8 bedroom house

CREECH HOUSE, BRUTON, SOMERSET, BA4 6HN

Bruton 3 miles, Castle Cary & rail station 4 miles, Wells 9 miles, Street & Glastonbury 13 miles, A303 9 miles, Bath 20 miles (all approx.)

Summary

A superb contemporary country house in a beautiful rural setting within a short drive of Bruton and the surrounding towns.

The house has generous accommodation (over 6,700 sq.ft. / 627 sq.ms.) including 2 entrance halls, family areas, impressive entertaining rooms, a superb kitchen/living/dining room, 2 cloakrooms, 7/8 bedrooms and 5 bath/shower rooms (including 4 suites).

There are 3 integral garages, extensive parking and easily managed grounds.

Location

Creech House lies in beautiful open countryside east of the village of Evercreech and west of the sought-after township of Bruton. This has a total of seven schools, including Kings Bruton, Sexey's, and Bruton School for girls. Bruton caters for all age groups with great restaurants, art galleries and boutiques. It's fast becoming the go-to town for city dwellers looking to move to the countryside and enjoy good amenities.

Description

The design brief for local award-winning Chartered Architects, Della Valle, was to create a country house by extending and upgrading the original Edwardian Dower House, retaining a traditional style, using local materials such as Blue Lias, Doulting Ashlar and Welsh Slate for the external finishes. Internally, the brief was to design flexible open-plan living spaces with lots of natural light, while also creating a low maintenance, low energy home, embracing high-tech systems, using high quality materials & finishes. The house offers superb entertaining, leisure and living spaces, with the outdoor terraces having uninterrupted views of Cranmore Chase and the surrounding farmland.

Accommodation

The accommodation is beautifully presented, and the proportions are superb. Upon entering there is a spacious entrance lobby, that in turn leads into the stunning kitchen, dining and informal living area. It has a fully glazed southwest facing elevation, vaulted ceiling, exceptional proportions and ceramic floor that combine to give a tremendous feeling of space and light. A bespoke kitchen with striking contemporary units sits at the heart of the room. There's a comfortable sitting area and a superb dining space with bi-folding doors on two elevations that lead into the gardens.

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A separate gym also overlooks the garden with bi-folding doors providing access to the terrace and lawns beyond. This room could easily provide a further sitting room. Also, of particular note, is the stunning dual aspect drawing room that has large bi-fold doors on both elevations leading into the gardens. There is a striking contemporary fireplace with wood-burning stove that sits at the focal point of this magnificent entertaining space. Also on the ground floor is a cinema room, lobby, spacious utility room and plant room. There are two separate cloakrooms and in addition there is a ground floor bedroom (8) with en suite shower room. Currently used as an office.

First Floor

On the first floor is a luxurious master suite with dressing room and stunning en suite bathroom. There are Juliet balconies off both rooms that take in superb views. There are six further bedrooms (two en suite) and a family bathroom.

Outside

The property is approached on the northeastern side with electric gates set in high walls. The gates open into a generous parking area for several vehicles which fronts a triple garage with automated doors and underfloor heating.
Gardens extend to each side of the house and lead to a large terrace and lawns with great views over the bordering countryside.

Features

• Approx. 0.59 acre site
• Electric gated entrance
• Parking for 8/10 cars
• Remote control electric garage doors
• Underfloor heating to garages
• Underfloor heating to house – ground floor
• Wet heating system to first floor
• Calpeda twin pump water pressure-pump system
• Klargester Biodisc 'clearwater' sewage treatment system
• Twin coaxial satellite cable throughout
• Hard-wired fire & smoke alarm system throughout

Other points

Freehold. Not listed. Mains water and electricity. Private drainage system.
Heating and hot water.
Oil fired central heating with underfloor heating on the ground floor and radiators on the first floor.
The plant room has a 1,000 litre storage tank, 2 pressurised cylinders (600 litres) and a commercial size boiler. The house has 3 manifold regions for control.
EPC Banding D. Council tax band G.

About the area

Evercreech is a bustling village situated close to Castle Cary mainline station.
A variety of local amenities in the local village of Evercreech, include a post office and '7 til' 10' shop, pharmacy, doctors' surgery, Free-house village pub & restaurant, award winning fish & chip shop and a local church. There are a number of other well-regarded schools in the area including Millfield Prep and Senior School, and the Wells Cathedral School and Hazelgrove Preparatory School.
The cities of Bath and Bristol are easily accessible to the north, and the A303 to London and the West of England is accessed either at Sparkford or Wincanton to the south.
The main line station in Castle Cary provides services to London Paddington (journey time from 97 minutes), along with Gillingham main line station offering services to London Waterloo (journey time from 117 minutes).

Important Notes

Roderick Thomas, their clients and any joint agents state that these details are for general guidance only and accuracy cannot be guaranteed. They do not constitute any part of any contract. All measurements are approximate and floor plans are to give a general indication only and are not measured accurate drawings. No guarantees are given with regard to planning permission or fitness for purpose. No apparatus, equipment, fixture or fitting has been tested. Items shown in photographs are not necessarily included. Buyers must rely on information passed between the solicitors with regard to items included in the sale. Purchasers must satisfy themselves on all matters by inspection or otherwise.

VIEWINGS. Interested parties are advised to check availability and current situation prior to travelling to see any property.
All viewings are by appointment with the Agents.
Roderick Thomas, 1 Priory Road, Wells, BA5 1SR.

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Directions

The post code is BA4 6HN and this is the only property with this code.