The Cross, Okeford Fitzpaine
- PROPERTY TYPE
Plot
- SIZE
6,300 sq ft
585 sq m
Key features
- For sale by Auction Friday 16 May 2025
- Freehold former primary school of over 6,300 sqft.
- Development potential subject to planning permission/consents
- Central village location
- Outside space including tarmac playground
- Onsite and layby parking
- Rural views
- Bus route, village shop and pub
Description
The Property - Okeford Fitzpaine primary school was built in 1873 and is owned by The Salisbury Diocesan Board of Education. After closing in April 2023 the property has been empty but regularly maintained. It now offers prospective purchasers the chance to use the 6,300 sqft accommodation as a commercial premises or the possibility of changing the sue to residential subject to all necessary consents.
The rooms are - as you would expect with a school - good sizes and there are two rooms on the first floor.
Outside there the original playgrounds and plenty of parking if required.
Situation - Okeford Fitzpaine is a popular village in North Dorset - 3 miles from Sturminster Newton and 6 miles from Blandford. There is a pub, shop, and bus service.
Blandford Forum and Sturminster are both market towns and between them offer a good variety of shopping and commercial facilities, banks, doctor surgeries, dentists, a community hospital, supermarkets, and education for all ages, recreational and cultural facilities. The larger towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Dorchester are easily accessible.
What3words - ///warp.decimal.honey
Local Authority - Dorset Council
Services - Mains electricity, water and drainage
Agents Notes - There is an unfenced area of pasture and a children's playground which do not form a part of the property. Please refer to the sale plan.
Solicitor - Parker Bullen
Salisbury SP1 3SS
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Brochures
Okeford Fitzpaine School Brochure.pdfThe Cross, Okeford Fitzpaine
NEAREST STATIONS
Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode- Gillingham (Dorset) Station9.4 miles
About Symonds & Sampson, Sturminster Newton
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Notes
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