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6 bedroom detached house
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Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 6 bedrooms
- 4 reception rooms
- 3 bathrooms
- 1.25 acres
- Period
- Coastal
- Detached
- Garden
- Parking
- Rural
Internally the house has good-sized rooms with excellent ceiling height and is beautifully presented, retaining all its original joinery and several fireplaces with tiled surrounds. At its centre is the good-sized reception hall, which has a timber floor and windows on two sides including French windows opening to the terrace and currently houses a grand piano. The drawing room has a parquet floor, an impressive stone fireplace and windows on two sides including a bay window with a delightful view across the valley. Separated from it by triple doors is the dining room with tall, orangery- style windows on three sides looking out onto the garden. On the other side of the hall is the kitchen/breakfast room, which has a fireplace fitted with a wood-burning stove, painted timber units under granite worksurfaces, Rangemaster range cooker and a dining area with a built-in, two-sided window seat. The room has windows on two sides and a part-glazed door to the outside dining area. Off it are the well-equipped laundry room and the snug, which has a flueless gas stove.
On the first floor are the principal bedroom with en-suite bathroom and separate shower and French windows onto the roof terrace, a guest bedroom with en suite shower room and two further double bedrooms, one of which was formerly used as a home office with wonderful views out across the valley. In the roof space are the family shower room and two further double bedrooms, one of which is currently used as a sitting room.
East Marches is approached up a shared, private lane serving seven other properties of a similar style and period. Immediately in front and to one side of the house is a gravel parking area with space for several cars. On the opposite side of the house the grounds extend up the side of the valley through a series of grassed terraces and culminating on the largest, top terrace, where there is a handsome, copper-covered summerhouse and a separately sited timber deck in front of it.
The unspoilt outlook from both is simply beautiful with views down across the valley and towards the dramatic coastline across Lyme Bay. Part of the hillside is wooded providing a further terraced area beneath mature broadleaf trees and below which are a treehouse and a garden store. The formal area of the garden extends out behind the house with tall, mature hedging providing shelter and a year-round screen. Immediately adjacent to the house is a paved dining area outside the kitchen and a separate, cobbled terrace, with a lawn beyond fringed by richly planted and easily maintained shrub borders. In all the garden and grounds amount to about 1.25 acres
(0.5 hectare).
Due to the sheer magic of its location the current owner of the property, realising a need to downsize, has commissioned a new property to be built in the grounds of East Marches (previously 2 acres). The project is nearing completion. Unsurprisingly every care has been taken to ensure that the new property blends in, whilst ensuring through its orientation, design and landscaping/planting that mutual privacy is provided for both properties
The Woodroffe School 0.3 mile, Uplyme 0.7 mile, Lyme Regis town centre 0.8 mile, Axminster (Waterloo 2 hours 40 minutes) 4.6 miles, Bridport 10.1 miles, Exeter Airport (London City Airport 1 hour) 24.1 miles, Dorchester 26.2 miles, Exeter city centre 29.1 miles (London City Airport 1 hour). (Distances and times approximate)
East Marches straddles the Devon/Dorset border between the village of Uplyme and the seaside resort of Lyme Regis and is within walking distance of both. Positioned
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