No longer on the market
This property is no longer on the market
Floorplan
Map6 bedroom detached house
Detached house
6 beds
6 baths
3137
Key information
Features and description
- Handsome edge of village Georgian farm house
- 6 bedrooms and 5 bath / shower rooms (2 en-suite)
- Charming interiors with a wealth of period features
- Pretty walled garden with west facing flagstone terrace
- Carport with useful storage outbuilding
- Potential to rent adjoining padoock (by separate negotioation)
- Superb views over open countryside
A rare opportunity to own a charming period farmhouse in a village where very few private houses exist
PROPERTY SUMMARY
3,137 square feet | 3 Reception Rooms
6 Bedrooms | 5 Bath / Shower Rooms
Carport / outbuilding
Attractive walled gardens
Superb views
Bakers Farmhouse is a handsome early Georgian family house situated on the edge of the highly sought after village of Fonthill Bishop. It is surrounded by the glorious countryside of the renowned Fonthill Estate, offering a huge variety of benefits on the door step. It is listed Grade 11, built of mellow local Chilmark stone with part mullion windows and a slate roof.
The property has not been on the open market for several hundred years, and whilst the current owners have improved and maintained the property well, there is scope to enhance the overall layout or extend (subject to necessary consents). The charming walled gardens are mainly laid to lawn and provide the new owner with the opportunity for further landscaping and to create herbaceous borders. There is potential to rent adjoining grazing land by seperate negotiation.
AREA GUIDE
Much of the local area is part of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which offers exceptional countryside and is famed for its dark skies. The desirable village of Tisbury (which regularly features in the Sunday Times top 10) is about 2.5 miles to the south, offering a selection of boutique shops, deli, butcher and Messums Wiltshire and station to London Waterloo (from 1 hour 50 minutes). Westbury is station (17.5 miles), also has trains to London Paddington from 1 hour 18 minutes.
The highly regarded Beckford Arms is a about mile walk away through the fabulous Fonthill arch and along the lake. More extensive shopping facilities are available in the Cathedral City of Salisbury to the east or Shaftesbury and Gillingham to the west. The Georgian city of Bath is easily accessible offering excellent shopping, the arts, excellent restaurants and rugby.
The area is renowned for its excellent range of schools. Private schools include Port Regis, Sandroyd, Clayesmore, Hanford, Hazelgrove, Godolphin, Sherborne, Bryanston and Marlborough. There is an excellent choice of state primary schools locally, such as Wardour Primary School, as well as Bishops Wordsworth & South Wilts Grammar schools in Salisbury.
DISTANCES
Tisbury Station 3 miles, Shaftesbury 10 miles, Salisbury 14.5
miles, Bath 28 miles, Southampton Airport 38.5 miles
GENERAL REMARKS & STIPULATIONS
POSTCODE
SP3 5SQ
WHAT3WORDS
hills.tricky.tightest
TENURE
Freehold
SERVICES
Mains electricity, private water and drainage,
estate biomass heating (tariff to be agreed), fibre broadband.
LOCAL AUTHORITY
Wiltshire Council –[use Contact Agent Button]
OUTGOINGS
The property is subject to Council Tax Band H.
VIEWINGS
Viewing by appointment with agents Rural View.
PROPERTY SUMMARY
3,137 square feet | 3 Reception Rooms
6 Bedrooms | 5 Bath / Shower Rooms
Carport / outbuilding
Attractive walled gardens
Superb views
Bakers Farmhouse is a handsome early Georgian family house situated on the edge of the highly sought after village of Fonthill Bishop. It is surrounded by the glorious countryside of the renowned Fonthill Estate, offering a huge variety of benefits on the door step. It is listed Grade 11, built of mellow local Chilmark stone with part mullion windows and a slate roof.
The property has not been on the open market for several hundred years, and whilst the current owners have improved and maintained the property well, there is scope to enhance the overall layout or extend (subject to necessary consents). The charming walled gardens are mainly laid to lawn and provide the new owner with the opportunity for further landscaping and to create herbaceous borders. There is potential to rent adjoining grazing land by seperate negotiation.
AREA GUIDE
Much of the local area is part of the Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty which offers exceptional countryside and is famed for its dark skies. The desirable village of Tisbury (which regularly features in the Sunday Times top 10) is about 2.5 miles to the south, offering a selection of boutique shops, deli, butcher and Messums Wiltshire and station to London Waterloo (from 1 hour 50 minutes). Westbury is station (17.5 miles), also has trains to London Paddington from 1 hour 18 minutes.
The highly regarded Beckford Arms is a about mile walk away through the fabulous Fonthill arch and along the lake. More extensive shopping facilities are available in the Cathedral City of Salisbury to the east or Shaftesbury and Gillingham to the west. The Georgian city of Bath is easily accessible offering excellent shopping, the arts, excellent restaurants and rugby.
The area is renowned for its excellent range of schools. Private schools include Port Regis, Sandroyd, Clayesmore, Hanford, Hazelgrove, Godolphin, Sherborne, Bryanston and Marlborough. There is an excellent choice of state primary schools locally, such as Wardour Primary School, as well as Bishops Wordsworth & South Wilts Grammar schools in Salisbury.
DISTANCES
Tisbury Station 3 miles, Shaftesbury 10 miles, Salisbury 14.5
miles, Bath 28 miles, Southampton Airport 38.5 miles
GENERAL REMARKS & STIPULATIONS
POSTCODE
SP3 5SQ
WHAT3WORDS
hills.tricky.tightest
TENURE
Freehold
SERVICES
Mains electricity, private water and drainage,
estate biomass heating (tariff to be agreed), fibre broadband.
LOCAL AUTHORITY
Wiltshire Council –[use Contact Agent Button]
OUTGOINGS
The property is subject to Council Tax Band H.
VIEWINGS
Viewing by appointment with agents Rural View.
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About this agent
Rural View is a niche estate agency providing a highly experienced, professional and personal residential property service. We specialise in selling country, village and market town property from our offices in South Wiltshire, covering Wiltshire, Dorset, Somerset and Hampshire. We have established a proud reputation for offering a diverse choice of homes, from dream country cottages to family houses, farmhouses with land, townhouses and new builds. Both sellers and buyers have been enthusiastically complimentary about our honest advice, regular communication, prompt feedback and individual attention, as a well as our friendly and efficient approach – all of which really makes the difference to the property moving experience. We see ourselves as a boutique style of firm, offering a more personal, hands-on approach than that usually given by the larger, faceless corporate companies. We may be small, but that means we care more, and in this digital age Rural View has as wide a global reach as anyone. We are absolutely committed to doing the very best for our clients and customers, and our ethos is to treat them how we would want to be treated ourselves. This has led to many of our instructions being as a result of personal recommendations – a most satisfactory means of gaining new business. Not only are we seen as the local property experts but having been based in the area for many years, we are very knowledgeable about our patch and are more than happy to chat about the nearest school, pub, shop, railway station, cricket club and much more. If you are looking to buy or sell, whether it’s a thatched cottage, a bungalow or an old Georgian rectory, do get in touch – we are here to help!