For Sale8 Bedroom House in Church End, Purton, WIltshire, SN5 4EB£2,750,000

A quintessential Grade II listed Georgian country house set in 30 acres of grounds and pasture Schooling There is a wide choice of schooling in the area, both state and independent. The village has a primary school and Bradon Forest School forms part of the Multi-Academy Athelstan Trust. Independent schools include Cricklade Manor Prep and Nursery, Dauntseys School, Marlborough College and Cheltenham College. Description Built in 1810, Purton House showcases the stunning classic design and symmetry of the Georgian period. It now presents an exciting opportunity to update and breathe new life into what has been a much-loved family home for nearly 50 years. Original architectural and design details abound throughout the house. These include floor to ceiling large pane sash windows with original shutters, panelled doors and reveals, deep skirtings, picture and dado rails. Decorative plaster cornicing and ceiling roses, panelled walls and ceilings, cast iron fireplaces with marble surrounds, original stone and oak floors and high ceilings throughout, all feature. The stone staircase being one of only a few of its type in the country. A columned portico creates an impressive entrance, opening to a beautiful central hallway, flooded with natural light from the recently restored octagonal cupola in the roof. The striking cantilevered stone staircase, with iron balusters and curving mahogany handrail, rises and divides to a large galleried landing. All main reception rooms radiate from the hall. Either side of the front door are the library, with its book lined walls, stone fireplace and French doors to the gardens, and the snug, both dual aspect. The graceful drawing room features a stunning bay window with three floor to ceiling, 15-pane sash windows overlooking the lawns and lake. The beautiful dual aspect dining room features four full height sashes, two cast iron fireplaces, within marble surrounds, and decorative ceiling plasterwork. The large, east facing kitchen retains its original cast iron range in situ and at the opposite end is a four-oven solid fuel Aga. The original butler sink still has the wide hardwood drainers either side. French doors open to the conservatory, and the back door leads out to the rear garden. The original quarry tiled floor extends through to the kitchen passageway, in turn accessing the enclosed courtyard. Off here is a second staircase, cloakroom, access to the cellars, butler's pantry, study/sewing room, two walk in larders and a further meat larder. From the main hall, the staircase rises to a wide galleried landing. The beautiful principal bedroom has doors opening to a stone balustraded balcony, with views to the lake. On this side of the house are three further bedrooms and four bathrooms. The north wing has more recently been used as a separate annexe. However, this could easily be incorporated back as part of the main landing. The staircase divides to the galleried landing and to the north wing, with just a temporary door partition. Presently arranged as two bedrooms, a sitting room, kitchen, shower and cloakroom, this space could easily provide three further bedrooms and two further bathrooms to the house. Flat The self-contained flat is accessed via the courtyard, with its own staircase. There is a useful connecting, lockable door to the north wing corridor. Consisting of a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, sitting room with a wood burning stove and storeroom, this would provide ideal staff accommodation. outbuildings and yards An enclosed utility courtyard, attached to the house, provides four brick storerooms and the farm office. There is access from here to the kitchen passage, the flat and the meat larder. A rear drive leads round to a yard where there is a garage and store, a further wooden garage with store and a brick commercial unit with water and bottled gas supplied. A further yard houses two stables, a tack room, garage and wood store. On the boundary of the land is a corrugated hay barn with two brick-built stores attached with lockable roller shutters. A further brick store is opposite and three further stables and tack room lie beyond. There is a right of access for farm machinery over a lane adjacent to these buildings. gardens and land The driveway, flanked by sweeping lawns, meanders round to the front of the house, which sits majestically above the grounds it surveys. Lawns wrap around three sides of the house, interspersed with mature trees, tall yew hedges, box topiary, a rose covered gazebo and dovecot. A gentle slope leads down to wide stone steps and balustrades accessing the large lake at the bottom of the garden. Wonderful arching boughs of two ancient, gnarled trees stand sentry either side. At the western end of the lake is a boathouse, complete with teenagers' den above. The extensive walled kitchen garden is a delight. A mature orchard produces quantities of apples, pears and plums. Espaliered plum, greengage, apple and cherry trees line the garden walls. There are two greenhouses and a natural spring fed pond. A gate in the garden wall allows direct access to the church, just across the lane. The land is bordered by mature broadleaf woodland to three sides and has historically been farmed organically, thus encouraging biodiversity and a rich habitat for all manner of wildlife. View payable Stamp Duty for this property