5 bedroom house

5-bed detached Farmhouse with range of Outbuildings and swimming pool, set in 1.41 acres, and requiring modernisation.

For Sale by Auction via Livestream and at the Batch Country House, Lympsham, nr Weston super Mare, on Thursday 14th October 2021 at 1.00pm.

Guide Price: £625,000

An exciting chance to purchase a unique property offering a range of opportunities with scope for conversion of some of the Outbuildings or using the property to work/live, as well as a possible equestrian facility with the stables and adjoining paddock.

The property comprises a detached 5-bed old Somerset Longhouse with a 11.74m x 4.24m music room with own entrance offering great potential for a home office. The property offers an ideal opportunity for a family home once modernisation works have been carried out.

There are a number of character features throughout the property comprising feature fireplaces (to include inglenook, original bread ovens and two bedrooms with fireplaces), flagstone floors and other interesting features.

There is also a range of Outbuildings which offer great potential alternative uses (subject to gaining the necessary statutory consents). The property is situated in the hamlet of Edithmead, near to Burnham on Sea which offers a full range of services, schools, medical centre, leisure centre, shops and other businesses found in a seaside town.

The property offers excellent transport links with the M5 motorway Junction 22 being approximately 0.5 miles distant. The regional city of Bristol is approximately 30 miles north, and there are good road links via the A38 to Bristol Airport 18 miles . There is a railway station at Highbridge, approx. 2 miles distant, with trains into Bristol and London. There are a number of good local and private schools including Millfield and Sidcot within easy reach. Cheddar Gorge, Burnham Beach and the Quantock Hills are a short distance away for recreational activities.

Viewing highly recommended to fully appreciate the extensive potential the property offers and the secluded feeling it gives, being enclosed on all sides.

There is a delightful walled garden to the front of the property plus further lawn on 3 sides. Access off the public highway leads to extensive gravel parking. Access is available down the side of the property to the large attached garage, as well as to the various outbuildings which are more particularly described as follows:-

To the south of the property is a swimming pool, and a brick and tiled summerhouse measuring 2.65m x 3.65m which houses the swimming pool heater and pump, further lawn and sun terrace.

There is a lean-to off the house measuring 2.05m x 2.43m which houses the oil-fired boiler for the music room.

Traditional stone Outhouse under a clay tiled roof measuring 1.96m x 1.72m.

To the west of the property is a 9.14m x 4.43m traditional brick/concrete block building, split into 3 stables, under a clay tiled roof.

Dilapidated Greenhouse measuring 2.10m x 10.00m plus additional Greenhouse with mature fig tree inside. Just outside is a large raspberry patch and vegetable garden.

Attached to the house is a 3.73m x 15.50m monopitch red brick construction building with felt and clay-tiled roof which is used as a garage with lockable store.

To the north of the property is a range of dilapidated traditional buildings under clay tiled roofs plus an old timber poultry building. For viewing purposes people are advised NOT to enter these buildings as they could be unsafe.

The Paddock lies to the west of the property and has become overgrown.

Marketed by: Greenslade Taylor Hunt, Burnham-On-Sea