Melbury Bubb House

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Melbury Bubb House

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Chetnole 1 mile (Railway platform halt to Westbury change for London Paddington 2 hours and Bath and Bristol 1 hours).
Yetminster 4 miles. Sherborne 9 miles (London Waterloo 2 hours/Exeter 53 minutes)
Yeovil 9 miles, Dorchester 15 miles (London Waterloo 2 hours).
(Distances & times approximate)

A most attractive unlisted former Georgian rectory with Victorian additions having outstanding
views over rolling countryside and standing in mature gardens and grounds.
Porch Hall Drawing room Dining room Kitchen/breakfast/family room Playroom
Study Boot room Laundry room Rear hallway
7 Bedrooms 3 Bathrooms Shower room Cloakroom
Outbuilding with indoor swimming pool
Range of 9 stables (7 of these currently used as a playroom, store rooms, a tool shed, wood store and cloakroom/changing
rooms for the swimming pool, one as a stable and one as a chicken house) together with double open fronted carport
Detached barn with garaging and first floor office/studio space
Garden store Greenhouse Garden with pond and 3 adjacent paddocks
In all about 4.25 acres (1.72 hectares)
Planning permission has been granted for a substantial addition to the house on the north side
to create a holiday let or granny annexe and symmetry to Melbury Bubb House as a whole.
Jackson Stops & Staff
Church House
Half Moon Street
Sherborne
Dorset
DT9 3LN
+44 1935 810141
sherborne@jackson-stops.co.uk
www.jackson-stops.co.uk

Knight Frank LLP

15 Cheap Street, Sherborne, Dorset DT9 3PU
+44 1935 812236
sherborne@knightfrank.com
www.knightfrank.co.uk

These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact.
Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the brochure.

Situation
Melbury Bubb is a very small village with a parish church of St Mary.
Local village facilities can be found in the neighbouring village of Chetnole
including a village shop and bistro pub with further local facilities,
including a small Spar supermarket, in Yetminster, about 5 miles.
The village of Melbury Bubb was the setting for Thomas Hardys The
Woodlanders and reputedly Melbury Bubb House was the house in
which lived the wandering Edred Fitzpiers while his eventual wife Grace
Melbury lived opposite in what is now called The Manor House.
Schools: Yetminster Primary School. A wide range of private
schools in the area including Sherborne Schools, Leweston,
Hazlegrove at Sparkford, Millfield at Street together with many
others. Secondary schools include the popular Gryphon School
in Sherborne.
Entertainment: Sherborne, Dorchester, Yeovil, Taunton, Bath
and Bristol.
Walking: There are a number of footpaths and bridleways
providing good access to the countryside.
Restaurants: A number of bistro pubs and restaurants within
the local area including The Acorn, Evershot, The New Inn, Cerne
Abbas and The Chetnole Inn.
Shopping: The Abbey town of Sherborne and regional centres
of Dorchester (the county town) and Yeovil provide a wide range
of shopping, business and recreational facilities.
Travel: Nearby access onto the A37 providing a north/south link.
The A303 is located to the north linking with the M3 to London.
Mainline rail service from Sherborne to London (Waterloo) taking
about 2 hours. There is railway platform halt at Chetnole
providing a rail service to Bath, Bristol, Weymouth, Westbury and
London Paddington.
Bristol and Exeter Airports are both within about 1 hours drive
offering connections around the UK, Europe and to other
destinations.

Melbury Bubb House

The property is a former Georgian rectory believed
to date from circa 1800 with Victorian additions now
forming the major part of the house on one side and to
the rear.
Victorian House: The Victorian part of the property
is predominantly constructed of brick elevations and
stone quoins (while the Georgian part is rendered and
colour washed). There are stone quoins and cut stone
bay windows with French windows from the principal

reception rooms. The property has a slate roof with

stone and brick chimneys. On the rear (W) there is a
brick, rendered and slate roofed extension lying beyond
the existing kitchen. The property offers spacious family
orientated accommodation with well proportioned
reception rooms.
Porch in attractive weathered stone. Entrance hall with
Victorian grate and main staircase rising and accessing:
Drawing room with an open fireplace with marble mantel

and surround and a brick hearth with cast iron canopy,

stripped floorboards, cornicing and a bay window with
French windows leading onto the garden. Dining room
with an open fireplace with marble mantel and slips and
a brick hearth inset with a woodburning stove, stripped
floorboards, bay window with French windows onto the
garden. Cloakroom. Access to large Boot Room with a
tiled floor and a Belfast sink and a ground floor shower/
WC. Hallway leading to:

Georgian House: Hallway with original

flagstones and rear staircase. Study with
stripped floor, bookshelves, cupboards under
and a fire surround. Utility room with oil-fired
boiler, Belfast sink with timber drainers, fitted
cupboards, cupboard housing hot water
cylinder with pressurised system, plumbed for
washing machine. Kitchen/breakfast/family
room a wonderful room with fantastic living
space and slate flooring, fireplace with timber
mantel inset with woodburning stove and
flanked by shelved alcoves with cupboards
below, extensive range of wall and base units
incorporating a twin bowl Belfast sink with
mixer tap, integrated Bosch dishwasher, island
unit with vegetable preparation sink and mixer
tap, breakfast bar with drawers and cupboards
below, tiled alcove with spotlights and a mantel
above inset with a 4 oven electric AGA (cream)
with electric AGA hob module, downlighters.
Playroom with vaulted ceiling, stripped
floorboards and exposed timbers. Rear hallway
with a Victorian tiled floor and a large walk-in
shelved Larder leading round to: Ground floor
bedroom/study with Victorian grate. Access to
Boot room.
The first floor is accessed off either the main
stairs or a rear staircase with one long landing
and provides the two principal bedrooms
in the Victorian part, 4 further bedrooms, 2
bathrooms and a shower room. The majority of
the bedrooms have either fitted wardrobes or
cupboards. All the bedrooms except one have
views over the garden and beyond to rolling
countryside.

Reception
Bedroom

Bathroom
Kitchen/Utility
Storage

Approximate Gross Internal Areas

Main House - 441.7 sq.m (4,753 sq.ft) (Including porch)
Barn - 57.3 sq.m (616 sq.ft) (Including where headroom is less than 1.5m but excluding void)
Swimming Pool Block - 149.2 sq.m (1,606 sq.ft)
Carpool & Stable Block - 94.6 sq.m (1,018 sq.ft)
Other Outbuildings - 37.2 sq.m (400 sq.ft)

Recreation

First Floor

Ground Floor

Barn
First Floor

Barn
Ground Floor

These plans are not shown in actual location/orientation

Gardens, grounds and outbuildings

The property is approached off the village lane through
a pair of wrought iron gates leading onto extensive
gravelled parking on the western side of the house. There
is a spur drive from here to a secondary access with
double timber gates with a cattle grid. There is further
parking beyond the house which accesses the open
fronted carport and other buildings beyond. A gateway
from this parking area leading to a garden on the
southern side with a herringbone patterned brick terrace
adjacent to the kitchen with gravelled paths and further
stone and brick cobbled areas. There are a number of
stocked borders and this garden is enclosed on one
side by walling with lavender and box bushes flanking
the path to the gate. The main garden lies at the front of
the property (E) with a border along the eastern elevation

with box hedging and mixed flowers. There is a stone

paved path leading beyond to the gravelled driveway
with a number of clipped box bushes. This area opens
onto a level expanse of lawn which is on two tiers with
a number of trees and a herbaceous border located on
the northern side. This lawn in turn opens onto a more
paddock like area which is laid to pasture with a large
conservation pond with mixed aqua flora including a
number of lilies. The area of paddock lies on the east and
this is well fenced and hedged and has water feeding a
trough. This is suitable for either equine or other stock
use.
There are wonderful 180 eastern and northerly views
over rolling lightly wooded West Dorset countryside from

the garden, principal reception rooms and bedrooms

in the house. The outbuildings lie on the southern side
including a timber range of five former stables, currently
used as a store, with two joined to form a playroom. At
the end of this there is a double open fronted carport.
Access from this end of the garden to a timber and block
barn with high double doors providing additional garaging
with stairs up to a first floor office/studio and store. There
is a further range with two timber stables and a garden
store. At the rear of this there is a glazed timber and
corrugated roofed outbuilding which covers the indoor
swimming pool with a paved surround. There is access
to an adjacent WC and changing room. At the rear of the
swimming pool is an aluminium framed greenhouse.

until reaching the T-junction at Totnell Corner. Turn right

signed to Leigh and bear left in the village centre signed
to Chetnole. Proceed over the hump backed bridge in
Chetnole, pass a Queen Anne house on the left and The
Chetnole Inn on the right and turn left at the T-junction
signed Melbury Bubb/Evershot. Continue out of Chetnole
for about 1 mile taking the right turn signed to Melbury
Bubb. Melbury Bubb House is the first property on the
left as you enter the village.

Viewings
Viewings are with the joint sole agents Knight Frank LLP
and Jackson-Stops & Staff.

West Dorset District Council: 01305 251010

Important notice 1. Particulars: These particulars are not

an offer or contract, nor part of one. You should not rely on
statements by Knight Frank LLP or Jackson Stops & Staff in
the particulars or by word of mouth or in writing
(information) as being factually accurate about the property,
its condition or its value. Neither Knight Frank LLP or
Jackson Stops & Staff nor any joint agent has any authority
to make any representations about the property, and
accordingly any information given is entirely without
responsibility on the part of the agents, seller(s) or lessor(s).
2. Photos etc: The photographs show only certain parts of
the property as they appeared at the time they were taken.
Areas, measurements and distances given are approximate
only. 3. Regulations etc: Any reference to alterations to, or
use of, any part of the property does not mean that any
necessary planning, building regulations or other consent
has been obtained. A buyer or lessee must find out by
inspection or in other ways that these matters have been
properly dealt with and that all information is correct. 4. VAT:
The VAT position relating to the property may change
without notice.

Directions (Postcode DT2 0NQ)

Particulars dated: June 2014.

Photographs dated: July 2014.

From Sherborne proceed about 2 miles south on the

A252 towards Dorchester and just before entering the
village of Longburton turn right signed to Leweston
School. Proceed along this road for about 3 miles

Knight Frank LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in

England with registered number OC305934. Our registered
office is 55 Baker Street, London, W1U 8AN, where you may
look at a list of members names.

Note: This plan is based upon the Ordnance

Survey map with the sanction of the control of
H.M. Stationary office. This plan is for convenience
of purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed
and it is expressly excluded from any contract.
Licence Number. No. ES100017767.

Services

Tenure

Private water supply and drainage. Mains electricity

supported by solar panels. Oil-fired central heating.
Electric AGA

Freehold

Council Tax Band: H

Fixtures and Fittings

All curtains, the elaborate light fittings, chandeliers and
garden ornaments are excluded from the sale but could
be made available by separate negotiation.

Local Authority