South Holme, Stourpaine, Blandford Forum, Dorset, DT11

A WELL RESTORED AND ATTRACTIVELY PRESENTED VICTORIAN SCHOOL HOUSE IN A POPULAR VILLAGE SETTING.

Rose House is a rather handsome detached Victorian house built by the Bryanston Estate for the village school master in the late 1800’s. Our clients acquired the house as a project in 2003 and carried out a comprehensive refurbishment to create an extremely comfortable family home with a clever extension that gives the flexibility of bedrooms upstairs and downstairs. The accommodation extends to just over 2,000 sq/ft and is stylishly presented throughout with a generous drawing room with contemporary wood burner, a second sitting room, an open plan kitchen/dining with French doors to the garden and a study, plus the essential utility room, cloakroom and a separate rear hall/boot room. There four good size bedrooms and three bath/shower rooms including two ensuite, and the fourth bedroom with ensuite shower room is on the ground floor off the rear hall. Although an attractive period house in a distinctive local estate style, Rose House is not listed so it has the advantage of extensive double glazing and a modern oil fired heating system. The Victorian part of the house was re roofed in 2023 and it also has the benefit of being on mains drains (no septic tank), all of which make this charming period house both easy and economical to manage

Set back from the road and slightly elevated, Rose House has a lovely garden on two sides with a large level lawn surrounded by colourful, well stocked borders. Beside the house, with access from the dining room there is a large terrace which faces south-west so that it gets the best advantage of the sun, and to one side there is a small orchard and a useful garden store and log shed. There is no garage but there is ample parking in a wide private parking bay beside the house.

Stourpaine, a picturesque and thriving village surrounded by lovely countryside straddling two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB’s). The village has a popular pub, The White Horse, a pretty C19th church, a village hall and playing fields with recently re-furbished tennis courts and a pavilion which hosts well supported clubs and associations. For water sports and walking, the south coast is not much more than half an hour away at Poole Harbour, Sandbanks, Studland and along Dorset’s renowned Jurassic Coastline. The majority of the essential amenities can be found nearby in Blandford Forum which has an historic Georgian market square and also boasts an M&S food hall, Lidl and Tesco superstores. Links to the surrounding area are very good, the business centres along the coast, from Poole and Bournemouth through to Southampton and Portsmouth are easily commutable, and the A31 provides a quick link on the M27 and M3 up to London. Poole station has a regular train service to London Waterloo (about 2 hrs), and this part of Dorset has become popular because of the wide selection of schools at all levels. There is a successful primary school nearby in Durweston, a local secondary school is in Blandford and independent schools nearby include Bryanston (on the doorstep), Sherborne, Milton Abbey, Canford and Clayesmore, as well as Sandroyd and Hanford prep schools.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Tenure: Freehold.
Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired heating.
Broadband and Mobile: Excellent broadband (full fibre available). Reasonable mobile coverage.
Covenants and Easements: The Land Registry Official Copy of the title suggests convenants and easements affect this property. Please seek specific advice from a solicitor.
EPC: Band E (potentially Band C)

Local Authorities: Dorset Council. /
Council Tax: Band E. Charge for the year 2024/25 £2,992.63