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4 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
4 bed
2 bath
EPC rating: F*
1,959 sq ft / 182 sq m

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Property description & features

  • Somerset/Dorset Borders
  • Spacious Sitting Room and conservatory
  • Kitchen/Breakfast Room with adjoining Snug
  • Ground Floor Bedroom and Bathroom
  • Four Further Bedrooms
  • Attractive Gardens
  • Integral Double Garage
  • Additional Garage/Studio
  • Freehold
  • Council Tax Band F
A four/five bedroom detached chalet bungalow offering flexible accommodation together with integral double garage, attractive gardens and additional double length garage/studio. EPC Band F

Situation - Hewish is a small hamlet located on the Dorset/Somerset borders and is within two miles of Crewkerne where an excellent selection of shopping including Waitrose supermarket, recreational and scholastic facilities can be found, together with a mainline railway station to London Waterloo and Exeter. The A303 is readily accessible being within 7 miles and the Jurassic coast is within 14 miles.

Description - April Cottage comprises a four/five bedroom detached chalet bungalow offering flexible accommodation over two floors. It also has the benefit of a integral double garage, oil fired central heating and uPVC double glazed windows and doors throughout. The improvements to the property include a new roof on the conservatory allowing all year round use of the room. Outside are attractive gardens and grounds together with extensive parking and the benefit of a double length garage which would make an excellent studio/home office subject to the necessary planning consents.

Accommodation - UPVC glazed door leading to the entrance porch, being glazed on three sides, tiled floor , obscure glazed door leading to entrance hallway with an open tread staircase rising to the first floor with cupboard under. L-shaped living room with recessed Woodwarm log burner on a slate hearth with mantle over, views from two aspects and glazed french doors leading to the conservatory; currently used as a dining room with the benefit of a new roof allowing all round use of the room. It is glazed on three sides and has glazed french doors leading to the garden. Within the heart of the house is a spacious kitchen/breakfast room comprising 1 1/2 bowl single drainer sink unit with mixer taps over, adjoining worktops with an excellent range of floor and wall mounted cupboards and drawers, halogen hob with matching double oven and grill, along with space for washing machine and dishwasher. Tile flooring throughout, central breakfast bar with cupboards and drawers beneath along with an oil fired boiler, storage cupboard and uPVC door to side. Leading off the kitchen is a snug again with tiled flooring and window to side. Ground floor bedroom with window to front and opposite the bathroom comprising corner bath with shower attachment, separate shower cubicle, low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin, bidet, part tiled walls and flooring.

On the first floor is a spacious landing with window to rear, together with two eaves storage cupboards, one housing the hot water cylinder. The main bedroom has a large dormer window offering wonderful views, together with three eaves storage cupboards. The adjoining bedroom is currently used as a home office with Velux roof light and trap access to roof void. There are two further double bedrooms both with dormer windows enjoying wonderful views and one with fitted wardrobes and cupboard to one wall. Family bathroom is well fitted and comprises bath with electric shower over, low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin, sloping ceiling and Velux roof light.

Outside - The entrance drive is flanked by a stone wall with a 5-bar timber gate and matching personal gate opening onto a tarmac driveway with a lower parking and turning area and access to a double length garage of block and stone exterior elevations and contained beneath a tiled roof. It is approached through a metal up and over door and is connected with power and light, with windows on two aspects and would make an excellent studio/home office subject to the necessary planning consents. Adjacent to the garage can be found a garden tap. The driveway continues up to the property giving access to the integral double garage approached through electric up and over doors and is again connected with power and light, together with water and pedestrian door to rear. Adjoining the driveway is a front garden which is laid mainly to lawn with well stocked flower and shrub borders and decking area with timber balustrades.

Pathways lead on either side of the property leading to the rear garden which is fenced and hedged giving much privacy with lawned garden, again with attractive flower and shrub borders, concealed oil tank, outside and rose arch. Beyond is a further shaped lawn and a paved sun terrace. In total the grounds extend to just under 1/4 of an acre.

Services - Mains water and electricity are connected. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating.

Viewings - Strictly by appointment through the vendors selling agents Stags, Yeovil office. Telephone[use Contact Agent Button]

Directions - From Crewkerne head south west on the B3165 road to Lyme Regis. After approximately 1 mile turn right signposted Hewish. Continue down into the hamlet bearing right by the grass triangle and continue along here passing beneath the railway bridge. After a short distance the road bears left whereupon the entrance drive to April Cottage is the 2nd on the left hand side.

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Places of interest

    Established in 2006, Stags Yeovil office is ideally positioned on the Dorset/Somerset border and is the firm's most easterly branch. The office can be easily found in Park Road, with convenient parking close by.  The town has good communications, being a short distance from the A303 to London (130 miles) and Taunton (30 miles). Its rail links are excellent and there are two railway stations: Yeovil Pen Mill and Yeovil Junction. Ham Hill, just to the south of Yeovil, has for centuries provided the lovely honey coloured stone for the construction of property in pretty villages, such as East and West Coker. Stags also deal with properties going out towards the Somerset Levels, up to the Mendip Hills and to the east into the Blackmore Vale. Yeovil has close associations with the aircraft and defence industries and is home to Augusta Westland (helicopter manufacturers), as well as Normalair Garratt (who make aircraft oxygen systems). The town has two aerodromes, Yeovil Aerodrome and RNAS Yeovilton. The Quedam Shopping Centre has around 45 shops, plus there are many good independent shops.

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