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4 bedroom detached house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- 4 - 5 bedrooms
- 4 - 5 reception rooms
- 2 bathrooms
- 3.51 acres
- Outbuildings
- Period
- Conservatory
- Detached
- Garden
- Parking
The property offers two significant outbuildings. Firstly a purpose-built, stand-alone and sound-proofed studio with full facilities, currently configured as a recording complex but could easily be used as playroom, office, gymnasium, music room and much more. Secondly a tree house which was created from a former stable block having informal accommodation and office potential.
Today the property is Grade II listed, has been sympathetically renovated and is very well presented. It also has some lovely architectural features including ceiling beams, exposed roof and wall timbers, tongue and groove boarded ceilings in the kitchen and study, timber and tiled floors and an impressive, vaulted ceiling in the dining room that extends up to the ridgeline of the roof.
The cottage is L-shaped with the sitting room, hall and study arranged along one arm and the kitchen/breakfast room and adjacent dining room along the other. The south-facing position of the cottage, means that there are good levels of natural light with the kitchen, dining room and conservatory benefiting the most. To compensate the sitting room, which is east/west-facing has windows on three sides. The dining room includes French windows that open onto the terrace, which is a suntrap in fine weather. The kitchen has great charm with a tiled floor, fitted units along one wall and a two oven AGA inset in the original range fireplace.
Upstairs the principal bedroom and adjacent single bedroom, which would make a perfect dressing room, sit alongside the family bathroom above the sitting room, whilst the other two double bedrooms, separated by an en suite, dual-access shower room occupy the first floor of the other wing of the cottage. Within the roof space is a useful attic room that could serve as an additional bedroom if required.
Tree house, outbuildings & garden
St Johns Park stands in mature grounds that extend out to the south and west with open fields beyond and privacy from the passing road provided by walling and mature hedging. A short driveway provides access from the road and leads to a gravelled parking area with space for several cars. Adjacent to it is an oak-framed garage block incorporating a two-bay carport, a single garage/workshop and log store.
On the eastern side of the cottage is a separate, purpose-built and sound-proofed recording studio incorporating a control room, green room, kitchenette, hallway and cloakroom. Also in the south-west corner of the grounds is a large tree house that currently serves as a self-contained home office and occasional guest accommodation and could therefore provide more full-time secondary accommodation if desired. The garden consists of areas of level lawn scattered and fringed with ornamental trees, flowering shrubs and richly planted borders.
The field beyond the garden consists of good quality pasture land and is currently let for grazing. Immediately adjacent to the house is a paved terrace that links the two wings of the cottage and serves as a wonderful entertainment and dining space in fine weather. Adjacent to it are raised alpine borders and a herb garden fringed with clipped box.
The garden also a soft fruit cage and several dwarf fruit trees. In all the garden and grounds extend to approximately 3.5 acres.
St. Johns Park is set in open, verdant countryside a few miles north of Dartmoor outside the village of Exbourne, which has a church, CofE primary school, pub (Red Lion Inn), village shop/post office and garage undertaking repairs and selling fuel. The nearby, small town of North Tawton has a convenient Spar supermarket, whilst the market town of Okehampton is within easy reach for most day-to-day requirements including Waitrose and a selection of local shops. Today, Okehampton is known as one of the walking centres of Devon, with superb access to Dartmoor direct from the town, or via the surrounding villages like Belstone.
The pretty village of Sampford Courtenay is also nearby, which has a church, a great pub (The New Inn) a village hall and is only a few miles north of Dartmoor. The cathedral city of Exeter is also close at hand offering a wide range of shopping and cultural facilities.
A regular train service runs between Okehampton and Exeter St David's (34 minutes), with connections to Paddington (2 hours 4 minutes). Exeter Airport has a daily flight to London City Airport as well as offering flights to other domestic and international destinations.
There is a wide choice of schools locally both from the state andindependent sectors. The two nearest primary schools in the village and North Tawton are both OFSTED rated 2 (Good) and there are some excellent independent schools close by including Exeter School, The Maynard School and Mount Kelly in Tavistock.
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