Motcombe, Shaftesbury, Dorset

Pear Tree House is an attractive detached family home offering almost 2,900 sq. ft. of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged over two floors, sensitively combining modern amenities with period features including a wealth of original tiled and wooden flooring and some original fireplaces.

Designed to provide an ideal family and entertaining space, the accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with feature tiled flooring, useful storage and a door to the rear terrace. It includes a family room with a feature brick fireplace housing a woodburning stove, flanked by bespoke storage on either side. A front-aspect sitting room opens onto the terrace through French doors, while double doors lead into a well-proportioned office. The generous dining room has an open fireplace and French doors opening onto the side terrace. Completing the ground floor is a spacious vaulted kitchen, fitted with a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops, a Belfast sink, and an Aga, complemented by modern integrated appliances. Adjacent is a well-equipped utility room with fitted storage, an en suite cloakroom, and access to an additional utility space and a separate storage room.

On the first floor a generous landing with useful storage gives access to a principal bedroom with part-wood-lined en suite bathroom, four further bedrooms, three with built-in storage, and separate family shower and bathrooms.

Set within a plot extending to 1.5 acres, the property is approached via a gravelled driveway that provides private parking and leads to a garage and a tile-hung, double-fronted detached annexe. The annexe features an open-plan family room with a fitted kitchen area, complete with a butler’s sink, a central open fireplace, and French doors opening to the garden. A wood-lined double bedroom with an en suite shower room completes the space. The well-maintained garden surrounding the house, a particular feature of this property, is laid mainly to lawn interspersed with mature specimen trees and bordered by mature hedging and features numerous seating areas and a paved side terrace, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining and enjoying far-reaching views over surrounding countryside.

Set within a Conservation Area, the North Dorset village of Motcombe offers amenities including a village shop, Post Office, church, primary school, pub and a sport centre, set within Port Regis School, which has a pool, sauna, nine-hole golf course and tennis and squash courts. The Saxon hilltop town of Shaftesbury, Gillingham and the mediaeval cathedral city of Salisbury offer more comprehensive shopping, service and educational amenities. The area is renowned for its excellent variety of field sports with racing at Salisbury, Wincanton and Newbury, golf at Rushmore and South West Wilts and a range of water sports on the nearby south coast. Communications links are excellent: the A303 links to the motorway network, London and the West Country and Gillingham station offers mainline services to London Waterloo in around two hours.