Farm for sale in Droop, Blandford Forum, Dorset DT11

An exceptional turnkey modern country house, designed by Stuart Martin perfectly for family living and entertaining within 15 miles of Sherborne, Bryanston and Port Regis Schools. Once a Gold Cup winning trainers yard, Locketts Farm continues to offer excellent equestrian facilities and many will know its famed vale hedges. With stunning views over its 215 acres the property offers a unique package, perfect as a base for families or as a working yard with a separate cottage and flat.

Locketts Farm
Designed by renowned architect Stuart Martin the house was completed in 2016, constructed to the highest quality with local Bath Stone and English Oak used throughout. The house is approached through the courtyard garden to a panelled entrance hall with a cloakroom. At the heart of the house is a large t-shaped kitchen with a triple aspect providing for stunning views across the farm and French doors out onto both east and west terraces. The kitchen, fitted with oak units wraps around large island with two seating areas with open fireplaces and dining area. There is a separate dining room with butler's pantry and a large drawing room, dual aspect with south facing bay window and French doors to the west with an open fireplace. With a separate access from the courtyard there is a large utility / boot room with separate laundry and plant room.

A double-width stone staircase with clerestory windows leads to the first floor. The principal bedroom benefits from a truly unique ensuite bathroom and mezzanine. There are three further bedrooms all ensuite and the two eaves bedrooms on the second floor with seating area and family bathroom with laundry.

The Courtyard
The courtyard of buildings sits to the northwest of the house where the entrance arch leads into the yard and parking area.
The large Threshing Barn has been partially converted to provide for a large Office with kitchenette and storerooms.

The Cottage is lovely three-bedroom cottage with access from the north side so as to give privacy away from the courtyard.
It has a large sitting room, a modern kitchen with utility room, a shower room, family bathroom and private garden area. The cottage was converted at the same time as the house with consent for ancillary accommodation. The Flat was created as part of this accommodation on the ground floor. It has a separate access into a hall with cloakroom, an open plan kitchen/sitting room and a double bedroom with ensuite bathroom. There is separate space for parking on the north side of the properties.

Equestrian Facilities
The northeast side of the courtyard forms an L-shape of ten stables with a large tack room, feed stores and wash down area.
There are four pens in the Dutch barn and further stables in the modern farm buildings. These are two large portal steel frame timber clad buildings with concrete floors, used for machinery and fodder storage.

There is a horse walker, outdoor Menage (rubber/sand surface) and there two gallops set in a off lying field, with a 3 1⁄2 furlong sand round and a 5 1⁄2 furlong woodchip gallop. These are accessed across the fields or from a hardcore track leading from the road.

Locketts Farm is set in a rural position in
the Blackmore Vale with stunning views
across the farm up to Bulbarrow Hill and the
'Dorset Downs'.

Nearby Hazelbury Bryan has a good village
shop, pub, primary school and active cricket
club. The market town of Sturminster
Newton caters to most day-to-day needs
with a butcher and deli, vegetable shop, a
Co-op, Boots and Harts homeware store.
Sherborne provides for a wider offering with
a Waitrose and lots of independent shops, cafés and an excellent wine merchant. Further amenities can be found in the larger
towns Blandford Forum, and Dorchester.

The area benefits from excellent schooling
options including Sherborne Prep, Hanford, Leweston, Port Regis and Sandroyd. Senior
schools include Sherborne Boys and Girls, Bryanston, Clayesmore, and Milton Abbey.

Dorset has an active equestrian calendar
with a number of British Eventing courses, and British Showjumping arenas and point
to point courses. There are excellent local
racecourses at Wincanton, Salisbury, Exeter
and Bath.

Transportation links are easily accessible, with the A3030 and A357 to the north, and
the A352 to the west. Direct rail services from Sherborne 11 miles (Waterloo 2 1⁄4 hours), Castle Cary 21 miles, provides swift connections to Paddington in about 90 minutes. Bournemouth Airport is less than an hour's drive, while Exeter, Southampton, and Bristol International Airports are all within a 90-minute radius.