AN ‘impressive’ and ‘elegant’ Victorian country house set in 50 acres of Somerset countryside has gone up for sale.
The grade II-listed former rectory at Hornblotton, Shepton Mallet, boasts eight bedrooms and six bathrooms, and is being marketed by Cooper and Tanner with a guide price of £2.95 million.
Surrounded by ‘superb’ gardens, the house sits at the end of a long, tree-lined driveway, and comes with a former coach house and stables which have been converted to three self-contained dwellings.
Within the grounds there are also a small lake, tennis court, substantial workshop and other outbuildings. Planning consent now allows for the remodelling of the house and five new dwellings.
“Formerly a rectory, was remodelled and extended in the 19th and 20th centuries and comprises eight reception rooms including fine drawing and dining rooms, eight bedrooms, three attic bedrooms and six bathrooms,” the listing said.
“The accommodation also offers the potential for an apartment on the first floor as there is a fully fitted kitchen and a sitting room.
“An elegant house with generous proportions, the principal rooms retain their original features with stone mullion windows, decorative coving and plasterwork ceilings, window shutters and fireplaces.
“The accommodation is versatile and offers the potential for an apartment on the first floor as there is a fitted kitchen and a sitting room with access to a secondary staircase.
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“There are lovely views over the surrounding grounds to the countryside beyond and to the pretty Victorian church which adjoins; the driveway gives a fine view of Glastonbury Tor.”
Outside, the listing details “extensive” gardens that “surround the property with formal lawns, mature trees and borders and the small lake”.
“The are several garden buildings,” it went on. “A useful range of buildings provide storage and workshop space. A large modern steel frame building provides garaging, workshop and storage space.
“The land lies in a ring fence surrounding the house and gardens. It is all in permanent pasture with mature hedge boundaries and a number of parkland trees.
“The former coach house and adjoining stables have been converted into a three-bedroom cottage and two flats. The properties are now in need of a scheme of redecoration and improvement.
“Planning consent and Listed building Consent has been granted for ‘General refurbishment, interior alterations and extension of the main house. Replacement of existing outbuildings to create 3 replacement dwellings, construction of 2 new dwellings, erection of ancillary buildings, storage, garaging and associated landscaping including a swimming pool’.”
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