Heale Court

A magnificent contemporary property built to exacting standards and enjoying a private setting close to the village.

Heale Court occupies a private well-chosen setting within the scattered hamlet of Heale being close to the village of Curry Rivel, which is famous for its monument at Burton Pynsent. Curry Rivel village is within walking distance and has a good range of day to day amenities, including a primary school, church, excellent hardware shop, café, filling station and a pub. Langport is a small, ancient market town found a little further to the East and provides further local amenities, and Taunton, the county town of Somerset, is found in the opposite direction and has an excellent range of independent schools, namely King’s and Queen’s Colleges, Taunton School, King’s Hall Preparatory School and the Richard Huish Sixth Form College. Other schools within easy reach include Sherborne, Millfield and Hazlegrove.

Curry Rivel has good access to communications with the A303 at Podimore roundabout providing fast easy access to London. The M5 motorway can be joined at Taunton, Junction 25, giving fast easy access down to Exeter and up to Bristol and the Midlands. Taunton has a Mainline Railway Station with fast trains to London Paddington scheduled to arrive in one hour and forty-five minutes. Exeter and Bristol Airports are within easy reach.

Heale Court stands proudly at the end of its private tarmacked and gravelled drive and is surrounded by gardens and grounds enjoying glorious outlooks towards the village church and distant hillsides beyond. Built to an ‘individual’ design approximately nine years ago all the principal rooms enjoying good outlooks, the house enjoying a southerly aspect. A well-appointed interior has many noteable features, excellent quality fittings and the use of mature oak and glass provides a light and contemporary feel. The beautifully fitted kitchen has a range of knotted oak panelled cupboards together with painted cupboards and granite surfaces and is open to excellent living space with sitting area with a wood burning stove and a dining area with doors leading out to the terraces. An intriguing sitting room has a vaulted ceiling, fireplace and is open to a galleried landing. All the bedrooms, five in all, four being en-suite, are of good size and two principal first floor bedrooms have velux balcony windows. Energy efficiency has also been the theme throughout the design, there being an air source heat pump providing underfloor central heating and hot water and Solar panels supplement the electricity.

The entrance to Heale Court is accessed from a quiet country lane and is edged with cypress trees and opens out to generous graveled parking and in turn leads to the integral double garage. The property faces due south and has a deep terrace stretching across the front of the house and adjoins wide paths which offset large expanses of lawned gardens with many matured native trees together with conifers and spruce. A wildlife pond is found on the eastern edge of the boundary and is surrounded by well-chosen plants. The gardens stretch round to the rear of the property where there are other useful garden stores. A laurel hedge offsets a wooded area of garden with white poplars and a variety of native trees. Within the wooded gardens is a useful garden implement store. In all the gardens and grounds amount to 1.823 hectares (4.505 acres).



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