5 bedroom detached house for sale
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 5 Bedroom period farmhouse
- 2 Bedroom cottage
- 1 Bedroom flat
- Captivating views
- Swimming pool and pool house
- Granary with home office
- Extensive stabling and barns providing 15 stables
- All-weather arena
- Paddocks and pasture
- About 95 acres
Outside
Electric gates open onto the main gravelled driveway leading to the front door. A separate entrance, again with electric gates, leads to the outbuildings and cottage.
Cottage
The cottage was converted from a former dairy and provides good single storey accommodation with two bedrooms and an open plan sitting room/kitchen.
Equestrian Facilities
There is a traditional courtyard stable block behind the house (part of which formerly had consent for conversion to a party barn).
Further to the traditional courtyard of stables adjacent to the house is a modern building with 4 Monarch stables, WC and a tack room/kitchen. There is also parking for a large horse box under cover in this building. On the outside, steps lead up to a one-bedroom flat, next to this building is a further traditional stone barn with 3 mare and foal boxes. There is also a large modern building which is currently used for youngstock. There is a 60mx20m Martin Collins arena.
Gardens
The garden at Wick Farm is all to the south west of the house. Mainly lawned, with mixed borders, it has wonderful views over the property’s adjoining land. Beyond an orchard is the vegetable garden and then the heated swimming pool (13x6m) with an outstanding pool house, which has a large reception room with an Italian pizza/wood fired oven in one corner, a separate kitchen and a changing/shower room and WC.
The Land
Is all permanent pasture and is divided into 13 fields, mostly enclosed by large hedges, centred around the disused Berks and Wilts Canal which is a marvellous wildlife corridor and includes roe deer, muntjac, foxes, hares and rabbits. The land has been well-maintained and the fields are well-fenced. There is a diverse bird population including buzzards, ravens and red kites. Wick Farm is currently entered into a Stewardship Scheme, further details are available from the agents.
Bremhill Wick is a small North Wiltshire hamlet lying between Chippenham and Calne. Bremhill village has a church and a pub, The Dumb Post. Chippenham and Calne both provide a good range of everyday shops and services and other local towns include Malmesbury and Marlborough. The main regional centres are Bath, Bristol and Swindon. Good communications, being 6.8 miles from Junction 17 of the M4 and Chippenham Station (4.5 miles) has direct rail services to Paddington and also to Bath (11 minutes). A good choice of local schools such as St Margaret’s (prep and pre-prep) and St Mary’s Calne, Marlborough College, Dauntseys, Pinewood prep and Westonbirt as well as various schools in Bath.
A wide range of local sporting opportunities including various golf courses (e.g. the PGA course at Bowood, 2 miles). The area has long been associated with equestrian events such as eventing (e.g. Badminton Horse Trials), polo at Cirencester Park and Westonbirt, racing at Cheltenham and Newbury and lies within the Duke of Beaufort’s hunt country.
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