Detached house for sale in Church Street, Amesbury, Salisbury SP4

Fairholme is an impressive and very appealing, double-fronted period family home offering almost 3,600 sq. Ft. Of sensitively modernised accommodation arranged predominantly over three floors. Retained features include a wonderful, octagonal corner tower, egg and dart detailing, casement windows, picture rails and original fireplaces. Configured to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with feature fireplace with woodburner along with a generous snug and drawing room, both with open fireplaces. There is a kitchen/breakfast room with a Smallbone range of wall and base units, an Aga, a fireplace, space for a sizeable table, a door to a decked terrace and a separate, Smallbone fitted utility room. Opening off the sitting room, stairs from the corner tower descend to the lower ground floor which features a spacious family room and two further basement rooms and a useful cellar. Accessible from the reception hall and tower, the first floor provides a generous principal bedroom suite with fireplace and an en suite bathroom with separate W.C., a modern family shower room and three further generous double bedrooms, all with fireplaces and one with fitted dressing room and access to the corner tower. Here stairs rise up to the octagonal second floor study with a fireplace, providing an excellent space in which to work or relax.<br /><br />Imposing in stature, Fairholme is approached over a gravelled driveway providing plenty of off street, private parking. The mature gardens are laid mainly to lawn, interspersed with wellstocked flowerbeds and featuring a swimming pool, numerous seating areas, a gazebo-covered dining area and a decked seating area, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole being screened by mature hedging and trees. There are outside storage areas, including one with an original copper still in situ.<br /><br />The historic Avon Valley town of Amesbury offers day-to-day amenities including high street and boutique shopping, supermarkets, resturants, a sports/community centre, public houses, a museum and primary and secondary schooling. It is close to the unesco Heritate Site of Stonehenge and well placed for the wonderful countryside in the Woodford Valley and Salisbury Plain. The cathedral city of Salisbury provides excellent shopping, service, leisure and cultural facilities with a twice weekly market and well through of Playhouse. Amesbury sits on the Salisbury-Andover bus route, while the A345 links to the A303, M3, M25 and motorway network, and Salisbury and Grately stations offer mainline services to London. The area offers a wide range of independent schools including Appleford, Leehurst Swan, Chafyn Grove, Godolphin and Salisbury Cathedral School, along with Bishops Wordsworth and South Wilts Grammar schools for boys and girls respectively. Airports can be found at Heathrow, Bournemouth, Southampton and Bistol.