Tisbury Road, Fovant, Salisbury

This is a rare opportunity to purchase a wonderful property set in 1.63 acres of gardens, with huge potential to either develop the property into a stunning family home or to obtain planning for further properties on the site.

This is a rare opportunity to purchase a period property of great charm; an extensive bungalow, originally built in 1926, set in large gardens and a wooded hillside landscape of 1.63 acres in the popular south Wiltshire village of Fovant.
While the property is in need of some updating, The Croft offers enormous potential, either to develop into a stunning family home or to obtain planning for additional properties on this large village site. Note The bungalow has only been lived in by two families since it was built in the 1920s, the original builder and the current vendors.
The Croft is full of period features, including floorboards, doors and picture rails. It is most likely too that the adjoining large timber-framed workshop and garage were both constructed from materials salvaged from the military encampments which dominated the landscape in Fovant during the First World War. Indeed, the faint wording ‘Officers Kitchen’ can just about be made out on the workshop door, a poignant reminder of the rich history of this area.
The property has oil-fired central heating and radiators throughout. The principal rooms are double-glazed.
There is a long veranda with paned and glazed ends at the front of the property, perfect as a sitting space, or for garden storage. From here a half-glazed door leads into a large central entrance hall, with doorways radiating off to all rooms, and shelving on all walls. There are a ceiling hatch and a loft-ladder to the large open standing-height loft (potential for conversion), with floorboards and a roof light.
The property has four double bedrooms, variously, three with a double aspect, one with an external door, two with fireplaces and original glazed ceramic hearth tiles, and one with a cast iron fire surround. The sitting room has a stone fireplace with fitted living flame gas fire and double half-glazed doors through to one bedroom. The shower room has a glass screen with thermostatic shower, towel rail, WC, and hand wash-basin. The large kitchen/dining room has a single drainer sink unit with cupboards below, extensive work surfaces, and base and wall-mounted kitchen cupboards. There is an AGA style ‘Stanley’ cooker, an airing cupboard housing a lagged hot water cylinder, and glazed double doors on to a paved patio garden seating area with a southern aspect. The large utility room has doors to the front garden, the back garden, and three steps up to the workshop and onwards to the garage. There are separate WC, built-in cupboards, consumer unit, and space and plumbing for washing machine etc.
The large workshop space, suited for either small business or hobby use, has original floorboards throughout, windows on three sides, and four steps down to a garage area, with hard-standing and loading space, parking for several vehicles and access to Tisbury Road through large double doors and down a steep driveway.
Extensive gardens surround the property, all laid to lawn, and including, variously, paved areas, stone walling, an ornamental fish pond, and mature trees and shrubs, including rhododendrum and magnolia.
Beyond the gardens, across the width of the property and extending up to the footpath at the top of the valley, The Croft also includes a large hillside, covered with well-established oak, horse chestnut, silver birch, and holly trees.