A FARMHOUSE that started life in the 18th century as a dairy is now a family home, set in more than five acres of land on the edge of Watership Down country.

Bishops Green Farmhouse is near to the village of Ecchinswell and selling through agents Knight Frank with a price guide of £750,00.

The price includes a barn used for garaging and a workshop. There is also stabling and paddocks.

The extended old farmhouse has been comprehensively modernised and improved over the last 10 years to create a five-bedroomed home.

The master bedroom is on a mezzanine floor, below which is a dressing area.

A sleeping deck in one of the bedrooms makes it ideal and fun for children's sleepovers. The bedrooms share a shower room and family bathroom.

Downstairs, a playroom adjoins the L-shaped kitchen-breakfast room, which has French doors out to the garden where a wooden deck gives countryside views.

The kitchen-breakfast room is fitted with a range of oak faced units sets on a flagstone-effect floor. There is a double oven cooker, a walk-in larder and an adjoining utility and drying room.

Oak flooring is laid in the drawing room, which has a Cotswold stone fireplace, and the dining room, which also has a fireplace, featuring wood-style tiles to the floor.

The ground-floor accommodation is completed by a study and a cloakroom.

"A period farmhouse in a peaceful and convenient rural setting," say the selling agents.