Chewton Mendip — Chewton Mendip

Greendown House is a delightfully charming unlisted family home with wonderful, far-reaching views. Thought to date from the mid 19th Century, the current owners have greatly improved and restored the house to former glories over nearly 30 years of ownership. The property enjoys beautiful gardens and grounds as well as breath-taking views of the Mendips, and has the added benefit of a two bedroom coach house,and further outbuildings, along with about 2.1 acres of gardens and grounds with an option for additional paddocks and pastures of about 25.7 and stabling by separate negotiation. Greendown House is arranged laterally across just two floors, and provides expansive lateral accommodation and excellent proportions throughout, with its principal reception rooms arranged across the front of the house to take best advantage of the delightful views. Entered via a grand entrance hall, the ground floor provides four generous reception rooms, including the drawing room with its attractive canted bay window and the dining room, which are co-joined to create a superb entertaining space, with sliding doors which can be used to separate the two rooms when needed. Both rooms enjoy tall ceilings and large windows with ornate joinery from which to enjoy the view. At the eastern end of the house is a large, rustic country kitchen with shaker style units, blue lias stone floors, tall ceilings and access out to the rear and side gardens. The snug is open plan to the kitchen with a feature fireplace and a connecting door to the drawing room and another to the front garden. Leading back down the corridor are a collection of useful rooms, including a utility/boot room, study, larder and two WCs. At the western end of the house is a large study, which was added by the existing owners and provides a dual aspect of the front and rear gardens, as well as an attractive open fireplace. The first floor is serviced by two staircases at either end of the house, one in the main entrance hall, a