Forder House Moretonhampstead • Dartmoor National Park

A fine Georgian, listed town house of considerable character and charm, with gardens including courtyard garden and separate detached house, in one of Dartmoor’s most popular moorland towns.

Spacious family accommodation with beautifully proportioned, high ceilinged rooms typical of the architectural period. Summary

• Reception Hall

• Drawing room

• Library

• Kitchen/dining room

• Utility room

• Cloakroom /shower room

• Boot room

• 5 bedrooms

• 3 bathrooms

• Separate detached house with office/studio

• Enclosed courtyard garden

• Extensive parking Location Forder House is situated within the popular and there are many and varied opportunities other destinations. The A38 leads south west to a circa 1800 house that still has a single depth moorland town of Moretonhampstead, on the locally for walking, cycling, riding and fishing. Plymouth, from where there are ferries to France plan and a relatively simple exterior” north eastern side of Dartmoor National Park. Nearby is the renowned Bovey Castle Hotel with and Spain and the A30 leads west into Cornwall. • The house receives a laudatory entry in The town provides a good selection of local golf course and also Gidleigh Park Hotel. Within Pevsner’s “The Buildings of England, Devon amenities including shops, hotel and restaurants, easy access is the university and cathedral city Distances Second Edition” church, primary school, library, health centre, of Exeter, providing a full range of recreational, • Chagford 4 miles • Spacious, well proportioned, high ceilinged doctors, dentists and veterinary surgeries, sports cultural and shopping facilities. • A30 7 miles rooms typical of the architectural period and centre and open air swimming pool in the • Exeter 13 miles retaining many original features summer and there is an active local community. Communications (distances approximate) • Delightful, enclosed walled courtyard garden The town is known as “the gateway to the high From Moretonhampstead there is access, via the • Separate detached stone house, currently used moor”, as well as being an ancient market town A382, to the A38 dual carriageway to the south, The Property as private study/studio and local events include Moreton Music Day and or the A30 to the north, to Exeter, where there • Elegant, Georgian townhouse • Extensive parking areas the Carnival in August. Dartmoor National Park is access onto the M5 motorway, railway stations • Listed as being of architectural or historical • Very easy walk into the centre of the town and is renowned for its spectacular scenery, with its with mainline rail connections to London interest, Grade II and stated as being circa 1800: all its amenities granite tors, heather clad moorland and wooded (Paddington and Waterloo) and an international The official listing states “It is unusual in • Convenient access both up onto Dartmoor and valleys, bisected by rushing streams and rivers airport with services to London City airport and having interior features of such high quality for also to Exeter Ground Floor The front door beneath the Tuscan porch with with kitchen area with fitted base cupboards with columns opens to work tops, gas fired Aga, sink and drainer, Reception hall ornate cornicing, fine turning plumbing for dishwasher, doors to parking area, wide geometric staircase with stick balusters and terrace and courtyard garden, dining area with inlaid moulded handrail, dado rail, panelled stone fireplace with gas fired wood-effect stove, doors to tiled floor and built in window seat, door to Library Adam style fireplace with ornate Utility room fitted cupboards with sink and surround and mantle and recessed arches to either drainer, plumbing for washing machine. side, dado rail, picture rail, decorative cornicing. From the reception hall the fine, turning staircase, Drawing Room Adam style fireplace with ornate overlooked by a tall window, rises to surround and mantle, built in shelved cupboards to either side, dado rail, picture rail. First Floor Inner Hall understairs cupboard, wall panelling, Galleried landing dado rail, ornate cornicing, rear staircase, doors to panelled doors to Cloakroom wash basin, shower cubicle, WC, Bedroom 1 fireplace with panelled and carved heated towel rail. surround and mantle and built in cupboards to Rear Hall door to entrance driveway door to either side, picture rail, decorative cornicing. Boot room gas fired boiler. Bathroom free standing bath, wash basin, WC, From the inner hall a further door leads to decorative cornicing. Kitchen/dining room a large open plan room Bedroom 2 fireplace with ornate surround and First Floor (continued) mantle, built in shelved and wardrobe cupboards, arched recess with fitted bookcase, picture rail, decorative cornicing. From the top of the staircase a further door leads to Rear landing rear staircase down to rear hall, doors to Bedroom 3 built in cupboard, picture rail. Bathroom bath with shower fitment, wash basin, WC. Guest Suite Bedroom 4 exposed roof timbers. Shower room shower cubicle, wash basin, WC, heated towel rail. From the rear landing a door opens to stairs up to Attic bedroom 5 boarded floor, exposed roof timbers, door to attic storage space.

Old Forder House To the rear of the main house and beside the entrance driveway and parking areas is the detached stone house known as Old Forder House with tiled roof, believed possibly to have been the original house. From the courtyard wooden gate opens to the wide gravel parking and stone wall to the lawned front garden edged by Contents, Fixtures & Fittings: Only those garden a door opens to a ground floor room with turning area and a small lawned garden area, further plant borders and separated from the road mentioned in this brochure are included in the stone fireplace and exposed beam. There is a enclosed by stone walls and the back of Old by wrought iron railings. sale. All others such as carpets, curtains, light separate WC and the staircase rises to two full Forder House. fittings, mirrors, garden ornaments etc. are specifically excluded but may be made available height first floor rooms currently used as private A door from the kitchen/dining room opens to the by separate negotiation. study/studio with exposed roof timbers. delightful private courtyard garden, enclosed by Property Information Viewing: Only by appointment with A further door from the courtyard garden leads the rear of the main house, Old Forder House and Services: Mains electricity, water, drainage and Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Exeter office: into another ground floor room serving as a a high stone wall. The walls support climbing gas. Gas fired heating. 01392 214 222. store/workshop. plants including wisteria and rose. A broad paved Local Authorities: Dartmoor National Park For sale by private treaty with vacant terrace gives on to a lawn fringed by raised plant Authority, Parke, Haytor Road, Bovey Tracey, possession on completion. Outside and shrub borders behind stone retaining walls Devon. TQ13 9JQ. Tel. 01626 832 093. The first part of the gravel entrance driveway and a raised ornamental pond. There is a further Teignbridge District Council, Forde House, from the road is shared with the neighbouring small enclosed paved terrace to the side of the Brunel Road, Newton Abbot. TQ12 4XX. house. From here a high, electrically operated house and a wooden door leads through a high Tel. 01626 361 101. For identification purposes only. Not to scale.

Directions From Exeter and the M5 follow the A30 dual representations or warranties in relation to the carriageway towards Okehampton. Turn off at property. These particulars do not form part of Whiddon Down and follow the A382 to any offer or contract and must not be relied upon Moretonhampstead. On reaching the roundabout as statements or representations of fact. at Moretonhampstead continue straight on signed 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are towards Bovey Tracey. Go past the sign to the approximate. The text, photographs and plans Health Centre and just past the red telephone box are for guidance only and are not necessarily and the zebra crossing, the entrance drive into comprehensive. It should not be assumed that Forder House is on the left, between stone posts. the property has all necessary planning, building regulations or other consents and Jackson-Stops Important Notice & Staff have not tested any services, equipment Jackson-Stops & Staff and their clients and any or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves joint agents give notice that: by inspection or otherwise. 1. They have no authority to make or give any Exeter 01392 214 222 [email protected] 10 Southernhay West Exeter EX1 1JG www.jackson-stops.co.uk