Property description

A period cottage of tremendous charm & character offering improvement potential and situated in a most idyllic rural hamlet setting with wonderful views across the Nadder Valley.


Property
The cottage is a pretty L-shaped detached period character home with mainly stone faced external elevations under a tiled roof. Originally used as a forge and smithy, for some time it has been enjoyed as a domestic property in a fabulous semi-rural setting with outstanding countryside views. Over the years it has been extended and improved but offers a new owner scope to make further enhancements or alterations and subject to the appropriate consents, possibly even to be added on to thereby providing the potential to create the perfect country home ideal for use either as a primary residence or weekend rural retreat.

The charming and versatile accommodation is arranged over two floors although much of it is currently on the ground floor level. This includes an entrance porch, stone flagged reception hall and a split-level, double aspect sitting room with a woodburning stove as well as a utility area and cloakroom. The large open plan farmhouse style kitchen/dining room has a high wooden clad ceiling, oil fired Aga heating the hot water and a tiled floor. There is also a good-sized family room with a raised platform/shelf and this room could be utilised as a third bedroom, studio or work space. On the first floor are two bedrooms, a dressing room and a bathroom with an antique style bath.

Outside
To the front of the property is a tarmacadam drive leading up to an area of parking with a lovely outlook over the Nadder Valley. The garden lies to the South and North Westerly side of the cottage and is arranged on different levels mainly laid to lawn with extensive flower and shrub borders, a variety of ornamental trees, a wooden outbuilding with an adjoining storage area and an oil storage tank. The garden borders fields and benefits from a lovely view up a coombe known as Hatch Bottom.

Situation East Hatch is a small but pretty rural hamlet much sought after due to its enviable position in the heart of the lovely Nadder Valley which is renowned for its attractive undulating countryside and is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The elevated setting provides delightful southerly views across the valley towards Wardour with its popular primary school. Pythouse Kitchen Garden Shop & Cafe is just 1.5 miles away whilst the large village of Tisbury is only two miles distant and has excellent day-to-day shopping facilities, a post office, school, doctors’ and dental surgeries, sports centre, garage and a station with direct rail services to London (Waterloo) and the West Country.

The nearby village of Semley has a community run shop/café, school, tennis club and pub and is not far from the A350, giving convenient access to the North Dorset Saxon hilltop market town of Shaftesbury (7 miles) with its shops, supermarkets, eateries, up and coming secondary school, cottage hospital and is famous for the picturesque steeply cobbled street of Gold Hill. The local road network serves the other main towns in the region including Bath, Blandford, Salisbury, Sherborne and Warminster as well as to the South Coast whilst the A303 trunk road linking with the M3 makes London accessible for the motorist.

The region is well known for having a wide choice of highly regarded schools in both the state and private sectors and the property is an ideal base for a variety of rural pursuits such as walking, riding, cycling and fishing. There are golf courses at Tollard Royal, Salisbury and Warminster with racing at Bath, Salisbury and Wincanton and sailing at Shear Water near Warminster. There are several excellent dining pubs in the vicinity as well as many places of interest such as Old Wardour Castle, the Longleat Estate, Wilton House and the Fovant Badges.
EPC Energy Efficiency Rating 
Current: 26 - Please refer to the agents for the complete Energy Performance Certificate.

Property Features :

• Set in an Elevated Setting Adjoining Fields
• Split-Level Sitting Room with Woodburner
• Large Open Plan Farmhouse Style Kitchen/Dining Room
• Spacious Family Room/Studio/3rd Bedroom
• Two Bedrooms, Dressing Room & Bathroom