High Street, Heytesbury, Warminster, Wiltshire, BA12

Listed Grade II and dating from circa 1800, Ivy House is a handsome period property built in Flemish bond brick with a mansard tiled roof and is a substantial attached family house in the centre of Heytesbury. It has beautifully proportioned rooms, excellent ceiling heights and attractive sash windows on the front facade. The accommodation, which is over three floors, is light and bright with both the drawing room and sitting room overlooking the garden and kitchen towards the church. The second floor is currently unused but could easily be incorporated into the main body of the property, while downstairs there is a useful cellar. Other attributes worthy of mention include shuttered windows in the dining room and drawing room, an oil fired AGA and Guild Anderson kitchen, open fireplaces in the front hall, drawing room and sitting room (with a jet master) and a boot room with quarry tiles that opens onto the garden. Recent works have included reconditioning and painting all external windows, and the installation of a new boiler and new radiators throughout; internally Ivy House is in need of redecoration.

The property is approached off the High Street and is well set back behind a beech hedge with flower and shrub borders alongside the front facade. The majority of the garden lies to the rear of the property. There is an attractive stone terrace accessed from French windows from the drawing room and the utility room. Divided by a dwarf brick wall to a further area of paving where there are double gates onto Tytherington Road. The walled garden is principally to lawn, flanked by well stocked flower and shrub borders, a variety of apple trees, and with a thatched summer house which is in need of repair. Further storage room.

The two garages are accessed off Chapel Road. Turn right into Newtown; after about 100 yards a track on the right leads to two brick and tiled garages, both in need of remedial work.

PROPERTY INFORMATION

Services: Mains water, electricity. Oil fired central heating and private drainage

Council Tax Band: Band G

Local Authority: Wiltshire Council


Agents Note: external photos were taken in February 2022

The property is situated in the centre of the popular village of Heytesbury next to the St Peter and St Paul Church, with a primary school, two inns and a post office/village shop. The nearby town of Warminster offers a wide range of facilities including a Waitrose store, library, theatre, hospital and railway station (Cardiff/Southampton), which connects to both Salisbury (London Waterloo) and Westbury/Warminster (London Paddington). There is excellent road access via the A350, A303 and M3 giving access to the south west and London. For more sophisticated requirements there is the Salisbury to the east and Bath to the north-west.