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3 bath

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Tenure: Freehold

Council tax: Band F

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Property description & features

Tenure: Freehold
3 bedrooms
3 reception rooms
3 bathrooms
Conservatory
Detached
Double Garage
Garden
Parking
Restored
Terrace

Converted in 2009 and originally a single storey agricultural outbuilding belonging to a farm that grew plums and reared chickens, Oak Apple Barn has been converted sympathetically and with a focus on thermal efficiency. It has a clay tile roof and is built of pale, honey-coloured Compton stone quarried just outside the village. The original structure was extended using Compton stone and a first floor was created within the roof space where its three bedrooms look out over the rooftops of neighbouring properties to lush woodland on the fringe of the village. The structure incorporates a very high level of insulation and is fitted with oak-framed windows incorporating integral double glazing. The interior has also been fitted with extensive oak joinery including flooring, exposed roof beams and a mounted wheel used for lifting livestock for butchering. The barn has an east-west axis with all of its windows facing south and west to ensure that its front façade catches the sunlight through most of the day through to sunset. It has three, good sized reception rooms, all of which open directly to the west-facing hallway giving the ground floor an open-plan feeling. The barn also has a good-sized kitchen/breakfast room fitted with a gas and electric-fired Rangemaster range cooker and windows on two sides that look out across the garden. On the first floor are three double bedrooms plus two bath/shower rooms, one of which is ensuite. These are supplemented by a ground floor wet room.

The barn is approached off a normally no-through lane at the far end of a development of nine substantial properties arranged around a pretty pond. The garden is bounded on three sides by high stone walling and on its fourth side by tall, close-boarded fencing that together provide a very high degree of privacy. A pair of high timber gates open to a good-sized gravel parking area beside the property's stone-built double garage that incorporates a capacious roof and boarded space. This currently provides a generous storage area but could easily be fitted out as a home office. Behind the garage and extending along one side of the garden is a raised lawn and behind the barn are a gravel path and long border leading to a pedestrian gate opening onto the no-through lane.

Sherborne 3.1 miles (Waterloo 2.25 hours), Yeovil 3.3 miles, Wincanton/A303 12.1 miles, Castle Cary train station 13.9 miles (Paddington 1.5 hours), Dorchester 20.2 miles, Taunton/M5 (J25), Dorchester 29 miles, Bristol Airport 41 miles. (Distances and times approximate).

Nether Compton is a small, pretty village with good amenities including a pub and thriving cricket club, with Sherborne close by offering a range of shops and local businesses for most everyday needs including a Waitrose supermarket. The area has excellent schooling from both the private and state sectors and the village is in the catchment area for the well-regarded Gryphon School (state secondary). Sherborne train station has a direct rail service to Waterloo (2.25 hours) and there are trains from Castle Cary to Paddington (90 minutes). Bournemouth, Bristol and Exeter Airports are all easily accessible offering connections to UK and international destinations.

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