The Old Rectory, Littlehempston, South Devon

The Old Rectory Littlehempston, South Devon TQ9 6LY

A Grade II listed 5 -BEDROOM RECTORY with 2 bedroom barn, outbuildings and 5 ACRES close to Totnes.

Totnes 59 Fore Street, Totnes, Devon, TQ9 5NJ T 01803 869920 www.facebook.com/LM1873 HOW TO GET THERE Leave Totnes on the A381 Newton Abbot road. After 1½ miles and immediately before the Pig & Whistle, turn left. Go under the railway bridge and continue into Littlehempston. Pass the Tally Ho Inn and The Old Rectory is next door, with parking on the far side.

LITTLEHEMPSTON The hamlet of Littlehempston is situated just over a mile to the north east of Totnes. Located alongside the River Hems, a tributary of the Dart, and tidal up to Littlehempston Bridge, the village has a rural character, two pubs and its parish church of St John The Baptist. The village and surrounding countryside are within an area of great landscape value. Totnes is known as an Elizabethan town but has much earlier origins with a castle, a wonderful position on the River Dart and a main line railway stati on for quick access to Paddington. The town has a well-regarded community college, full range of shops, a weekly market and a wide choice of cultural facillites. The area is host to a variety of cultural, recreational and sporting pursuits: Dartmoor, th e South Hams and the South Devon coastline are all within easy reach and both Exeter and Plymouth are within half an hour's drive.

THE PROPERTY Its Grade II listing suggests that The Old Rectory dates from the 17th century, but it seems clear that the olde st part of the building has much earlier origins. It is a beautiful house, which while having been modernised and restored fifteen or so years ago including a conservatory on the south side, retains many lovely old features. It has a calm, comfortable an d homely feel about it and its four reception rooms and five bedrooms are ideal for a family. In the 16 th century the upper floor was inserted, probably and the church, now Winton House and East Winton. Features Outside, a group of former farm buildings once approached accessed from a stone stair outside and similar to the one still in of the new extension of the Old Rec tory are found repeated in through the coach passage includes stabling, a washhouse, a place on the next-door Tally Ho pub. An early fireplace in the Winton House. Presumably Hele had enjoyed building this quite coach house and a large two-storey barn. The C ider Barn has current hall dates from this period. In the early eighteenth century substantial extension, and had a taste for more. The railway two bedrooms, bathroom and upstairs open plan living with an internal stair was inserted in an east-facing two-storey might have seemed a sufficient excuse. kitchen area. extension. In approximately 1841 a second extension was added to the north-east end of the orig inal building. This wing includes a The coming of the railway however gave the opportunity for a To the south west and beyond the church are further gardens coach passage and a second stair, and housed a kitchen and very c lear image of The Old Rectory, which is found in the series and almost five acres of land through the middle of which flows dining room. of images of the proposed railway, undertaken in watercolour by the River Hems. Along the southern boundary of the property William Dawson. It shows the route of the railway through the Brunel built his historic atmospheric railway which even today still Although it is not certain whether The Old Rectory was always parish, and also views on both sides of the proposed line. The sees the occasional steam locomotive. the rector's house, we know that it was in the mid-19th century. house i s shown from the back, with both extensions as wings, The coming of Brunel' s Atmospheric railway in the 1840s with the lady of the house standing outside the drawing room SOME HISTORY The Old Rectory is Listed Grade II. The core of encouraged the rector of the time, The Rev. F.H. Hele, M.A. to window, with a child at her side. Not all of the current range of the house, identified from thick walls and deep window splays, is build a new and grander rectory some way away from the railway barns in the lower courtyard are shown. medieval, a two-room hall house originally open to the rafters. KITCHEN 12' 3" x 10' 8" (3.75m x 3.27m) [N] Handmade kitchen units with hardwood work surfaces and tiled surrounds, Belfast sink with mixer tap and hardwood draining boa rd, matching wall cupboards, tiled alcove with mantelpiece and housing Alpha oil fired cooker with also heats the radiators and the water, tiled floor, casement window with window seat with radiator beneath with white painted mantelpi ece.

BREAKFAST ROOM 11' 1" x 8' 1" (3.39m x 2.47m) Casement window with window seat, timber panelled wall, tiled floor, built-in cupboard with shelves and electricity consumer unit, radiator.

UTILITY ROOM & WC Stainless steel sink with plumbing underneath for washing machine and dishwasher. Door to separate CLOAKROOM with WC.

LANDING Two radiators, casement window overlooking conservatory, airing cupboard with metal hot water cylinder and cupboard above.

BEDROOM 16' 9" x 15' 8" (5.13m x 4.8m) [N] Fitted carpet, casement window, white painted fireplace, one wall with exposed timbers. Door to shower room.

SHOWER ROOM A 'Jack & Jill' shower room with tiled shower cubicle with sliding screen doors, washbasin with built-in cabinet above and WC, fireplace, casement window, fitted ca rpet, radiator.

BEDROOM 13' 0" x 10' 8" (3.97m x 3.27m) [N] Fitted carpet, radiator, one wall with exposed timbers, casement window.

BATHROOM 9' 1" x 8' 4" (2.78m x 2.55m) [N] Bath with tiled SITTING ROOM The important history of the Great Western Railway from London 23' 8" x 12' 6" (7.23m x 3.82m) [S& N] Fireplace surround, Heritage antique style wash basin, WC, fitted carpet, to Penzance continues, and other trains run through the with Minster mantelpiece and woodburning stove and with fitted radiator, casement window with window seat and cupboards midlands and the north to Scotland, with trains to Edinburgh and shelves and cupboards to one side of the chimney breast, underneath, tiled shower cubicle with brass shower fitting. Aberdeen. Approximately eight trains an hour come by - the cupboards and shelves in alcove, fitted carpet, two radiators, sound from the trains lasts around eight seconds! sash window with working shutters and French doors with UPPER LANDING Fitted carpet, rooflight, secondary sta ircase work ing shutters, dado panelling at north end of room. from kitchen, walk-in airing cupboard with fitted shelves, fitted HALL 16' 2" x 11' 5" (4.94m x 3.5m) Panelled front door carpet and radiator. approached under a rose clad trellis porch. Stone fireplace with CONSERVATORY 20' 2" x 7' 11" (6.15m x 2.43m) Double flagstone hearth, heavy timber lintel and fitted with woodburning glazed timber conservatory with glazed roof and overlooking the BEDROOM 17' 9" x 11' 6" (5.42m x 3.52m) [S] Open fireplace stove. Two radiators, ancient wall panelling. garden. with white painted mantelpiece and tiled surround, fitted carpet, radiator, casement window. INNER HALL Radiator, fitted carpet, carpeted staircase, walk-in DINING ROOM 16' 5" x 13' 6" (5.02m x 4.12m) Panelled walls, store cupboard. cast iron fireplace with marble mantelpiece, bookshelves to one BEDROOM 8' 8" x 7' 10" (2.66m x 2.39m) [S] Fitted carpet, radiator, casement window. side of chimney breast, casement window. CIDER BARN A 2 storey ba rn converted in 2003 to a design by Harris & Sutton Partnership in Totnes.

ENTRANCE HALL With tiled floor, radiator and circular staircase.

BEDROOM 9' 6" x 9' 3" (2.91m x 2.83m) With two double glazed casement windows, radiator, built-in double wardrobe.

BEDROOM 12' 10" x 9' 6" (3.92m x 2.92m) Two double glazed casement, double glazed stable door opening onto garden, built- in wardrobe, radiator.

BATHROOM Tiled bathroom with tiled floor and walls, bath with fully tiled surround, shower screen and shower over, wash basin, WC, vertical towel rail, extractor fan, shaving point, double glazed casement window.

UPSTAIRS - OPEN PLAN LIVING 20' 4" x 14' 9" (6.2m x 4.51m) [E,S&W] Four double glazed casement windows, dou ble glazed French doors/Juliet balcony, woodburning stove set on a stone plinth with stainless steel chimney, three radiators. Heatra Sadia electromax electric boiler for central heating and hot water . The open plan living has a vaulted ceiling with rooflight.

KITCHEN AREA 6' 8" x 7' 10" (2.04m x 2.39m) Hardwood kitchen units with hardwood worktops and tiled surrounds, Hotpoint four ring electric hob, Ariston oven/ grill, stainless steel circular sin k with mixer tap and wooden drainer, fitted wall cupboards, shelves and rack, space for fridge/freezer, built-in dishwasher.

LAND BEDROOM 13' 5" x 19' 1" (4.1m x 5.83m) [N] Fitted carpet, two flower bed. Beyond the garden is a gravelled courtyard with a 4.89 acres of pasture land lies to the south west of the casement windows, radiator, wardrobe, cast iron fireplace with well in the centre and surrounded by a range of outbuildings. house and buildings and through it flows the River Hems. The tiled surround and mantelpiece. These include a stone FORMER STABLE [5.17m x 2.79m] with land h as road access from Grattons lane, by the church carpark brick tiled floor, timbe r hayrack; stone WASH HOUSE (4.5m x and from close to the house. A small section of the land is OUTSIDE - CARRIAGE ENTRANCE 33' 7" x 6' 4" (10.24m x 2.64m) with brick floor and old metal boiler in a stone chimney enclosed as additional garden. 1.95m) With double doors at either end providing an access from recess: Stone GARAGE/WOOD STORE (5.52m x 4.69m) with SERVICES All mains services except gas. Oil central heating to front of the house to the back. concreted floor and double timber doors; FORMER PIGGERIES house from Alpha in the kitchen. Electric c entral heating to Cider (8.61m x 4.77m) with loft; GREENHOUSE (2.65m x 2.08m) OUTSIDE The front of the house is approached through a Barn from boiler on the landing . wrought iron gate across a small gravelled front garden and THE BARN 77' 3" x 30' 4" (23.56m x 9.25m) Built principally of USEFUL INFORMATION Go to http://www.southhams.gov.uk for beneath a tre llis porch. To one side of the house is a gravelled stone with pitched corrugated roof and on two floors. Corrugated information about council tax, location, development boundaries, parking and turning area at one corner of which is the oil storage cladding to first floor. Light and power laid on. Formerly a recycling etc. Type TQ9 6LY in the box under 'Where You Live' tank. On the south side of the house approached from the sitting milking parlour and piggery. room and from the conservatory are a paved terrace and a [bottom right c orner] and select The Old Rectory from the list. grassed front g arden with flower and shrub borders and a central The Old Rectory Littlehempston, South Devon TQ9 6LY

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