9 bedroom house for sale

Tenure: Freehold

Having spent over 20 happy years here, it's now time for the vendors to downsize and hand the keys of this country home (and established business) over. They've got a great set-up if you're looking to take the business on, with excellent reviews and fab relations with the other B&Bs in the area (they call each other to fill guest overspills). <br>

Those with family can't really go wrong. Some of the UK's best secondary schools are close (South Wilts and Bishop Wordsworth's are two of the country's top-performing state schools) while the local primary school has been described by Ofsted as 'outstanding.' <br>

If you need to house in-laws, noisy teens, a housekeeper or au pair, you can do all of these comfortably here. There's a self-contained 2 bedroom cottage with its own walled garden, a self-contained studio apartment with cooking and shower facilities plus 6 DOUBLE bedrooms in the main house. You won't find better or more versatile space for this money. <br>

Original features include rare Georgian fire grates, wooden shutters, mullion windows, casement and sash windows, a wonderful curved staircase with turned handrail and arch, curved walls, exposed beams, a fabulous mansard roof and high skirting. Its swathed in light, has ample living space and a huge utility. The cottage has a modern eat-in kitchen, 2 bedrooms, a bright reception, upstairs bathroom and its own (very pretty and heavily stocked), walled garden. The Hayloft has its own entrance, kitchenette and contemporary shower area. An L-shaped rear garden has a stone terrace, good size lawn and deep borders crammed with herbaceous plants, creepers, pear, plum, fig, olive and apple trees. <br>

Today, the main house is run as a bed & breakfast with the cottage being let as a holiday home and the Hayloft as a self-contained studio. You can tap into a lot of business from here as tourist attractions are plentiful; Stonehenge is around 3 miles away, Salisbury is roughly 9 miles, and Bath, Wilton House, Longleat, Winchester, Oxford and the New Forest are all within an hour's drive. There are 3 decent pubs in the village, 2 doctors' surgeries, a post office, Co-op and butcher with Shrewton having a population of around 1700. The village school is very good indeed (check out league table results for yourself) while South Wilts (for girls) and Bishop's (for boys) grammar schools in Salisbury are truly outstanding (buses run from the village into Salisbury). Salisbury and Andover both have train stations linking to London Waterloo (train service from Andover into London Waterloo is just over 1 hour) while you are also close to the A303 and M3.