This “exceptionally handsome” house may have doubled in price, but is still only 30 minutes away from Swindon.

At this size, it may look more like a castle, and the 19th-century builders may have thought so too when they named it Castlefields.(Image: Carter Jonas)

It is on sale for £1,700,000 on the edge of Calne and features “exquisite”, “magnificent” and “unique” features.

Estate agent Carter Jonas writes: “Upon entering the property, you are greeted in the magnificent hallway which truly sets the tone for the rest of the property. (Image: Carter Jonas)

“There are four formal reception rooms to the ground floor, as well as a prep kitchen, main kitchen, utility/craft room and an orangery.”

The orangery sadly features no oranges in the attached pictures, but is well hung with plants making for a sunny place to eat breakfast.(Image: Carter Jonas)

Castlefields is described as an “exceptionally handsome” Grade ii-listed former hunting lodge set in grounds of a third of an acre. 

It was built in the early 1800s century in the Tudor Revival style with many “highly unique” features, including “exquisite stonework, seen perhaps most notably in the beautiful stone cantilever staircase”. (Image: Carter Jonas)

The 6000 square foot house has eight bedrooms, four bathrooms, a cellar, attic as well as a separate outbuilding.

The seller suggests that this could be rented out or used all for yourself as extra living space.(Image: Carter Jonas)

On the first floor, there is the main bedroom suite with an en suite bathroom and dressing room. 

There are a further four bedrooms on the first floor, some en suite, and two of which can be accessed via their own staircase.(Image: Carter Jonas)

In the cellar is an open well, which Carter Jonas says is still used today for watering the gardens in the height of summer.

Castlefields was built for Henry Alworth Merriweather in the 1820s as his country home away from London where he was town clerk.(Image: Carter Jonas)

Another estate agent, Inigo, says of the house: “This locally important house was designed with remarkable attention to detail and at considerable expense for the time. 

“Built from squared, coursed Chilmark stone, the house has a slate cross-gabled roof with elegant octagonal chimney stacks and cornicing at the chimneys’ apex. 

“Stone eagles sit atop the pitch, at the roof’s gable end.”

The house was last sold in August 2005 for £765,000 and so has much more than doubled in the 19 intervening years.