4 bedroom detached house for sale

Melbury House is a wonderful opportunity to purchase a much-loved period home in the small and extremely sought after village of North Cheriton. The property does now require a programme of modernisation, however, offers great scope to make the perfect family home. The property is not listed, was formerly the village post office and dates back to the 1880s or possibly earlier.. The accommodation comprises of a dining hall, leading to a spacious inner hall, cloakroom and access to main sitting room with fireplace and woodburner continuing to a study, sizeable double aspect kitchen and also to the orangery with very productive vine.Additionally, to the ground floor is linked access to the annexe, this forms a reception, kitchen, office/bedroom four and shower room.

The annexe has independent external access.To the south western side of the property is a partially integrated workshop/outbuilding being two storey.

To the first floor are three double bedrooms, en suite and bathroom.Externally, to the side is a gated driveway with further two storey barn adjoining with stone external staircase.The gardens deserve a special mention and are a wonderful feature of the property with many areas of interest for the keen horticulturalist. The garden is mature, featuring numerous interesting trees, shrubs and plants. There are many fruit trees including medlar, quince, pear and range of espalier apples and a substantial walk-in fruit cage alongside a vegetable patch for produce for the table. The garden was designed to have different views to indulge so the explorer cannot see the garden from any aspect.

Sitting in beautiful Somerset countryside with walking up onto the historic Monarch's Way, the village of North Cheriton has an active village hall and a church. It is closely neighboured by South Cheriton, which has a pub, and Charlton Horethorne, which has a pub, traditional village store and a primary school. Nearby Templecombe, approximately 2 miles south, has a shop and post office and direct trains to London Waterloo, with a journey time from 2 hours 10 minutes. Castle Cary is approximately 7 miles from the village, from where trains to London Paddington have a journey time of 1 hour 50 minutes.
Nearby Wincanton has a wide range of everyday amenities, such as supermarkets, a cottage hospital, health centre, police station, town hall, butcher and cafés. It also has a renowned racecourse.

Sought-after Bruton, with the Hauser and Wirth Gallery and numerous popular restaurants, and the pretty market town of Sherborne are both approximately 7 miles from the property. The A303 provides access to the south west and London via the M3.

There is a wide selection of both state and private schools in the area, including Kings Bruton, Bruton Girls, Millfield, Sherborne, Leweston, Port Regis, Hazelgrove and Sexeys.

Services:
Mains Water, mains electricity, mains drainage
Oil fired central heating

Local Authority:
Somerset Council

Council Tax:
band G

Tenure:
Freehold

Directions
What 3 words: lunge.vertical.bluff

Post code: BA8 0AL

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Tenure: Freehold