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Hampshire - Sylvaner Court, Basingstoke
Two bedroom apartment at £190,000
Sylvaner Court fronts Vyne Road in an established residential area of Basingstoke and a short distance from the town centre. The mainline railway station is a short walk at the bottom of Vyne Road and a convenience store and the local bus stop are both nearby. The development consists of 27, two and three-bedroom cottages and flats in attractive landscaped grounds with a parking forecourt to the north and east. It is built in traditional style with mellow stock bricks and natural stained timber windows under a tiled roof.
There is a visiting scheme manager, residents' lounge, 24 hour alarm system, communal laundry and guest room. There are attractive landscaped gardens surrounding the property. There is a lift to all floors and a security door entry phone system. Basingstoke town centre is within easy walking distance.
For further information telephone: 01256 819621
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| Wiltshire - Bemerton Farm, Bemberton Four bedroom cottage with study and garage £430,000 Bemerton Farm forms part of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke. There are 16 two and three bedroom cottages converted from courtyard buildings and a farmhouse originally built in 1863 for the Dowager Countess of Pembroke. In an attractive setting that includes a circular dovecote the properties at Bemerton Farm overlook a beautiful walled garden on the River Nadder and to which all owners have access. There are extensive views over open countryside and each property has a garage. Bemerton itself lies on the western edge of the ancient cathedral city of Salisbury. It has a small church, St Andrew‘s, a post office and village store, while less than two miles upstream is the ancestral seat of the Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House. Bemerton Farm itself is almost equidistant between the historic market town of Wilton, once the capital of Wessex where the Rivers Wylie and Nadder meet and Salisbury, with its beautiful cathedral, at the confluence of the Nadder and Avon. Wilton House in Wilton, with its magnificent paintings, was originally Elizabethan with subsequent alterations by Holbein and Inigo Jones. The streets around the cathedral in Salisbury form squares, the usual medieval grid pattern, and there are many fine buildings. The cathedral‘s graceful spire was added at the end of the 13th century. For further information contact Anita Pemberton 01491 615961 |
Oxfordshire - Charlbury The Playing Close - Two bedroom cottage £350,000 The Playing Close lies at the heart of the Cotswold market town of Charlbury, on the River Evenlode. It is an easy walk to the shops just a few hundred yards away, and the fine old library and museum. The development is built in local stone and arranged so as to create a traditional Cotswold street and a secluded garden square. The swimming pavilion is there for relaxation throughout the year. Charlbury derives its name from the borough of the Saxon ceorl, free men who had escaped the shackles of serfdom for a year and a day in the primeval royal forest of Wychwood. Henry III granted a charter in 1256 establishing Charlbury as a market town of about 600, a figure guaged by the ‘Smoke Farthing‘ which every household had to contribute to the church. Its ancient market and quarterly fairs became a mecca for Elizabethan merchants, according to a list of those fined for making ‘excessive Lucre‘. In the records of 1843 a man sold his wife, in a halter, in the market place for half-a-crown and sealed the deal in the 16th century Bull Inn immediately behind The Playing Close. ‘Ye Pleyying Place‘ was owned by Eynsham Abbey in medieval times and in 1488 the town beadle and woodward collected the rent for it of ‘three barbed arrows‘. Oxford is a short distance by train from Brunel‘s delightful station with its prize-winning gardens and old time charm. (about seventeen minutes). A regular bus service takes the country village route to Chipping Norton, Witney and Oxford, and the neighbouring market town of Woodstock about six miles distant. Burford is about nine miles and Witney eight miles. For further information contact Anita Pemberton: 01491 615961 |