7 bedroom house

*SOLD* The Thatched Cottage is in a peaceful rural, yet accessible location on the edge of the popular village of Lifton, 2 miles to the west which offers two hotels and a public house, a village shop with a post office, primary school, farm shop and restaurant. 6 miles to the west is Launceston which offers a variety of individual shops, supermarkets, hospital, medical centre and a range of recreational and educational facilities. The cities of Plymouth 25 miles and Exeter 37 miles both offer a comprehensive range of educational, cultural, recreational and shopping facilities.



The Thatched Cottage is an immaculately presented 3 bedroom grade 2 listed thatched house that was sympathetically upgraded by the current owners 3 years ago, with wooden double glazed windows with heritage glass and slate flagstone floors throughout the ground floor apart from the tiled garden room. The property benefits from good ceiling height and has been replastered, rewired and replumbed with oil fired under floor heating throughout the ground floor. The spacious living accommodation provides a modern kitchen with a central island, integrated appliances including a dishwasher, larder fridge and separate freezer, Miele oven, Miele combi steam oven with warming drawer and an induction hob and an instant Quooker boiling water tap. Beyond the kitchen, is a most impressive oak and glazed garden room with underfloor heating and bi-fold doors which lead out to the low maintenance garden and the paddock beyond.



The accommodation briefly comprises: on the Ground Floor entrance hall, kitchen / breakfast room, boot room, utility room, garden room, dining hall feature inglenook fireplace with clome oven with wiring and plumbing for a gas fire, study / bedroom 3 with a window seat and a feature fireplace. Apex ceiling with exposed timber 'A' frames. inner hall, shower/ bathroom On the First Floor: master bedroom with a feature fireplace, exposed timber beams, and built-in eye level wardrobe and bedroom 2.



The heating system has 7 separately controllable zones, the boiler is located in the garage with control valves in the utility room and is controlled via an app. Easily controllable and a warm house when you arrive home. The house is also wired for a speaker network and with mesh Wi-Fi throughout the house, garage and garden.



The Coach House

The Coach House is a converted barn located at the entrance to the drive nicely set away from the main residence and has independent parking and lawned garden area and provides ancillary accommodation to the main house or letting potential. The Coach House is divided into 3 letting rooms on the ground floor and an independent flat on the first floor currently let on an Assured Shorthold Tenancy and briefly comprises: kitchen / sitting / dining room, large double bedroom and shower room.



The Ground Floor is divided into 3 letting rooms, all with ensuites with the potential for annexe accommodation, Air BnB or with the addition of kitchenettes studio holiday letting cottages or work from home offices.



Gardens

At the rear of the coach house is a car parking area for four cars and the main house is accessed over its own tarmacadam driveway which sweeps through the garden and onto the front of the house and triple garage.



The gardens are mainly lawn interspersed with flower bed borders and a variety of evergreen and deciduous specimen trees with a feature pond with pumped waterfall. Steps lead up to the lawned terrace garden. The property benefits from its own well with a hand pump providing water for the garden. A raised paved patio is ideal for alfresco dining and entertaining with views over the gardens.



The rear garden is enclosed and is totally dog proof within timber and post and rail fencing, large easily maintained gravelled seating area, raised flower beds and lawned area. A gate leads to the small paddock and field shelter.



Triple Garage divided into

Double Bay Garage: 5.70m x 5.60m (18'8 x 18'4)

with an electrically operated door.

Bay 3: 2.77m x 5.60m (18'8 x 18'4)

Each bay has its own electrically operated roller door.

This garage is an exceptional special feature for the car enthusiast and provides storage for up to 3 cars.



The Land

The paddock is enclosed within traditional Devon bank hedging and stock proof post and wire fencing which would lend itself for exercising dogs or keeping a few sheep, goats or chickens.

Field Shelter: 3.62m x 2.35m (11'11 x 7'9)



SERVICES

Water - Mains

Drainage - Private

Electricity - Mains

Telephone and Broadband - BT connection

Heating - Oil Central heating to main house / Air source heating to the first floor of the Coach House, electric heating to the ground floor.

Council Tax - Band F



Tenure

The property is offered for sale freehold.



Local Authority

West Devon Borough Council, Kilworthy Park, Tavistock, Devon PL19 0BZ .



Viewing Arrangements

Strictly by arrangement with D. R. Kivell Country Property. .



Agent's Notes

The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all outgoings, rights of way, easements and wayleaves there may be whether mentioned in these general remarks and stipulations or particulars of sale or not. All figures, floor plans and maps are for guidance purposes only. They are prepared and issued in good faith and are intended to give a fair description of the property but do not constitute any part of any offer or contract. Any maps used on the details are to assist identification of the property only and are not an indication of the actual surroundings, which may have changed since the map was printed. None of the statements contained in these particulars as to this property are to be relied on as statements or representations of fact.

Marketed by: D. R. Kivell Country Property, Tavistock