Price changed to £4,075,000
January 2, 2026
Listed for £4,230,000
June 23, 2025
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The family wing has three bedrooms which share a bathroom. Beyond this is the first floor laundry room with large fitted cupboards. Finally a back staircase leads up from the boot room to the flat, with two rooms and bathroom.
Please see floor plans for the layout and dimensions.
COTTAGE AND OUTBUILDINGS
Stable Cottage - The two-storey stable cottage can be entered from the courtyard of outbuildings via the back gate. It comprises a boot room with doors opening onto a characterful sitting room with a corner feature fireplace and stairs to the first floor. A kitchen/dining room sits adjacent, offering plenty of space for formal dining. There is a ground floor bedroom and bathroom. Upstairs, are two further bedrooms and a bathroom. The cottage has its own, entirely private, garden.
Outbuildings - The pretty cobbled stable yard has three stables, a games room, workshop, three garages, a store room and a garden shed. There is a long wooden workshop and a boiler room.
GARDEN AND GROUNDS
Within the ring fence, Sedgehill Manor extends to 42.3 acres. The approach to the Manor is delightful via a curving tree-lined driveway, with pastoral views, leading to the wrought-iron pillared gates, the gravelled square and the handsome frontage. The large garden encircles the house, with fabulous far-reaching views.
There are two terraces, a breakfast garden, a herb garden overlooked by a giant tree house and a croquet lawn leading to the sunken swimming pool sheltered by rose covered banks. There is an orchard, a tranquil pond, tennis court, greenhouse and a vegetable garden.
The land includes a pony paddock with access from the drive, and Hayes Copse, an ancient woodland of oak and ash with hazel underwood. It provides the firewood for the house, and its oaks provided the pool diving board and tables about the garden. In the spring it is a thick carpet of Bluebells, white wood anemones, star of Bethlehem and early purple orchids.
The land beyond the gardens and amenity land around the house comprises a mix of pasture land (about 24.3 acres) and further woodland (about 2.1 acres).
AGENTS' NOTE
Please note that the Manor House can be bought with a smaller land holding. There is also an off-lying parcel of land, comprising 13.4 acres of further woodland and pasture land with good road access, that is available by separate negotiation.
Location
Sedgehill Manor is in a picturesque quiet setting about two miles from the villages of Semley and Motcombe, which provide a delicatessen, village shop, public house, post office and church. This area is particularly sought after and lies just to the west of Cranborne Chase Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Whilst being very rural, it also has good transport links.
Semley has a pub, The Bennett Arms, a village hall and the very popular Semley Village Stores for all day-to-day needs, with the locally renowned Compton McRrae shop and café nearby.
The market town of Shaftesbury has a weekly produce market whilst the popular town of Tisbury is approximately 6.7 miles away. Tisbury has a range of boutique shops and amenities, including Messums art gallery, a leisure centre and swimming pool, primary school, cafés, independent shops and a supermarket. Gillingham also offers a wide range of shopping including a Waitrose, together with recreational and leisure facilities and a mainline station with regular services to London Waterloo. Regular trains from Tisbury to London Waterloo have a journey time of approximately 1 hour 50 minutes. Westbury Station (19 miles) offers direct mainline trains to London Paddington from 1 hour 33 minutes.
The beautiful Cathedral city of Salisbury, approximately 20 miles to the east, offers a wide selection of shops, restaurants, arts and recreational facilities. Trains from Salisbury to London Waterloo have a journey time of approximately 1 hour 30 minutes.
Racing is available at Salisbury Racecourse and Wincanton and golf at Rushmore Park, South Wilts Golf Club and High Post. This area is renowned for its fishing on the River Avon, River Nadder and outlying chalk streams.
The A303 provides access to the south west and London, via the M3.
The area is renowned for its excellent selection of private schools, including Port Regis, Sandroyd, Clayesmore, Bryanston, Hanford, Hazelgrove, Sherborne, Bruton, Millfield, Salisbury Cathedral School, Chafyn Grove and Godolphin. There is a superb choice of state education as well, including the local Semley Church of England Primary School and Wardour Primary School, as well as Bishop Wordsworths and South Wilts Grammar Schools in Salisbury.
Square Footage: 8,448 sq ft
Acreage: 42.3 Acres
Directions
DIRECTIONS : Postcode: SP7 9HQ
What3words: ///asked.closed.surveyors (to the head of the drive to the house)
Additional Info
SERVICES : Mains electricity and water. Private drainage (2x septic tanks): We understand that the private drainage at this property may not comply with the relevant regulations. A quote has been obtained to upgrade this. Oil-fired central heating. Electric night storage heating in Cottage. Wessex Internet broadband.
LOCAL AUTHORITY : Wiltshire Council. Sedgehill Manor Council Tax Band H. Stable Cottage Council Tax Band A.
FIXTURES & FITTINGS : All fitted carpets are included. All curtains, blinds, light fittings, garden ornaments and equipment are specifically excluded from the sale, however some items may be available by separate negotiation.
WAYLEAVES & EASEMENTS : The property is sold subject to any wayleaves or easements, whether mentioned in these particulars or not.
VIEWING : Strictly by appointment with the agents Savills