Easton Court Easton Cross Chagford Tq13 8Jl
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FOR SALE FOR EASTON COURT EASTON CROSS CHAGFORD TQ13 8JL : THE PROPERTY a commercial style kitchen with an collection collated by the Hotel in the There is also a wild garden with fish attached utility room. The original house 1930’s and 40’s and carefully maintained pond beyond. From the road is a large This Grade II Listed 16th century has many fantastic character features by the current owner, along with original parking bay, plus parking for around 8 detached longhouse with fabulous including wonderful fireplaces, exposed guest books with guests from its history cars (15.7m x 8.4m) within the walled views is situated in the Dartmoor beams and beautiful doors. The library, including the Waugh brothers, Richard perimeter. National Park, close to the lovely town of containing books with links to the hotel, Widmark and John Steinbeck. Chagford & Castle Drogo. The house is and main living room are great examples Outside it has an enclosed garden with granite under thatch, with the B&B wing and ceiling heights are good throughout. Outside we find formal gardens in front hot tub and electric sauna, plus parking being under slate. There is also mains gas central heating. of the original house (south-facing for 3-4 cars with a separate access to circa. 15m x 14m) and the more recent the hotel, and an open fronted double The accommodation includes eight THE LIBRARY ‘B&B wing’ with lawns extending garage plus store. en-suite bedrooms in total, with to approximately 40m x 18m with four spacious reception rooms, plus The library contains an original book wonderful far reaching views to enjoy. : ACCOMMODATION HISTORY write. He completed Black Mischief here SERVICES: Mains gas, water and Dartmoor National Park Authority, in April 1932, A Handful of Ashes in 1934 electricity. Parke, Haytor Road, Bovey Tracey, This residential property was formally and indeed checked in on 31st January Devon. TQ13 9JQ. Tel. 01626 832093. a hotel for around 80 years and was 1944 to start work on his best-known COUNCIL TAX: owned in the 1920s to early 1960s by an novel Brideshead Revisited which he House - Band D. Cottage - Band B. American lady (Carolyn Cobb) and her completed in June of that year. Other associate (Norman Webb). Mrs Cobb was notables include Patrick Leigh Fermor, very well known in literary circles and who wrote The Traveller’s Tree here, the LOCAL AUTHORITIES: a number of well-known artistic types novelists CP Snow and John Steinbeck, came to stay. Alec Waugh was a regular and the poet John Betjeman. West Devon Borough Council, Kilworthy visitor and introduced his younger Park, Drake Road, Tavistock, Devon PL19 brother Evelyn Waugh to the hotel, which POST CODE: TQ13 8JL. 0BZ. Tel. 01822 813600. then became a regular haunt for him to ACCOMMODATION LOCATION The property is situated about 1 mile to the east of Chagford, not far from Castle Drogo, and in the heart of the Dartmoor National Park. Chagford is one of Dartmoor’s most popular small market towns. Centred around its attractive square, it possesses an excellent range of local facilities, including shops, parish church, primary school, doctors and dentists surgeries, pubs, hotel and restaurant. There are also many active clubs and societies, including football and cricket pitch, bowling club, tennis club and an open air swimming pool. There is easy access from Chagford to the A30 dual carriageway, leading west to Cornwall and east to the university and cathedral city of Exeter, where there is access to the M5 motorway, stations with mainline rail connections to London, and an international airport. 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