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The Station House, Eggesford Chulmleigh, EX18 7JZ

A historic station house for modernisation set on the picturesque

Chulmleigh 3.5 miles 12.5 miles South Molton 13 miles

• Kitchen/Breakfast Room • Utility and Wet Room • Sitting Room • 3 Bedrooms • Enclosed Garden • Former Ticket Office and Waiting Room • Worker's Rest Room and Station Master's Office • Informal tender £200,000

Cornwall | Devon | Somerset | Dorset | London The Station House, Eggesford, Chulmleigh, EX18 7JZ

SITUATION about 45 minutes and the one to about As the name suggests The Station House is set on the half an hour. picturesque Tarka Line that runs between and Barnstaple. Local amenities are available in the small The station was built in Tudor Gothic Style and is town of Chulmleigh, which offers a good range of Grade II listed. The building originally provided a services including a variety of shops, places of worship, Station Master's residence as well as the ticket office, post office, health centre, primary and secondary parcel store, waiting room and toilets. A further schools, local pubs and other amenities including an building was erected adjacent to the station and 18 hole short golf course. The Fox and Hounds provided the Station Master's office and worker's rest Country Hotel is a short walk from the Station. room. The original 'public' areas of the station are now The Cathedral City of Exeter is some 22 miles distant not open to the public and remain largely unspoilt to the south east and offers all the facilities and from when they were last used as such. The property amenities you expect from a Cathedral City with access does now require general modernisation throughout. to the M5 motorway and Exeter airport. THE HOUSE DESCRIPTION Front door into HALL with under-stairs cupboard and Having been built for the London and South Western STORE ROOM / PANTRY to the right. The KITCHEN/ Railway around 1850, Eggesford Station was opened BREAKFAST ROOM is fitted with some modern units, by the North Devon Railway on 1 August 1854, having electric cooker point with hood over and 1½ bowl sink been built on permission from the then landowner, unit with mixer tap. Matching wall cupboards. The the Earl of Portsmouth, whose country seat was UTILITY has a worktop with space for both washing situated within an estate near to the site of the machine and dryer below and space for upright fridge station. It is said that the Earl agreed to the railway and freezer. Door to garden and door to WET ROOM being built on his land on the understanding that all with electric shower, close coupled WC and wash trains would stop at the station thus affording easy basin. Off the wet room is a CLOAKROOM with low access to Eggesford House for visiting guests. To this level WC. The SITTING ROOM has a sealed, tiled day, all trains continue to stop at Eggesford on an fireplace with cupboards to the left and further hourly basis with the journey to Exeter Central taking The Station House, Eggesford, Chulmleigh, EX18 7JZ shelved cupboard which was formerly a door through To the south-western end of the station is an enclosed to what was the main public entrance to the station. garden, mainly laid to lawn with flowers and shrubs and a small patio area. On the FIRST FLOOR there is a spacious LANDING and VIEWING THREE DOUBLE BEDROOMS. Strictly by appointment please through the sole selling THE STATION agents, Stags on 01769 572263. Main entrance to the station with picket gate and DIRECTIONS door to HALL with sealed door to the platform and The Station House is clearly situated at Eggesford on sealed doorway to the sitting room. To the right is the the A377 that runs between Barnstaple and Exeter. TICKET / BOOKING OFFICE with original fitted counter tops with cupboards and drawers below, built in store SERVICES cupboard and sold fuel stove on a slate hearth. LOBBY Mains electricity and water, private drainage system. with sealed archway to the platform and door into PARCEL STORE with fitted shelving. The LADIES METHOD OF SALE WAITING ROOM has a cast iron Victorian fireplace and The property is offered to the market by 'Informal bay window to the platform, side hall and door to tender' as a whole. WC. All offers are to be submitted in writing on the Accessed from the outside is a further BUILDING attached tender form no later than midday Friday 30th housing the STATION MASTER'S OFFICE with shelving June 2017. and a WORKER'S REST ROOM with the remains of the old range in a fire place with bread oven. Set between All offers will be treated as being best and final. this building and the station are the former GENTS The vendor(s) do not undertake to accept the highest TOILETS with the roof no longer in place. offer. Offers must be for an exact amount, escalating offers OUTSIDE will be deemed to be for the maximum amount stated. The Station House, Eggesford, Chulmleigh, EX18 7JZ

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