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Lapwing Cottage, 7 Higher Grumbla, , Nr. , West FREEHOLD

A classic granite faced semi-detached period cottage, now greatly extended to provide 3 bedroomed accommodation in about ½ an acre of gorgeous gardens with beautiful views over the surrounding west Cornwall countryside. A very tranquilly positioned rural home with former stabling, a static caravan and further static caravan/chalet providing additional accommodation and further potential well screened from the main cottage. 2 Ref: LCAA6839

SUMMARY OF ACCOMMODATION

Ground Floor: conservatory/reception hall, large living/dining room in the old part of the cottage with a granite fireplace, kitchen/breakfast room, rear hall, utility/wc. Integral garage and workshop with potential.

First Floor: landing, master bedroom with galleried sitting area (formerly bedroom 4), double bedroom, single bedroom, shower room.

Outside: gated driveway entrance leading to the cottage, secondary driveway into the corner of the grounds also giving access to the chalet and static caravan. Extensive lawned and very well planted gardens including a small orchard, pond, patios, vegetable plots and stabling. In all, about ½ an acre.

DESCRIPTION

Lapwing Cottage is found in a blissful rural location yet is only about 10 minutes’ drive from Penzance. The surroundings are classic west Cornwall rugged countryside and the property enjoys views to both the front and rear over this land although it is also relatively well sheltered due 3 Ref: LCAA6839 to lying in a slight dip in the landscape. The cottage is surrounded by about ½ an acre of really delightful gardens that are very well stocked and provide different areas around the cottage with larger lawns to the rear and there are also more secluded garden spaces around the tucked away chalet and separate static caravan within the grounds. A main driveway gives access to the cottage whilst a secondary driveway gives more simple access into the grounds and to the other units of accommodation. The property is a registered smallholding as it was previously a stables and piggery and as such one can sell home produce beside the road.

The semi-detached cottage is one of only a few cottages in the area which are mostly in pairs and this is actually the first one along the lane leading out of the picturesque village of Sancreed. The property has been greatly extended with a full width conservatory to the front, large two storey extension to the rear and a garage and workshop to the side so there is now generous three bedroomed accommodation which was actually four bedrooms before the master bedroom became even larger.

The whole ground floor of the original part of the cottage is now an open-plan living/dining room with a massive granite fireplace to one end. To the rear is a good sized kitchen/breakfast room with Aga and a wide window taking in the countryside views. A side hall leads to a utility/wc, out to the rear garden and also into the extensive garage and workshop which has huge potential to be further integrated into the accommodation should it be required. Upstairs the master bedroom has its own sitting room to one side which is galleried over the staircase and was formerly a fourth bedroom and it would be quite simple for an incoming purchaser to revert to this layout if necessary. To the rear is a further double bedroom with huge windows facing the views, a single bedroom or study and a modern shower room. The blissful setting only adds to this delightful cottage.

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LOCATION

Lapwing Cottage is found about ½ a mile outside of the village of Sancreed, in the hamlet of Grumbla, about half way between Penzance and St Just or Mounts Bay and Lands End. The pretty elevated and highly regarded village of Sancreed is around 3 miles outside of Penzance and is regarded as one of the foremost villages in the area. The historic harbourside towns of Penzance and are only a few minutes’ drive away and offer the widest range of facilities in west Cornwall. Newlyn has a colourful and active fishing fleet, various shops and art galleries and is famous for the Newlyn School of Art. Penzance is its larger neighbour and has a wider range of shopping, commercial and leisure facilities along with museums, a hospital and both private and state education. Penzance is at the end of the mainline to London with regular direct trains leaving for Paddington Station. Penzance and Newlyn overlook Mounts Bay and St Michael’s Mount which can be accessed by foot at low tide over a causeway leaving from the picturesque village of .

To the west, it is only a few miles to the beautiful 2 mile long Whitesand Bay and Sennen Cove which is regarded as one of the finest surfing spots in Cornwall. To the south are many smaller coves and rocky headlands linked together by the South West Coast Path. To the north is the harbour and resort town of St Ives which has many restaurants, art galleries and boutique shops amongst its narrow cobbled streets.

THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES (all floor plans and dimensions are approximate)

From the driveway impressive thick granite steps descend to a lower terrace from where a granite threshold lies in front of a pair of double glazed doors opening to:-

CONSERVATORY – 21’8” x 8’3” reducing to 5’3”. Double glazing across the entire front with a wide octagonal area creating the conservatory with the rest of the room operating as an entrance hall. 5 Ref: LCAA6839 Exposed granite across the face of the original house, tiled floor, white painted wood boarding to either side. Glazed timber door to:-

LIVING / DINING ROOM – 21’6” x 14’6”. The full width of the original cottage with two sash windows looking through the conservatory to the garden, both with deep wooden sills/window seats below. Very impressive large granite fireplace with huge granite uprights and massive granite lintel over. Slate hearth and inset woodburning stove. Wood flooring, deep recesses to either side of the fireplace, beamed and boarded ceiling, turning open tread staircase with a galleried area above leading to the first floor. Doorway with a slate threshold to:-

KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM – 13’9” x 12’5”. Broad double glazed window overlooking the rear garden and countryside beyond. Cream Aga with a slate splashback and space for an additional free standing cooker beside. Fitted kitchen with a range of wood fronted units under slate and slate effect worktops with a stainless steel 1½ bowl sink and drainer with chrome mixer tap over. Narrow wood strip flooring, breakfast bar. Doorway to:-

REAR HALL. Continuation of the narrow wood strip flooring into the initial area of the hall which then broadens giving plentiful space for coats, shoes and storage. Half double glazed door to the rear, light oak door to the garage and period stained glass door to:-

UTILITY / WC. Initial utility area with space for appliances below a white worktop with a window borrowing light from the garage over. Wall dividing the utility area from a white wc and white wash basin with chrome mixer tap. Wood strip flooring, second window borrowing light from the garage.

GARAGE – 19’4” x 10’2”. Two windows to one side, double doors with window panels at the top. Mono-pitched ceiling with area of polycarbonate roof adding more light and a mezzanine store area. The garage has effectively been considered a continuation of the house and it, along with the workshop beyond, offer huge potential for further integration. Internal stable door to:-

WORKSHOP – 10’9” x 10’8”. Window and door to the rear. 6 Ref: LCAA6839

FIRST FLOOR

LANDING. Initially galleried over the stairs and then opening through a granite archway to an area with light oak doors to bedrooms 2, 3 and the shower room. From the galleried area of landing a light oak door opens to:-

MASTER BEDROOM – 21’4” x 13’10” reducing to 7’1”. Created from two bedrooms and now with two double glazed sash windows to the front both with deep wooden sills and both enjoying an outlook to rugged countryside. Painted wood boarded ceiling with canopied edges, feature created form the fire breast, floorboards, galleried area over the staircase. Provision is still in place to simply revert part of this room into a further bedroom should it be required.

BEDROOM 2 – 12’6” x 9’8” to front of wardrobes. Huge double glazed picture windows on two sides taking in fantastic countryside views. Area of exposed granite wall with shelf above, recessed curtained wardrobe.

BEDROOM 3 – 8’8” x 5’3”. Double glazed window taking in the countryside views.

SHOWER ROOM. Large glazed screened shower enclosure with a power shower. White sanitaryware including a wc and pedestal wash basin with chrome taps. White wall tiling where necessary, double glazed window with obscured lower section taking in the views over countryside. Double louvre doors to an airing cupboard housing the hot water cylinder fed by the Aga or by a “super immersion”. Vanity area with wooden worktop, louvre doored cupboard below and mirror fitted into a tiled surround above with light over. Chrome heated towel rail, louvred door to a shoulder height cupboard.

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Set away from the house and concealed behind the stables is a static caravan in reasonably good order with its own decked surround to the front and side where it forms a raised terrace to take in the views. The caravan has two doors to the front, a range of fitted units and a kitchen with fitted appliances. A double bedroom with fitted wardrobe and a single or twin room also with a fitted wardrobe. To one end is a shower room and to the other is a lounge area with windows wrapping around it taking in the views.

CHALET

Set away from the house and the other caravan in its own area of the grounds is a timber chalet attached to a modified static caravan creating a unit of accommodation which is currently classified as being for the use of non-paying family members. This property is approached over its own pathway from the secondary driveway which arrives at a stable door opening into a reception hall/utility. Beyond this is an 18’ x 10’ lounge overlooking the garden and countryside and this room also has a wood burning stove set on a slate hearth. A doorway leads into the caravan section where there is a central kitchen, good sized bedrooms to either end and a shower room.

STABLES – 24’ x 11’8” internal. An attractive timber building with canopied front and two wide stable doors opening into individual stables, one currently used as a workshop and the other as a garden store. Power and light connected, windows in both stables. 8 Ref: LCAA6839 OUTSIDE

There are two driveways in off the quiet country lane with the first one initially leading through an area which also gives access into a farmer’s field and from here vehicular and pedestrian gates open onto a gravelled area of hardstanding with paths and a grassed driveway leading into the grounds. This is the way that anyone staying in either the caravan or chalet would enter the grounds.

The cottage is set well back from the lane with grass verges and low stone walls topped with hedging plants. Double vehicular gates and a pedestrian gate open onto a drive leading down to the garage and providing parking for numerous cars. To the left hand side of the drive is the picturesque well planted front garden which the cottage overlooks and this has gravelled and paved terraces, a small lawn and deep beds with granite walling surrounding. A gravelled path leads beside a high granite wall around to the rear garden and to the side two paths open up into the fantastic gardens to the side of the cottage.

Closest to the lane side is a storage area and fruit cages with massive granite boulders and low stone walls with planted tops then providing structure to the next “garden room”. This very sheltered and picturesque part of the garden has wonderful distinctly shaped beds around the lawn filled with an amazing variety of different well tended plants including some mature trees, palms and 9 Ref: LCAA6839 grasses. To one side is a fish pond with further surrounding plants including hydrangeas and large heathers.

Pathways lead through the foliage to a small orchard with apple and cherry trees along with hedging plants dividing the cottage from the chalet. The chalet has its own deck and garden area again with hedging dividing it from the caravan.

Towards the bottom of the garden are larger open lawned areas with space for further parking and compositing with young Monterrey pines creating a feature at the bottom of the garden. Outside of the rear of the cottage are further small lawns and a large concrete and stone terrace in front of the stables which is in a very sunny position and takes in the fantastic far reaching views.

GENERAL INFORMATION

VIEWING – Strictly by prior appointment through: Lillicrap Chilcott, Landrian House, 59-60 Lemon Street, , Cornwall, TR1 2PE. Telephone: (01872) 273473. E-mail: [email protected].

POST CODE – TR20 8QZ.

SERVICES – TBC. For Council Tax see www.mycounciltax.org.uk.

DIRECTIONS – From Penzance follow the A30 towards Land’s End and turn right in the village of Drift whilst rising up a steep hill. Pass the Drift reservoir and continue into the countryside to Sancreed. After passing Sancreed church turn left and Lapwing Cottage is the first property on the right hand side after about half a mile. 10 Ref: LCAA6839 AGENT’S NOTE – The above particulars have been prepared as a general guide only for prospective buyers. Whilst we have endeavoured to provide a fair and reasonable description of the property, no specific survey or detailed inspection has been carried out in relation to the property, the services, the appliances and any fixtures and fittings or equipment. All buyers should rely on their own surveys and investigations in connection with any purchase of the property. All measurements, floor plans, dimensions, acreages and distances are approximate only and should not be relied upon for accuracy.

AGENT’S NOTE 2 – The property is registered as a smallholding which means that amongst other things it currently has lower mains water rates than a standard residential dwelling. This designation also means that home grown produce either from animals or the garden can be sold at the roadside. Both the caravan and the chalet have metered electricity supplies.

OFFICE OPENING HOURS – Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.30pm. Saturday - 9.00am to 1.00pm. NB: A number of staff are available for viewing appointments all day Saturday and all day Sunday.

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