ACCOMMODATION: (all sizes approximate)
PLOT 7: Fountain Place - Henstridge
3 Bedroom Semi-Detached House
GROUND FLOOR: Kitchen/Dining Area and Sitting Room.
FIRST FLOOR: Three Bedrooms and Bathroom.
SUMMARY: Each property has been specifically designed to complement the local environment, built traditionally using a timber frame, and finished with a combination of local natural stone, reconstructed stone, brick and soft-toned render beneath a slate or tile roof.
Internally these charming properties offer studio, 1, 2 and 3 bedroom accommodation, in the form of apartments, houses or a single storey dwelling, each finished to exacting standards in a mixture of contemporary and traditional styles, whilst retaining country elegance.
Incorporating a kitchen of choice from the Sheraton Kitchens range, the kitchens will be fully fitted, including Zanussi appliances. The stylish bathroom and en-suite facilities, from Armitage Shanks, add an air of elegance. Numerous safety and low-maintenance energy saving features are incorporated, including Nu-heat under floor heating, double glazed solid timber windows and high quality external doors, lighting to loft space, smoke detectors and water softeners.
Externally, the front and rear gardens will be landscaped with brick pavias to pathways, entrance drive and parking areas.
LOCATION:
Henstridge is a popular village, set on the edge of a conservation area, with many beautiful thatched cottages and handsome properties set around the centre of the village. The village offers a range of local amenities including village post office and stores, two public houses, a restaurant and the pretty church of St. Nicholas. The surrounding countryside in the Blackmore Vale, provides excellent opportunities for walking and riding, or simply to relax and enjoy. The neighbouring town of Stalbridge (c. 1.5 miles) is Dorset's smallest town and home to the earliest classical mansion in Dorset, at Stalbridge Park; a Royal Estate in the 10th century. Sadly the house no longer exists, though the wonderful stone walling and magnificent gate post remain, providing an imposing landmark on the Stalbridge to Henstridge road. The nearby historic market towns of Sherborne (c. 6 miles), Shaftesbury (c. 10 miles) and Yeovil (c. 12 miles) offer a further range of shopping, scholastic and leisure facilities including fine dining fine dining and theatre. Sherborne is renowned world wide for its history, beauty and scholastic merits, and is also notable for its medieval castle, magnificent Abbey and antique shops. Local sports and leisure facilities include racing at Wincanton, Taunton, Exeter and Salisbury, golf courses at Yeovil and Sherborne and sailing and fishing at Sutton Bingham. Dorset's Heritage Coastline is just c. 30 miles away.
With mainline rail links at Templecombe, approximately 2 miles away, (London Waterloo 2 hrs 15 mins) and Castle Cary (London Paddington 1 hr 45 mins), the A30, A303, M5 motorway, Cross Channel Ferry services from Poole and Portsmouth and International Airports at Exeter, Bristol and Bournemouth, the area offers excellent access to destinations further afield.
SPECIFICATIONS:
* 10 year NHBC warranty.
* Timber framed construction.
* Combination of natural and reconstructed stone, brick and soft toned render beneath a slate or tile roof.
* Mains drainage, mains water and mains electricity.
* Factory finished hardwood windows.
* All walls to be finished in magnolia emulsion, ceilings in white emulsion and woodwork in white gloss.
* Underfloor heating supplied by NU-Heat, electric boilers with a wet sealed pipe system located under the floor. There are no joins in the pipework underneath the floor and all pipework is pressure tested prior to floors being laid. Water softeners to all properties and outside taps where applicable.
* All plots will have an oven, ceramic hob and integrated extractor hood and space for a washing machine.
* External lights (front and back - where applicable) and door bells are fitted.
* All properties are supplied with low energy pendants and low energy light bulbs.
* Please note it is company policy not to supply or fit shower screens on baths.
* The only soft landscaping to be applied will be that outside Plots 1-5.
* Communal areas will come within a non-contributory management company for which one person from each property will be a director (non-paid). Details will be available at Reservation or shortly afterwards. However on completion of the site the management company will be handed over to the Directors who will be liable for any further communal maintenance expenses. Please note: communal areas will be identified by our solicitors prior to sale.
* Wiring for satellite to all plots. Dish to be provided by purchaser.
* TV and BT points to all main rooms.
* Lighting to loft space (where applicable).
* Mains wired smoke and heat detectors (with battery back up) - all plots.