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Middle Allercombe Middle Allercombe Allercombe, Rockbeare, Exeter, Devon EX5 2HD Exeter 9 miles • Ottery St Mary 4 miles • West Hill 2 miles A magnificently appointed Grade II Listed, early 17th Century farmhouse with annexe potential of nearly 5,000 sq.ft. • Dining room, drawing room, study, sitting room, superb kitchen, utility room • Ground floor bedroom suite • Wing of games room, gym, kitchenette, shower room and hobbies room (annexe potential - STP) • Master bedroom with en suite dressing area and shower room • 3 further bedrooms and family bathroom • Beautifully restored to a superb standard with quality fittings • Double garage, extensive lawned gardens, lockable store • Overall about 1.8 acres Stags Solicitors 21 Southernhay West The London Office Toller Beattie, Queens House Exeter 40 St James’s Place Queen Street Devon EX1 1PR London Barnstaple Tel: 01392 255202 SW1A 1NS Devon EX32 8TB Email: [email protected] Tel: 020 7839 0888 Tel: 01271 341000 stags.co.uk Situation Middle Allercombe is in the hamlet of Allercombe which is a few properties in a favoured part of East Devon. It is about 2 miles west of the sought after village of West Hill, which has a good range of day-to-day facilities whilst the town of Ottery St Mary is 4 miles and provides a wide range of facilities including sports centre, Otter Nurseries and Kings School. The cathedral and university city of Exeter is 9 miles, (the majority via dual carriageway) whilst junction 29 of the M5 motorway is 6 miles and Exeter International Airport 4 miles. Overall a property ideally placed in a rural location yet close to good road communications. Introduction The property is Listed Grade II and the Register states that it dates from the early C17th probably enlarged in the late C18th or early C19th. Previous owners purchased the property in a very poor condition and sympathetically restored and renovated the farmhouse including a new oak cruck frame within the original cob walls. Modern flagstones run through the majority of the ground floor with underfloor heating with 8 zones. The property has been CAT5-wired with the house also having a sound/music/television system with built-in speakers through most of the house and also arranged in zones externally. Throughout the interior there is much use of oak doors, frames and architraves etc. Overall, effectively a new house within a fascinating historic shell which has been restored much in keeping with its origins of 400 hundred years ago. Accommodation Entrance porch with flagstone flooring. Dining room with flagstone floor, open fireplace and door to garden. Plank and muntin screen and exposed oak beams. Hallway with historic front door. Dual aspect drawing room with stone open fireplace beyond which is a dual aspect study. The sitting room is also dual aspect with extensive bookshelves and cupboards. Doorway into the wing referred to below. The farmhouse kitchen is another dual aspect room, superbly supplied and fitted by Barnes of Ashburton with handmade chestnut cupboards with maple and granite worktops. Double Belfast sink and propane gas with electric oven, range cooker. Built-in dishwasher, microwave and plate rack plus space for an American-style fridge freezer. This opens to a breakfast room with vaulted ceiling. Utility room with Belfast sink, floor and wall cupboards, granite worktops and door to garden. Beyond is the guest wing of shower room with slate floor and walls, shower, wc, bidet and wash basin. Beyond which is bedroom 5 with vaulted ceiling and magnificent beams. Returning to the east wing, this range of rooms has potential for an annexe (subject to the necessary consents). Games room with outlook to courtyard, oak doors to rear, oak floor and vaulted ceiling with kingpin trusses. Door to gym, another dual aspect room, with oak floor and beyond to a hall with kitchenette with hardwood worktops, sink, cooker and floor and wall cupboards, plus shower room. Beyond is a hobbies room, again dual aspect and door to rear drive. Vaulted ceiling and exposed kingpin trusses as elsewhere. Principal stairs to the first floor landing with cruck beam and outlook to the secluded rear garden. On the first floor oak cruck frames are very much in evidence and are used for dramatic effect in the Master bedroom suite with en suite dressing room plus high quality shower room. Bedroom 2 has a vaulted ceiling and is a dual aspect room whilst there is a 2nd landing with staircase to the kitchen. The family bathroom is another stunning room with free-standing bath, shower cubicle, wc and wash basin. Limestone floor. Bedroom 3 overlooks the side of the property while bedroom 4 overlooks the rear garden. The Grounds Electrically-operated gate leads to a patterned concrete drive providing extensive parking and access to the double garage with electrically-operated up-and-over door, side window and boiler. Steps lead up to the two doors into the house at the front. On the west side of the house are lawns and a patio area with hot tub, whilst the main gardens lie on the south side of the house and are particularly secluded with a patterned concrete patio area with low stone wall backing onto the sweeping lawns which extend far beyond. Stocked shrub area with summerhouse and a rabbit-proof fenced vegetable garden. On the east side of the house is a separate vehicular access with parking. Also a concrete drive which leads to a lockable timber store building, behind which is a log store and oil tank. Overall the property amounts to about 1.8 acres. Directions From junction 29 of the M5 motorway, proceed on the A30 eastwards and continue to the Daisymount junction. Take the B3180 southwards towards Rockbeare and West Hill. Take the first right signposted Allercombe and continue on this lane for a mile whereupon at the crossroads turn right and Middle Allercombe will be soon after on the left. Services Mains water. Mains electricity. Private drainage. Oil-fired central heating. Broadband enabled. Local Authority East Devon District Council, Council Offices, Knowle, Station Road, Sidmouth, EX10 8HY. Tel: 01395 516551 www.eastdevon.gov.uk Viewing Strictly by appointment through Stags on 01392 255202. These particulars are a guide only and should not be relied on for any purpose. Hobbies Room 5.38 x 3.58m 17'8 x 11'9 Garage 6.30 x 5.97m Gym 20'8 x 19'7 5.36 x 3.66m 17'7 x 12' Approx. Gross Internal Floor Area 421.3 Sq Metres 4536 Sq Ft (Excludes garage) Bedroom 5 4.39 x 4.09m 14'5 x 13'5 Reception / Games Room 9.14 x 5.28m 30' x 17'4 Breakfast Room 5.54 x 4.09m 18'2 x 13'5 Sitting Room Utility 4.90 x 4.27m 16'1 x 14' 4.47 x 1.83m Hall 14'8 x 6' 2.90 x 2.08m 9'6 x 6'10 Bedroom 2 Bedroom 3 5.18 x 3.96m 2.90 x 2.64m Down 17' x 13' Up 9'6 x 8'8 Bedroom 1 Dining Room Up Drawing Room 7.93 x 5.18m 5.31 x 5.13m 7.68 x 4.95m 26' x 17' 17'5 x 16'10 25'2 x 16'3 Kitchen Study Bedroom 4 5.61 x 3.66m 16'3 x 6'3 18'5 x 12' 4.95 x 1.91m 4.27 x 2.92m 14' x 9'7 Down Ground Floor First Floor .