health centre, dentist, a small hospital, veterinary surgeries, library and arts centre. For more sophisticated shopping and recreational facilities there is the Cathedral city of Salisbury to the east and Bath to the north west. Nearby Tisbury has a mainline railway station with services to London Waterloo (under two hours) and the A303, approximately 12 miles to the north, gives access to the south west and London via the M3, while the A350 gives access to the South Coast.
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Our office is located in the centre of Shaftesbury, and is one of eight offices covering the West Country, giving us a reach unrivalled by any other national sales agency. We specialise in the sale and valuation of a broad range of properties in North Dorset, West Wiltshire and South-East Somerset. The key to the success of the Shaftesbury office is personal Director level service, high quality marketing and presentation combined with detailed local and regional knowledge and national connections. We are independently owned businesses that make decisions on how best to market your property, to the strength of our local market working closely with our neighbouring and national offices. Jackson-Stops has more than a century of experience in the property market with 45 offices nationwide, from Cheshire and Yorkshire in the north, through East Anglia, the South East of England and onwards to the West Country, including a London based International Department. Our eight London offices are an important source of buyers looking for homes in the West Country. All our properties are marketed on onthemarket.com Our area is particularly well known for its educational facilities, with a highly regarded range of private and state schools and good communications. The A303 lies six miles to the north of Shaftesbury, giving access to London via the M3, and there are mainline railway stations at Tisbury and Gillingham (London Waterloo) and at Castle Cary, Westbury and Frome (London Paddington). Our Professional Valuation Department is run by Julian Bunkall FRICS with over 35 years' experience, and covers Dorset, South Somerset, South Wiltshire and Devon.