5 bedroom detached house for sale

A handsome early 20th Century country home with amazing uninterrupted views of the Avon Valley west towards Cranborne Chase.The Merrie Thought was originally built around 1900 for Miss Christine Hulse of Breamore on land belonging to the Breamore family estate in an Arts and Crafts style. Since then, it has undergone several refurbishments and significant modernisation, yet retains all the elegant properties and features of a period home of its era, including a number of working fireplaces, beautiful tall ceilings, a cellar and attic rooms.The house and the adjacent detached cottage offer extensive accommodation amounting to over 9,000 square feet (837 square metres) in total. The rooms in the main house are very well proportioned, with ceiling heights of 10 feet to both ground and first floors. The cottage has its own private garden and a useful studio suite overhead. In addition, there are extensive outbuildings, which include garaging for at least five cars, various garden buildings and workshops.The gardens and grounds surround the house and are laid out as beautiful, landscaped gardens, as well as a swimming pool, a small lake, terracing and lawns, woodland, and paddocks. The total area of the house and grounds amounts to around 18 acres.
The current owners have lived there for almost 20 years, and it has been a much-loved family house, suitable for multi-generational living.