Amport, Andover, Hampshire, SP11

The accommodation includes four generous reception rooms on the ground floor, which are ideal spaces for entertaining. They include the 32ft drawing room with its two south-facing bay windows, and the large formal dining room with three impressive chandeliers and a bay window welcoming plenty of natural light. There is also a sunny garden room with a vaulted ceiling and French doors opening to the gardens, while the centrepiece of the ground-floor accommodation is the grand billiards room, with its exposed timber eaves, rich panelled walls and imposing fireplace. Additionally, the ground floor features a useful office for home working, a well equipped and spacious kitchen with bespoke wooden units, and plenty of storage in the larder, utility room, boot room and cellar below.

The welcoming reception hall leads via a sweeping staircase to the upper level, off which there are four well-presented double bedrooms. These include the magnificent principal bedroom with its dressing room and en suite bathroom, as
well as a private lift from the entrance hall and a door opening to a sunny balcony. Each of the three additional bedrooms have built-in storage, while two have en suite bathrooms. The first floor also has a family bathroom with a separate shower unit.

At the entrance to the property, a gravel driveway provides access and leads to a large parking area in front of the house, as well as to the two detached garaging blocks, which provide covered parking for up to five vehicles. The house is set within 15 acres of stunning gardens and grounds, which include rolling lawns, peaceful woodland areas, patio seating, a covered pavilion and ornamental gardens with hedgerows and border beds filled with colourful flowering perennials. There is also a walled courtyard with a kitchen garden, a greenhouse and utility and kitchenette facilities, while beyond the gardens there are paddocks and pastures, as well as a substantial solar facility.

Keepers Farm House is set outside the picturesque village of Amport, with its large informal green, a popular primary school, The Hawk Inn and an early 14th century church. The village is located on a pretty chalk stream , the Pill Hill Brook, a carrier of the River Anton, which in turn discharges into the River Test. Amport is one a series of charming villages to the south of Andover and has the benefit of a village shop in the neighbouring village of Abbots Ann.

With regard to schooling, there is the village school and a further primary school in the neighbouring village of Abbotts Ann. Prep schools such as Farleigh School, Pilgrims, Cheam and Horris Hilll are all easily accessible. Winchester College, Marlborough College, Radley College and Downe House are all within an easy reach as are Godolphin and Chafyn Grove School in Salisbury.

The nearest shopping centre is found in Andover which has a wide variety of supermarkets, a cinema and offers a frequent rail service to London Waterloo. The Georgian market town of Stockbridge has a wonderful variety of boutique shops, restaurants, pubs, a doctor’s surgery, dentist, delicatessen, butchers and a hair salon. Further afield are the Cathedral cities of Winchester and Salisbury.

Road communications are excellent with the A303 being within a few miles giving access to the West Country and to the M3, A34 and the national motorway network. International Airports are within an easy reach, namely Southampton, Bournemouth, and London Heathrow. Direct train services run from Grateley and Andover to London Waterloo, taking from approximately 75 and 70 minutes, respectively.

Fishing can be found on the River Test, the Anton and the Itchen, some of the finest chalk streams in the UK.