Summary - WINTERFIELD, WHITE PIT LANE, EAST MELBURY SP7 0DS
7 bed 7 bath Detached
Grand period house with pool, gym and expansive grounds for country living.
- Approximately 35 acres of mixed formal gardens and paddocks
- Indoor swimming pool with terraces and folding doors
- Separate gym building with underfloor heating and shower
- Floodlit tennis court, triple garage and ancillary accommodation
- Burnbeck Cottage included, useful for staff or rental income
- Recently refurbished: upgraded wiring, plumbing, and many underfloor-heated rooms
- Oil-fired boiler: higher fuel costs, not on a community system
- Stone walls assumed uninsulated; high council tax and above-average crime
Winterfield is an exceptional Arts and Crafts country house set centrally in about 35 acres of formally landscaped and informal grounds. Built in 1921 from local sandstone and sympathetically refurbished by the current owners, the principal house offers grand period rooms, a galleried landing, stained-glass entrance and a drawing room with an impressive stone fireplace.
The estate includes significant leisure buildings: an indoor swimming pool with terraces and folding doors, a gym with underfloor heating, a floodlit tennis court, a triple garage with ancillary accommodation and a modern barn. Burnbeck Cottage (early 1980s) is included and screened by beech hedging, providing flexible use for staff, guests or rental income.
Practical advantages include upgraded wiring and plumbing, underfloor heating to most ground-floor rooms and fast broadband. The setting on the western edge of the Cranborne Chase provides extensive rural views, water features and paddocks ideal for low‑intensity equestrian or amenity use, with direct access onto a lane and a public footpath along the northern boundary.
Important considerations: the property runs on oil-fired heating (not a community system) and the stone walls are assumed to have no added insulation. The estate attracts high running costs and very expensive council tax; crime levels in the locality are above average. Its hamlet location gives privacy but limited immediate local services.
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