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5 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
5 bed
7 bath
EPC rating: E*
4,962 sq ft / 461 sq m

Key information

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Band F
Broadband: Super-fast 72Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • 5 - 11 bedrooms
  • 5 - 7 reception rooms
  • 7 - 11 bathrooms
  • 5.70 acres
  • Outbuildings
  • Period
  • Detached
  • Double Garage
  • Equestrian
  • Garden
Situated on the southern edge of the village in an elevated, south-facing setting, Lowerfield House is set in about 5.7 acres in a very private position with lovely views over the valley of the River Yeo. It was largely built in the 18th century by the then-owner of Lapford Mill, who had the wealth to expand the house to a design befitting a man of his position in the Georgian era. The house has two storeys with attics formerly used for domestic servant quarters and now converted to an en suite bedroom. It has mostly rendered and painted cob walls under a slate roof and is also Grade II listed. It has retained many architectural features from its past including original joinery throughout the house, sash windows, several window seats, picture rails in many rooms, a flagstone floor in the rear hall and three inglenook fireplaces.

The house has been the home of its current owners for the past six years and during that time has been adapted to provide a variety of lettable accommodation including three en suite B&B rooms, a one-bed holiday cottage and a separate, two-bed cottage.

The ground floor has four good-sized reception rooms, a large conservatory overlooking the walled garden and a charming, fully fitted farmhouse kitchen with a tall, beamed ceiling, inglenook fireplace with inset 4-oven AGA and a slate floor.

The first floor contains five double bedrooms (four en suite) and there is an attached, self-contained 1-bed cottage that can be incorporated into the house if desired. All the reception rooms and bedrooms in the main house look out over the grounds and some are south-facing with window seats.

The approach drive to Lowerfield House leads to a parking area in front of the house with space for several cars. Below the parking area is a flat lawn partly fringed by flower and shrub borders and a paved seating area in one corner. Halfway up and to one side of the drive are the coach house, stable block and attached, self-contained 2-bed cottage (The Stables).

Behind the stable block and beside the house is a high-walled area encompassing the kitchen orchard and vegetable garden with a polytunnel, plus a sheltered garden incorporating a raised terrace, several shaded seating areas and two ponds. Behind the house are two courtyards. The closest is cobbled with a separate boiler room/workshop. The other contains a lawn and various period outbuildings including a room housing the property's well that supplies the WCs and garden watering system.

Stretching eastwards beyond the drive are six paddocks supplied by well water and bound by stock-proof fencing. One currently serves as a poultry run and another contains a timber stable block. Below the house are a cider apple orchard and an area of broadleaf woodland.

In all about 5.7 acres (2.31 hectares).


Lowerfield House is situated on the uplands of the Taw Valley on the southern edge of the rural village of Lapford. The village has a parish church, pub, and primary school along with a petrol station, convenience store, post office and railway station on the Tarka Line running between Barnstaple and Exeter.

For immediate needs the larger village of Copplestone four miles away has a convenience store/post office and farm shop. Most day to day requirements can be found in the market town of Crediton, which has excellent amenities including medical, dental and veterinary surgeries, a leisure centre, two supermarkets and an award-winning farmers' market.

There is a wide choice of schooling locally both from the state and independent sectors including Blundells in Tiverton and Maynard School, Exeter School and Exeter Cathedral School in Exeter.

For transport links the railway stations in Lapford and at Tiverton Parkway provide services to London Paddington (2 hours 59 minutes and 1 hour 57 minutes respectively). Exeter Airport (14.1 miles) offers national and international air connections, including a daily, 1-hour service to London City Airport.

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