Corsley, Nr. Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12

Property Details: - Type: Detached house - Bedrooms: 8 - Bathrooms: 5

Agent: Knight Frank - Country Houses Department Phone: 020 8022 6905

Sturford Mead is a handsome Grade II listed country house, built in the Greek Revival style. It is set amongst beautiful grounds and enjoys glorious views over rolling open countryside. The house also looks across to Cley Hill, a prominent local landmark and Iron Age Hill Fort. The ground floor provides impressive, well-proportioned reception rooms with floor to ceiling windows, all arranged around an elegant, cantilevered stone staircase. The space is ideal for entertaining as well as for comfortable daily family living. There is a stunning new kitchen with utility room and<br/>pantry. Additional rooms include plate room, TV room, office, secondary kitchen, and boot room.<br/><br/>The first floor provides a luxurious principal bedroom with dressing room and en suite bathroom, seven further double bedrooms, four further bathrooms, three of them renovated, sitting room and WC. The basement houses extensive stores, including a scullery, wine cellar and numerous storerooms. The renovations have included replumbing throughout, new boilers, bespoke cabinetry, marble bathrooms, recently finished bespoke Guild Anderson kitchen, reinstated fireplaces, plus the reuse of original floorboards and period features.<br/><br/>The beautiful gardens and grounds are a mixture of formal and informal areas interlinked with pathways. There are wide paved terraces, mature yew and beech hedging, a delightful parterre designed by Arabella Lennox-Boyd, a walled garden, mature wisteria and climbing roses, a theatre garden, and a wonderful array of specimen trees. There has been extensive tree planting to create an arboretum, to include Oak, Beech, Copper Beech, Hornbeam, Metasequoia, Willow, Acer, Monkey Puzzle, and Ginkgo, enlivened by a waterfall and woodland stream.<br/><br/>There is extensive dry-stone walling for security and privacy and a Ha-Ha along the boundary between Sturford Mead and Beech Tree cottage land.<br/><br/>To the south of the main house is a walled garden with established wisteria and climbing roses. There is also a potting shed, double garage, double machinery garage and numerous outbuildings.<br/><br/>LOT 2: BEECH TREE COTTAGE (available separately)<br/>Situated on the north side of the house is a charming two bedroom cottage, which enjoys a private garden, a parking area and is set within approximately 3 acres.<p><br/>Sturford Mead is situated outside the village of Corsley near the Somerset border, and on the edge of the Longleat estate. Corsley is 3 miles from the market town of Warminster and 5 miles from the town of Frome. Both towns provide day-to-day amenities, shopping and leisure facilities. The World Heritage City of Bath is 17 miles away and offers an extensive range of shops, restaurants, museums and recreational facilities and high-speed trains to London.<br/><br/>There is an excellent range of schools in the area, including the Royal High School, Kingswood and King Edward’s School in Bath, Bryanston, the Sherborne schools, Marlborough College, Dauntsey’s and Millfield further afield.<br/><br/>Communications are excellent; the A303 is approximately 8 miles to the south of the property; there are regular high-speed trains from Westbury and Bath to London. There are also regular train services from Warminster and Frome. Bristol International Airport offers an extensive range of National and International flights.</p>