4 bedroom house

An attractive detached period house, situated in the centre of a popular village with lovely gardens, orchard and a field.

Situation - Perris is situated in the centre of the highly popular village of Hatch Beauchamp. The village provides a thriving community with a hotel, public house, a Primary School, playing fields and a busy village hall. Taunton the County Town of Somerset is six miles to the North West and has an excellent range of shopping, leisure, recreational and scholastic facilities. The property is well located with access to the A303, the M5 motorway at junction 25 and there is a mainline railway station at Taunton with direct railway links to London Paddington and the rest of the country. Taunton is also home to Somerset County Cricket and Taunton Racecourse.

Description - Perris is a charming period house, listed Grade ii benefitting from many stunning period features as befits a listed house. The property has two entrance driveways, one off the main village road and the other off Bickenhall Lane, both lead to a large parking and turning area and then a path leads down to the front door.

Accommodation - A rustic wooden porch leads into a cross-passage hallway with fine panelling. The dining room is duel aspect and centred on an open fireplace with a stone surround, a heavy beam over and a timber mantlepiece boxed ceiling. The drawing room is also a duel aspect room with a window and window seat and double doors overlooking the garden. There is a further boxed ceiling and open fireplace with brick and stone surround with a timber mantlepiece. This room benefits from fine panelling to two elevations. From the entrance hall there is a study, where there is access to a downstairs cloakroom and a utility room. A step leads down into the sitting room with an open fireplace with brick surround and a timber mantlepiece. A part glazed door leads into the kitchen with a range of wall and low-level units and a single drainer sink unit. There is a rear hall with access to the downstairs shower room and downstairs bedroom five / study. This room has lovely views over the garden. On the first floor the turning staircase leads to a large landing space. There is a master bedroom, which is duel aspect and leads to an en-suite bathroom with ball and claw bath, a low-level WC and a wash hand basin. There is a family bathroom with a panelled bath, a wash hand basin and a low-level WC. Bedroom three is a double room, bedroom two has two windows overlooking the front garden and is sub-divided to create the fourth upstairs bedroom with a window to the side of the property.

Outside - Perris benefits from two vehicle entrances, one onto the main village road and then the other onto Bickenhall Lane. They lead to garaging and extensive parking and turning areas. The garden to the north of the property is predominately laid to lawn with the driveway leading to the front of the property. The south facing garden is a wonderful feature of the property and includes large expanses of lawn with a range of shaped flower and shrub boarders. There is a sunken pond, a small ditch and access to the tennis court.
Immediately below the garden there is an orchard, which links to the paddock, which is level and laid to permanent pasture. Between the tennis court and the main area of lawn there is a further pond area. From here the rear access sweeps out to Bickenhall Lane.
Perris has a range of outbuildings that includes a large garage block, an adjoining work shop and a further store. These buildings are useful and water tight.

Directions - Proceed out of Taunton on the A358 towards Ilminster. Take the left hand turn off the main road and proceed into the village of Hatch Beauchamp. Proceed past the Hatch Inn Pub and onto Village Road, where the property can be found on the right, as identified by a Stags “For Sale” board.

Agents Note - The selling agents give notice under the Estate Agency Act that the vendor of this property is connected to Stags.



Marketed by: Stags, Taunton