4 bedroom house

Designed and built for the current owners in 2010, Dean Lodge is in an elevated position near the foot of a wooded re-entrant, faces west and overlooks unspoilt fields and woodland. The house has a natural yet striking design with the ground floor housing most of the bedroom accommodation, whilst the first floor is given over to the open plan living room, study and principal bedroom. The exterior is built of local, pale Chicksgrove stone with the first floor clad in Sweet Chestnut under a slate roof. The design also incorporates high levels of insulation including double-glazed and power-coated aluminium windows combined with heating via an air source heat pump. The interior has a modern, clean-cut and light feel achieved using pale Travertine stone-effect floor tiles on the ground floor, oak joinery, large windows with white-painted walls and vaulted ceilings The ground floor has a centrally positioned entrance hall with the staircase rising to the living room, a double bedroom with en-suite wet-room on one side and two further double bedrooms sharing a dual-access wet-room on the other. One of these bedrooms currently serves as a home office. The first floor living room is L-shaped with ample space for separate seating, dining and kitchen areas with floor to ceiling windows incorporating French windows and bi-fold doors. The glazing extends the full width of the room on two sides: to the front is a balcony overlooking the lovely countryside view and to the rear both the kitchen and dining areas have access the terrace and rear, hillside garden. The seating area is focussed around a suspended, positional wood burner created by the designer Dominique Imbert. The kitchen area is fitted with sleek, contemporary-style units incorporating a range of built-in electric appliances. To one side of the kitchen are the good-sized laundry room and the study and the principal bedroom suite, which both face west with countryside views.

Dean Lodge is approached off a country lane via a sloping approach drive to a gravelled parking area in front of the house. The parking area is flanked by raised borders containing a colourful variety of roses, flowering shrubs and herbaceous perennials. Immediately behind the house is a paved terrace that extends the full width of the house with ample space for both seating and dining. French windows and bi-fold doors provide direct access to the kitchen and dining areas respectively and allow the house to be opened up in fine weather. The hillside rises beyond the terrace with flights of paved steps giving access to an upper grass terrace, which serves as a lovely seating area looking out at the view below. The rear hillside is covered by mature, broadleaf woodland that contains a wide variety of native British trees including ash, oak and copper beech together with several mature, specimen trees. The woodland floor is covered by a carpet of primroses in the Spring and bluebells in May. Colour is provided later by a variety of different rhododendrons and hydrangeas, which thrive on the local alkaline soil on greensand and chalk. In all about one acre (0.4 hectare).

Swallowcliffe village centre (The Royal Oak) 0.2 mile, Ansty PYO & Farm Shop 2.1 miles, Tisbury 2.4 miles (Waterloo 1 hour 51 minutes), A303 6.3 miles, Shaftesbury 8.5 miles, Salisbury 13.5 miles, Bournemouth Airport 29.9 miles. (Distances and time approximate).

Dean Lodge is situated off a narrow, peaceful lane just outside the pretty village of Swallowcliffe which has a parish church, village hall and the renowned Royal Oak pub and is surrounded by beautiful, unspoilt countryside. For most day-to-day needs the Ansty PYO & Farm shop (2.1 miles) and the small town of Tisbury (2.4 miles) are both close by. Tisbury has an excellent range of shops, local businesses and services including medical, dental and veterinary surgeries. The property also has excellent transport links nearby. Tisbury hasa mainline train station with direct services to

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