House For Sale £1,500,000
Old Manor House is a striking 17th century property which provides excellent family accommodation and exceptional architectural features dating from the mid sixteen hundreds with parts of the original house believed to date from the 12th century. The original façade provides symmetry with a stone porch and mullioned and transom windows. All of the rooms provide excellent proportions and are best described as elegant with high ceilings and a wealth of fine architectural details range from ceiling mouldings and dado’s to panelled rooms, original stairs with splat balusters and the fine drawing room stone fireplace with volutes and rich foliage, as mentioned in Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire. It is also thought the staircase itself originated from a Spanish Galleon
The central reception hall opens into a main reception space with a handsome broad oak turned staircase and cloakroom. There are two front-facing dual-aspect reception rooms with fine features and fireplaces, a formal dining hall with natural stone flooring, exposed stone walls and an inglenook with stone steps to the spacious cellar below. Further is the traditional kitchen with its terracotta floors and bespoke wooden cabinetry flowing into a garden room, a rear boot room and a utility. The first floor houses the capacious 26 ft. drawing room with its intricate stone-carved
fireplace bearing its former owner’s coat of arms. A family bathroom and three elegant bedrooms also occupy the floor, with various built-in wardrobes and one with an en suite shower room. The second floor is home to a further three generous bedrooms, including one with an en suite cloakroom and one sprawling 37 ft. dual-aspect room.
Stable Cottage
Created from the original stables and providing one bedroom accommodation with a shower room, sitting room with kitchen with a wood burning stove. It makes an ideal annexe for guests, staff or as a B&B.
The imposing double-fronted property is approached via a gravelled private driveway giving access to its double garages with store, attached to which is a versatile timber-clad annexe that has one bedroom, a modern shower room and a kitchen/living space opening to a gravelled sun terrace.
Surrounded by neat mature hedging, fencing and verdant trees, the established garden comprises divided sections of lush level lawn with a pleasing paved and partially walled terrace and fruit trees.
The home benefits from a convenient position within the scenic, sought after and historic village of Maiden Bradley with its village shop, popular public house and rolling protected countryside surroundings.
There are mainline rail links to London Waterloo in under 2 hours from nearby Gillingham, with the nearby A303 providing convenient road connections to the A36. Frome, Salisbury and the Roman and cultural centre of Bath offer an extensive range of shopping and recreational facilities and points of interest.
Notable schools include Dauntsey's, Port Regis, Bruton and King’s.
The central reception hall opens into a main reception space with a handsome broad oak turned staircase and cloakroom. There are two front-facing dual-aspect reception rooms with fine features and fireplaces, a formal dining hall with natural stone flooring, exposed stone walls and an inglenook with stone steps to the spacious cellar below. Further is the traditional kitchen with its terracotta floors and bespoke wooden cabinetry flowing into a garden room, a rear boot room and a utility. The first floor houses the capacious 26 ft. drawing room with its intricate stone-carved
fireplace bearing its former owner’s coat of arms. A family bathroom and three elegant bedrooms also occupy the floor, with various built-in wardrobes and one with an en suite shower room. The second floor is home to a further three generous bedrooms, including one with an en suite cloakroom and one sprawling 37 ft. dual-aspect room.
Stable Cottage
Created from the original stables and providing one bedroom accommodation with a shower room, sitting room with kitchen with a wood burning stove. It makes an ideal annexe for guests, staff or as a B&B.
The imposing double-fronted property is approached via a gravelled private driveway giving access to its double garages with store, attached to which is a versatile timber-clad annexe that has one bedroom, a modern shower room and a kitchen/living space opening to a gravelled sun terrace.
Surrounded by neat mature hedging, fencing and verdant trees, the established garden comprises divided sections of lush level lawn with a pleasing paved and partially walled terrace and fruit trees.
The home benefits from a convenient position within the scenic, sought after and historic village of Maiden Bradley with its village shop, popular public house and rolling protected countryside surroundings.
There are mainline rail links to London Waterloo in under 2 hours from nearby Gillingham, with the nearby A303 providing convenient road connections to the A36. Frome, Salisbury and the Roman and cultural centre of Bath offer an extensive range of shopping and recreational facilities and points of interest.
Notable schools include Dauntsey's, Port Regis, Bruton and King’s.
