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27 bedroom detached house
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Tree lined drive
- Extensive accommodation
- Suitable for a variety of uses
- Historic barn
- 11.6 acres
Situated to the north west of the house are additional buildings providing accommodation and offices/classrooms. These provide a further 17 bedroom suites within a small courtyard of cottages. A detached two storey building called Little Cheney, which was constructed in the 1980’s and provides a further 8 bedroom suites. There is also a detached building provides 7 offices/classrooms.
The large detached barn has been configured to provide accommodation over two floors and comprises conference room. gym, billiard room, cloakrooms on the ground floor and offices arranged on the first floor. The gardens border the house and include flower and herbaceous borders and a delightful parterre garden of clipped hedging. An estate drive to the north east of the house provides access to the two large carparks which have been successfully designed and landscaped to minimise their impact. The majority of the grounds are arranged as lawns bordering the house and buildings with open pastureland and a copse to the south and which provides the main view from the house. There are tennis courts and swimming pool (unused). The property was well known during the first half of the twentieth century for its Japanese’s garden of which the ponds and pools remain today
Ideally located on a south facing slope within the hamlet of Ditteridge is situated between the Georgian City of Bath to the west and picturesque town of Corsham to the east and Bradford on Avon to the south. Complete with Norman Church, it now forms part of the parish of nearby Box. The Three Shire Stones are 1.4 miles away and mark the point at which the counties of Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire meet. Bath is renowned for its fine Georgian architecture and Roman heritage as well as being popular for shopping, sporting and other recreational activities. Bath Spa Station provides a regular mainline rail service to London (Paddington) and Bristol. Nearby Chippenham station (8 miles distant) provides a main line rail service to London Paddington with a journey time from 60 minutes. Bath schools include King Edwards, Prior Park, The Royal High School, Kingswood and Monkton Combe with Higher Education at Bath or Bath Spa Universities. Other schools locally include Stonar (Atworth), St Marys, Calne and Heywood preparatory school in Corsham. The town of Corsham meets all day to day needs. Higher education is available within either Bath University or Bath Spa University. Junction 18 of the M4 motorway is 9 miles distant to the north of the property.
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