Hart Lodge

An extended and flexible 5 bedroom family home with field and stables enjoying views over its own land and the countryside beyond.
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Hart Lodge is a detached family house dating from the late 1980s with extensions completed in 2005. The house is constructed of red brick elevations under a tiled roof with brick chimney and a timber, glazed and tiled extension to the rear. The property is located in a cul-de-sac with no through traffic.

The front door opens into the hall with a cloakroom and stairs to the first floor. There is a well-proportioned sitting room with open fireplace and woodburning stove, fitted cupboards and French doors to terraced decking area with lovely views out over the garden and fields.

The kitchen/dining room is a fantastic family space overlooking the garden with fitted wall and base units with beech worktops incorporating Belfast sink with mixer tap, electric AGA, fitted fridge/freezer and space for American fridge. The dining area is a lovely light and airy space with large roof lights, windows on three sides and French doors to the decking. There is a snug and utility room and from the kitchen a door opens into a playroom / family room.

From this room there is a second staircase to a guest bedroom and bathroom making a lovely guest suite or allowing for an internal annexe with a separate entrance via the garage.

In the main house there are four double bedrooms and a family bathroom off a light landing with the master bedroom having an ensuite shower room and lovely views over the countryside to the rear.

Outside there is ample parking and a garage at the front of the house with front and rear gardens. Vehicular access to the side gives access to the stables, yard and land. In all 3.50 acres.

The property is approached from Ramsbury on to a gravel drive where there is parking for a number of cars in front of the garage with double wooden doors, power and light.

The principal garden is to the rear (east) with a level lawn with stocked border, mixed fruit trees and vegetable plot. The front garden has a level lawn with well stocked border and enclosed by low timber fence and beech hedging. The side garden has a level lawn interspersed by mixed trees and a separate drive leading from the close over the garden to a wooden five bar gate giving access to the stable block and yard.

The stable yard is enclosed by timber post and rail fencing with concrete yard and timber stable block comprising stable, hay barn and tack room with a second outbuilding providing a further stable and workshop. Power, light and mains water are connected.

There is a small shelter belt of mixed trees behind the stable block and the field is a level L-shape laid to permanent pasture and bordering the River Lydden on the eastern boundary. A footpath runs (north to south) across the field.

The field measures approximately 3.26 acres with the whole being 3.50 acres (1.41 ha).

Kings Stag has a popular pub and petrol filling station / shop / hire store, with more extensive local facilities in Sturminster Newton.

The Abbey town of Sherborne and county town of Dorchester provide extensive shopping, business and recreational facilities. Mainline rail service from Sherborne to London Waterloo in about 2¼ hours.

Golf at Sherborne, Dorchester (Came Down) and Blandford The World Heritage designated Dorset Coast is about 1 hour to the south.



Marketed by: Symonds & Sampson, Sturminster Newton