Higher Tor Poundsgate • Dartmoor National Park • Devon

A meticulously and sympathetically renovated, Listed Dartmoor gem.

Summary Cross passage hall • Open plan and partly full height kitchen/dining room/living room • Sitting room • Family room Utility/shower room • First floor sitting room/landing • 4 bedrooms • Bathroom • Self-contained detached cottage Traditional barn containing studio/offices/storage • Idyllic Dartmoor farmyard • Garden • 2 Paddocks of about 3.6 acres

Location Communications Higher Tor occupies a beautiful Dartmoor setting at the end of a local amenities, including shops, restaurants and school. There is easy access via Poundsgate and down the Dart Valley, to shared, private entrance drive, about a mile to the north west of There is a good selection of private secondary schools in the area, Ashburton, adjacent to which is the A38 dual carriageway Poundsgate, in the heart of Dartmoor National Park and including Mount Kelly in Tavistock, Stover and in Exeter. Close by leading south west to Plymouth and north east to the university overlooking the stunningly beautiful and partly wooded River Dart is Mel Tor, Sharp Tor and the open moor and Dartmoor is renowned and cathedral city of Exeter. From Plymouth there are ferries to the Valley. The lovely hamlet of Poundsgate includes the popular for its spectacular scenery, with its granite tors, heather clad Continent and at Exeter there is access onto the M5 motorway and Tavistock Inn and, a couple of miles further into the moor, is moorland and rushing streams and rivers, and there are many an international airport with regular connections to London City Dartmeet, where the East and West Dart Rivers join to flow down and varied opportunities on the doorstep for walking, riding and Airport. There are railway stations with mainline connections to the stunning Dart Valley, off Dartmoor and down to Dartmouth. fishing. To the south is the delightful South Devon coast, with its London at both Totnes and Newton Abbot. About 4 miles away is Widecombe-in-the-Moor with pubs, church beaches and estuaries and such well known sailing centres as and shop and easily accessible down the Dart Valley is the Dartmouth and Salcombe. Distances (approximate) moorland town of Ashburton, which provides a full selection of • Ashburton and A38 4 miles • Exeter 26 miles

The Property • Stunningly beautiful Dartmoor longhouse • Direct access from the property, up a track to the open moor and sitting room with its fireplace with granite jambs, chamfered beam • Listed as being of architectural or historical interest Grade II* and Mel Tor and woodburner. The room has exposed beams and ceiling joists early medieval with additions • Easy access via Poundsgate and Ashburton to A38 and a door leads on to the family room, with exposed stone wall • Fine grouping of traditional Dartmoor granite buildings around a and ceiling joists. farmyard From the sitting room a further door opens to the pantry with • Meticulously and sympathetically renovated and restored over a Ground Floor The long, shared entrance drive leads to a five-bar gate into the number of years by the current owner, who is a well-known local fitted slate shelving, and from the hall a part glazed door opens farmyard, encompassed by the house and other buildings. architect to the delightful, open plan and partly full height kitchen/dining • Separate, detached self-contained cottage The stable type door opens to an entrance porch with part glazed room/living room. The living area, with oak boarded floor and • Large traditional barn converted to provide spacious offices and front door to the cross passage hall, having a slate tiled floor, exposed roof timbers, has a stunning view out across the River studio exposed granite wall and a door leads through an oak screen into Dart valley and is overlooked by the gallery. The kitchen area has • Stunning, long distance views over the River Dart valley and the the utility/shower room, with butler’s sink, WC and plumbing a range of fitted base cupboards with wooden worktops, oil fired South Devon countryside beyond for washing machine.From the hall a further door opens to the Rayburn and an open tread yew staircase to the gallery. The nearby open moor The Cottage

First Floor A staircase from the sitting room rises to the first floor sitting The Office/Studio The Office/Studio room/landing with exposed roof timbers and doors to bedroom 1, bathroom and 2 further bedrooms with exposed cruck beams and timbers. From bedroom 3 there is an opening out to the gallery overlooking the dining/living room and from the landing a door opens to a staircase up to bedroom 4, with roof lights. Outside On the opposite side of the farmyard from the house is the detached cottage, with entrance porch with glazed double doors to the sitting room/dining room/kitchen with fitted base cupboards and worktops, oven, woodburner and exposed ceiling joists. There is a door to the shower room and stairs up to the bedroom. The delightful farmyard is mostly grassed, but with parking areas Beside the cottage and on the opposite side of the farmyard from and is surrounded by the house, cottage and buildings. Adjoining the house is a large traditional stone barn, converted to provide the back of the barn is a garage building and log store. office/studio/storage facilities. There is an entrance hall, Adjoining either end of the house are further storage buildings cloakroom and kitchen, as well as the main studio providing an and a five-bar gate leads out of the corner of the yard at the end of excellent work space with Jotul woodburner and galleried storage the house to a shared lane/track which leads directly up to the open area. A door leads to stairs up to the first floor studio, from where moor and Mel Tor. there are stunning views out across the River Dart valley and beyond, together with fitted desk, exposed roof timbers and sky From the hall a stable type door leads out to a small enclosed lights. garden to the rear of the house. Separate from the house, From the hall there is a staircase up to a further office with exposed buildings and gardens, with access from the entrance lane, are roof timbers and adjoining the studio/office is a storage building. paddocks amounting to about 3.6 acres. Property Information Directions Services: Private water and drainage, oil fired heating, night curtains, light fittings, mirrors, garden ornaments etc. are From Exeter and the M5 motorway follow the A38 dual storage heaters in the barn and cottage. specifically excluded but may be made available by separate carriageway towards Plymouth. Take the second turn off to Local Authorities: Devon County Council, County Hall, Topsham negotiation. Ashburton and follow the signs towards Poundsgate, going up the Road, Exeter EX1 3QQ. Tel. 01392 382 000. Viewing: By appointment with Jackson-Stops & Staff’s Exeter River Dart valley. In Poundsgate, pass the Tavistock Inn and about Dartmoor National Park Authority, Parke, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9JQ. office: 01392 214 222. a further 0.7 miles up the hill, past the chapel on the left, take the Tel. 01626 832 093. For sale by private treaty with vacant possession upon left hand turning between two thatched houses, marked New Cott Contents, fixtures and fittings: Only those mentioned in this completion. Farm. Proceed to the end of the lane and the right hand five-bar brochure are included in the sale. All others such as carpets, gate leads into the farmyard of Higher Tor.

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