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Beacon Farm Bridford, Exeter, Devon EX6 7HX

Christow 1.5 miles • Moretonhampstead 6 miles • Exeter 11 miles

A wonderfully situated residential farm on the edge of the Teign Valley & Dartmoor National Park

• Attractive contemporary 5 bedroom house with pastoral views • Two modern farm buildings with attached workshop used as a studio • Productive pasture in good-sized enclosures, within a ringfence • Pockets of woodland and two ponds offering amenity and conservation appeal • Rural yet accessible position, with fabulous walks and outriding from the gate

In all about 60.37 acres (24.43 hectares)

Stags Farm Agency 21 Southernhay West The London Office Exeter 40 St James’s Place Devon EX1 1PR London Tel: 01392 680059 SW1A 1NS Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7839 0888 stags.co.uk Beacon Farm.qxp_Stags 11/09/2015 13:50 Page 4

Situation From the Hall there is a Larder with generous shelving, as well as a Utility Room with Belfast sink and plumbing for a washing Beacon Farm sits approximately a mile from the popular Teign machine, and Boot Room housing the hot water cylinder with Valley village of Christow, which offers facilities including a village door to back garden. Also on the ground floor there is a Double shop, church, primary school, village hall and public house. The Bedroom with built in wardrobe and drawers, a further City of Exeter lies approximately 11 miles away, with its Bedroom/Study and a Family Cloakroom, with white W.C., wash comprehensive array of retail, banking and leisure facilities. The hand basin and heated towel rail. Note: the Edwardian bath is city has a main line rail connection to London in just two hours, not included. while Exeter Airport offers flights to numerous national and international destinations. Stairs from the Hall rise to the first floor, where there are two secondary Double Bedrooms, both with built in wardrobes and The property sits within Dartmoor National Park, close to the drawers, a Master Bedroom Suite with Juliette balcony offering beautiful reservoirs of Kennick, Tottiford and Trenchford, which views over the garden and beyond, with an en Suite bathroom together form part of the South West Lakes Trust. The closest, with useful room off which could be suitable for a dressing Kennick, a five minute walk away, is a top-rated rainbow trout room/nursery. A Family Bathroom with bath, Matkishower, W.C., fishery. wash hand basin and heated towel rail, and a large airing cupboard completes the upstairs layout. Surrounded by farmland and forest, Beacon Farm offers a peaceful retreat from the hustle and bustle of daily life. From the Outside land there are stupendous views to Dartmoor, including Haytor, To the front and side of the house is a slate patio which sits Hound Tor and Hamel Down. There are numerous walks and perfectly in the professionally landscaped garden, with feature bridleways directly accessible from the farm gate, while Dartmoor granite walls, beech hedging and flower beds planted with offers the full gamut of outdoor pursuits and leisure activities. mature specimen plants and trees. Introduction A 30ft Greenhouse, equipped with automatic vents and containing productive Peach and Nectarine trees with an Beacon Farm has been comprehensively renovated and adjoining Pump House. extended in recent years, and today forms a spacious and contemporary family home with all modern conveniences. The Studio Barn The 60 acres of land at Beacon Farm lies in a ring-fence, of Adjoining the farm buildings is a useful workshop/storage barn which approximately 50 acres is grassland and the remainder known as the Studio Barn. It is equipped with a bathroom and woodland. There are two picturesque ponds suitable for has been used in conjunction with the main house. A Cellar sits conservation or sporting activities such as fishing or duck underneath offering a further useful area of storage. flighting. There are also two agricultural buildings as well as ‘The Studio Barn’ which offers potential for non-agricultural uses The Farm Buildings (STP). The buildings are currently used for livestock and machinery storage but could be adapted for other uses, including stables The Farmhouse (subject to planning consent). Of traditional block and render construction under a slate roof, Cattle Building: (8.89m x 17.6m) Open-fronted building, Beacon Farmhouse forms a light and airy family house. The timber-frame boarded elevations under a box profile sheet roof. property is finished to a high standard, with double glazed Iroko Feed barriers to the front. windows, aluminium guttering, solid Oak flooring and bespoke Open Fronted Building: (8.72m x 27.47m) Timber frame with kitchen from Barnes of Ashburton of particular note. open front, part concrete and part earth floor, space boarded The size and layout of the house is shown on the floorplan, but elevations under box profile sheet roof. briefly comprises: Covered Porch with front door opening into Entrance Hall. Door off to Farmhouse Kitchen, with navy blue 5- The Land door electric AGA, built in dishwasher and fridge, a good range The land is ring fenced and divided into a number of good sized of base and wall units under granite and solid wooden tops and enclosures with a south/southwest facing aspect. An attractive space for kitchen table. Opening through to light and spacious woodland copse and ponds run through the middle of the farm, Dining Room/Garden Room with French doors on to patio and offering amenity and sporting appeal. garden beyond, with views across the fields. Opening through The land extends to about 60.37 acres, of which approximately to Sitting Room with JetMaster open fire with feature granite 9.37 acres is woodland, and the remaining is grassland bounded mantle and slate hearth. by hedges, stone walls and woodland. Beacon Farm.qxp_Stags 11/09/2015 13:50 Page 5

General Remarks Planning Permission for a building was granted on 6 March 1995 under Services application number 5/37/005/95/03 and is subject to an agricultural occupancy condition which states. ’The dwelling Mains electricity, bottled Calor gas and borehole water. Solar shall be occupied only by persons employed, or last employed, panels provide a hot water back-up. full-time locally in agriculture or forestry, and the dependents of The Farm Buildings are connected to single phase electricity with such persons as aforesaid.’ water from the borehole. Permission was granted to extend and alter the existing dwelling Tenure in June 2005. Application number 0362/05 The property is held freehold. The land and buildings are let on The planning permission for the studio barn is to provide a a licence. workshop and storage. Access Sporting and Mineral Rights Clampitt Lane links to the public highway. Part of the lane is The sporting and mineral rights insofar as they are owned are council maintained and the remainder is owned by a included with the freehold. neighbouring land owner. Beacon Farm has rights of access and contributes to its maintenance. Fixtures and Fittings All fixtures and fittings, unless specifically referred to within these Designations particulars, are expressly excluded from the sale of the freehold. The property is within the Dartmoor National Park Boundary. Wayleaves, Rights of way etc Rights Of Way The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of any There are no public Rights of Way crossing the property. The wayleave agreements in respect of any electricity or telephone Forestry Company have private Rights of Way to cross part of poles, wires, stays, cables etc., or water or drainage pipes etc., the land. either passing upon, over or under it. The property is also sold subject to and with the benefit of any public or private rights of Local Authority way or bridleways etc. Teignbridge District Council Tel: 01626 361101/ www.teignbridge.gov.uk Plans and Boundary Fences A plan, which is not to scale and is not to be relied upon, is Dartmoor National Park Authority - attached to these particulars. Purchasers must satisfy Tel: 01626 832092 / www.dartmoor-npa.gov.uk themselves by inspection or otherwise as to its accuracy. Council Tax Band: D Viewing Basic Payment Scheme Strictly by appointment with Stags Farm Agency Telephone The current year’s payment is reserved from the sale 01392 680059 The Entitlements are available by separate negotiation. Directions The purchaser will take over the vendors’ cross compliance Take the Teign Valley Road (B3193), which links to the B3212 responsibilities. to the north and the A38 to the south, to the Teign House Inn. Follow the signs to Christow. Keep on the same lane as you Schemes enter the village and after about 170m turn right next to a The Farm is entered into an Entry Level Scheme which ends on letterbox. Turn left immediately and follow Commons Hill for 31st March 2016, options include grass land management, in approximately 1 mile. Take the ‘no through road’ signed field tree protection and boundary maintenance. Further straight ahead as the lane bears left. Beacon Farm is the information is available from the Agents. second property on the right hand side. As part of the purchase of the farm, the purchaser will undertake These particulars are a guide only and should not be relied to take on this agreement. upon for any purpose. Beacon Farm.qxp_Stags 11/09/2015 13:50 Page 6 Beacon Farm.qxp_Stags 11/09/2015 13:50 Page 7

Approx. Gross Internal Floor Area 248.4 Sq Metres 2674 Sq Ft (Excludes Restricted Head Height & Includes Garage)

3.84 x 1.55m 12'7 x 5'1

Larder Utility Sitting Room 3.00 x 2.54m Bedroom 5 / 6.20 x 3.53m 9'10 x 8'4 Study 20'4 x 11'7 3.35 x 3.28m 11' x 10'9 Up

Dining Room 8.56 x 3.71m 28'1 x 12'2

Bedroom 4 4.06 x 3.33m 13'4 x 10'11

Dressing Room / Nursery Kitchen / 3.05 x 2.29m Ground Floor Breakfast Room 10' x 7'6 6.02 x 3.53m 19'9 x 11'7

Down Bedroom 1 Bedroom 3 4.42 x 4.09m 4.09 x 4.01m 14'6 x 13'5 13'5 x 13'2

First Floor Bedroom 2 5.21 x 4.09m 17'1 x 13'5 Beacon Farm.qxp_Stags 11/09/2015 13:50 Page 8