Flamstone Street, Bishopstone, Salisbury

Flamstone Cottage is an attractive white painted brick-built cottage offering more than 2,200 sq ft of light-filled, flexible and characterful accommodation arranged in an L-shaped configuration over two floors. Dating back to the 18th Century, the property provides an ideal family and entertaining space and sensitively combines modern amenities with a wealth of period features, including a thatched roof, casement glazing and exposed beams.

The ground floor accommodation flows from double doors opening to a rear reception hall with a useful fitted utility room/cloakroom. The house enjoys a large L-shaped, split-level sitting room forming two distinct reception areas. One has a well-proportioned, interconnecting study with built-in office furniture and the other has French doors to the rear terrace. Both areas benefit from feature fireplaces, one with an inglenook and bread oven, the other flanked on each side by bespoke storage, both have woodburning stoves.

The ground floor accommodation also features a dual-aspect kitchen equipped with a range of wall and base units, wooden worktops, an Aga, modern integrated appliances, and a walk-in pantry. The kitchen has a door to the driveway and opens to a glazed Amdega garden room with French doors opening onto the terrace and large picture windows offering stunning views of the rear garden and the countryside beyond.

A staircase rises from the sitting room to a generous first floor landing with useful storage, giving access to the principal (with open views) and two further bedrooms, two with built-in wardrobes, as well as to a family shower room (with underfloor heating) with separate cloakroom. A separate staircase from the reception hall gives access to a second landing with doors to a second entrance to bedroom 2 and to the property’s remaining double bedroom and a modern family bathroom with free-standing bath and separate
shower.

Having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached through a five-bar gate over a block-paved side driveway providing private parking, giving access to the detached garage and external store (neighbouring the kitchen) and with a pedestrian gate to the terrace. The generous enclosed rear garden is laid mainly to lawn bordered by well-stocked flower and shrub beds and features a generous wrap-around paved terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole enjoying stunning views over surrounding countryside including a scenic lake, fed by the River Ebble.

Located in the Chalke Valley, Bishopstone is a very popular and historic village with a church, village hall, pub with restaurant and Throope Down, a Site of Special Scientific Interest. Nearby Broad Chalke has an award winning village store with Post Office and community hub and café, together with Broad Chalke primary school (rated good by ofsted), sports club, doctors, pub with restaurant, church and village hall. Further shopping is available in nearby Wilton, while the cathedral city of Salisbury offers independent and high street stores, shopping centres and extensive leisure and cultural facilities.

The village is within the catchment area for Salisbury's Grammar Schools and convenient for access to the yearly Chalke Valley History Festival.

The area is renowned for its field sports, with racing at Salisbury, Wincanton and Newbury, golf at Rushmore and South Wilts and a range of water sports on the nearby south coast.

Communications links are excellent: the A303 links to the M3, M25, London and the West Country, and Salisbury station offers a mainline service to London Waterloo in around 90 minutes.

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