Hindon, Salisbury, Wiltshire

Spero House is a handsome double-fronted detached family home with light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over two floors. Features of not include a highly-symmetrical façade, original parquet flooring and fireplaces in the main reception rooms.

The accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with useful storage, a cloakroom and stairs rising to the first floor. It briefly provides a triple aspect living room with parquet flooring and a feature open fireplace, a dual aspect dining room, also with parquet flooring and with a glazed door to the rear terrace, and a dual aspect office with a feature fireplace flanked by bespoke storage. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a spacious high-ceilinged kitchen. Currently reflecting the property’s age and offering the prospective purchaser the opportunity to undertake some cosmetic modernisation, it has a range of wall and base units, space for integrated appliances and a table, a walk-in pantry, and a door to a fitted through utility room with a coal store and doors to the integral garage and the front and rear aspects.

On the first floor a generous landing with further useful storage gives access to the property’s five bedrooms and a family bathroom with freestanding bath. The bedrooms comprise a dual aspect principal bedroom with fitted storage and space for a fitted dressing room area, if required, together with four further bedrooms, one currently configured as an office and featuring fitted storage, a feature fireplace and an en suite shower room.

Screened by mature hedging, the property is approached over a gravelled driveway providing private parking and giving access to the garage with an up-and-over door. The well-maintained wraparound garden surrounding the property is laid mainly to lawn interspersed with mature planting and specimen trees and bordered by mature hedging. It features a vegetable garden with raised beds and a shed, numerous seating areas, a summer house and a paved terrace accessible from the dining room, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole neighboured by rolling farmland.

Set in a Conservation Area in the Cranborne Chase National Landscape, Hindon village has a church, general store, Post Office, GP surgery, primary school, sports and social club and two very good pubs. Walking and riding routes are available on the Wessex Ridgeway and Monarch’s and Orange Ways; further sporting amenities in the area include racing at Salisbury, Wincanton and Newbury, golf at Rushmore and South West Wilts and watersports on the south coast. More extensive shopping, service and educational amenities are available in Tisbury, Gillingham, Shaftesbury, Warminster and the cathedral city of Salisbury. Transportation links are excellent: the A303 links to the A30 (London-Land’s End road) and motorway network, and Tisbury station (3.7 miles) offers regular services to Exeter St Davids and London Waterloo.