4 bedroom house

A period four bedroom rural cottage with large gardens and easy access to Exeter and the M5, with some renovation required. No Onward Chain.

Requiring a degree of renovation, this delightful semi-detached period cottage benefits from mature gardens extending to 0.44 acres in an unspoilt rural location. The National Trust’s Killerton House and gardens lie within walking distance and the cathedral city of Exeter is only 15 minutes drive from the property. Period features include a stone inglenook fireplace and exposed beams, while the original part of the house is of traditional cob construction ensuring the property has the benefit of the material’s natural insulation.

The property is immediately habitable, with the benefit of circa. 4 year old electrics, a working kitchen and bathroom and many rooms in a good decorative condition. The tin roof of the property is currently uninsulated and work is required to both Bedroom 4 and the ceiling of the Sitting Room. The property does not yet have the benefit of central heating and the windows are typically single-glazed.

Ground Floor — Porch with timber stable-style part-glazed door into the Sitting Room large dual aspect room with stone inglenook fireplace, part-exposed stone walls, exposed beams, space for table and desk and ceiling currently supported by acrow props. Door to Kitchen side aspect with tiled floor, range of base units, matching wall cupboards and integral electric oven. Opening to Dining Room rear aspect with door to rear hallway with opening to Laundry Area. Side aspect with space and plumbing for washing machine, door to Shower Room. Side aspect with shower, washbasin and WC, and further door to Garden Room. Triple aspect with mono-pitched Perspex roof, tiled floor and door to Lean-to which is also beneath mono-pitched Perspex roof and with stairs up to the rear garden.

From the Kitchen, stairs up to the first floor Landing with door to front aspect Master Bedroom. Characterful room with exposed beams, views over fields and door to side aspect Storeroom. From Landing further doors to Bathroom side aspect with panel bath, washbasin and WC. Bedroom 3; rear aspect. Bedroom 2; and the undecorated Bedroom 4 side aspect and open to rafters.

OUTSIDE
The property is accessed by a quiet single track public highway and a hardened track that leads to a gravel parking area for 2no. cars to the front of the property. To the side of the house is a gravel parking area for a further 2no. cars. To the rear of the property the large garden extends approximately 130m and comprises various timber sheds, apple trees, vegetable patches and mature trees, amounting to a well-loved attractive and secluded space. At the far end of the garden is a newly constructed timber built Workshop (4.61m x 5.64m) with a pitched slate roof, uPVC windows to all sides and glazed double doors to the rear.

A bank marks the boundary to the public highway to the east while a bank and ditch marks that lying between the garden and adjoining fields to the west. To the north the boundary to the adjoining garden is marked by a hedge while that to the south is marked by a bank, hedges and mature trees, and to the front of the property a low stone wall and side elevation of a neighbouring dwelling.

SERVICES
Mains water and electricity. Drainage to septic tank within rear garden. No central heating.

OUTGOINGS
Council Tax Band D.

DIRECTIONS
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VIEWINGS
Due to the aforementioned structural concerns respective of the ceiling of the Sitting Room and open ceiling of Bedroom 4, we ask that children under the age of 16 do not accompany parents on viewings of the property.

All viewings are strictly by appointment only via the Agents, Greenslade Taylor Hunt:-
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