Drakes Farm Wambrook, Chard, Somerset

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A beautifully restored and presented Elizabethan farmhouse, Listed Grade II, set within this highly sought after and unspoilt village

Features • Flagstone Hall • Dining Room • Drawing Room • Study • Shower Room • Garden Room • Store • Home Office • Well-Fitted Kitchen / Breakfast Room with Aga • Utility / Rear Hall • Cloakroom • Principal Bedroom with Dressing Room & Bathroom • Five Further Bedrooms • Family Bathroom / Shower Room • Traditional Barn • Garaging Location • Stable Drakes Farm is set along a village lane and enjoys of Chard, Crewkerne and Axminster. Taunton, coast line with pretty villages including Sidmouth, • Expansive Lawned Gardens with Mature lovely outlooks over surrounding countryside, the County Town of Somerset, with its good Beer, Branscombe and Lyme Regis are all within Trees which is some of the most beautiful in the West shopping centre and number of well-respected a short drive, Lyme Regis famous for its Jurassic • South Facing Terrace Country and has changed very little in the last independent schools is found within easy reach, Coast line. Marine sports can also be enjoyed at • Ample Parking century. Wambrook itself is a particularly unspoilt as is the cathedral city of Exeter, also having an Exmouth, Seaton and Lyme Regis, which has a and quiet village, with a good community and excellent shopping centre with a John Lewis store popular sailing club. In all about 0.660 hectares (1.630 acres) local inn, and is situated near the small towns and Princesshay Shopping Mall. The beautiful Communications The M5 motorway provides fast and easy access to Exeter, Bristol and London and the A303 also provides fast access to London and Exeter. Taunton has a main line station with fast trains scheduled to arrive at London (Paddington) within an hour and forty minutes. There is also a main line railway station at Axminster with services to London (Waterloo). The airports at both Exeter and Bristol provide flights nationally and internationally, including flights from Bristol to the USA. There are ferry ports at Plymouth and Southampton with regular crossings to Europe.

• Chard 2 miles • Crewkerne 10 miles • Axminster 6 miles • Exeter 30 miles • Taunton & M5 (J25) 14 miles (all mileages/distances approximate) The Property Drakes Farm is reputed to be one of the oldest properties in an open fireplace with cut stone surround. The well-proportioned Wambrook, dating back to the 17th Century, is Listed Grade II, and beautifully light Drawing Room is arranged on two levels, and is thought to have been part of Sir Francis Drake’s Estate. having a heavily beamed ceiling, exposed uprights and an inglenook Traditionally built of local flint stone elevations under a thatched fireplace with wood burning stove. There is a door to the garden roof, and having been rethatched in recent years, the property has and a further door leading to a secondary staircase and a lobby, a particularly attractive façade with stone mullions, small pane which continues into an inner hall leading to a Study and a Shower leaded light windows and a front porch with Georgian style panelled Room with pedestal wash basin, WC and shower. A further door front door. The accommodation is beautifully decorated and from the lobby leads into the Garden Room with a completely well presented, retaining many period features including exposed glazed wall incorporating French doors leading out onto the beams, plank and muntin screen, flagstone floors, two beautiful terrace and skylights providing a good amount of light. The door inglenook fireplaces and an impressive exposed cruck structural from the garden room leads into the garage area. From the main beam in the principal bedroom. A west facing garden room has hall a passage leads through to the Kitchen / Breakfast Room, a been recently created and together with the adjoining study and the focal point of the house, giving good day to day living space. The area above could provide ancillary accommodation. A number of kitchen has recently been refitted with a range of attractive Shaker traditional outbuildings towards the rear of the property provide the style cupboards and a central island, all having deep granite work opportunity to keep a couple of ponies. surfaces. There is an induction hob, Neff fitted double oven, microwave and a four oven Aga set into the original inglenook Ground Floor fireplace. The Utility lies at the rear of the house, has a good range A canopy entrance porch and partly glazed panelled front door of cupboards and newly installed oil fired boiler. The Cloakroom leads into the Entrance Hall, which has a flagstone floor, plank has a WC, washbasin, the ultra violet water filter system, which is and muntin screen, beamed ceilings and doors leading into the serviced annually, and a door to the outside. The staircase leads Dining Room, which also enjoys the screen, has double aspect and from the hall to the:

First Floor The Principal Bedroom, which is particularly spacious, has an exposed cruck beam, two windows, a lovely fireplace and a door leading down to a Dressing Room. A door leads into an inner hall to the well-fitted Bathroom with bath, wash basin and WC and a further door leading into a Double Bedroom with double aspect. Two Bedrooms are found off the same landing and a rear landing leads to Two Bedrooms and a Family Bathroom, well fitted with panelled bath, shower, wash basin and WC. Gardens & Grounds Handsome wrought iron gates lead into the property opening out stone wall and steps leading up to the gardens, which surround ideal for summer entertaining. A pretty arched door leads from the to ample parking and to the front a Traditional Barn provides a the property to the south and west and are bordered by many front of the house out to the village lane. In all the gardens and Double Garage and adjoining Store. The drive continues round to mature trees providing protection and some shade. The gardens grounds amount to about 0.660 hectares (1.630acres). the north west and leads to Further Garaging, a Stable and a door are interspersed with herbaceous borders of well-chosen plants leading into the Home Office. A large parking area has a retaining and immediately to the front of the house there is a paved Terrace, Approx. Gross Internal Floor Area: 4496 sq ft / 417.6 sq m (includes garage / excludes barn & shed)

Ground Floor First Floor

Measured in accordance with RICS guidelines. Every attempt is made to ensure accuracy, however all measurements are approximate. This floor plan is for illustrative purposes only and is not to scale. Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with permission of the Controller H.M.S.O. Crown Copyright reserved.

Property Information Directions Services: Mains electricity. Spring water - ultra (Postcode: TA20 3DF) violet water fi lter system. Private drainage. Oil fi red On the A30 travelling in an easterly direction through central heating. Oil fi red Aga also provides hot water. Yarcombe, continue over the River Yarty and after approximately one mile turn right sign posted to Local Authority: Membury and the ‘Fern Animal Sanctuary’. Proceed South Somerset District Council along this lane taking the fi rst turning left and left The Council Offi ces, Brympton Way, Yeovil again; descend the hill taking the fi rst turn right Somerset BA20 2HT signed to Wambrook. Follow this lane and Drakes www.southsomerset.gov.uk Farm is the second property on the right. Telephone: 01935 462462 Tax Band: G Alternative Directions Out of Chard on the A30 Honiton/Exeter road, climb Contents, fi xtures and fi ttings: Unless specifi cally the hill and take the left fork at the top, signposted mentioned in these particulars, all contents, fi xtures Wambrook. After approximately 1 mile, turn left to and fi ttings, garden ornaments and statues, carpets Wambrook. and curtains are specifi cally excluded from the sale. Certain items may be available by separate Viewing: By appointment with Jackson-Stops & negotiation. Staff’s Taunton offi ce: 01823 325 144 Important Notice: Jackson-Stops & Staff, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1. They have no authority to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2015. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. This plan is published for not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building the convenience of the purchaser only. Its accuracy is not regulations or other consents and Jackson-Stops & Staff have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any Contract. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise Photographs taken Summer 2015. Brochure prepared June 2016. Taunton 01823 325 144 [email protected] 8 Hammet Street, Taunton TA1 1RZ jackson-stops.co.uk