The Old School The Old School Fivehead, Taunton, TA3 6PQ Curry Rivel - 3 Miles, Langport - 5 Miles, Taunton - 10 Miles.
• Kitchen/Dining Room • 2 Reception Rooms • 4 Bedrooms (2 En-Suite) • Utility • Double Garage • Ample Off Road Parking • Front Garden • Rear Courtyard
Guide price £525,000
Situation The Old School is situated in the heart of this extremely popular village, which has a thriving community, many clubs and associations, as well as a parish church, village hall, public house, restaurant and garage. There is a wider range of amenities available in the larger village of Curry Rivel, which is approximately 3 miles away, and the market town of Langport is only 5 miles to the east, and has a supermarket, schools, banks, doctors and dental surgeries as well as the highly recommended Huish Episcopi Academy. Fivehead is well placed for ease of access to the A358, which links Ilminster to Taunton, and the M5 motorway. Taunton the County Town of Somerset, offers all the facilities you would expect A beautifully converted former Victorian school with well- from a county town. It has excellent schooling in both the state and private sectors and a mainline railway station, which has frequent services to London proportioned rooms, set in a desirable village location. Paddington in under 2 hours. Description The Old School is a deceptively large property built with stone elevations with inset stone mullions surrounding some of the windows, beneath a pitched slate roof. The property has accommodation arranged over two floors and has been finished to a particularly high specification following some extensive work by the current owners. The property as the name suggests, was the local village school until approximately 1968, before becoming Fivehead village hall until the turn of the millennium. The school and playground underwent a full conversion in 2006 and has retained much of its original character and charm with the convenience and comfort one expects in a modern day home. Accommodation The front door opens into the beautifully proportioned sitting room, which is fitted with solid oak flooring, two uPVC double glazed windows with a frontal aspect and has a staircase with an under stairs storage cupboard and a Roger Oates stair runner in one corner, which winds up to the first floor. The sitting room provides access to all of the principal downstairs accommodation, as well as a downstairs cloakroom with a low level WC and wash hand basin. The kitchen/dining room is again very nicely proportioned and is fitted with a range of oak wall and base units, finished with granite worktops and upstands with an inset Belfast sink and drainer unit. The kitchen is also fitted with a Rangemaster electric cooker with electric hobs and extractor over and an integrated hotpoint dishwasher. There is also space and plumbing for a free standing American style fridge freezer and there is a northerly aspect through the window and sliding glazed doors into the courtyard garden area to the rear. The adjoining utility room is fitted with further base units and an inset stainless steel sink and drainer unit and there is ample space and plumbing for a washing machine and tumble dryer, as well as a large storage cupboard and access to the garage. The double garage has two sets of double wooden doors and has been used as additional accommodation by the owners, having tiled the floor to create a play room/ games room with a large storage platform above. The drawing room is situated to the rear of the property and is a fascinating room with lots of character, double height ceilings and two original windows with village outlooks. The drawing room is centred upon a fireplace with an inset wood burning stove set on a tiled hearth. To one end there are original double doors, which open into the storage passage, which also provides access from the village to the rear courtyard if required.
To the other end there is a downstairs double bedroom, which benefits from an en-suite shower room with toilet and wash hand basin. Bedroom four is also situated on the ground floor and has more recently been used as a study and is also fitted with beautiful solid oak flooring, which is featured a lot throughout the ground floor.
On the first floor there are two bedrooms and a family bathroom. Bedroom two is a good sized double, also benefitting from an en-suite with WC, wash hand basin and shower enclosure. Bedroom three is currently used as the principal bedroom and benefits from a large dressing room to one side, as well as a large amount of eave storage. Outside The property is approached along a quiet village lane and is set behind impressive blue lias stone walling, which parts to provide access onto the tarmac driveway. The drive splits to provide access to both properties that have the right to use it, with a large parking area in front of the double garage of The Old School. To one side of the parking area is a raised bed behind further stone walling, with a high wooden fencing, which marks the boundary to the west. There is also an area of garden to the front of the property, which is enclosed on three sides by the property and blue lias stone walling and is predominately laid to lawn with a white picket fence, providing the fourth border. Beside the garage there is pedestrian access to the courtyard garden to the rear of the property. The courtyard is predominately paved and is very private due to the low stone wall with a fence on top and enjoys the evening westerly sun. The courtyard also houses the oil tank. Services Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired central heating. Directions Leave Taunton in a southerly direction on the A358 heading towards Ilminster. On reaching the Thornfalcon traffic lights on the dual carriuageway, at the brow of the hill turn left onto the A378 towards Langport. Continue through the village of Wrantage, before climbing up to Fivehead, at which point take the first right hand turn onto Ganges Hill. Proceed to the bottom of the hill and continue through the sharp bends into the village, passing the public house and church. Upon reaching the T junction, carry straight on where The Old School can be identified on the right hand side by a Stags for sale board. The Old School, Fivehead, Taunton, TA3 6PQ
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