Ash Mead

Bought in 2016, extended and completely refurbished, Ash Mead has brick and part rendered elevations under a slate roof and stands in grounds of approximately one acre in the centre of the village. Occupying an elevated site, it has lovely views over the surrounding countryside. The present owners have carried out a comprehensive programme of refurbishment, substantially enlarging the property with meticulous attention to detail. Attributes include light and bright accommodation with well proportioned rooms, a well equipped kitchen and limestone and oak flooring throughout the majority of the ground floor. Bedrooms 1 and 2 have vaulted ceilings and Bedrooms 1 and 3 have access to a roof terrace. Ash Mead is heated via an air source heat pump, with underfloor heating and a pressurized water system, and is fully double glazed with aluminium framed windows. Council Tax Band F.
The property is approached up a gravel drive flanked by beech whips on one side and beech hedging on the other, leading to a large car parking and turning area adjoining which is the timber clad double garage under a pitched slate roof. Steps lead around to the rear of the garage to a room over which, subject to the usual consents, could be put to a variety of uses including a potential annexe or office. The gardens extend to approximately an acre and provide a lovely backdrop to the property with some fine mature trees including chestnut, beech and ash together with a wide variety of indigenous planting, screening the property from the lane. Gravel paths extend around both sides of Ash Mead with attractive raised flower and shrub borders with silver birch, dahlias and a wide variety of wild grasses and flowing shrubs.
Ash Mead is situated in Ashmore, reputedly Dorset’s highest village, which has a church, village hall and cricket field. There are nearby shops/post offices in the villages of Fontmell Magna, Iwerne Minster and Ludwell. The Saxon hilltop market town of Shaftesbury has a wide range of shops, supermarkets, a boutique hotel, a weekly market, churches, a health centre, dentist, a small hospital, veterinary surgeries, library and arts centre. For more sophisticated shopping and recreational facilities there is the Cathedral city of Salisbury to the east and Bath to the north west. Nearby Tisbury has a mainline railway station with services to London Waterloo (under two hours) and the A303, lies to the north, giving access to the south west and London via the M3, while the A350 gives access to the south coast.



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