3 bedroom house

A well presented, delightful semi-detached cottage on the outskirts of a popular Devon village with grounds amounting to 1.63 acres. Useful outbuildings. EPC Band E

Situation - The property is situated in an accessible rural location on the outskirts of the popular Mid Devon village of Lapford. Lapford has a good range of local facilities including a garage/store, 16th Century pub, 12th Century church, primary school together with a railway station on the Tarka line (Barnstaple to Exeter). The large market towns of Crediton (10 miles) and Okehampton (12 miles) each have a more extensive range of day-to-day facilities including supermarkets, banks, secondary schooling and sports centres. The university and cathedral city of Exeter (17 miles) provides an extensive range of shops and facilities, as well as access to the M5 motorway and Exeter airport.

Description - No.1 Kelland Cottages is a well-presented 3 bedroom, semi-detached period cottage situated in an elevated rural position just outside the picturesque village of Lapford. The property is set in gardens and ground of approx. 1.63 acres comprising a pony paddock with small copse, a productive vegetable garden, an orchard and cottage style gardens.

Accommodation - A paved pathway leads into a glazed conservatory with a further door into the utility room. To the right of the utility room a hallway leads to a ground floor shower room with WC and to a large bedroom with double aspect views. To the left of the utility room is a kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen has wall and floor mounted units, an electric cooker and a breakfast bar. From the breakfast room is a door to the sitting room and stairs rising to the 1st floor. The sitting room has period ceiling beams, an inglenook fireplace with bread oven and woodburner and double doors out to a glazed garden room.

The 1st floor gives access to a further 2 bedrooms, both with built-in wardrobes, and a family bathroom.

Garden And Paddock - The gardens, which are accessed from the house, provide areas of lawn with flower borders, mature shrubs, and a paved sun terrace with a greenhouse. In addition, there is a productive vegetable garden, polytunnel, mature orchard and a paddock. In all the land amounts to approx. 1.63 acres. The property is accessed via a private driveway and has ample parking.

Outbuildings - There are a range of outbuildings including a workshop, tractor shed and an open-fronted store.

Planning Permission - There is lapsed planning consent for a holiday lodge in the paddock. For further information please visit Mid Devon planning Ref -16/00935/FULL

Services - Mains water and electricity
Private drainage
Oil fired central heating
Superfast broadband

Directions - From Exeter head north on the A377. Proceed through Newton St Cyres, Crediton and Copplestone. On reaching the village of Lapford take the 1st left turn on to Kelland Hill. At Kelland Cross continue past No.1 Kelland Cottages and the entrance to the property will be on your right.



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