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4 bedroom detached house
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Property description & features
- Two 2-bedroom attached cottages
- Cottage No.2 in need of renovation
- Period featured but not listed
- Potential for conversion into a substantial family home
- Gardens and paddock - 2.43 acres
- Additional woodland available subject to separate negotiation
- Less than 30 minute commute to Exeter
- Solar array and battery storage
- Freehold
- Council tax band E
Situation - The property is situated in a rural location 2.1 miles from the popular Dartmoor village of Drewsteignton. Drewsteignton offers a shop/post office and popular public house. Whiddon Down is also nearby, again providing a range of local facilities and offering excellent road links via the A30, heading west into Cornwall or east to the cathedral city of Exeter. With its M5 motorway network, mainline rail station and International Airport. A more comprehensive range of facilities can be found in the town of Okehampton, which include a good range of shops and services, three supermarkets including a Waitrose and education from infant to sixth form level.
Description - No.1 & No.2 Tenantspiece Cottages are a charming pair of unlisted, south-facing cottages set in a rural location with grounds amounting to 2.43 acres. The property, of which cottage No. 2 would benefit from a scheme of renovation, offers an exciting opportunity for multi-generational living or a conversion of both cottages into a substantial family home, subject to receiving the necessary consents.
Cottage No.1 - A door from the south-facing front garden leads into a sitting room with period ceiling beams, a fireplace with bread oven and cosy woodburner, and stairs rising to a first floor landing. Doors from the sitting room lead into a dual aspect dining room, and to a rear kitchen extension with wall and floor mounted units and a door to the gravel driveway.
The first floor landing leads to two double bedrooms and a family bathroom.
Cottage No.2 - This period cottage offers the potential for renovation and/or conversion with cottage No.1. A door from the front garden leads into an entrance hallway with stairs rising to the first floor. To the left is the former kitchen with dual aspect windows and a period fireplace. To the right of the hallway is an open plan sitting room with period ceiling beams, fireplace and storage cupboard.
Stairs rise to an open plan first floor offering buyers the flexibility to configure the space as they wish.
Grounds And Outbuilding - To the rear of the property is a large gravel parking area with a post and rail fence to the house. To the side and front of the property are large well-maintained gardens and a paddock featuring specimen trees and a wood-framed outbuilding with a solar array above. To the side of cottage No.2 are two useful store rooms. In all the land amounts to 2.43 acres.
Services - Mains water and electricity.
Private Water - Well
Private drainage - Septic Tank
Woodburners provide central heating for cottage No. 1.
A solar array provides electricity to the house. As currently operated the majority of the properties electricity use is produced by the solar array and stored in batteries.
Directions - From Exeter proceed on the A30 dual carriageway in a westerly direction towards Okehampton and take the Whiddon Down exit signposted Moretonhampstead. Take the 1st right turn signposted Crockernwell/Hittisleigh and continue back over the A30 taking the exit to Crockernwell/Hittisleigh. After 1.3 miles take the left turn signposted Fursham. After a short distance you will find the property on your right.
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