5 Bedrooms Detached house for sale in Warminster Road, Frome BA11 | £ 750,000

Property Description

Here is a fabulous proposition for those looking for a beautiful characterful home with scope for the family to spread or create secondary accommodation for a dependant relative or additional income. Either way you will benefit from an enchanting property with a large bespoke farmhouse kitchen, dual aspect lounge with log burner, snug, secret store room, boot room, four bedrooms including the master en-suite and outbuildings with a pub lounge complete with bar and a self contained guest suite. All this, surrounded by it's'own very private land and gardens and most conveniently situated on the main A36 offering excellent commuter links.

Location

Ideal for commuters - Standerwick is a small village on the A36 Warminster Road which lies 4.5 miles from the nearby market town of Frome, 13 miles to the south of Bath and approximately 25 miles from Bristol. The village itself has a popular pub, and is close to Frome Livestock Market where you can enjoy shopping for a wide range of necessities at Mole Valley Farmers. Also, close by is the award winning Whiterow Farm Shop, with an excellent delicatessen, florist, gift shop and restaurant. The sought after village of Beckington is close by and offers two public houses, sports clubs, village hall, and school and Springmead private day nursery and prep school. Recreational facilities locally are good with Babington House, golf, fishing, tennis, shooting and beautiful open countryside all on the doorstep.

Entrance Hall

A solid arched door opens into the entrance porch with a paned window to the side overlooking the front garden and a flagstone floor which continues through to the main entrance hall. From here galleried stairs rise to a mezzanine landing on the first floor with a window to the side at ground floor and first floor level. With the latch doors that open into the boot room, snug and kitchen and the beamed ceiling you are met with an abundance of history and character.

Boot Room

Designed for pracitcality, the spacious boot room has wood panelled walls for hanging pegs, a built in unit for shoes, quarry tiled floor and tongue & groove ceiling with downlighters.

Snug

This is a snug or library with built in panelling to one end for TV housing and storage cupboards and shelving to the other end for books and CDs etc. Within the shelving is a secret door that opens into an adjoining store/study. There are beams to the ceiling and two windows with views over the rear garden.

Store Room

Accessed by the secret door, this room is used as a store for sports equipment but would equally make a well hidden study with window overlooking the garden.

Kitchen/Breakfast

An absolutely fabulous farmhouse kitchen that should be in 'Country Life' magazine. Informally fitted with a bespoke range of hand painted units to include two dressers with oak works tops, providing floor and wall cupboards and display shelving; And a built in central island with marble top and inset belfast sink with further shelving and cupboards descretely housingthe integrated dishwasher. Above are hanging lights and rails for pots, pans and utensils. Under the window to the front are further floor cupboards with oak work top fitted with an instant hot water tap and an integrated double width larder fridge/freezer. An open feature brick chimney with beam over, in the kitchen area perfectly accommodates the six ring gas range with electric ovens. In the breakfast room area is a further brick fire place with flagstone hearth and fitted wood burning stove with room for chairs around and a large farmhouse table placed to enjoy the view over the garden through the two windows to the rear. A wide inner hall leads to the lounge and a door to the utility room and cloakroom, and a very well shelved walk in larder cupboard. Flagstones to the floor and beames to the ceiling complete this charismatic room.

Utility Room

A door from the kitchen opens into a small inner hall, with built in storage cupboard, serving the utility room and cloakroom. The utility room with tongue & grooved panelled walls and quarry tiled floor offers space for a top load washing machine and tumble drier. A low level ceramic sink is plumbed for boot/shoe washing and there is a window to the rear.

Downstairs Cloakroom

The cloakroom, with tongue & groove panelling to the walls, has a white suite of wash basin and WC and towel rail.

First Floor Landing

A spacious galleried landing with doors to all rooms and loft access.

Bathroom

The family bathroom with tongue & groove panelled walls to picture rail height, is fitted with a period style suite including a free standing claw foot bath with central taps and rain forest shower with shower curtain ring over. A large ornate pedestal wash basin and high level flush cistern complete the suite, In addition is a floor standing chrome towel rail, mahogany effect boarded flooring and a window to the front.

Bedroom Two

This is a good double bedroom with a beams to the ceiling and a window to the rear overlooking the gardens.

Bedroom Four

A large single or small double this bedroom also has beams to the ceiling and a window to the rear overlooking the garden.

Bedroom Three

A double bedroom with beams to the ceiling and a window overlooking the front garden.

Master Bedroom

The generous master bedroom, with beames to the ceiling has two windows overlooking the rear garden and a range of built in open fronted clothes storage cupboards. A door opens into the en-suite shower room.

En-Suite

The generous en-suite has a double width shower unit with glazed screening and fully tiled metro style walls with mains rain forest shower and wall shower over. In addition is a period style pedestal wash basin and high level cistern WC. The metro tiling continues to the walls to dado height and there is a floor standing chrome towel rail and window to the front.

Outbuildings

Creating a courtyard setting the L shaped range of outbuildings offer a range of additional accommodation with an enormous amount of potential, currently features a pub lounge with bar, WC, self contained guest suite, garage with workshop off and a further store room and log store.

Bar

The authentic bar/pub has been converted from two of the garages and features a true to life bar area with shelving for optics and bottles a counter top bar with beer pumps and space for bottle/wine cooling fridges. In the lounge area is a wood burning stove and room for a billiard table and darts area. With the wood floor and beamed ceiling you easily be having a tipple in the Pig & Whistle.

Annexe Bedroom

Within the courtyard outbuildings is a self contained guest suite accessed through an entrance lobby into a room spacious room, large enough to accommodate a king size bed and lounge area. It benefits from an en-suite shower room and two windows overlooking the courtyard.

Garage

Separate to the outbuildings at the head of the driveway, is a tandem length garage with electric door, power and light.

Outside

From the the A36 you enter an impressive enclosed pull in/turning bay with large solid wood electric gates giving access to the main driveway.

The driveway, which has been banked and planted with trees and laurel hedging to the roadside and post and rail fence to the rear garden to the other, is a befitting entrance and leads up to the garage and parking area to the side of the house.

The main garden lies to the rear of the house and is predominantly laid to lawn featuring a large pond with central island, play area and several trees including Eucalyptus, Silver Birch and an fruit trees planted in an orchard area.

From the parking to the side of the house a path leads under an archway across the front of the property, to the front door and to the enclosed garden with low level wall. This area is mostly lawned and leads round the back of the outbuildings to one side and to a hardstaning behind the garage to the other.

The detached garage with electric roll door has addtional hardstanding to the side and offers plenty of storage/work space.

Services

The property is equipped with private drainage but all other mains services are connected.

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