Mixtow House MIXTOW • FOWEY • CORNWALL Mixtow House MIXTOW • FOWEY • CORNWALL An elegant and strikingly positioned waterfront family house with flexible accommodation, panoramic terrace, mature garden and parking for five cars. Mixtow House, with its spectacular waterside setting, has its own large, stone-built quay, allowing access to the water at almost all states of the tide. In all, it has about 80 metres of waterfront within the deep-water port of Fowey. Offered for sale for the first time in over fifty years, Mixtow House incorporates a self-contained cottage and is Grade II listed. Main House (Mixtow House) Drawing room • Dining room used as a second sitting room • Kitchen with intercommunicating door to cottage • Entrance hall • 3 bedrooms Shower room • Bathroom with bath, shower and airing cupboard • Corridor with intercommunicating door to cottage • Large loft reached by folding ladder Adjoining Cottage (Mixtow Cottage) Living room/kitchen • 2 bedrooms • Shower room Garden Sheltered inner terrace fronted by columns • Mature garden • Large terrace with panoramic views over the harbour • Secluded side lawn Terrace outside Mixtow Cottage • Large upper lawn • Lower terrace Garages and Parking Lower garage • Parking space next to lower garage • Upper garage with parking space in front • Parking space behind Mixtow Cottage Quay Large stone-built quay with about 80m of water frontage • Boathouse • Inner slipway, landing steps and deep water slipway (rebuilt 2011) Large turning area and parking for trailers • Boats up to 8 metres can be launched 2 running moorings • Provides easy access to the water at almost all states of the tide Gross Internal Floor Area (approx.): Mixtow House and Mixtow Cottage: 2,570 sq ft (238.7 sq m) Garages and boathouse: 522 sq ft (48.5 sq m) These particulars are intended only as a guide and must not be relied upon as statements of fact. Your attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the text. Mixtow House – For Sale Freehold This charming family house, with its mature Cornish garden, is full of character. It offers flexible accommodation as either a single 5 bedroom house; or as a 3 bedroom house (Mixtow House) and a 2 bedroom cottage (Mixtow Cottage). Each has its own entrance, kitchen, bathroom, garden and utilities. The entire property has been refurbished and maintained to a good standard over the years. Mixtow House’s drawing room runs the full length of the main house and has a working fireplace. French windows lead onto a sheltered veranda and into a garden fronted by a large and commanding terrace, the width of the house, with superb views down river towards Fowey. It is perfect for al fresco dining. Upstairs are 3 good bedrooms, two with views down river, and a bathroom. Mixtow Cottage adjoins Mixtow House, with access between the two on both ground and first floors. Its private terrace and main bedroom enjoy fine views out across the water. Downstairs is a kitchen/living room, with stairs up to the first floor landing off which there is the spacious and elegant main bedroom, a twin bedroom and a shower room. Major improvements have recently been made to Mixtow Quay, including the complete rebuilding of the deep water slipway and a major renovation of the boathouse. The slipway gives access to the water at almost all states of the tide. Mixtow House and Mixtow Cottage each has its own dedicated frape, adjacent to the boathouse and to the slipway. History Mixtow and its Community Mixtow House has a long history. The main house was rebuilt in A hamlet with a strong sense of community, Mixtow is situated the eighteenth century on much older foundations, which date on the east bank of the River Fowey, just above the town of back to the fifteenth century. Mixtow House is Grade II listed Fowey itself. Fowey is rich in amenities with all manner of shops, (English Heritage Building ID: 60561) and has a continuous including a bank, bars, boutiques, chandleries, delicatessens record of ownership and occupancy since the late eighteenth and restaurants. It has its own hospital, doctors’ and dentists’ century. A recent illustrated history by Martin Sheppard, Mixtow surgeries, a library, and primary and secondary schools. Half a (2014), provides a detailed and readable account of the area, mile down river from Mixtow, Fowey is easily reached by boat from its connection with piracy in the middle ages to its use as or via the Bodinnick ferry. Many excellent beaches are within a landing-craft repair base by the US Navy in the Second World easy reach of Mixtow by road or by water. Mixtow is in an Area War, and to its development from 1945 to the present day. of Outstanding Beauty, which incorporates many natural and historical attractions. Services Mains electricity and water. Telephone, including High Speed Internet. Oil-fired central heating (installed in 2010 and serviced yearly). Private drainage. Rights of Access A public footpath runs along the front of the property above the sea wall and below the garden. A number of properties within the hamlet of Mixtow have a right of access over Mixtow Quay to the water’s edge (the agent holds the details). Income Generation Mixtow House, with its interconnecting cottage, provides flexible accommodation either for one large family or for two smaller ones. It can easily be used, whether as a whole or as two units, for short-term holiday lets. Distances Fowey 0.25 mile (5 minutes) by boat to public mooring pontoon Bodinnick Ferry (to Fowey by car) 1.8 miles Liskeard Railway Station 15 miles (London Paddington 3½ hours; Birmingham 3½ hours) A38 Devon Expressway 12 miles (with access via the Devon Expressway to M5, M4 and M6) Newquay Airport 33 miles Plymouth 34 miles (about 3 hours to London Paddington) Exeter 73 miles (London Paddington about 2 hours) Exeter International Airport 79 miles (distances and times approximate) Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Mixtow House and Mixtow Cottage: 2,570 sq ft (238.7 sq m) Garages and boathouse: 522 sq ft (48.5 sq m) This plan is for guidance only and must not be relied upon as a statement Garage 19'9 (6.02) of fact. Attention is drawn to the Important Notice on the last page of the Garage x 9'2 (2.79) text of the Particulars 17'11 (5.46) x 9'7 (2.92) Boat House 23'3 (7.09) x 7'3 (2.21) Outbuilding Bedroom Dining 32'1 (9.78) max Sitting 18'9 (5.72) max Bedroom Room x 14'6 (4.42) max Room x 10'3 (3.12) Denotes restricted 14'5 (4.39) max head height x 12'10 (3.91) max Kitchen Bedroom 14' (4.27) max Up Bedroom x 11'6 (3.51) Down 14'9 (4.50) max 10'8 (3.25) max Kitchen/Living Room x 9'2 (2.79) max x 10'1 (3.07) max 17'7 (5.36) Bedroom x 11'11 (3.63) max Family Room 15'5 (4.70) max 18'2 (5.54) x 13'7 (4.14) max x 16'2 (4.93) max Up Down Ground Floor First Floor Directions (PL23 1NB) From Plymouth continue along the A38, cross the Tamar Bridge At the little T junction turn right (ignore dead end sign) and include all fitted carpets, curtains, light fittings, domestic electrical and bypass Liskeard on the A38. At the Dobwalls roundabout immediately turn left after Lombard Farm. Proceed down a items, garden equipment, statuary and machinery. take the second exit signposted St Austell on the A390. After East short hill and then turn right to Mixtow (not Mixtow Pill) and pass Local Authority Taphouse pass a filling station on the right of a long curve and, Outerbee. At the end of the lane, and at the wooden gate providing at the top of a short hill, turn left onto B3359 signposted Looe, access onto the quay, Mixtow House is on the left. Cornwall Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro TR1 3AY Polperro, Bodinnick and Lanreath. Follow this road for about Fixtures and Fittings Viewing 4.5 miles then turn right towards Polruan and the Bodinnick Ferry. Viewing is strictly by prior appointment with Knight Frank LLP. After about 4 miles pass through Lanteglos Highway. Just after All items usually known as tenants’ fixtures and fittings, whether this village, past a few houses and bungalows on the right, take the mentioned or not in these sale particulars, are excluded from the narrow lane on the right signed Mixtow. sale but may be available by separate negotiation. Such items Mixtow House Mixtow House 01508 557777 | [email protected] 557777 01508 Totalarea= 0.52 acres approx. This Plan is based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with the sanction of the Controller of H.M. Stationery Office. Crown Copyright reserved. (ES763454). This Plan is published for the convenience of Purchasers only. Its accuracy is not guaranteed and it is expressly excluded from any contract. NOT TO SCALE. Printed and produced by and produced Printed Important Notice 1. Particulars: These particulars are not an offer or contract, nor part of one. 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