St Andrews House THE GREEN, CURRY RIVEL, SOMERSET
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Features • Canopy Porch • Entrance Hall • Dining Room • Sitting Room • Drawing Room • Cloakroom • Office • Kitchen / Breakfast Room with Aga • Laundry Room • Butler’s Pantry • Principal En Suite Bedroom • Guest Bedroom • Three Further Bedrooms • Two Family Bathrooms • Garage • Enclosed Partly Walled Gardens • Mature Trees
A handsome Victorian house, the former rectory, overlooking the church and village green
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The A303 giving fast and easy access to London • Langport 2 miles can be joined at the Podimore roundabout, • Taunton 10 miles whereas the M5 motorway junction 25 at Taunton provides fast and easy routes to Exeter, • Bristol 52 miles Bristol, the Midlands and London. Taunton has a mainline railway station with fast trains scheduled • Exeter 42 miles to arrive at London Paddington within an hour (distances/times approximate) and forty five minutes. Castle Cary is on the same line and has regular commuter trains up to London. Bristol airport is also within easy reach with regular European and international flights.
The Situation
St Andrews House occupies a highly convenient yet peaceful setting just off the village green, within the large village of Curry Rivel, with its good day-to-day amenities including several shops, hardware shop/garden centre, garage, village inn and good local primary school. Langport a little further away, a famous ancient port, also offers good day-to-day amenities, Tesco store and popular senior school. Taunton, the county town of Somerset, lies just 10 miles to the south-west, has a good shopping centre and a number of well-respected independent school including Taunton, Queens and Kings Colleges and the Richard Huish Sixth Form College. Other well-known schools including Millfield, Kings Bruton and Sherborne are also within easy reach. Bristol, with the popular area of Clifton and the Cribbs Causway shopping mall is within an hour’s drive. The Property This handsome village house dates back to 1893 and offers excellent, well-proportioned family accommodation. The house has particularly good reception space including family sitting room with fireplace, wood burning stove and bookcases, a more formal drawing room with French doors leading out into the garden, a dining room and a well-fitted kitchen/breakfast room. Period features include formal fireplaces, lovely internal panelled doors, picture rails, dado rails and traditional sash windows.
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Fast find 52187 Gardens and Grounds A pretty garden gate opens onto a central path with lawned gardens to either side, this leads up to the panelled front door with canopy porch. There is a gravelled parking area to the side of the house, and traditional five bar gate which leads into the Attached Garage. The Gardens lay mainly to the rear of the house, are partly walled and include a large expanse of gentry sloping lawns with deep well-stocked herbaceous borders, mature trees including a maple and horse chestnut, and several younger silver birches. There is a Kitchen Garden, compost area and Additional Parking to the front of the garage. www.jackson-stops.co.uk Property Information Postcode: TA10 0HQ Services: Mains electricity, water and drainage. Oil fired central heating. Local Authority: South Somerset District Council The Council Offices Brympton Way, Yeovil Somerset BA20 2HT www.southsomerset.gov.uk Telephone: 01935 462462 Tax Band: G Contents, fixtures and fittings: Unless specifically mentioned in these particulars, all contents, fixtures and fittings, garden ornaments and statues, carpets and curtains are specifically excluded from the sale. Certain items may be available by separate negotiation. Viewing: By appointment with Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Taunton office: 01823 325 144
Ground Floor Directions (Postcode: TA10 0HQ) On approaching the village on the A378 from the west look out for ‘Sandpits’, an iron monger/garden store, and turn left immediately before. Continue up into the village area and with the church straight ahead you will see St. Andrews House to your right.
Approx. Gross Internal Floor Area 3.983 sq ft (370 sq metres) First Floor Excludes Outbuildings & Includes Garage
Measured in accordance with RICS guidelines. Every attempt is made to ensure accuracy, however all measurements are approximate. This floor plan is for illustrative purposes only and is not to scale.
Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with permission of the Details prepared and Controller H.M.S.O. Crown Copyright reserved. photographs taken May 2013
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