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Full Details for 4 Bedroom Detached for sale in Wincanton, BA9 :

A handsome, well-presented detached farm house set in just over four acres of grounds and paddocks, located on the edge of the Blackmore Vale, with excellent outriding and walking.

DESCRIPTION A grand detached family home, beautifully presented throughout with excellent proportions, high ceilings and sash windows. Located just outside Wincanton, Riding Gate Farm has been renovated and refurbished to a very high standard and now presents an attractive home, set close to good travel connections but with access to good outriding and walking in nearby Penselwood. There are mature, well planted gardens and grounds with ample parking and an adjoining paddock.



THE HOUSE A gravelled parking area leads to a stone portico and wooden front door opening into the elegant entrance hall. The kitchen and dining room are open plan with a large sash window overlooking the gardens. The dining area has a fireplace with wooden surround and wood burner inset. The kitchen is fitted with a range of bespoke cream and wooden cabinets and a central island unit all finished with a granite work surface. A doorway opens into a useful study/office area that could also be a playroom. There is a utility area with plumbing for a washing machine and tumble drier and a downstairs cloakroom with door to the parking area. The drawing room has a Bath stone fireplace with wood burning stove inset, a wooden floor and period coving. The ground floor benefits from under floor heating and an oil fired boiler.
On the first floor a light and airy landing opens into four bedrooms and a family bathroom. The master bedroom has a sash window overlooking the front gardens and original cast iron fireplace with marble surround and there is a fully tiled wet room with underfloor heating. There are two further double bedrooms with sash windows and period fireplaces and a single bedroom with fitted wardrobes. The family bathroom has a freestanding claw foot bath and a sash window.


OUTSIDE The gardens extend to the front of the house and a bordered by stone walls. Mainly laid to lawn the gardens and mature and well planted with a selection of shrubs, roses and apple trees. To the side of the house is an enclosed area with well organised raised beds and a vegetable garden. The driveway sweeps down to a gravelled parking to the side of the house and there was planning consent for an extension which has now lapsed but could be a possibility in the future if required.

THE LAND Located on the other side of the driveway there is a large paddock measuring 2.946 acres which is sheltered by a mature hedge and has two timber stables and a fields shelter.

LOCATION Riding Gate and Bayford are located just outside Wincanton on the edge of the Blackmore Vale. Wincanton has a comprehensive range of facilities with the market town of Gillingham also a short drive away. The village of Bourton is just over two miles away and is home to the historic Bourton Mill and the River Stour. The counties of Somerset, Wilshire and Dorset all meet at the rear of Bourton Mill. The village has a public house, church, shop, golf course and village school. Leisure persuits in the area a good with horse racing, golf, walking and horse riding and local tourist attractions such as Stourhead, Alfreds tower, Stonehenge and Longleat all on the doorstep.

Communication links are good with the A303 about a mile away with mainline train stations at Gillingham and Castle Cary.

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