Horse lovers who want the opportunity to create a wonderful family home and have stabling and land for their animals on their own property might find the answer with Chapel Farm, East Woodyates, near Salisbury.

The pretty farmhouse is flint and brick built an adjoins a farmyard of around 25 acres complete with a stable block, barns and former cow shed.

Simon Milledge manger of Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury said: “Chapel Farm is that rare combination of a practical period family house with a range of buildings old and modern and a good holding of land that make up a perfect residential farm or equestrian property in a lovely rural setting.

The same family has lived at Chapel Farm for 25 years and the house is in need of some updating and it may be possible to extend, subject to planning, by incorporating some of the outbuildings.

At the moment accommodation includes a large kitchen/breakfast room, sitting room and dining room downstairs and four bedrooms and a family bathroom upstairs.

The hamlet of East Woodyates is situated in the Cranborne Chase and is close to the thriving village of Sixpenny Hanley which has a Post Office, village store, buther’s shop, doctor’s surgery, pub and school.

Chapel Farm is for sale with Woolley & Wallis with a guide price of £775,000. For more information ring 01722 424524.