Batcombe Barns

About the property

Batcombe Barns is a detached house dating from 1929 and extended over the years to provide a comfortable family home. The house sits alongside a quiet rural lane and on the lower slopes of the Mendip Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Its elevated position ensures that the house enjoys fabulous south westerly views across the beautiful countryside of the Somerset Levels. The property benefits from a garden, paddocks, orchard and outbuildings, in all totalling around 3.5 acres. Water for the property is provided from a borehole and is pumped and filtered for use.

Batcombe Barn's fabulous position offers great potential for extension and improvement to create an impressive country property. The detached outbuildings offer potential for conversion to provide increased office space or perhaps other ancillary accommodation – subject to the necessary planning permissions and consents.

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About the inside

Batcombe Barns has comfortable and versatile accommodation of around 1,850 sq.ft. The front door opens to a hall with doors off to the cloakroom and the kitchen. The kitchen has wall cupboards, drawers, shelves and a stainless steel sink. Off the kitchen is a useful boot room/utility room. A door from the kitchen opens to the dining room with a wood burner, off this room is the snug/office with an open fire. The generous triple aspect sitting room is at the furthest end of the house and has a solid oak floor, magnificent Draycott stone fireplace with a 'Jetmaster' fire within. There are also two double bedrooms on the ground floor.
On the first floor are two further double bedrooms, one with an en suite and both with fabulous far reaching views. There is also a bathroom with a bath, shower cubicle, hand basin and wc.

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About the outside

The garden and land sit predominantly to the west and north of the house. The mature garden slopes gently downwards to a chicken enclosure with a block-built geese house that has light and power. To the south side is a gated driveway and a greenhouse. To the west of the house is a paddock of around 2 acres with gated access to the A371 at the lower end.

A further paddock lies to the north east of the house where there is further gated vehicular access and two outbuildings comprising of a detached open fronted barn separated into two sections and a further detached two storey barn with an office that opens to a workshop with a further workshop and two store rooms on the first floor. This building has water and electric.

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About the area

Batcombe Barns is situated east and around 1.5 miles from Cheddar and is on the lower slopes of the Mendip Hills, an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and around half a mile from the village of Cheddar. There are beautiful walks straight from the front door of Uplands onto the Mendip Hills and to the surrounding countryside. The area is popular with walkers and cyclists with the amazing Cheddar Gorge close-by. Cheddar is a large village, situated on the southern edge of the Mendip Hills, 9 miles northwest of Wells and 18 miles southwest of Bristol. Cheddar Gorge, on the northern edge of the village, is the largest gorge in the United Kingdom and includes several show caves. The village supports a variety of community groups including religious, sporting and cultural organisations and has a variety of shops to cater for everyday needs, a bank, and a Post Office as well as doctor and dentist surgeries.

Directions

From Wells take the A371 towards Cheddar passing through the villages of Easton, Westbury-Sub-Mendip and Rodney Stoke. Continue into the village of Draycott and almost at the end, take the turning right into School Lane and then into Top Road. Batcombe Barns is half a mile along from School Lane on the left hand side.
PLEASE NOTE THAT SAT NAV WILL NOT TAKE YOU TO THE PROPERTY.

Useful information

Postcode – BS27 3YD
Services – Mains electricity, oil fired central heating. Private drainage and private water from a borehole
Local Authority – Sedgemoor District Council
Council Tax – Band D
Energy Performance Certificate Rating - E
Tenure - Freehold

Viewings

Viewings - Strictly by appointment with the Vendors agent Killens