2 bedroom semi-detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Attached Grade II Listed cottage
- Two bedrooms
- Rural but accessible location
- Character features throughout
- Off street parking
- Garage
- Well maintained gardens
- CTB - B
- EPC - C
- Freehold
Situation - The property is situated in an enviable position on the rural fringes of the hamlet of Essington, just outside North Tawton. The thriving town of North Tawton offers a comprehensive range of amenities including various shops, post office, public houses, hairdressers, primary school, dentists, doctors and veterinary surgery. The property is also within easy reach of Okehampton offering a more comprehensive range of shopping, educational and leisure facilities. The A30 dual carriageway is easily accessible from Whiddon Down, some 7 miles distant, providing a direct link west into Cornwall or east into the Cathedral City of Exeter with its motorway, mainline rail lines and air links.
Description - Ginger Pop Cottage is a Grade II Listed attached cottage which the Listed Buildings notes suggest dates from the 17th Century. The two bedroom cottage, which is within the North Tawton conservation area, has many period features including exposed ceiling beams and stone fireplace. In 2014, the property was refurbished including a new thatch roof, new slate roof, chimney stack and full re-wiring. The thatch ridge was replaced in 2023. Of rendered cob and stone elevations beneath a mainly thatched roof, the property is well presented.
Accommodation - The stable front door leads into the kitchen which has a range of matching eye and base level units, electric oven, ceramic hob, space and plumbing for washing machine and dishwasher together with exposed oak beam. The sitting / dining room is dual aspect and has a stone fireplace with bread oven and exposed ceiling beams. The rear hallway, currently used as a small office area, leads through to the conservatory with French doors to the rear garden. Of further note on the ground floor is a modern bathroom with an electric shower.
Stairs from the sitting room rise to a small landing off which are two bedrooms.
Gardens - Off the lane is a large gravelled driveway offering generous parking space. This leads to the garage / workshop with power and light connected. Attached to the side of the property is a useful store / utility room with power, lighting and space and plumbing for washing machine. In the rear garden, adjoining the property, is a large gravel seating area. There is also paved patio with a path through the lawns with several well-established trees and shrub borders. To the rear of the property is a decked area with views across the adjoining fields.
Services - Mains water, drainage, gas and electricity. Gas central heating.
Broadband - 57mbps BT high speed fibre 2
Agents Note - There is a right of way (ROW) for the local farmer over the initial section of the driveway for access into the neighbouring field. Please ask the agent for further details.
Directions - From Exeter proceed on the A30 exiting at the Whiddon Down junction. Just after the service station turn right signposted North Tawton. Continue on to North Tawton and proceed into the town square, turning right to the side of the town hall. Proceed for approximately quarter of a mile to the hamlet of Essington and turn right where the property is the last on the right as you leave the hamlet.
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