Ref: LCAA7792 £349,950
The Dairy, Borough Farm, Bridgerule, Holsworthy, Devon, EX22 7EF FREEHOLD
A fantastic, freshly converted, attached, reverse level 3 bedroom barn with en-suite and family bathrooms and a large living space on the first floor. The conversion has been skilfully carried out to an excellent standard and the barn enjoys a delightfully peaceful, near coastal rural position. Also included is a further detached stone barn with planning permission granted for conversion to a 1 bedroom annexe. 2 Ref: LCAA7792
SUMMARY OF ACCOMMODATION
Ground Floor: entrance hall, master bedroom with en-suite shower room, 2 further bedrooms, family bathroom.
First Floor: large kitchen/dining room with vaulted ceiling, separate sitting room with double glazed door onto stairs descending into the garden.
Outside: separate, detached annexe barn with planning permission granted for conversion into a 1 bedroom annexe if required but currently utilised as workshop/store. Raised sun terrace, delightful lawned garden with a large parking/turning area shared with one other barn.
DESCRIPTION
An impeccably presented attached reverse level three bedroomed two storey barn with wonderful mellow stone external elevations and lime mortared pointing, under a slate roof. As much of the character of the barn has been preserved internally with attractive arrow slit windows and exposed A-frame trusses throughout the first floor giving vaulted ceilings to the living areas. The conversion comes with a 10 year new build guarantee and great care has been taken in making sure the conversion was completed to a good standard providing the new owner with all the benefits of modern living in an attractive rustic barn and a beautiful rural location.
On the ground floor is a generous master bedroom with en-suite shower room, two further bedrooms a good sized second double, a decent third bedroom and family bathroom. On the first floor a turning oak staircase is galleried and ascends into a large kitchen/dining room on the first floor. The kitchen is well fitted with dark grey units and metal handles with exposed oak worktop surfaces and an excellent range of integrated appliances. The sitting room is divided away from the kitchen/dining room by a central partition with an apex triangle 3 Ref: LCAA7792 of glass providing borrowed light between the two areas. The sitting room has a broad wood framed double glazed door opening onto stairs which descend into the gardens.
The property benefits from underfloor heating to the ground floor and attractive dark grey fluted radiators to the first floor with heating provided by an external LPG gas fired boiler which will also provide domestic hot water.
On the southern side of the barn is a split-level lawned garden with a raised terrace in front of the barn dropping down to the lawned garden below. At the back of the lawned garden is a separate detached smaller stone barn which is included within the sale and carries planning permission for conversion into a one bedroom annexe which could be used for separate ground floor accommodation for elderly relatives etc. or could equally provide a letting income. The conversion on this barn has not been done but planning permission is in place and the barn is currently utilised as storage/workshop area.
The Dairy is a beautifully converted barn, enjoying the best of both worlds, providing a delightful character property to live in with entirely new services and amenities in a peaceful rural location that is only a short drive from all the local surfing beaches and the coastal resort of Bude.
LOCATION
The farmstead at Borough comprised a former farmhouse and a collection of rustic stone barns which are now converted into three separate dwellings, of which The Dairy is one. The former farmstead is situated in a delightful, peaceful, rural area of mainly farmland with scattered hamlets and villages, in a near coastal location on the Devon/Cornwall border, 4 Ref: LCAA7792 close to the coastal resort of Bude and some fantastic beaches and cliff top walks along the South West Coastal Footpath on the nearby Atlantic Cornish coastline.
A short drive away are the two fantastic beaches at Widemouth Bay providing excellent surfing and bathing with further beaches to be enjoyed around Bude which is a thriving town and popular seaside resort, yet doesn’t suffer the overcrowding that some other Cornish coastal resorts do.
Bude provides an array of services including primary and secondary schools, and excellent array of mixed high street shops/businesses, the Bude and North Cornwall Golf Club, a river and canal, both of which run through the town meeting the Atlantic Ocean beside Summerleaze Beach which is a beautiful gold sandy beach offering bathing and surfing. There are village shops nearby at Marhamchurch and Stratton and the pretty Cornish lanes connect across the county to Launceston where there is access to the A30 which then remains dual carriageway all the way northwards to Exeter and joins the national motorway network. The A39 (Atlantic Highway) provides access to both north and south along the coast with many other fantastic beaches and seaside villages to be enjoyed northwards into Devon and southwards into Cornwall.
A very convenient location for either a main residence or holiday home owners and Dovecot Barn is likely to be of great appeal to both and should be viewed at the earliest opportunity.
THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES (all floor plans and dimensions are approximate)
External wall light with part double glazed panelled front door with an adjacent double glazed window, opening onto:- 5 Ref: LCAA7792
ENTRANCE HALL. Turning oak staircase up to the first floor, useful understair storage, oak flooring with underfloor heating and wall mounted thermostatic control. Inset ceiling downlighters, large built-in understairs storage cupboard also housing the programming controls for the central heating/hot water and zone controls for the underfloor heating. Doors off to:-
BEDROOM 1 – 14’6” max. 13’5” min. x 10’5” max. 8’3” min. An irregular shaped room with a large bank of opaque double glazed windows on one side and double glazed windows on the other providing lovely views out over countryside. Inset ceiling downlighters, television aerial point, wall mounted thermostatic control for the underfloor heating. Door to:-
EN-SUITE SHOWER ROOM. Built-in fully tiled shower cubicle with fitted shower and chromium fitments including a flexible shower hose and rain head above, low level wc, pedestal wash hand basin, attractive grey tiled wall surrounds and floor, chromium ladder radiator/towel rail, inset ceiling downlighters and extractor fan, large wall mounted mirror.
BEDROOM 2 – 14’ x 9’2” plus large walk-in door recess area. Recess with double glazed window providing far reaching countryside views, further opaque double glazed window providing natural light, inset ceiling downlighters, television aerial point, wall mounted thermostatic control for the underfloor heating, attractive exposed brick walling with feature arrow slit window and deep slate sill beneath.
BEDROOM 3 – 11’9” into recess window x 6’4”. Large walk-in recess with double glazed window providing far reaching countryside views, wall mounted electric consumer circuit breaker board, inset ceiling downlighters, wall mounted thermostatic control for the underfloor heating.
FAMILY BATHROOM. White suite comprising a panel enclosed bath with chromium mixer tap and built-in shower above with flexible spray hose and rain head, glazed shower screen to one side. Pedestal wash hand basin, low level wc with large wall mounted mirror above. Complementary grey tiled wall surrounds to the sanitaryware and grey ceramic tiled flooring. Chromium ladder radiator/towel rail, inset ceiling downlighters and extractor fan.
6 Ref: LCAA7792 From the entrance hall a turning oak staircase with glazed safety panels, oak newel posts and handrails (with a cupboard to one side housing the electric meter), ascends to a:-
GALLERIED KITCHEN / DINING ROOM – 23’ (including the stairs) x 14’. The gallery above the stairwell is enclosed by oak newel posts and handrails with glazed safety panels. The kitchen is well fitted with a range of grey matt finished units with metal handles and surrounding exposed wood worktop surfaces and upstands. A comprehensive range of base level cupboards and drawers with peninsula breakfast bar with cabinets down one side and room for seating on the other. An excellent range of integrated appliances include a dishwasher, double oven/grill with four ring ceramic hob top and free floating stainless finished filter hood above, built-in fridge and separate freezer. White Belfast sink with chromium mixer tap, oak flooring with distinct dining area with ample room for table and chairs. Exposed A-frame trusses, dark grey fluted radiator with thermostatic control, two conservation style double glazed Velux skylight windows and lovely feature arrow slit window with exposed brick and stone reveals, ceiling mounted spotlight points, opaque glazed door to:-
7 Ref: LCAA7792 SITTING ROOM – 16’6” x 14’. A lovely room with exposed A-frame trusses. On the gable end is a wide double glazed door opening onto galvanised stairs dropping down into the garden. Oak flooring throughout, dark grey fluted radiator, attractive arrow slit window with brick reveals and slate sill. High level triangular glass window to the divide between the kitchen/dining room and sitting room, allowing borrowed light to bother sides. Wall mounted thermostatic control for heating and telephone points.
OUTSIDE
The Dairy has plenty of parking in a large parking area to the rear and ample room for three or more vehicles and plenty of turning area. A gate opens onto the garden which is mainly lawned, with a path down one side leading up to the barn and the front door. Across the front of the barn is a raised shingled terrace with fenced boundary enjoying lovely views out over countryside. To the right of the gate from the parking area into the garden is a SINGLE STOREY DETACHED ANNEXE BARN – 25’10” x 12’ with natural stone walls and a pitched slate roof. This barn has detailed planning permission for conversion into a one bedroom annexe if required, or currently provides perfectly good workshops/stores.
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9 Ref: LCAA7792 GENERAL INFORMATION
VIEWING – Strictly by prior appointment through: Lillicrap Chilcott, Landrian House, 59-60 Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 2PE. Telephone: (01872) 273473. E-mail: [email protected].
POST CODE – EX22 7EF.
SERVICES – Mains water, mains electricity, private drainage, oil fired central heating. For Council Tax see www.mycounciltax.org.uk.
DIRECTIONS – From Camelford follow the A39 northwards towards Bude passing through Wainhouse Corner, Poundstock and Box’s Shop, go past the two turnings to Bude on the left and up to a roundabout at which proceed straight across towards Bideford on the A39. 400 yards after this turn right towards Holsworthy and Launceston on the A3072. Proceed through the village of Stratton and out into the countryside and after circa 2.2 miles turn right towards Launceston on the B3254, follow this road for circa 1½ miles until you go past a Gulf service station and after a further 400 yards turn right towards Marhamchurch. Follow this lane for a few hundred yards and Borough Barns will be found on the left hand side.
AGENT’S NOTE – The above particulars have been prepared as a general guide only for prospective buyers. Whilst we have endeavoured to provide a fair and reasonable description of the property, no specific survey or detailed inspection has been carried out in relation to the property, the services, the appliances and any fixtures and fittings or equipment. All buyers should rely on their own surveys and investigations in connection with any purchase of the property. All measurements, floor plans, dimensions, acreages and distances are approximate only and should not be relied upon for accuracy.
OFFICE OPENING HOURS – Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm. Saturday - 9.00am to 1.00pm. NB: A number of staff are available for viewing appointments all day Saturday and all day Sunday.
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