House For Sale £2,500,000
Truly a ‘stand-alone’ house which contains immense charm and appeal. Beautiful warm accommodation provides the most excellent family rooms. A gravel drive leads to the house with its ‘cottage ornate’ gable and dormered façade with arched sash windows and open trellis canopy porch, all in the regency style. On entering, the initial appeal is endorsed by the well-proportioned and elegant hall with graceful staircase and glazed wall. The flanking rooms of the drawing room and library/study continue the classic proportions, all with oversized panelled doors and ornate carved architraves. The drawing room has a central fireplace and sash windows to south, east and west, bookcases and French doors to the conservatory. The Library/study has bookcases and benefits from a double aspect. The centre of the property is the hub of the house with a large open kitchen and sitting/breakfast room. To the south of the kitchen area, there is a seating area with space for a dining table or sofas. The traditional in style the fitted kitchen provides glass fronted cabinets, cupboards and drawers topped by an oak work surface. The three oven Aga is electric and there is a concealed dish washer. The room allows for access to the conservatory (which links to the drawing room) and has terracotta tiled floor throughout. It links to the neighbouring scullery and utility room (with door to the garden). Beyond the kitchen/breakfast room, there is the informal family living space, which provides a sitting room, the snug both with fireplaces and views of the garden, and a boot room with boot racks and a door to the garden.
The first floor provides the principal bedroom suite which has been cleverly designed to occupy the front of the house with fitted wardrobes, an en suite bathroom, and it could easily include neighbouring bedroom 2 to be used as a dressing room. The guest bedroom has an en suite bathroom, and there are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
A detached period outbuilding exceeding 40’ has been converted into a party barn with power and water which provides potential for a variety of uses.
The gardens are a joy. Forming a significant part of the overall appeal of the property, they wrap around the house and provide exceptional vistas across the neighbouring open countryside and Marlborough Downs. Espaliered Hornbeam border the gravel drive and give way to clipped box Yew spheres which bound the open lawn to the front of the house. Clipped yew hedges divide the gardens to the south and provide open lawn and rose border alongside the house and accessible from the conservatory. The swimming pool is private and enclosed by careful planting and an adjacent seating area is enclosed by clipped Yew hedging. To the south west the parterre garden has long established box hedging and colourful shrubs and fruit trees. Beyond are two wooden garden sheds for tools.
The property stands above the pretty Wiltshire village of Heddington and is surrounded by the local chalk downlands. The village provides the Ivy Public House, a C of E Primary School, Parish church of St Andrew and a village hall. There are livery stables within the village and the Wessex Ridgeway footpath crosses the south east of the Parish. Nearby are the popular and historic Wiltshire market towns of Calne and Devizes which meet all day to day requirements. Chippenham provides a mainline rail service to London (Paddington) and Marlborough is known for its shops and restaurants. Historic sites abound in the neighbouring countryside with a Neolithic long barrow and two bowl barrows, as well as Oliver Fort and the site of the battle of Roundway on the downs to the south east of the village. The property is well placed for the independent schools of St Marys Calne, Marlborough College, Dauntsey’s School.
The first floor provides the principal bedroom suite which has been cleverly designed to occupy the front of the house with fitted wardrobes, an en suite bathroom, and it could easily include neighbouring bedroom 2 to be used as a dressing room. The guest bedroom has an en suite bathroom, and there are three further bedrooms and a family bathroom.
A detached period outbuilding exceeding 40’ has been converted into a party barn with power and water which provides potential for a variety of uses.
The gardens are a joy. Forming a significant part of the overall appeal of the property, they wrap around the house and provide exceptional vistas across the neighbouring open countryside and Marlborough Downs. Espaliered Hornbeam border the gravel drive and give way to clipped box Yew spheres which bound the open lawn to the front of the house. Clipped yew hedges divide the gardens to the south and provide open lawn and rose border alongside the house and accessible from the conservatory. The swimming pool is private and enclosed by careful planting and an adjacent seating area is enclosed by clipped Yew hedging. To the south west the parterre garden has long established box hedging and colourful shrubs and fruit trees. Beyond are two wooden garden sheds for tools.
The property stands above the pretty Wiltshire village of Heddington and is surrounded by the local chalk downlands. The village provides the Ivy Public House, a C of E Primary School, Parish church of St Andrew and a village hall. There are livery stables within the village and the Wessex Ridgeway footpath crosses the south east of the Parish. Nearby are the popular and historic Wiltshire market towns of Calne and Devizes which meet all day to day requirements. Chippenham provides a mainline rail service to London (Paddington) and Marlborough is known for its shops and restaurants. Historic sites abound in the neighbouring countryside with a Neolithic long barrow and two bowl barrows, as well as Oliver Fort and the site of the battle of Roundway on the downs to the south east of the village. The property is well placed for the independent schools of St Marys Calne, Marlborough College, Dauntsey’s School.
