Arrowsmith Road, Canford Magna, Wimborne, Dorset, BH21

A magnificent 6 bedroom detached country house with a self-contained 1 bedroom coach house apartment and 8-car garaging, approached off a long, private driveway and standing in 5.5 acres of landscaped grounds. The main house, the apartment and the garaging amount in total to over 7,800ft². Traditionally built to exacting standards for our clients, and completed in 1999, the property’s high specification includes handmade clay bricks from Yorkshire, a decoratively patterned, insulated roof of small plain tiles, insulated and reinforced solid concrete floors, and insulated cavity walls. Maintained to a high standard and tastefully presented throughout, the house features solid mahogany staircases and interior doors, plaster cornice ceilings, dado rails, 2 wood burning fires, a custom built ash kitchen (with granite surfaces and a gas Aga with electric companion), and a superb family/breakfast room with exposed green oak beams and timbers. The private, 5.5 acre grounds include a remarkable 12-pond cascading water feature, a substantial garden studio/home office and a large animal building/tractor store with tack room. The house is set well back from Arrowsmith Road and approached off a long drive leading to a courtyard providing extensive parking and leading to the 8-car garaging. The House Double doors leads to a high gabled entrance porch with an entrance door to a large central reception hall (with high vaulted ceiling and galleried landing above, and windows looking onto the central courtyard.) There is a cloakroom with WC, wash basin and cupboard. The dual aspect drawing room features an Italian marble fireplace (with inset gas fire) and 2 pairs of glazed doors to the garden terrace. A door connects to the self-contained apartment. There is a separate, dual aspect formal dining room and a dual aspect family room with a wood burning fire. The superb kitchen/breakfast/family room includes superb custom made ash units, granite worktops, a gas Aga with electric companion (providing domestic hot water), 2 sinks, water filter, 2 Miele dishwashers and central island with wine chiller. The breakfast/family area has a high vaulted ceiling, exposed green oak beams and timbers, brick faced walls, tiled floor, glazed roof and 2 pairs of glazed doors to the garden terrace. There is a utility room with washing machine, tumble dryer, American style fridge-freezer, cupboard containing a water softener, and door to a covered rear porch. From the reception hall, a magnificent mahogany staircase with turned spindles leads to a large, central galleried landing. The triple aspect principal bedroom overlooks the grounds and has a dressing room and an en suite bath/shower room (with 2 wash basins, WC, bidet, shower and rolltop bath with ball-and-claw feet.) The en suite could be sub-divided to form an independent en suite for bedroom 2 which has a dual aspect, a feature curved wall, and access to the ‘jack and jill’ bathroom. Bedroom 3 has a triple aspect over the grounds, a dressing room and an en suite shower. The landing also provides access, to a lobby area which leads to bedroom 4 which has dual aspect windows looking onto the grounds, and an en suite cloakroom. This room can form the bedroom to the separate apartment. From the lobby area, a staircase leads to the second floor where there is a long hallway with a sloping ceiling and 2 display niches. This provides access to Bedrooms 5, 6, a hobbies room (currently houses a model railway layout which is included in the sale,) a dressing room, a bath/shower room (with large walk-in airing cupboard), and a walk-in store room with fixed staircase leading to the loft. The Apartment An independent front door gives access to the coach house style apartment which has a hallway with an under stairs cupboard and a door to the adjacent garage. A mahogany staircase leads to the apartment on the first floor. There is a double bedroom/bedroom 4 with en suite cloakroom, a separate shower room, a living room and a modern fitted kitchen. A door gives access to a raised garden terrace. Outside A brick pillared entrance way leads to a long wooded avenue giving access to the courtyard area where there is garaging for 8 vehicles (with electric doors, lighting and power points.) The main garage could be incorporated into the house as an entertainment/cinema room. There is 1 further carport, and a woodstore. Beyond the house, there is a substantial outbuilding previously used as a garden office with a gas central heating system, lighting, water and connection to the house’s private drainage system. The grounds, which amount to about 5.5 acres, extend all around the house and feature a magnificent 12-pond water garden with cascading waterfalls and water lilies. An impressive terrace extends to 2 sides of the house, and has steps leading down to a large expanse of lawn interspersed with trees. At the lower level there is a substantial block built animal building/tractor store with a separate tack room. There is mains water, gas and electricity, and a private drainage system. The gas central heating system features recently replaced separate boilers serving the house and the apartment, and there is UPVC double glazing, a security alarm, a fire alarm system and a water softener.