5 bedroom house

Classic Georgian style (1833) country house in a rural setting without near neighbours, on approx. 4 acres with its own spring water and river. The south facing private property, comprising a main house and separate coach house has panoramic views of the Wiltshire countryside and its own formal topiary gardens. More land available by separate negotiation.


The Old Vicarage is built with brick and locally sourced Bath Stone under a Regency style slate roof, this is a rare private property with no near neighbours, incorporating a main house and separate coach house. The land is without any public pathways. The property comprises:

• Outer hall
• Inner hall
• Drawing room
• Dining room
• Eat-in kitchen
• Billiard room/Library
• Sitting room
• Office
• Upper hall
• 5 Bedrooms
• 3 Bathroom/Shower rooms
• Separate Laundry
• Lower ground floor storage rooms (ex servants’ quarters) with development potential
• Wine Cellars with full head height.
• Triple Garage Coach house (896 square feet)
• Wood Shed
• Greenhouse
• Topiary gardens
• Pond
• Tennis court
• Paddocks
• Orchard
• River (both banks in parts)
• Own Spring water from well.

The reception rooms feature high ceilings, original marble fireplaces and period sash windows and panelled doors. These are grand rooms for entertaining with great views across a formal topiary garden to the Great Ridge beyond. The dining room seats 12, and the 22 foot (7.29m) drawing room is large enough for a grand piano. A billiard room/library has built-in book shelves.

The five bedrooms on the first floor are generously proportioned and have some great views over topiary gardens to the hills and ridgeline beyond. A sitting room (the former butler’s room) on the ground floor has an ensuite, if a sixth bedroom should be required.

The Lower ground floor servant’s area has a lower hallway with limestone slab floor, an old kitchen scullery, a large former servants room now used for table tennis, an office with a block wooden floor and a plate room. This lower ground floor has external windows and high ceilings.

Upstairs the house has many original features. The central staircase has a classic curved style mahogany hand rail wreathed with inch square deal banisters. The panelled doors have original brass handles. Floors are light coloured polished timber. Servant’s bells are still in the former Butlers room.

Grounds comprise formal gardens (1.7 acres), and a further 2.3 acre paddock, orchard, and woodland for a total of 4 acres (lot 1). There is an additional 5 acre paddock (lot 2) available by separate negotiation. A tributary of the Wylye River crosses the property (the boundary between lots 1 and 2) and provides water to each paddock.

Unless specifically mentioned in these particulars, all contents, fixtures and fittings, garden ornaments, statues, garden urns, rugs carpets and curtains are specifically excluded from the sale. Certain items may be available by separate negotiation.

In adherence to the 1979 Estate Agents Act the agent here discloses that he is a connected party and is selling a family home.

Council Band H

Services: own water; mains electricity; own sewerage; oil fired central heating



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