6 bedroom house

Bullpits is a handsome Grade II listed country house dating from the 1720’s with later 19th century editions. The white colour washed façade is Regency in style with large sash windows and overlooks its lovely gardens. The principal reception rooms are beautifully proportioned and typical of the era with tall ceiling heights, cornicing, shuttered windows and window seats. Other attributes worthy of mention include blue lias flagstone floors, open fireplaces in the drawing room, dining room (with a Jetmaster), sitting room and in the secondary hall with an inset wood burner. The secondary hall (in the oldest part of the house) provides access to the study and galleried library with cinema room below.
In addition, there are three cottages included in the sale; Iron Cottage adjoining the entrance to the property, Deer Cottage and Honey Cottage, all of which can provide useful ancillary income. In addition, there is the Club House with an apartment over which has been very successfully let.
Bullpits is approached off the lane onto a tarmacadam drive with a spur leading to the garaging and on to the car parking area. There are a variety of stone and clay tiled outbuildings; these include a stone outbuilding currently used as a tractor store, a four door stone and tiled garage, and further garage adjoining Deer Cottage with a useful store room.
These are a particular feature of the property and comprise a mixture of formal and informal gardens. The formal gardens are principally to the south and west of the house; all the principal reception rooms overlook the gardens to the south with two formal ponds dominated by a magnificent Cedar Of Lebanon and to the west with a wide variety of specimen trees including Weeping Ash, Copper Beech and Mulberry. To the west the formal gardens are flanked by a south facing wall with colourful flower and shrub borders, with lawn terraces leading to two leats – the source of water for the former rope making industry. Further to the west is The Clubhouse which provides excellent entertaining space with a recently converted apartment at first floor level providing useful ancillary accommodation.
The grounds lie to the north and west and are parkland with a wide variety of specimen trees, currently used as a par 60, 18 hole golf course. This could easily revert to natural parkland and would provide a delightful setting to Bullpits. A timber gate provides access onto Pen Mill Hill Lane.
Note; There is a footpath running from the main gate, through the car parking and across to Pen Mill Hill Lane.
Bullpits sits in an elevated position on the edge of Bourton, the most northerly village in Dorset, and set high above the River Stour. The Stourhead Estate is nearby with its stunning National Trust gardens as is Forestry Commission land with numerous bridleways and footpaths. Bourton has a good range of local amenities including a popular inn, garage/post office/village stores, church and well regarded primary school. There is a doctor’s surgery in the village of Silton, while Gillingham provides for most everyday needs with a Waitrose and mainline railway station (London Waterloo). Nearby Bruton is a fashionable and popular town in the heart of the Somerset countryside, and has several well-known restaurants, pubs and bars including At the Chapel, The Roth Bar & Grill at the world-renowned Hauser & Wirth Gallery and the newly opened Newt Hotel and Gardens. For more sophisticated requirements there is the cathedral city of Salisbury to the east and the city of Bath to the north. The A303 is close by and gives fast access to both the west country and London via the M3.



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