Higher Totnell, Leigh, Sherborne, Dorset, DT9

Hillview is an attractive and well-arranged detached home in an enviable elevated position, with generous and beautifully landscaped gardens and tranquil views over the beautiful countryside surroundings.

The property offers excellent potential for updating, with light-filled accommodation arranged across two floors. The porch opens to the reception hall with a stairway turning to the first-floor level. Directly ahead is the peaceful formal dining room opening to the pretty rear garden. The 19 ft. triple aspect sitting room with its feature fireplace leads through a glazed corridor to an adaptable home office space and a double aspect store/workshop alongside with access to the attached garage. The kitchen/breakfast room also benefits from garden aspects, with a range of cabinetry and appliances arranged in a U-shape and a useful larder, store cupboard and cloakroom.

The first floor houses a family bathroom with separate cloakroom and three well proportioned and bright bedrooms with a range of fitted wardrobes and far-reaching views.

The property is situated within scenic Higher Totnell, surrounded by picturesque Dorset countryside and sitting less than a mile from the village of Leigh with its village hall, café and church. Sherborne with its full range of shopping and recreational amenities, mainline station and well-regarded schooling including the Sherborne Boys and Girls schools, The Gryphon School and Leweston is easily accessible, with the A30, A303 and A37 all within easy reach.

Communications in the area include regular train services from Sherborne to London Waterloo (about 2¼ hours) and Castle Cary to Paddington (about 1½ hours). The A303 provides a major link road to the west and east towards London. Airports at Bristol, Bournemouth and Exeter provide a comprehensive range of international and domestic flights.

The brick-built home is adorned with various attractive climbing plants and sits within a sizeable private plot boasting impressive and vibrant landscaped gardens with far reaching views of rolling hills beyond. There are large expanses of neat level lawn interspersed with a myriad of colourful varied planting and borders, with many mature trees providing dappled shade. Further is an orchard with ancient apple and plum trees in a meadow, a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI), rich in wild flowers and with meandering mowed pathways. There is a stone-laid south-facing terrace beside the home and a large gravelled driveway giving access to the attached brick-built garage.