Rural View may not be the largest or indeed the most widely known estate agency covering the South Wiltshire/North Dorset area but we are the best when it comes to attracting interest in our clients’ properties.

This claim is borne out by our clients’ homes being the most viewed properties in our patch on Rightmove, the UK’s most widely used property portal. During the year 1st July 2018 to 30th June 2019 in the 12 post code sectors forming the Salisbury, Shaftesbury, Warminster area and beyond, the average frequency each property on the market was viewed in detail, i.e. when it was clicked on in a search list, was 46 times per day. Rural View’s vendors’ homes in the same period were looked at in detail 112 daily making us the Number One performing agency, attracting 25 more views per property per day than our nearest rival.

With property buyers now house hunting almost exclusively online, it is vital to tap into the digital audience when selling a property which is why we are so pleased that the homes we market generate so many hits.

The reason for this success is partly down to our being fortunate in being asked to market some particularly desirable houses but also down to the quality of our image led marketing material including good looking photographs and professionally drawn floor plans.

However, it is still hugely important to carry out the traditional part of an estate agent’s role of providing clients with honest, sensible advice throughout the property selling process and to do this in a friendly yet courteous and professional matter. Rural View have established a fine reputation for the high standard of service we provide with many new clients coming to us by way of personal recommendation.

If you are thinking of selling or are just after some property related advice, give Charlie or Mark a call on 01722 716895.

This might be a trifle premature but after three years of a fairly stagnant housing market, it seems to have woken up over the last couple of weeks. Rural View have been busy not only registering new buyers, arranging viewings and receiving offers but we have also had a tranche of new instructions come our way with more properties due to be launched to the market over the coming days. Let’s hope this is not a false dawn but a positive return to an active housing market!
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Red Lion House is a handsome Grade II Listed house that once served as one of the many coaching inns that flourished in Hindon when the village was an important staging post between Exeter and London from the 18th to mid-19th Century. The present mainly Georgian building replaced a previous one on the site that dated back to at least 1711 before being destroyed in the Great Fire of Hindon in 1754. From the regency era up to the present day it has been extended and altered and also used as a rectory, surgery and more recently, a much loved family home.

The present owners have undertaken a painstaking refurbishment, carefully sourcing age-related fittings such as the reclaimed fireplaces to ensure they are true to the period. At the same time the property has been stylishly extended, altered and modernised with a great deal of care so that the new additions harmonise with the original period features and design. The result is the creation of a very special home that is both full of character and ideal for contemporary living.

The accommodation includes three reception rooms, an elegant hall and a magnificent light and airy open plan ‘hub-of-the-house’ living space comprising a kitchen with Aga, breakfast room and an orangery/sitting room. Four of the six bedrooms have en-suite facilities whilst two also have dressing rooms. The second floor has a large family room and a study with scope to utilise it as a flat or Airbnb opportunity. The good-sized basement has a workshop, wine cellar, secure store and boiler room.

An undoubted feature are the extensive, delightfully landscaped grounds that extend to around 0.57 of an acre and are arranged as a series of Gertrude Jekyll like garden rooms. They are surrounded by a mix of old brick and stone walls, some of which are thought to have come from the remains of William Beckford’s Fonthill Abbey which collapsed in the 1820s.

There is ample parking and a triple bay garage with a hay loft over. The detached former coach house has been sympathetically converted for use as a guest annexe, office or staff accommodation and has a sitting room/kitchen, garden room, bedroom and en-suite shower room.

Rural View are marketing Red Lion House with a guide price of £1.35 million and can be contacted on 01722 716895 for more information.