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4 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
4 bed
3 bath
EPC rating: D*
2,088 sq ft / 194 sq m

Key information

Tenure: Freehold
Service charge: £0 per annum
Council tax: Band TBC
Broadband: Super-fast 80Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
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Heating: Ask agent
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • 4 Bedrooms
  • Countryside Views
  • Income From Solar Panels
  • Sought After Village Location
  • Wonderful Family Home
  • Detached Double Garage
  • Attractive Gardens
A beautifully presented detached and spacious four bedroom home benefitting from landscaped gardens, double garage and driveway parking. EPC band D


Kenley House is a handsome individually built detached home privately positioned on the edge of Chetnole with wonderful countryside views and an array of modern upgrades. The main body of the property was built in 1987 with a more recent first floor extension offering well proportioned accommodation with attractive exposed stone elevations, with quoins under a tiled roof. The property sits centrally within its plot and benefits from landscaped front and rear gardens, attractive driveway, double garage with store room above. Internally the accommodation is centred around a most generous and welcoming entrance hall off which access is provided to the ground floor living accommodation. Kenley House provide three spacious reception rooms, the dual aspect sitting room being the heart of the home centred around a focal fireplace with wood burner, within a marble surround and ornate mantle. There is continuation of entertaining space that flows from the sitting room into the conservatory, a wonderful area from which to enjoy the landscaped gardens with slate flooring, heating and French doors to the garden. A separate study and dining room provides further living accommodation with the fitted kitchen/breakfast room being of generous proportions with outlook over the rear gardens and comprising a comprehensive range of base and wall units with work tops over, Neff eye level double oven and grill, four ring LPG gas hob, space and plumbing for white goods with pedestrian door to garden and separate utility housing an additional range of base and wall units with plumbing for a washing machine, oil fired boiler and space for fridge/freezer. A side lobby with cloakroom completes the ground floor accommodation. Upstairs the property caters well for family living with four excellent double bedrooms, all benefiting from fitted wardrobes. The master suite is of excellent proportions being dual aspect with dressing area and access to the en-suite with walk-in shower having monsoon shower head attachment, vanity sink unit, WC and tiled paneled bath. The guest bedroom also benefits from its own en-suite shower facilities with the remaining bedrooms served by the family bathroom tastefully updated with walk-in shower, tiled surround, heated towel rail, WC and vanity sink unit.

Services
All mains services, less gas. Oil Fired central heating. Tenure—Freehold.
Solar panels installed on an excellent tariff of currently
52.7p per kilowatt hour providing approximately £1,200 per annum pay back and subject of annual inflationary increase. Fibre optic broadband.

Kenley House lies on the edge of the charming village of Chetnole which itself lies mid way between the county town of Dorchester to the south and the historic Abbey town of Sherborne and the local regional centre of Yeovil to the north. The walks to be had from the village itself are outstanding while the village has a public house, village hall and a church to its centre with a Spar general store and Post Office to be found in the neighbouring village of Yetminster that also has a health centre. There is also a shop and Post Office in the neighbouring village of Leigh. Chetnole itself has a visiting Post Office in the village hall once a week. Sporting walking and riding opportunities abound within the area and Sherborne, Yeovil and Dorchester between them provide an excellent range of cultural, recreational and shopping facilities, The region is well known for both its public and privately funded schooling while communication links are good with a train halt at Chetnole on the Weymouth to Bristol line, a main line station at Sherborne linking directly with London Waterloo and road links along the A303 joined at Wincanton giving swift access to London and the Home Counties along the M3, M25 route.

To the front of the property is a beautifully presented landscaped garden with areas of level lawn, ornamental pond, specimen trees and floral borders. An extensive driveway provides parking for a number of cars with ease of access to the double garage with first floor store room and housing the solar panels. The rear gardens are a beautiful sun trap with sun terrace abutting the conservatory an ideal area for outside entertaining, level lawn, attractive stone walling with raised beds, ornamental pond.

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