House For Sale £935,000
A beautifully presented 5 double bedroom, 3 reception room, 3 bathroom detached barn style family home with 2-car garaging and a delightful garden, on a small, exclusive modern development in the hamlet of Winterborne Anderson, enjoying easy road access to several popular Dorset towns.
The Ribbonwood development, which comprises 10 stylish, individual country homes enjoying views over the adjacent greenbelt, was built to a high standard of specification and design by Bracken Group in 2000. Each property has a single shareholding in Ribbonwood Farm Management Company, which maintains the communal areas.
The property is of traditional construction, with brick elevations, a natural slate roof and a tall brick chimney, and extends to about 3,000 square feet of accommodation, arranged over 2 floors. It is connected to mains electricity and water, oil central heating, and has private drainage.
Winterborne Anderson is about 12 miles from both the county town of Dorchester and the coastal town of Poole and about 7 miles from the market towns of Blandford Forum and Wimborne Minster. There are railway stations in both Dorchester and Poole.
A feature front door with leaded stained glass leads to an entrance vestibule. Double doors give access to a spacious entrance hall with a built-in understairs coat cupboard. There is a separate cloakroom with WC and wash basin. Glazed double doors lead to a large, triple aspect sitting room with glazed doors to the garden, and a superb brick open fireplace with a wood burner.
There is an attractive dining room overlooking the rear garden, with double doors to both the hall and the sitting room. There is also a study with an aspect over the front courtyard.
The spacious, modern dual aspect kitchen/breakfast room features an excellent range of medium oak units, modern work surfaces, island unit with polished granite surface, electric range cooker with ceramic hob, extractor unit over, 2 ovens and grill, integrated dishwasher, larder fridge and drawer freezer, and ceramic tiled floor. There is also a large utility room with work surfaces, stainless steel sink, base and wall units, space for white goods, ceramic tiled floor, a door to outside and a door (with 3 steps up) to the garage.
The spacious, galleried first floor landing has an oak effect handrail and spindles, loft access, and an airing cupboard with pressurised hot water system.
The superb principal bedroom suite comprises a large triple aspect bedroom with superb views over the surrounding farmland, an en suite dressing room with a range of fitted cupboards, and an en suite shower room with corner shower cubicle, vanity wash basin, WC and half tiled walls.
Bedroom 2 is a large room with 2 rooflights, superb far reaching views over the garden and farmland beyond, and an en suite shower room (with shower, wash basin and WC.) Bedrooms 3, 4 and 5 are all double rooms with fitted wardrobes.
There is a spacious family bath/shower room with bath, shower cubicle, vanity wash basin and WC.
The property is approached via a private road with shingle topping, under a high archway leading to the property. There is a large attached double garage with 2 electric up-and-over doors, a personal door and storage space. A gravel driveway provides ample off road parking, and there is an oil storage tank behind screening. There are small front and side garden areas, landscaped with shrubs, conifers, 2 flowering cherry trees and ground cover planting.
To the side of the garage a gate leads into the main garden area which is arranged on 2 different levels separated by a brick retaining wall and has well maintained lawns backing directly onto open farmland. There are established trees including fir and beech, a large paved entertaining terrace and matching pathways.
DIRECTIONS: From Wimborne, proceed west along Julians Road to the Lake Gates roundabout at the junction with the A31. Take the third exit onto the A31 towards Dorchester. At the Roundhouse roundabout in Sturminster Marshall, take the second exit, continuing along the A31. Proceed through Winterborne Zelston and, at the Red Post junction, turn right, signposted to Winterbornes Anderson and Kingston. Ribbonwood Farm can then be seen on the left hand side.
COUNCIL TAX: Band G
EPC RATING: Band D
