ANSFORD LODGE, HIGHER ANSFORD, CASTLE CARY BA7 7JQ
A handsome and prominent Grade II listed Georgian house in central Castle Cary.
Ansford Lodge offers substantial and characterful accommodation, sympathetically restored to exacting standards, featuring a reception hall, sitting room, living room, kitchen/breakfast room, dining room, utility, study, boot room, cloakroom, WC, five bedrooms, two bathrooms, and two superb attic rooms.
Outside, there is ample parking for several cars, a single garage, and westerly-facing, walled rear gardens that enjoy complete privacy and security.
Accommodation
Ansford Lodge has a classical, handsome Georgian facade set behind a low stone wall with Hadspen stone elevations underneath a clay tiled roof. The front door is set within a beautiful stone door surround flanked symmetrical with double-height bay windows on both sides.
There are many character features throughout the property, including sash windows, flagstones, ornate cornicing, elm floorboards and bay windows, to name a few. These features are perfectly complemented by the unique and sympathetic renovations which the owners have completed.
Entering the front door, you are greeted by the reception hall with its flagstone floors and pretty cornices. Either side of the hall are two reception rooms, both nearly 19’ long, each having a bay window with original shutters and a fireplace.
The living room is on the right-hand side of which is the study with a sweeping bay window. On the opposite side of the hall is the dining room, which adjoins the kitchen. Either side of the fireplace is a built-in cupboard; also worthy of note are the gorgeous elm floorboards.
The kitchen itself is rather cleverly split into two parts. The main part is a family-oriented kitchen area with a room for a breakfast table, plenty of storage underneath the wooden worktops, along with the cooker, which itself has a gas hob and electric oven. Flagstone floors lead through into the second part of the kitchen, which is reserved for the more practical side of things with even more storage, an integral dishwasher, another sink area, the boiler cupboard, space for an American-style fridge freezer, washing machine and access out to the boot room and w/...
