Ravishingly attractive Queen Anne houses are one of the wonders of Wiltshire. Meadow Court, at £2.95million, is a delightful example, with an early 18th-century front attached to a modest stone house built 100 years earlier. The property, near Tockenham, six miles off the M4, is already attracting a stream of viewers. Many such houses can be seen from the road, but this one is tucked down a country lane, sandwiched between two farms and entirely invisible to the rest of the world.

It comes with glorious views, north across peaceful meadows and south to the Marlborough Downs. In best early 18th-century fashion it is preceded by a walled garden with a box-edged path leading to the front door.

The new front was built in 1730 by one of the best masterbuilders in the South West, Nathaniel Ireson. His imposing Ven House, across the border in Somerset, sold last year for about £8.5 million. The Queen Anne front is built of the lovely warm orange-red brick of the period with masonry trim in a golden stone. There are pairs of square chimneys on pedestals and emphatic stone lintels that resemble boxes for roller blinds.

The deep stone hood over the door is supported on richly carved scrolls. This opens into a hall with a pretty staircase that has a swooping baroque handrail and carved tread ends rising around an open well; I would rip out the carpet and put in a stone-flagged floor. On either side are square rooms typical of this date, fully panelled, although the unusual coving suggests a later refit. Upstairs there is a broad landing lit by three windows that would make a delightful place in which to read or write.

The ceilings in the older part of the house are lower, and the south-facing kitchen has a lovely view to distant hills; the present owner, Matthew Clarke, a financier and corporate adviser, has opened the kitchen into the dining room behind. I would be tempted to put them back as two rooms because they are awkwardly aligned. This way you could have an attractive west-facing sitting room opening into the garden. Upstairs there are more bedrooms with good views, including one room that has children's bunks set in the gable end.

For someone who wants to work from home the big bonus is the large early 18th-century coach house, complete with original cross-pattern windows and panes set in lead. This could make a lofty studio, office or party room - there is space enough for all three. At present it is used for storage.

Meadow Court has 11 acres of grounds spreading out to the west. The house itself is surrounded mainly by lawns. The pretty formal garden to one side, entered through an arch in a hedge, suggests how pleached limes and beech and yew hedges could make this a place of enchantment, complementing the biscuit-coloured stone of the older house. Both south and west façades are pretty. The east has two slightly awkward additions, which the present owners planned to heal with a conservatory.

The one intrusion comes from nearby RAF Lyneham: the deep rumble of slowly circling Hercules. But it's not aircraft that have driven out Mr Clarke. He and his wife, Melissa, are moving to be nearer their work in Oxford.

FAST FACTS:

What you get: Grade II listed Queen Anne house with five bedrooms in 11 acres. In all, 5,425sqft plus 3,821sqft Queen Anne coach house.

Where it is: Tockenham, Wiltshire. Twelve miles from Marlborough, six miles from Junction 16 of the M4, and nine miles from Swindon, from where trains to Paddington take an hour.

Best schools: Marlborough College; St Mary's School, Calne; Dauntsey's School; Pinewood.

Price: £2.95 million, through

Knight Frank, 020-7861 1098.

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