Fittleton, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Added in 1843 to the original village schoolhouse, The Old School is a handsome red brick property offering more than 2,900 sq ft of sensitively modernised accommodation arranged over two floors. The appealing interior features neutral décor and extensive wooden flooring, with period details including sash glazing and exposed brick walls, creating a practical, cohesive, and elegant space for living and entertaining.

Flowing from a vaulted red brick and stone porch, the ground floor accommodation comprises generous sitting and dining rooms, separated by a feature exposed brick chimney breast with a double-sided woodburning stove. The dining room features a double-height vaulted ceiling with a galleried landing above, while the sitting room offers parquet flooring, an open-timbered half wall, French doors to the rear terrace, and access to the utility room, with a door to the front aspect.

There is also a spacious triple-aspect playroom with a contemporary, en suite cloakroom/shower room and three sets of French doors opening to the terrace on two aspects. This could be suitable as a ground floor bedroom if required.

Opening off the dining room, the kitchen/breakfast room truely is the heart of the house and is fitted with a range of base units, including a large central island with breakfast bar, a large Aga, a Belfast sink, and modern integrated appliances. It opens into a second fitted utility space with a Belfast sink, and a door to a cloakroom with a further door to the rear terrace, and a onto the garden.

Two sets of stairs rise from the dining room to the first floor galleried landing, one giving access to a front aspect principal bedroom with en suite shower room and the to the property’s four remaining double bedrooms and to the family bathroom which features painted tongue and groove panelling with a bath and shower.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached through double iron gates over a tarmac driveway providing private parking and through double wooden gates over a second entrance giving access to further parking and to an outbuilding providing a garage, carport and two stores.

The generous garden is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked flower and shrub beds and features numerous seating areas, a further 23 ft store, a wood store, a pig sty and generous paved terraces, it is ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole screened by mature hedging.

Located in a conservation area on the east bank of the River Avon within Salisbury Plain, Fittleton village has a parish church and sits opposite Netheravon village on the river’s west bank, which has a church, village hall, convenience store, pub and primary school, both surrounded by miles of walking, cycling and riding routes on Salisbury Plain. The historic Avon Valley town of Amesbury offers high street and boutique shopping, supermarkets, a sports/community centre, pubs and primary and secondary schooling. More extensive shopping, service, leisure and cultural facilities are available in Salisbury and Marlborough.

The area is renowned for its sporting amenities, including racing at Salisbury, Wincanton and Newbury, numerous golf courses and watersports on the south coast. Communications links are excellent: the A345 links to the A303, M3 and motorway network, and Pewsey (9.1 miles), Andover and Salisbury stations offer regular services to central London.

Airports can be found at Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol and Heathrow.