Newton HouseNewton Surmaville, Somerset

Newton HouseNewton Surmaville, Somerset

Yeovil Junction 1.4 miles (Waterloo 2½ hours), Sherborne 5.8 miles, A303 (Sparkford) 8.8 miles, Dorchester 18 miles (Distances and time approximate)

An immaculate Grade I listed Jacobean Manor House, which has undergone extensive refurbishment and stands

in wonderful parkland grounds with extensive ancillary accommodation and land bordering the River Yeo.

Ground FloorEntrance hall | Great hall | Drawing room | Dining room | Justice room (study) | Library | Bar | Kitchen/Breakfast room

Secondary kitchen | Dairy/larder | Butler’s pantry | Wine cellar | 2 cloakrooms | Courtyard | Ancillary store rooms

First FloorSitting room | Conservatory/Home office | Home cinema | Principal bedroom suite with bathroom and 2 dressing rooms

3 further bedroom suites | Laundry room | Shower room | Separate WC

Second Floor5 further bedrooms | 3 further shower rooms | Attic stores

The Gardeners Cottage: Hall | Sitting room | Kitchen/dining room | 2 bedrooms | Bathroom

Former coach house and stables: Bar | Restaurant/café | Kitchen | Staff office | Large cloakroom with 3 WCs

Distillery | Outbuildings | Garage / show rooms for twelve vehicles | Barn | Workshops | Greenhouses

Woodland | Parkland | Farmland | Single and double bank fishing on River Yeo

In all about 62.04 acres (25.11 hectares)

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Sherborne15 Cheap Street, Sherborne,

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Situation and AmenitiesThe regional centre of Yeovil is about ½ mile away providing a wide range of shopping, business and recreational facilities. The beautiful Abbey town of Sherborne is about 6 miles away. Sherborne has a Waitrose and other supermarkets. Bristol and Bath are both about 45 miles to the north.

There is a mainline railway station at Yeovil Junction with a regular service to London (Waterloo) in about 2 ½ hours. The A303 can be accessed at Sparkford (about 8.8 miles) for journeys east and for journeys west, the junction near Montacute House lies 6.6 miles away. Airports at Bristol, Bournemouth and Exeter provide a range of domestic and international flights.

There is golf at Yeovil, Sherborne, Wincanton and Dorchester (Came Down), whilst National Hunt racing can be found at Wincanton and Taunton. Flat racing is at Bath and Salisbury. Water sports and sailing can be found along the Jurassic Coast and particularly at Weymouth (28 miles) and Lyme Regis (26 miles).

Schooling in the area is superb, including The Park School in Yeovil, the Sherborne schools, Hazlegrove at Sparkford, Millfield at Street, Bryanston at Blandford Forum, Milton Abbey at Milton Abbas, Port Regis near Shaftesbury and St Anthony’s at Leweston.

SummaryBought by the current owners in 2007, Newton House is a superb example of a restored Grade I listed Jacobean Manor house standing in magnificent parklands grounds. The owners have spent years sympathetically restoring the house and improving the internal rooms and configuration, whilst also bringing the property firmly into the 21st Century with modern services throughout.

They have also spent considerable time and investment enhancing the gardens and grounds which are intersected by the River Yeo. The parkland and formal gardens are complemented by grazing land and supported by a number of domestic and commercial outbuildings.

The owners have recently built two large garage / show rooms with space for twelve vehicles. They have also converted various outbuildings to create a very successful business producing award-winning dry gin, as well as converting the stables and coach house into a stylish gin bar and function suite. The Gardeners Cottage is currently used as a highly sought-after holiday letting unit. Both of these properties are positioned away from the main house, ensuring privacy for private owners.

Historical NoteThe earliest records show that the estate was originally owned by a family named “de Salmonville”. In 1608 Robert Harbin purchased Newton House and pulled down the old house and built the present mansion. Constructed between 1608 and 1612 but extensively altered in the 1870’s. The house is built around three sides of a courtyard and following the exhaustive restoration project by the current owners, is presented in superb order.

Newton HouseNewton House is Grade I listed and built of local hamstone, laid in undressed irregular courses with light dressed stone used for quoins and door and window casements.

Surrounding the central courtyard, the main reception rooms are typical of this era, with generous proportions and wonderful period features throughout the property including fine oak panelling, superb open stone fireplaces, intricate plaster ceiling work, flagstone floors and excellent ceiling heights, all synonymous with a house of such standing.

Notable rooms are the Great Hall, the ‘Justice Room’ which makes a fine study, the drawing room which is double aspect with a magnificent decorative ceiling frieze and the dining room, ideal for lavish entertaining with ample space. The owners have also installed a new bar and opened up a new link to the courtyard to improve the flow of the accommodation.

The family kitchen has a mezzanine dining and breakfast area and adjoins the original ‘Museum kitchen’ with a plethora of features and links to a separate china cupboard and bar. The butler’s pantry, dairy / larder and wine cellar are all easily accessible from the kitchen which also has double doors out to the rear walled gardens.

Typically for a house of this age, a number of the first floor rooms are also arranged as living rooms and there is a fine family sitting room, home office and a home cinema.

The beautifully appointed principal bedroom suite is a classic example of the owners’ consideration for space and high quality finish, occupying the foremost room on the first floor with two flanking dressing rooms and a sumptuous en-suite bathroom. Unusually for a house of this age, the balance of bedrooms and bathrooms is excellent with a further seven or eight bedrooms and seven bathrooms.

NEWTON HOUSEApproximate Gross Internal Floor Area

1,405.6 sq m / 15,129 sq ft (Excluding Courtyard)Including Limited Use Area: 63.6 sq m / 685 sq ft

This plan is for guidance only and must not berelied upon as a statement of fact.

Attention is drawn to the Important Notice onthe last page of the text of the Particulars

Reception

Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Terrace

Recreation

GROUND FLOOR

SECOND FLOOR

FIRST FLOOR

Gardens and GroundsThe property actually spans the Somerset and Dorset borders, extending to about 62 acres in total. The parkland and gardens surrounding the house are Grade II listed in their own right. Original 18th Century hamstone entrance piers guard the entrance to the long tarmac carriage drive which leads to the house, flanked on one side by a row of oak trees and on the other by mature woodland.

At the front of the house the tarmac drive sweeps around through twin pairs of hamstone pillars capped with ornate finials onto a gravelled driveway with plenty of parking for guests and visitors.

Mature oaks are interspersed across the large expanse of grassed parkland which lies between the drive and the River Yeo which flows through the grounds, with pasture and farmland on the eastern side of the river including a number of mature trees, mainly oaks, and small areas of woodland and spinneys with a long wooded bank.

The formal gardens are a magnificent part of Newton House and lie predominantly to the east and south of the house, with parterres, garden rooms, avenues, rose gardens, productive vegetable beds and pergolas.

The land offers rough shooting opportunities with belts of woodland, wildfowl on the river and there is coarse fishing on the River Yeo (some single and double bank).

Outbuildings The former stable block and coach house lies to the south of the house, accessed from a spur off the main drive. It is Grade II listed and constructed of hamstone elevations under a Welsh slate roof. As their gin business has developed, the owners have converted this building into an amazing space, comprising a restaurant / café with kitchen, bar, staff office and guest toilets. They currently let this out for functions and parties, as well as using it as the base for their business.

Various stores and outbuildings provide stores, workshops, a distillery and potting shed. There is a modern 90 ft timber framed greenhouse (copying an original design) within the walled kitchen garden.

The owners have also recently finished a large courtyard comprising two garage / show rooms with space for twelve vehicles, together with ancillary stores and WCs.

The Gardener’s CottageGrade II listed and constructed in 1711, it is located to the south of the main house with its own garden and has been completely refurbished, comprising a hall, sitting room, kitchen/dining room, 2 bedrooms and a bathroom. The owners currently let this out for holiday rentals.

Newton House Gin(available by separate negotiation)Newton House Gin is a small batch hand crafted gin which is distilled, bottled and labelled at Newton House. It is the brain child of the current owners and excitingly, even though it is still in its early stages of production, it has been awarded Gold Medal in the prestigious World Gin Awards in the category for London Dry Gin. They have designed a bespoke website for the business: https://www.newtonhousegin.co.uk/.

As described above, the owners have based the business in a the former stables and coach house, utilising various outbuildings to create an established business set‐up for this award winning gin, including a distillery and hospitality centre.

THE GARDENER’S COTTAGE AND COACH HOUSE

OUTBUILDINGSApproximate Gross Internal Floor Area

Cottage and Coach House: 326.6 sq m / 3,516 sq ftOutbuildings: 624.2 sq m / 6,718 sq ft

(Including Garage / Ground Floor Store / Coal Store)Total: 950.8 sq m / 10,234 sq ft

Including Limited Use Area (7.3 sq m / 79 sq ft)

This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last

page of the text of the Particulars

Reception

Bedroom

Bathroom

Kitchen/Utility

Storage

Terrace

Recreation

OUTBUILDING: GROUND FLOOR

COTTAGE:GROUND FLOOR

COTTAGE:FIRST FLOOR

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Fixtures and fittings: A list of the fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings and other items fixed to the property which are included in the sale (or may be available by separate negotiation) will be provided by the Seller’s Solicitors.

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GENERAL REMARKS & STIPULATIONSMethod of SaleThe freehold of Newton House is available for sale by private treaty with vacant possession on completion. Please note that the Newton House Gin business is available for sale by separate negotiation.

ServicesMains/private water. Mains electricity. Private drainage. Oil-fired central heating

Newton House: Council Tax Band H

The Gardeners Cottage: Current rateable value £3,300

The Stable & Coach House: Current rateable value £3,050

Historic England designationsNewton House is Grade I listed. The park and gardens, entrance gates, two pairs of gate piers north of house, The Gardeners Cottage and the former stables are all separately Grade II listed.

Local AuthoritySouth Somerset District Council: https://www.southsomerset.gov.uk/

ViewingsViewings are strictly by prior appointment with the selling agents Knight Frank LLP and Savills.

Directions (BA20 2RX)From London: Take the M3 southbound leaving at Junction 8 onto the A303. Leave the A303 signed to Wincanton. At the roundabout take the A37 signed to Blandford, continue over the next mini roundabout and left at the second roundabout onto the A357. Take the second right turn onto the B3145 to Sherborne. Continue into Sherborne turning right by traffic lights onto the A30 to Yeovil. Continue into Yeovil, over the first roundabout to the town centre bearing left at the mini roundabout. Keep in the left hand lane following the signs for Yeovil Junction (BR). Continue out of Yeovil over a bridge and the entrance and driveway to Newton House will be found on the left.

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