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Property description



A pretty three bedroom semi-detached stone cottage, c.1700, in a sought-after village with views of surrounding countryside and off street parking. The property offers potential to extend and re-develop subject to the necessary planning permissions.


  • 3 bedrooms

  • 8.95m x 3.04m kitchen-diner

  • South West facing garden

  • Contemporary bathroom

  • Off Street parking

  • Wood-burner

  • Original features: Fireplaces and wood panelling

  • Worcester boiler, Bosch Fridge & Freezer

  • Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Conservation Area

  • Excellent Community Shop

  • Village pub & restaurant

  • Convenient road and rail links to London and South West



An early viewing is highly recommended to secure this desirable character home.

East Knoyle is a thriving village that provides a popular public house, church, community run post office store and village hall, and famed for being the birth-place of Sir Christopher Wren. The nearby towns of Shaftesbury, Tisbury and Gillingham have a range of services to cater for most everyday needs including a main line railway station from Tisbury and Gillingham to London Waterloo (under 2 hours). The area benefits from a range of excellent private and state schools. The A303 is located approximately 3 miles north of East Knoyle providing good road access to London and the South West. The A350 is 1 mile to the east, with easy access to the South Coast. The main regional centres of Bath, Salisbury and Yeovil are within driving distance and offer a wide range of facilities to cater for most interests. There are numerous footpaths and bridleways in the area.

Entrance

The property is built with traditional Chilmark Stone. The main entrance is through an oak framed porch with clay tiles, leading to an oak front door.

Kitchen-diner

Oak door with stained glass window feature opens to a nicely proportioned room, well equipped and fitted with and extensive and attractive range of Farrow & Ball painted pine floor and wall cupboards with matching drawers. Contrasting wood block work-tops and counters, inset 1 ½ bowl ceramic sink and drainer with swan-neck mixer taps, inset four ring gas hob, built in electric fan oven and grill. Marmoleum floor. Space for wall-mounted microwave. Dining area with tongue and groove panelling, and double glazed French-doors opening to the garden and outside seating area. Wall-mounted oak book-shelf. Low energy LED lights. Panel radiator. Ledge and brace back door.

Living Room

Oak floor. Wood-burning stove on slate hearth and mahogany (reclaimed) mantle that creates a cosy focal point. TV aerial.

Utility

Space, and plumbing, for washer and dryer. Flush handle-less storage cupboards. Coat-hanging space and shoe storage. Shelving for food storage. Marmoleum floor. Low energy LED lights. Panel radiator.

Cloakroom

Low-level WC, white wash hand-basin. Marmoleum floor. Low energy LED lights. Panel radiator. Window to garden.

Outside (front, back and side and parking)

The main building has Chilmark Stone elevations and the single story extension to the property is clad in Douglas Fir. The guttering 5” galvanised. An attractive combination of materials.

The front of the house is a gravelled area with Chilmark Stone chippings, and planted with three galvanised steel planters with seasonal planting. The gardens are an attractive and delightful feature and are laid out in a series of ‘rooms’ with areas put down to lawn and terrace on different levels, providing pleasant areas to sit or eat Al Fresco. Long-reaching views over fields and woodland. There are raised vegetable beds, a circular lawn with brick edging, surrounded by an abundance of flowering plants, shrubs and small trees providing colour and interest throughout the seasons, along with roses honeysuckle and varieties of clematis. A discrete potting-shed overlooks the garden and fields. The gardens are enclosed by a Chilmark stone wall and wooden fencing and enjoy a sunny and sheltered position.

A path behind the house, leads to the back door, and brand-new wooden shed painted in a light sage colour. The boundary is lined with a mix of native hedging.

Bedroom 1

Duel aspect with views across the fields. New wool carpet. Original cast iron fire place. Original wood panelled wall. Panel radiator. Loft hatch.

Bedroom 2

2 windows with views enjoying outlook onto village street and neighbouring cottages. New wool carpet. Original cast iron fireplace. Original wood panelled wall. Panel radiator.

Bedroom 3

Original parquet wooden floor, and wood panelled wall, with under-stairs cupboard with clothes rail. Duel aspect, with views over the garden. Built in wardrobe with oak shelf. Feature fireplace: Mantle-piece with panelled cupboard. 2 panel radiators.

Bathroom

Painted ledge and brace door. Fully tiled walk-in double shower cubicle with glass screen and 'Bristan' shower. Elegant wash-basin, with tiled splash-back, and double drawer unit on chrome legs. Heated mirror with built in lights. Chrome ladder towel rail, extractor fan, airing cupboard. Low energy LED spotlights. Stone-look tiled vinyl flooring.  

Staircase and landing

New wool carpet. Original wood panelled walls. Wall hung electric cupboard housing electric fuse box.

East Knoyle is an excellent base for several highly respected schools in both the state and private sectors and the village is surrounded by idyllic undulating countryside ideal for a variety of rural pursuits including walking, riding and cycling. Racing is at Salisbury, Bath and Wincanton with golf at Tollard Royal, Sherborne and Salisbury whilst there is sailing at Shear Water. There are several famous visitor attractions nearby such as the National Trust gardens at Stourhead, the stately home and safari park at Longleat and the World Heritage prehistoric site at Stonehenge, and an hour from the Jurassic Dorset Coast.

Council tax:

Wiltshire county council tax band D

Services: 

Mains electricity, drainage and water are connected to the property, heating is via an oil fired boiler.

Directions: 

From the south: From Ivy Cross roundabout in Shaftesbury take the A350 north towards Warminster. After approximately 4 miles turn left signposted to East Knoyle, continue through the village and Stores Cottage is 5th house on the right after the former Seymour Arms pub, now Seymour House.

From the north: From Warminster take the A350 south of A303, take the right turn into the village, follow the road between the playground on the left and war memorial,  and village shop on the right, past the blacksmith and Stores Cottage is the 5th house on the left.

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Stations Nearby

Gillingham (Dorset)
5.1 miles
Tisbury
4.1 miles
Warminster
9.3 miles

Schools Nearby

Steiner Academy Frome
10.8 miles
Bishopstrow College
8.5 miles
Warminster School
9.4 miles
Hindon Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School, St Marys and St John's
2.5 miles
Wardour Catholic Primary School
3.3 miles
Semley Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
2.2 miles
Shaftesbury School
4.8 miles
Wilton Park School
3.8 miles
St Mary's School (Shaftesbury)
4.5 miles