Box, Wiltshire, Sn13

Ebenezer Chapel is a historic building within the picturesque village of Box. The original Chapel was built in 1834 and later rebuilt in 1906, having once been the school rooms for the Methodist Church and local primary School. The Chapel was sensitively converted in 2002 to retain its history and original features. In recent times it has mainly been a family home and music studio but is now run as a hugely successful holiday let.

The accommodation is set to three stories with versatile and exceptionally spacious rooms that all retain the original character of the chapel. On entering the property there is a beautiful stone hallway either leading to the grand ‘main stairway’ or stepping down into a large, stunning kitchen dining room with space to easily seat 10 for dinner, featuring high ceilings, stone, arch windows, parquet flooring and reclaimed/repurposed chapel wood on counters and cupboard doors. The downstairs also features the ‘Music Room’ an exceptionally large, versatile room with parquet flooring, original windows and high ceilings. Opposite the Music Room, you step up into the property’s main bathroom, this is unlike any standard bathroom with original exposed stone walls, beamed ceilings, vintage roll-top bath. Turning right out of the bathroom you find the back staircase leading to the ‘Ebenezer Room’ a substantial bedroom, featuring oak beamed ceilings and original church window. The spectacular sitting/living room with 25ft high ceilings, exposed wooden floors and huge, breathtaking, stone & oak windows. This is a truly unique space for entertaining, comfortably seating 20+ people for dinner parties or simply entertaining family and friends! Here you’ll also find a shower room and the vestibule/lobby/hall at the top of the main staircase. Overlooking the main room is the impressive, mezzanine floor, which is currently used as an en-suite bedroom but could also be a perfect space for an office or artist’s studio.

Although there are no designated private parking spaces or garden, the Chapel is situated right in the middle of the village which is completely surrounded by acres of park and recreation space as well as plenty of free 24/7 parking.

Ground Floor

Gothic style archway with double opening doors leads into the entrance vestibule.

Entrance Vestibule
With stairs rising and turning to the first floor, solid wooden doors leads to the cloakroom and kitchen/dining room.

Cloakroom
With low flush WC, corner wall mounted wash hand basin with tiled splashback, cold-water feed, storage area which houses the floor standing boiler, serving domestic hot water and central heating, pressurised hot water cylinder, extractor fan and alarm panel.

Kitchen/Dining Room
With range of base and wall mounted solid wooden cupboards, wooden worksurface area, drainer, mixer tap and inset ceramic Belfast style sink. Space and plumbing for washing machine, dishwasher and 1 width Range oven, part tiled walls, stainless steel extractor fan, 4 lancet style windows to front aspect, herringbone parquet style flooring and concertina wooden doors which could divide the kitchen from the dining area.

Door from the dining area into an inner lobby.

Inner Lobby
With doors to the music room, secondary staircase leading to first floor and door through to the bathroom.

Music Room/Bedroom
With herringbone parquet style floor, dual aspect to front and side with stone mullion lancet windows with frosting and downlighting.

Bathroom
With immediate steps which rise to a tiled floor, exposed beam ceiling with exposed stonework, freestanding roll top bath, pedestal wash hand basin, low flush WC, radiators, wooden wall panelling and extractor fan.

Stone topped principal staircase leads to a first-floor landing area.

First Floor

Landing
With stone mullion lancet windows, wooden double opening doors lead into the vaulted sitting room.

Sitting Room
With range of triple aspect stone mullion lancet windows, concealed radiators, wooden wall panelling, exposed pearlings, A frame and beams off the sitting is a staircase to the second floor.

Shower Room
With wooden flooring, glazed shower cubicle with Mira electric shower unit, downlighting and extractor fan.

Door leads to the secondary staircase and also to the Ebenezer Room (Bedroom 1).

Bedroom
With downlighting, exposed ceiling timbers, stone mullion side aspect window, radiator and exposed wooden flooring.

Second Floor

Landing
With further built in storage and into the galleried bedroom area which overlooks the sitting room.

Bedroom Area
Overlooking the sitting room.

Shower Room
With glazed walk-in shower cubicle with thermostatic shower, concealed cistern WC, vanity cupboard with ceramic surface mounted sink and mixer tap and downlighting.

Agents Note: There is access through a neighbouring Church fire escape an area of garden land may be negotiable with the Church.

The village of Box is almost midway between Bath and Chippenham being approximately 4 miles from the city of Bath and 6 miles from the Wiltshire town of Chippenham set within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The local surrounds include 3 fabulous pubs that run a number of community/family events throughout the year, a highly respected local primary school feeding a nearby secondary school, acres of park/recreation space with cricket and football pitches, tennis courts and bowls club (there are local football, cricket teams for both men and women, boys and girls). Village hall, library, wonderful woodland with amazing dog walks, the village church, a convenience store, a nearby, useful petrol station / mini-supermarket , two hairdressers, two cafes and a superb, very friendly post office, also, if you are a music lover then you will often see various rock stars wondering around the village as Box is the home of Peter Gabriel’s famous Realworld Recording Studios.

Also within easy reach are both Junctions 17 and 18 of the M4 motorway. The National Trust owned village of Lacock is a must see, and also Castle Combe, known as one of the prettiest villages in England, and the deserted village of Imber.

The city of Bath provides a complete range of retail outlets together with many amenities to include excellent restaurants, a vast assortment of schools, sport centre, the Theatre Royal and also a mainline railway station, providing direct access to London Paddington (approximately 90 minutes) and the city of Bristol. There is also a mainline railway station situated at Chippenham.

Services: All mains services are connected

Heating: Gas fired central heating

Tenure: Freehold

Council Tax Band: E

Box, Near Bath

The village of Box is almost midway between Bath and Chippenham being approximately 4 miles from the city of Bath and 6 miles from the Wiltshire town of Chippenham set within the Cotswold Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The local surrounds include 3 fabulous pubs that run a number of community/family events throughout the year, a highly respected local primary school feeding a nearby secondary school, acres of park/recreation space with cricket and football pitches, tennis courts and bowls club (there are local football, cricket teams for both men and women, boys and girls). Village hall, library, wonderful woodland with amazing dog walks, the village church, a convenience store, a nearby, useful petrol station / mini-supermarket , two hairdressers, two cafes and a superb, very friendly post office, also, if you are a music lover then you will often see various rock stars wondering around the village as Box is the home of Peter Gabriel’s famous Realworld Recording Studios.

Also within easy reach are both Junctions 17 and 18 of the M4 motorway. The National Trust owned village of Lacock is a must see, and also Castle Combe, known as one of the prettiest villages in England, and the deserted village of Imber.

The city of Bath provides a complete range of retail outlets together with many amenities to include excellent restaurants, a vast assortment of schools, sport centre, the Theatre Royal and also a mainline railway station, providing direct access to London Paddington (approximately 90 minutes) and the city of Bristol. There is also a mainline railway station situated at Chippenham.

Services: All mains services are connected

Heating: Gas fired central heating

Tenure: Freehold

Council Tax Band: E

Box, Near Bath