Cherry Orchard Farmhouse is a delightful unlisted farmhouse with superb views across its own land and the surrounding Dorset countryside. Set over three floors, the farm house provides diverse and versatile living with appealing top floor ancillary accommodation and amenity, all set within 108 acres of
impeccably managed private countryside. Set over an impressive 8,076 sq ft the farmhouse has been extensively and sympathetically renovated and extended. This has created a free-flowing diverse family home which has been thoroughly enjoyed over the past twenty seven years by the current owners. On entering the house you firstly walk into a conveniently located boot room and a utility room. This effortlessly connects to the large kitchen/breakfast room from which the majority of the ground floor rooms follow including the dining room, two sitting rooms and lastly the large family room which boasts views over the garden and farmland beyond. In one corner is an office which leads to a games room offering a superb separate entertaining space. A long landing on the first floor provides access to the main guest suite, principal bedroom suite, four further bedrooms, two bathrooms and w/c. The principal bedroom benefits from a magnificent combined bathroom and dressing room with spectacular views over the farmland. When entering the second floor a further three bedrooms, living room and dressing room with large bathroom can be found, together with separate ancillary accommodation, accessible through its own private doorway. This comprises a large kitchen/lounge with wood burner, one bedroom with a large en-suite, study/second bedroom and balcony, boasting some of the best views from the house.

Providing exceptional guest/ancillary accommodation or to generate an income stream lie the attractive Stable Cottage, Stable Flat and the courtyard. Stable Cottage is immaculately presented comprising three bedrooms, large kitchen/dining room and sitting room with upstairs family bathroom and downstairs WC. Situated next door lies Stable Flat, a well presented one bedroom cottage with upstairs bathroom and sitting room and large kitchen downstairs. Both enjoy the scope for enlargement into adjacent buildings, subject to any necessary consents. The remaining brick courtyard buildings are in excellent order, currently utilised for storage they offer the opportunity to be utilised for alternative uses, in which planning has already been granted to convert the former milking parlour to create one dwelling with associated hardstanding for car parking under planning application 2/2020/0364/FUL. Prospective purchasers are advised that they should make their own enquiries of the local planning authority.

Situated beyond the courtyard is a range of farm buildings originally constructed when Cherry Orchard Farm was a dairy farm. The buildings offer potential to be utilised for a range of agricultural, livestock, equestrian, and storage, commercial and even residential uses subject to the necessary consents. A large
concrete yard and generous hard standing area lead to an outdoor all weather manège and a horse walker.

The farm extends to 108 acres and comprises approximately 85 acres of permanent pasture and 17 acres of woodland. The topography is beautifully undulating with many picturesque areas of interspersed woodland and ponds. The farm sits in a ring fence with a mature hedgerow perimeter plus internal hedgerows with stock proof fencing and mains fed water troughs in all fields. It is currently cut for hay and grazed by dairy cattle and horses. The areas of woodland and hedgerows have been strategically planted and the grassland managed to encourage a wide range of habitat and biodiversity, offering many wildlife corridors with an environmental focus playing a large part within the current farming system.

Cherry Orchard Farm is located on the edge of the Blackmore Vale in Dorset’s beautiful rolling countryside boasting spectacular undulating views across its own land and the vale beyond. The farm is well located for access, just 1.4 miles from ancient hilltop town of Shaftesbury, with Sherborne, Tisbury, Wincanton and Bruton all within a 15 mile drive.

The Shaftesbury area provides a wide range of amenities with many shopping and recreation facilities available as well as well-regarded primary and secondary schools.

The area is also well known for its excellent range of independent and state sector schools which include Port Regis Prep and pre-Prep, Clayesmore, Sandroyd Prep and pre-Prep, Hanford Prep, Bryanston, the Sherborne Schools, Canford and Bruton all within 15 miles. Gillingham High School, Motcombe Primary,
The Abbey Primary, and Coombe House School (formerly St Mary’s Shaftesbury), which will open shortly for those with special needs and will be Dorset’s largest SEND school.

Cherry Orchard Farm benefits from excellent communicaitons with easy access to the A30 and A303, a main line train station at Gillingham and Castle Cary linking Salisbury, Reading, Bristol, Paddington and Waterloo. The farm also benefits from easy links to Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol and London Heathrow airports.