9 bedroom house

Roobies Farm – For sale freehold
Roobies Farm offers the most idyllic rural lifestyle whilst also providing an income stream if desired. The house, annexes, outbuildings and garden are surrounded on three sides by paddocks owned by the property. This provides a high degree of privacy. The property is approached off a quiet rural road and then down a lane that is shared by three other properties.

Once a principal farmhouse of the Fairfield Estate, the house is believed to date from about 1650 and has some wonderful original features including slate and wooden floors, a large inglenook fireplace, beams and a wonderful chamfered cross-beam ceiling in the dining room. The home has a real presence. The main house faces south and sits at the southern end of its own buildings, giving it a very private and secluded feel away from the income generating properties, outbuildings and two neighbours. There are three main reception rooms. The sitting room is on the eastern side of the large entrance hall. The dining room, currently used as a study, is on the western side of the hall with a lovely wooden floor and the listed painting of the area, above the fireplace, believed to be painted 18 century. The drawing room has a wooden floor, a large inglenook fireplace housing a wood burner and French doors to the garden. The kitchen is a large farmhouse style with a slate floor and a four-door, oil-fired Aga. There is a laundry room, a large boot room and a downstairs WC to complete the ground floor accommodation. The cellar has been tanked and this room has a good height ceiling and has been used as an office until recently. On the first floor, the principal bedroom has two en-suite bathrooms, one of which can be used as a family bathroom, serving the rest of the house as required. There are three further bedrooms and a separate bathroom at this level. On the top floor, there are two further double bedrooms, a bathroom and a sitting room that can be used as a seventh bedroom if required.

The courtyard garden is perfect for entertaining and for a family to enjoy. Beside the main house but detached from it are two, one bedroom self-contained annexes. One is above the other and accessed via external steps. Each has an open plan bedroom/living room/kitchenette and an en-suite shower room, lending itself to a potential rental income.
North east of the house is the large, listed party barn that is a very useful addition to the accommodation in the
main house. To the west of the party barn is a separate building that houses a workshop/garage, a paint store and
a further workshop. To the west of the main farmyard is an agricultural building that currently houses two stables and a tack room.
North west of the main house and attached to the outbuilding that houses the workshops and paint store is a
further barn that has planning permission for three en-suite bedrooms and a kitchen/sitting room area. This work has commenced so the planning permission is in perpetuity.

Roobies Farm has about five acres of fields and about one acre of garden that surround the main house and include a pond that sits to the south west of the main house. The barn has two Lodden-syle stables and a secure tack room that leads out to the five acres of pasture.

The Quantock Hills
Roobies Farm is approached from the A39 Bridgwater to Williton road and is conveniently situated about 6 miles east of the M5 which can be joined at either J24 or J23. The property lies on the edge of the beautiful village of Fiddington which nestles at the foot of the Quantock Hills. The next door village is Nether Stowey, recently described in the Sunday Times (Sept 2021) as one of the best villages in the UK. It has an excellent primary school, 2 public houses, a Post Office, shops, a medical centre and a range of further facilities. For those with an equestrian interest, Roobies Farm is surrounded by many safe hacking routes. It is also a ten minute ride from the excellent equestrian facilities

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