House for sale in Button Box Cottage, Twyford, Dorset - 4 bedrooms, 3 reception rooms, 2 bathrooms

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An exquisite county cottage with delightful gardens located on the edge of this rural hamlet.  

ACCOMMODATION SUMMARY

Ground Floor:  Front entrance porch, dining room, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast room, study, garden room, rear entrance hall, cloakroom.

First Floor:  Landing, 4 bedrooms (1 with en-suite shower room), family bathroom.

DESCRIPTION

Button Box Cottage has rendered elevations with stone quoins under a slate roof.  The cottage has been extended and beautifully refurbished with a most impressive kitchen/breakfast room with vaulted ceiling.  There are character features throughout including an open fireplace, wood burning stove, old pine doors and exposed beams.  The property is set within delightful mature gardens arranged at the front, side and rear of the cottage with a footbridge leading over Twyford Brook to an area of garden land abutting open countryside. 

SITUATION

The property is located within the rural hamlet of Twyford about 3 miles south of the Saxon hilltop town of Shaftesbury that offers a good range of services to cater for most everyday requirements including supermarkets, a bustling high street boasting many independent retailers, hotels, a cottage hospital, schools and an Arts Centre. 

OUTSIDE

A gravel drive leads through double entrance gates to a parking area in front of a large timber frame garage 4.87m (16ft) x 3.96m (13ft) with concrete floor, power and storage above.  A gravel path winds through attractive flower beds and past the boundary wall to the front entrance porch.  At the front of the cottage, approached through a trellis arch, is a charming side garden with lawn, flower beds, a rose seating arbour and plum and apple trees.  The rear garden has a paved terrace opening onto a level area of lawn, again with flower bed borders and circular lavender bed.  A footbridge leads over Twyford brook to a further area of lawn abutting open countryside.  Greenhouse and summerhouse 1.82m x (6ft) x 1.82m (6ft).

COMMUNICATION LINKS

Communications in the area are excellent with local railway stations at Gillingham and Tisbury providing main line services to London Waterloo and London is also readily accessible by road via the A303 and A30, both linking with the M3. 

EDUCATION

The area is renowned for its wealth of excellent schools including Port Regis, St Mary’s Shaftesbury, Sandroyd, Sherborne, and Sherborne School for Girls, Chaffyn Grove, Milton Abbey, Bryanston, Bruton School for Girls and Kings Bruton, Sexeys ( a state funded boarding school), a good comprehensive school in Gillingham, as well as boys’ and girls’ grammar schools in Salisbury. 

SPORTING AND RECREATION

Racing is at Wincanton, Salisbury and Bath.  Hunting is with South and West Wiltshire, Blackmore and Sparkford Vale and Royal Artillery hunts.  Premiership rugby is played at Bath and Bristol.  Eighteen hole golf courses are found at Sherborne, Warminster and Tollard Royal.  Excellent riding, cycling and walking are available throughout the area including Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs.  Poole Harbour and Weymouth (2012 Olympic venue) provides superb water sport facilites. 

POSTCODE

SP7 0JG

SERVICES

Mains water and electricity are all connected.  Private drainage system.  LPG gas supply to hob. 

COUNCIL TAX

Band E. 

DIRECTIONS

From Shaftesbury proceed south along the A350.  Enter Compton Abbas and once past the Church take the next turning right to Twyford.  At the next T Junction turn right and Button Box Cottage will be found shortly after on the left. 

Agent’s Notes

Woolley & Wallis, their clients and any joint agents give notice that:

1. They have no authority to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property.

2. These particulars have been prepared in good faith to give an overall view of the property, they do not form any part of an offer or contract, and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact.

3.Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate.  The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive.  It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Woolley & Wallis have not tested any services, equipment or facilities.  Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise.

4.These particulars were prepared in February 2008.

VIEWINGS

All viewings should be by prior appointment only and arranged through our Shaftesbury Office:

01747 852242

Minster House, The Commons,

Shaftesbury, Dorset  SP7 8JL

Facsimile:  01747 852752

www.w-w.co.uk

property reference: WWSH999000842