The Marsh, Broad Chalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Sunny Cottage is an attractive double-fronted, period property, sensitively extended by the vendors to offer more than 1,400 sq ft of accommodation arranged over two floors. Designed to provide a practical and cohesive living and entertaining environment, the cottage combines modern amenities, quality fixtures and fittings and elegant neutral décor throughout with period features including a thatched roof, casement glazing and an original fireplace with bread oven. Occupying a secluded location with an attractive outlook, the property is also conveniently located for the village services.

The accommodation flows from a weatherboarded entrance porch with stable door opening, as is usual in properties of this age, directly into a corridor leading to the sitting room and kitchen. Dual aspect, the sitting room has exposed wooden flooring and a stone inglenook fireplace with an original bread oven and a modern woodburning stove. At one end of the room, a door opens to a front aspect study/bedroom with an angled rear wall. There is a separate W/C and a spacious dual aspect kitchen/breakfast room wich has quarry-tiled flooring, a range of country-style wall and base units, a walk-in store, Belfast sink, complementary wooden work surfaces, tiled splashbacks, with an inglenook recess with a range cooker, modern integrated appliances, space for a sizeable table and French doors opening to the rear terrace.

A wooden staircase rises from the kitchen/breakfast room to a generous first floor landing with useful storage and space for additional furniture. It gives access to three well proportioned, part-vaulted double bedrooms, the principal with built-in storage, together with a wooden-floored family bathroom with a freestanding rolltop bath and separate shower enclosure.

The property sits in a charming spot, adjacent to watercress beds, for which the area is renowned. Set behind mature hedging and an area of level lawn with plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a block-paved side driveway providing private parking. Double wooden gates open to a further block-paved parking area and the garden beyond. The garden is of a manageable size and is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by some mature planting and hedging. It features an angled, useful outdoor store, a block-paved seating/dining area and a terrace accessible from the kitchen/breakfast room, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining

The Chalke Valley village of Broad Chalke sits at the heart of the Cranborne Chase National Landscape and has a church, village hall, shop with Post Office and tearoom, GP surgery, popular pub and well thought of primary school. Salisbury, Wilton and Shaftesbury provide comprehensive shopping, educational, recreational and leisure amenities. There is also a village stores in Coombe Bissett (5.7 miles).

The area is famed for the yearly Chalke History Festival which draws attendees from far and wide. The local sporting facilities include racing at Salisbury, Wincanton and Newbury, golf at Rushmore and South West Wilts, fishing on the Avon, Test and outlying chalk streams, and watersports on the south coast.

Transportation links are excellent: the A36 and inter-connecting A303 give access to the M3, M4, M27 and motorway network, and Tisbury and Salisbury stations (7.9 and 9.7 miles respectively) offer regular services to London Waterloo, from the latter in around 90 minutes.

There are airports at Bournemouth, Southampton, Bristol and Heathrow.