A COUNTRY house in the hamlet of West End, near Wickwar, is on the market with a £1 million price tag.

Westend Grove, built in 1936, is of natural stone under a Cotswold stone roof with four stone chimney stacks.

There are five bedrooms - the master bedroom has a dressing room - three bathrooms, four reception rooms, a large attic and an indoor swimming pool. The kitchen has an Aga and there are also domestic offices and a staff room.

The property has wisteria and banksia, virginia creeper rose and piracantha growing up the outside and around the stone mullion windows.

The nine-acre site was carefully chosen and the house sits in the centre of mature grounds. The gardens are bordered by a paddock to one side with a kissing gate and high stone wall forming the lower boundary. There is also a tennis court, a productive kitchen garden and an orchard.

West End Grove is offered for sale freehold. Viewing is strictly by prior arrangement with the agents Knight Frank Bristol (tel 0117 922 7226).