The Old School House Windmill Hill, St Just-in-Roseland,

THE OLD SCHOOL HOUSE Windmill Hill, St Just-in-Roseland, Cornwall, TR2 5HZ An exquisite detached, 3/4 double bedroomed, 3 bathroomed Grade II Listed extended former school house commanding magical ‘picture postcard’ panoramic views over St Just Pool, bar and creek, Messack Point and across the estuary to Mylor harbour and many miles of beautiful countryside. A much admired period home, greatly improved by our clients during their 15 year ownership, with plentiful parking, detached garage and extensive slated terraces and gardens facing the views extending to about 0.35 of an acre.

SUMMARY OF ACCOMMODATION Ground Floor: hall, living/dining room (original school room), original school entrance hall, kitchen/breakfast room with Aga, large study/4th double bedroom, further double bedroom, shower room.

First Floor: landing, master bedroom en-suite, further double bedroom, bathroom.

Outside: plentiful parking and detached garage, well stocked front beds behind stone walls. Extensive slate terraces around the property and garden giving numerous places to enjoy the views and entertain. Mature and well tended specimen shrubs and trees surrounding a lawn and small orchard. Modern garden studio/home office. Summerhouse ideal for storage or updating.

In all, about 0.35 of an acre.

Viewing strictly by appointment through the vendor’s Sole Agent: Lillicrap Chilcott Landrian House, 59-60 Lemon Street, , TR1 2PE. Tel: 01872 273473 Fax: 01872 273474 Email: [email protected] www.lillicrapchilcott.com LOCATION The Roseland is a beautiful and unspoilt peninsula bordering the coastline to . On the other side of the tidal pool, just below eastern side of the Carrick Roads estuary and to the north by the the church, is a highly regarded boatyard and beach at the mouth of at . On the east and southern sides are the St Just Creek with deep water moorings and onshore facilities. open seas of the English Channel with towering cliffs and long sandy beaches. The lovely Percuil River provides sheltered moorings and About a mile away is the renowned yachting haven of St Mawes with its picturesque harbour, castle, quayside, shops, inns and hotels with meanders into the heart of the peninsula adding a further dimension restaurants. Only a few miles away is the charming fishing village to this magical area. of Portscatho which also has a collection of shops and galleries and The Roseland is renowned for its beauty and nowhere is more there are several sandy beaches at Portscatho and around Bay. luxuriant than at St Just-in-Roseland, where its delightful 13th/15th The cathedral city of Truro is within ½ an hours’ drive either via the Century church stands at the water’s edge at the head of a wooded bridge at or over the King Harry Car Ferry to Feock where it tidal pool with the hillside churchyard and subtropical trees and lands beside the National Trust owned Trelissick Estate. Truro has the shrubs providing a blaze of colour in early summer and have been county’s foremost selection of shops, businesses, services and private voted the most picturesque in the United Kingdom. The South West education facilities with high quality state schooling available on the Coast Path passes through these grounds before continuing along the Roseland itself. DESCRIPTION The Old School House enjoys an extremely enviable setting on Windmill Hill which leads from the centre of St Just-in-Roseland in the direction of the exclusive harbourside yachting haven of St Mawes. Facing west to the rear, all principal rooms take optimum advantage of the very beautiful views over St Just Creek, Messack Point and across the Carrick Roads estuary to Mylor harbour and over miles of patchwork quilt landscape beyond. This particular vista is widely regarded as one of the loveliest views anywhere in south Cornwall – with justification.

The Old School House is of delightful appearance – the oldest part of the house with handsome stone elevations, slate window sills and tall small paned casement windows (now double glazed) with fitted window seats. There is a massive stone chimney and fine multi gabled slate roof. A particular feature of the roadside elevation is the picturesque steeply gabled original entrance lobby. Listed Grade II, this former Church of England school is probably circa 1850. During its time as a home it has been carefully extended by subsequent owners, to create an extremely comfortable and characterful house with three/four bedrooms and three bath or shower rooms, taking optimum advantage of its superlative aspect.

The original school room is the most captivating of spaces and serves as a living/dining room with a triple aspect of large windows and an open grated Minsterstone fireplace. All other principal rooms also face the views including the kitchen/breakfast room with its Aga, fitted seating and door onto the rear terrace, a dual aspect double bedroom and a large study/forth double bedroom. The ground floor is completed by a central hall, the original entrance hall and a shower room. The comfortable first floor accommodation has store cupboards off the landing and two good sized double bedrooms, the master having its own en-suite bathroom and the other therefore having sole use of its adjacent bathroom.

What is difficult to appreciate until one spends time at the property is just how superb the view facing gardens are. The grounds in total extend to about 0.35 of an acre including open lawn, four large slate terraces at differing levels, each with their own charm, superb established shrubs and trees and tucked away in the grounds is a first class garden studio/home office. Parking is well catered for on a tarmac driveway which leads to a large detached garage. It is, however, the spectacular and majestic scenic coastal and countryside view which is the overriding highlight of this property.

THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES (all floor plans and dimensions are approximate) A slated canopied porch to the front protects a painted period door opening to:- HALL. Slate floor, turning staircase to the first floor with window over, some exposed woodwork, alarm system control panel, two slate steps up and door to the Living/Dining Room. Door to an understairs cupboard, two slate steps down to a lower hall with doors into the study/bedroom 4 and shower room, and further door opposite the entrance into:- KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM – 13’4” x 11’. Dual aspect with windows and a part glazed door opening to rear terrace taking in the views. Range of white fitted kitchen units under roll edged composite worktops with white tiled splashbacks behind and a 1½ bowl stainless steel sink and drainer with chrome mixer tap. Dark blue oil fired Aga with stainless steel and glass extractor over and necessary, chrome heated towel rail with additional electric element, additional space for an electric cooker beside. Space within the units obscured window, extractor fan, exposed beams, striplight with for a dishwasher, microwave, washing machine and larder fridge/ electric shaver socket over the wash basin. freezer. Beamed ceiling, tiled floor, fitted corner seating for a breakfast area. FIRST FLOOR LANDING. Lit by the window over the stairs, interesting ceiling LIVING / DINING ROOM – 24’2” x 14’10”. The former school angles with exposed timbers, double doors to a recessed wardrobe/ room under a 10’ high canopied edged and painted woodboarded cupboard and further door to a shelved linen cupboard. Doors to:- ceiling. Triple aspect of large windows, all four of which have window MASTER BEDROOM – 13’3” x 10’10”. High beamed ceiling seats below with two of these enjoying the blissful views. Painted with canopied edge, window facing the view. Extensive fitted boarding to dado height, Minsterstone fireplace. Period door to:- wardrobes and drawers. Door to:- SCHOOL HOUSE ENTRANCE HALL – 5’9” x 5’3”. Not used EN-SUITE BATHROOM. White sanitaryware including a bath by our clients as a further entrance but as an interesting room in its with chrome mixer tap, glazed shower screen and chrome mixer own right with a high vaulted ceiling with exposed timbers and a shower over. White wc, white wash basin with chrome mixer tap high level arrow slit window over a pair of arched topped doors to the set over a white cabinet. Striplight with electric shaver socket front. Fitted shelving on both sides, tiled floor. This has proved to be over the wash basin, white tiled splashbacks and a shelf with an excellent cool storage room. feature tiles. High beamed ceiling with canopied edge, access to STUDY / BEDROOM 4 – 11’7” x 11’3”. Window facing the loft space, extractor fan, obscured window. views, two fitted desks with shelving over, beamed ceiling. Door and BEDROOM 2 – 11’7” x 9’7”. Window to the side and Velux roof two steps down to:- window in the canopied beamed ceiling. BEDROOM 3 – 12’10” x 12’4”. Dual aspect including one window BATHROOM. White sanitaryware including a panelled bath with facing the views. Beamed ceiling, fitted dressing area and wardrobes. period style mixer tap, rain head shower and hand held shower with This room could be considered as an alternative master bedroom. glazed screen beside. White cabinets with a concealed cistern wc SHOWER ROOM. Large tiled and glazed screened shower enclosure and wash basin with period style taps. White tiled splashbacks with with a chrome period style rain head mixer shower and additional feature tiles depicting seaside scenes. Canopied ceiling with exposed hand shower. Fitted white units with a concealed cistern wc and wash timbers, extractor fan, white heated towel rail with additional electric basin with chrome taps. Light stone effect tiled splashbacks where element. OUTSIDE The property has a very broad frontage to the road with an extensive tarmac parking area giving space for 5 or 6 cars in total as well as access to the detached garage.

DETACHED GARAGE – 20’2” x 13’2”. Of block construction with a pitched roof, two windows on the view side and a remote electrically operated vehicular door. Fitted workbench and shelving to the rear, power and light. The house is set slightly down and away from the roadside and parking behind stone walls, many of which have planted tops. Elegant pairs of wrought iron gates open at either end of the drive onto slate paths around the front of the house edged with deep flowering shrub filled beds. One of these paths leads to the arch topped double doors into the hall leading into the former school room and beside this a low level door opens to a store ideal for logs or recycling. The more commonly used entrance is centrally positioned and close to this is a modern concealed timber shed and further recessed areas in amongst the slate topped walls being ideal for bins etc. To the north of the house is a quarter circular slate paved terrace above a bed of camellias, hydrangeas, hebes, rhododendron and a palm which nestle around a detached garden studio (described below). From this terrace there are clear views out to the Carrick Roads and the slate paving then continues as a broad path above the lawn across the view facing rear of the house. On the south west corner, protected between the wings of the house, is an extensive slate paved terrace with its outlook focused very much across the Carrick Roads but also taking in a broad sweep of the surrounding countryside and St Just Creek. A high wrought iron pedestrian gate leads to a secluded area on the south side of the house and further slate steps descend have previously confirmed to our clients that they would allow the beside large camellias to a lower shaped terrace with low wrought trees to be reduced in height for a donation. A further path from here iron balustrades and plants including rosemary extending across winds through plantings of bottle brush, mahonia and azalea amongst the paving. The views are still completely clear from this intimate many others before arriving at a cedar shingle roofed and much glazed position. octagonal summerhouse 10’ x 10’ max currently used as a garden store.

Three sets of steps lead away from this terrace to differing parts of the GARDEN STUDIO – 11’6” x 11’6”. A modern timber building garden with paths through flowering shrub filled beds, ornamental fir with wood clad internal walls and high wood clad ceiling under a trees and protective hedging including bay, surrounding apple trees shingle roof. Double glazed double doors and two large windows. and hydrangeas. One of the other short flight of steps opens out onto Power and light. the generous lawn below the house which in turn leads down to a Throughout, the gardens enjoy a very high degree of privacy with the lower terrace more connected to the National Trust owned woodland spectacular elevated views down to St Just Pool, creek and across the beyond and is set at tree canopy height, although the National Trust Carrick Roads being prevalent at all times. The Old School House Total Approx Floor Area: 1643 sq ft / 152.64 sq m (Excludes restricted head height)

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First Floor GENERAL INFORMATION VIEWING – Strictly by prior appointment AGENT’S NOTE – The above particulars through: Lillicrap Chilcott, Landrian House, 59-60 have been prepared as a general guide only for Lemon Street, Truro, Cornwall, prospective buyers. Whilst we have endeavoured TR1 2PE. Telephone: (01872) 273473. to provide a fair and reasonable description of the E-mail: [email protected]. property, no specific survey or detailed inspection has been carried out in relation to the property, the POST CODE – TR2 5HZ. services, the appliances and any fixtures and fittings SERVICES – Mains water and electricity. Private or equipment. All buyers should rely on their own drainage. Oil fired boiler. For Council Tax see surveys and investigations in connection with www.mycounciltax.org.uk. any purchase of the property. All measurements, floor plans, dimensions, acreages and distances are DIRECTIONS – Upon entering St Just-in- approximate only and should not be relied upon for Roseland from either Tregony on the A3078 or accuracy. Note: “This plan is based upon the Ordnance via the King Harry Ferry on the B3289 continue Survey map with the sanction of the controller of H.M. Stationary Office. This plan is for towards St Mawes and rise uphill out of the village. OFFICE OPENING HOURS – Monday to Friday convenience of purchasers only. Its accuracy Just after the brow of the hill The Old School 9.00am to 5.30pm. Saturday - 9.00am to 1.00pm. is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. Licence Number. No. House will be found on the right hand side as one of NB: A number of staff are available for viewing ES1000034571.” the last properties in the village. appointments all day Saturday and all day Sunday. THE CORNWALL ESTATE AGENT www.lillicrapchilcott.com | 01872 273473 | email [email protected]