Country property that's insulated from the world

If there’s one thing guaranteed to make that nice little place in the country even better, it’s the thought that it has sufficient land around it to insulate it from the rest of the world.

Not that the rest of the world will go away completely – in the case of Milkhouse Water Farm, near Pewsey, it’s in evident in the distance in the striking and dramatic shape of Martinsell Hill.

But with its pretty gardens and paddocks amounting to more than six acres, Milkhouse Water Farm does allow you to get away from it all, even though London is little more than an hour away by train from Pewsey Station.

The main feature of the property, for sale through the Marlborough office of Dreweatt Neate at a guide price of £1.1 million, is a delightful and immaculately presented 17th Century brick-built thatched cottage. Close to it is a new stable block with four loose boxes, a hay barn, and tack room that ha sits own access from the lane.

A separate courtyard has a barn with planning permission to create additional accommodation consisting of a galleried sitting room, kitchen / breakfast room, bedroom with en-suite shower room, and a bathroom.

The house itself has an interesting layout, enhanced by more recent extension and modernisation, with a reception hall / sitting room with a large inglenook fireplace. There’s a separate square-shaped dining room, again with an original inglenook, while at the other end of the ground floor is a drawing room. From this, a spiral staircase rises to a large bedroom.

A second staircase in the lobby adjacent to the kitchen / breakfast room gives access to the other three amply proportioned bedrooms and the family bathroom is complemented by a ground floor shower room.

The kitchen has French doors opening into onto a terrace overlooking the paddocks and the light coloured units are offset by the dark green range with multiple ovens and hot plates.

To the front of the property is a west-facing garden with secluded box parterre while at the rear the garden is predominantly lawn with a mix of trees and shrubs as well as a pretty woodland area.

For more details, visit dnproperty.co.uk.