House For Sale £1,750,000
A stunning 7 double bedroom Victorian home which has been extended, restored and updated, situated within a few hundred yards’ level walk of Wimborne Square.
Traditionally built circa 1856, the house has mellow brick elevations, a high natural slate roof (replaced circa 2003) and 3 impressive chimney stacks. This fine family home offers impressive accommodation including 7 spacious bedrooms, 3 reception rooms and 4 bathrooms.
A wide range of shops, restaurants and schools are close at hand in Wimborne, and the coastal towns of Poole and Bournemouth, both of which have mainline rail links to London Waterloo, are within 30 minutes’ drive.
Previously licenced as a guesthouse in the 1990s, the property offers great potential (subject to planning consent) for home and income or multi-generational living.
Character features include a superb Victorian tiled hallway, restored sash windows, 3 open fireplaces, ceiling cornicing and roses, and a full height cellar. Complementing the historic nature of the house is a magnificent modern kitchen/family room with bifold doors to a south facing pool terrace. The former coach house provides garaging for 1 vehicle, and a large workshop, and may offer potential for conversion into a holiday let or offices.
No expense has been spared in creating a comfortable character home.
Double doors lead to an entrance vestibule with quarry tiled floor and coat hanging area. An original door leads to a spacious reception hall with ornate Victorian tiled floor, cornicing and ceiling roses.
There is a charming drawing room with superb scrolled fireplace, 2 adjacent dressers and an attractive bay window overlooking the garden and pool terrace.
The dining room has a scrolled marble fireplace, and double doors to the garden, and there is a study with a slate and brick fireplace, and a bay window to the front.
The magnificent kitchen/family room, supplied and fitted by Harvey Jones in 2019, features a comprehensive range of hand-painted framed units, a full height larder unit with power, polished granite work surfaces, a Shaws butler’s sink, a water softener, oak shelves, and a full length island/breakfast bar with drawers and cupboards beneath. Appliances include 2 electric ovens, a 6-burner gas hob and a matching extractor, and integrated dishwasher, full height fridge and freezer. There is a Victorian fireplace and a door to the cellar.
The utility/boot room has excellent storage space, space for white goods, and a coat hanging area, and there is a cloakroom with WC and wash basin.
From the hall, a superb panelled staircase (with mahogany handrail) leads to a landing with wide arch feature and 2 fitted cupboards.
Bedroom 4, currently a dressing room, has an aspect to the front. Bedroom 5 overlooks garden and has dado panelling and a Victorian fireplace, and there is a shower room (with shower cubicle, vanity unit, wash basin and high level WC.) 4 steps lead to an upper landing with wardrobes and loft access. Bedroom 2 is a large double room overlooking the garden, with a fireplace.
Bedroom 1 has an impressive bay window with ornate panelling, and a Victorian fireplace. Its en suite shower room comprises double shower, marble vanity unit, wash basin and WC.
Bedroom 3 is a double room with a fireplace, dado panelling and a large en suite bathroom with double-ended bath (with ball and claw feet), marble vanity unit, wash basin, WC, wrought iron fireplace and dado panelling.
The family bathroom has a rolltop bath, wash basin and WC. There is also a cloakroom with a cupboard, WC and wash basin.
A further staircase leads to a second floor landing with a blanket cupboard.
Bedroom 6 is a large double room to the rear with dado panelling, and bedroom 7 is a double room to the front.
A shingle drive provides off road parking, and the detached former coach house provides a garage (with timber roller door, lighting and power,) and door to a workshop. There is a pool room with fully tiled shower, wash basin, WC, panelled walls, and a boiler room, wall mounted Baxi gas boiler for the pool, sand filter and pump.
The front garden is enclosed by a low brick wall and a mixed hedge.
The partly walled rear garden extends to probably 100ft in length, with high mixed hedges offering almost complete privacy, and backs onto Wimborne Cricket Club. There is a large, flat lawn, with established trees including sycamore and beech, and a full width Indian sandstone terrace.
There is a 30’ x 15’ swimming pool (with liner and winter cover) set in a large paved entertaining terrace surrounded by box hedges and a pergola.
Directions: From the ‘Pye Corner’ roundabout, proceed out of Wimborne along Julians Road, and the property can be found on the left hand side.
Council Tax: Band G
EPC Rating: Band
