* Freehold
* 4 bedrooms
* 4 reception rooms
* 3 bathrooms
* 5. 56 acres
* Outbuildings
* Detached
* Double Garage
* Garden
* Parking
* Restored
* Rural
* Terrace
* Private Parking
* Woodland
* Paddock
Built in 1952 on formal parkland around Bradford Peverell House, Westwood
House enjoys a truly wonderful and unique setting that is not only beautiful
but also completely private. The house has an east/west axis set back behind a
belt of mixed woodland, which shields the house from view, whilst the rear
looks out over landscape surrounding an unspoilt chalkland bowl on the Dorset
Downs. It started life as a three bed, thatched cottage, which was
subsequently enlarged in keeping with the original. It is now a substantial
country house that cleverly combines generously sized rooms at one end with
cosier family rooms at the other. The exterior is protected by painted
roughcast render under a reed - thatched roof capped with wheat straw and the
interior has a light and airy feeling, with gorgeous views over the garden and
surrounding countryside. At one end of the house are the sitting room and
adjacent reception hall, which have timber floors, an inglenook fireplace and
windows on two sides including French windows to the terrace. These rooms are
linked via the dining room and inner hall to the substantial kitchen and
adjacent breakfast room, which also has French windows to the garden. Upstairs
are the principal bedroom suite with walk - through study, three further
bedrooms and two bath/shower rooms. Detailed planning consent
(P/hou/2022/00480 dated 6 May 2022) has been granted to extend the ground
floor with a single storey, timber clad extension that increases the current
living space by 870ft2 (80. 9m2) to 4, 080ft2 (379. 1m2). The planned extension
would create a single, L - shaped family living area combining the
kitchen/breakfast room with a new dining hall and living room The consent also
re - models upstairs to
make better use of the existing space, creating five double bedrooms, three of
which will be en suite. The extension also incorporates bi - folding doors the
full length of the open plan kitchen/dining area plus two first floor Juliet
balconies to make the most of the glorious views.
Westwood House is set back behind a thick belt of mature woodland with the
majority of the grounds stretching out behind the house and blending into the
older parkland, which contains some fine mature trees including one of the
largest beech trees in the South West of England. A lawn extends out from the
house to two arboreta containing a wonderful mix of trees that provide an
exotic palette of colours and shapes. Beyond is a great swathe of completely
unspoilt countryside. Bordering the northern side of the garden is a tall,
100 - yard long, L - shaped beech hedge that shelters a deep, 75 - yard long border
planted with a rich mix of roses, shrubs and herbaceous perennials. Beyond the
beech hedge is a paddock peppered by several mature specimen trees and bound
by stock - proof fencing. The woodland within the grounds is underplanted with
Spring bulbs transforming into a carpet of bluebells in early May. Close to
the house is a sheltered vegetable garden with a garden store and two
greenhouses. Piped water is laid to watering points/water troughs throughout
the grounds. In all about 5. 6 acres (2. 27 hectares).
A35 1. 2 miles, Dorchester town centre 4 miles (Waterloo 2 hours 28 minutes),
Sherborne 21 miles, Weymouth (Jurassic Coast) 10. 5 miles, Dorset Golf Resort
28. 6 miles, Bournemouth Airport 35 miles, Exeter Airport 48 miles. (Distances
and time approximate).
Westwood House is situated among the low chalk hills of the Dorset Downs at
the centre of the former 1, 180 acre (478 hectares) Bradford Peverell Estate,
about 1. 5 miles as the crow flies from Dorchester and about 10 minutes by car
from the town centre. As Dorset's county town Dorchester offers an excellent
range of shopping, business and recreational facilities including a Tesco
superstore plus gp, dental and veterinary surgeries. The beaches at Ringstead,
Weymouth and the Isle of Purbeck and Poole harbour are all within easy reach
by car. Dorset Golf Resort (27 holes) is just 12 miles away, with several
other golf courses also nearby. Dorchester station has a rail service to
Waterloo (2 hours 20 minutes) with the airports at Bournemouth, Southampton
and Exeter all within reach. The local area offers a wide choice of schools
from both the state and independent sectors. These include the respected
Thomas Hardye School (State secondary), Sunninghill Nursery and Prep School in
Dorchester, with Milton Abbey, the Sherborne schools, Perrott Hill, Bryanston,
Bryanston Prep and Hanford, which are all within a 17 mile radius.

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