MANOR FARMWEST CHELBOROUGH, DORCHESTER, DORSET

MANOR FARMWEST CHELBOROUGH, DORCHESTER, DORSET

A fine Grade II Listed period farmhouse with a barn, traditional outbuildings, large garden with a small paddock and situated in a delightful, small village

Entrance porch • Dining room • Drawing room • Sitting room • Study • Kitchen/breakfast room • Utility room • Cloakroom

Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom • 4 Further bedrooms • 2 Further bathrooms

2 Attic bedrooms

Parking • Barn • Granary and cart shed • Dairy yard with 2 ranges of cattle byres Greenhouse

Garden and small paddock

In all about 2.22 acres (0.90 hectare)

(N.B. An additional paddock of 5.49 acres (2.22 hectares) may be available by separate negotiation)

Evershot 2½ miles • Beaminster 7½ miles • Yeovil 9 miles (London Waterloo 2½ hours) • Crewkerne 10½ miles • Dorchester 15 miles

(Distances and time approximate)

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure.

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Dorset DT9 3PU

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Situation & AmenitiesSituated at the end of a No-Through lane, West

Chelborough is a small community of houses grouped

around the parish church. Surrounded by pretty

countryside in a very tranquil setting, the village is only

2½ miles from the neighbouring village of Evershot, which

has a church, The Acorn Inn public house, post office/

shop, bakery, village hall, doctor’s surgery, primary school

and the 5-star Summer Lodge Country House Hotel. For

further details go to www.evershot.org.

E Sticklands CE VA Primary School in Evershot

is 2½ miles away, with the closest secondary

school in Beaminster (7½ miles) or alternatively

The Gryphon School in Sherborne (13½ miles)

or Thomas Hardye in Dorchester. Nearby private

schools include Hazlegrove, the Sherborne

schools, Millfield and Perrott Hill.

S Beaminster (7½ miles) is an attractive little town

with several shops, 3 restaurants and 2 pubs

and Crewkerne (10½ miles) has a good range

of shops including a Waitrose supermarket, a

weekly country market and a monthly farmer’s

market. Yeovil and the county town of Dorchester

are both easily accessible.

t Sherborne, Dorchester, Yeovil and Poole all

provide excellent entertainment venues.

e There are several gastro pubs and restaurants

within the local area.

M The A356 and the A37 are both about 4 miles

away providing quick access to the main road

network.

T There is a mainline rail service nearby from Yeovil

to London Waterloo, taking about 2½ hours.

A Bournemouth Airport and Exeter International

Airport are both just over an hour’s drive away

offering connections within the UK and to many

international destinations.

Manor Farm

Originally built in the 16th century and subsequently re-

fashioned in the 18th century, with an east range added

in the 17th century, Manor Farm is a fine Grade II listed

example of a larger, 2 storey Dorset farmhouse and is built

of local stone under a Welsh slate roof with stone tiled

eaves. The property has great charm and character and

has been owned by the same family since 1962. It retains

many period features including fine fireplaces, stone mullion

windows, window seats and ceiling timbers. From the

entrance porch, a door opens into the dining room, which

has a fireplace and carved chequer-board ceiling timbers.

On one side a door leads through to the kitchen/breakfast

room, which has a tiled floor and is fitted with a range of

painted wall and floor-mounted units and a 4 oven oil-fired

AGA (green), with a further door leading through to the utility

room. A stone-flagged corridor leads off the dining room,

with doors off to the cloakroom and the reception rooms

of the house. These include the light and airy study, which

has windows on two sides and has a fitted bookcase, and

the sitting room, which overlooks the garden and has a

fine stone fireplace. At the far end of the corridor double

doors open to the drawing room, which also has windows

on two sides, an inglenook fireplace, a window seat and

ceiling timbers. On the first floor off the landing are the

master bedroom with walk-through dressing area and

en-suite bathroom, three further double bedrooms, a single

bedroom and two bathrooms. A broad secondary staircase

rises to the attics, which have been converted to provide

two further double bedrooms off a central landing.

Gardens & Outbuildings

Manor Farm is approached via a tarmac drive leading to a

parking and turning area in front of the house. Immediately

facing the house are a traditional stone-built threshing

barn dating from the mid-18th century and a stone built

granary and cart shed incorporating a boarded upper floor

and two stables. Behind the barn is a concrete former

dairy yard with stone-built cow byres on two sides.

The garden lies to the sides and rear of the house, with

an extensive lawn bounded by shrub borders on one

side, a further lawn to the rear of the house enclosed

by mature hedging leading to a pretty parterre garden

planted with perennials and shrub roses. On the other

side of the house is a stand of mixed specimen trees,

a vegetable garden and greenhouse. A small triangular

area of sloping paddock to the south. In all the garden

extends to about 2.22 acres (0.90 hectare). (N.B. An

additional 5.49 acres (2.22 hectares) of pasture may be

available by separate negotiation).

Services: Mains electricity. Water supplied via a private

metered supply charged at Wessex Water rate. Private

drainage. Oil-fi red central heating & AGA. Bottled Calor

Gas.

Fixtures & Fittings: All those items regarded as

tenant’s fi xtures and fi ttings, together with the fi tted

carpets, curtains and light fi ttings, are specifi cally

excluded from the sale. However, certain items may be

available by separate negotiation.

Tenure: Freehold

Council Tax Band: G

Local Authority: West Dorset District Council Tel:

01305 251010

Directions (Postcode DT2 0PY)From Yeovil take the A37 towards Dorchester for just

over 3 miles and turn right, signed to Halstock (3 miles).

Continue on this road for 4¼ miles to a staggered

crossroads. At the crossroads turn right on to a

No-Through road (White Lane) to West Chelborough

(old-fashioned signpost). Continue along the lane for

just over a mile into the village. The entrance to the

Manor Farm drive is on the left about 30 yards before

the church.

ViewingsAll viewings are by appointment with the sole agents

Knight Frank LLP.

BP4.491.82

Important Notice:

Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on statements by Knight Frank LLP in the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing (“information”) as being factually accurate about the property, its condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP nor any joint agent has any authority to make any representations about the property, and accordingly any information given is entirely without responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s). Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate only.Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or use of, any part of the property does not mean that any necessary planning, building regulations or other consent has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must fi nd out by inspection or in other ways that these matters have been properly dealt with and that all information is correct. VAT: The VAT position relating to the property may change without notice.

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Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area

434.2 sq m / 4674 sq ft

(Excluding Void)

First Floor

Ground Floor

Reception

Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Recreation

This plan is for layout guidance only. Not drawn to scale unless stated. Windows & door openings are approximate. Whilst every care is taken in the preparation of this plan,please check all dimensions, shapes & compass bearings before making any decisions reliant upon them.

Second Floor

First Floor

Ground Floor

Reception

Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Second Floor