THE OLD RECTORY BATHEALTON • TAUNTON • SOMERSET The Old Rectory Bathealton, Taunton, Somerset A quintessential old Rectory situated beside the village church, beautifully presented and set within delightful gardens Garden Hall • Dining Room • Drawing Room • Study • Sitting / Play Room Kitchen Breakfast Room with Aga Rear Entrance/Boot Room • Pantry • Rear Reception Hall • Cloakroom • Utility Room First Floor Landing • Principal En Suite Bedroom • Four Further First Floor Bedrooms Family Bathroom with Shower • Second Floor Bedroom Entrance Drive • Ample Courtyard Parking • Workshop • Open Fronted Garage Kitchen Garden • Garden Outbuildings • Deep South Facing Terrace Well Maintained & Partly Walled Gardens • Water Gardens with Pond • Many Mature Trees Small Stream • Gently Sloping Paddock In all about 1.789 hectares (4.422 acres) Taunton Office Country Houses and Estates Office 8 Hammet Street 17c Curzon Street Taunton, Somerset London TA1 1RZ W1J 5HU Telephone: 01823 325144 Telephone: 020 7664 6646 [email protected] [email protected] jackson-stops.co.uk LOCATION COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORT The Old Rectory is set in the heart of this tiny, unspoilt village with its The M5 motorway can be joined at Wellington, Tiverton and Taunton ancient church, manor house and period cottages. The village enjoys (Junctions 26, 27 & 25 respectively) giving fast and easy access to a tranquil setting within the rolling landscape and is close to day to Exeter, Bristol and The Midlands. Tiverton Parkway station is found day amenities found in the popular small town of Wiveliscombe, with close to Junction 27 where fast trains to London Paddington are its traditional butcher, delicatessen, convenience stores, cafes, public scheduled to arrive within two hours. The same trains can be boarded houses, primary school and playing fields with an outdoor pool, tennis at Taunton. Both Exeter and Bristol Airports are within easy reach courts and rugby club. The town of Wellington, a little further away providing flights to the continent and The USA and for those wishing to the south, has a Waitrose store, popular independent school, a to travel to the continent by ferry there are ferry ports with regular good variety of shops and sports clubs. Taunton, the County Town channel crossings at Plymouth, Weymouth and Southampton. of Somerset, is also within easy reach and is well known for its three independent schools, namely Taunton School, King’s and Queen’s • Wiveliscombe 3 miles Colleges and an excellent Sixth Form College. The area is surrounded • Wellington 5.5 miles by three ranges of hills, including the Quantocks, the Brendons • Taunton 12 miles and the Blackdowns, all providing excellent walking and riding • Tiverton 13 miles countryside. • Exeter 30 miles • Bristol 60 miles (All mileages/times approximate) THE PROPERTY The exact age of The Old Rectory is unknown, but the period features and proportions would suggest that the original building dates back to the Late Georgian / Early Victorian eras with additions made towards the turn of the last century. The property now offers a comfortable and delightful family home. Architectural features include a fine turning staircase with arched, small pane window, high carved wooden mantelpieces in the reception rooms and panelled doors. The house has in recent years been modernised and decorated in keeping with its period. It is the gardens and grounds that provide a perfect setting for The Old Rectory, the formal gardens to the front of the house are partly walled with a pretty arch topped gate which leads to the village church. There is a well-planned kitchen garden, less formal gardens leading down to the pond and a gently sloping paddock for those wishing to keep ponies or a few head of livestock. ACCOMMODATION GROUND FLOOR A canopy entrance porch is found at the front of the property and has a partly glazed door leading into the Garden Hall with a fine turning staircase and doors leading into the Dining Room with fireplace with wood burning stove, pretty arch topped recess, ceiling cornice and drinks cupboards and windows with shutters looking to the garden. An Inner Hall leads to the Drawing Room, a beautifully light room with ceiling cornice, fireplace with high wooden carved mantelpiece with an open grate. There are low level cupboards and bookcases across the back wall and the room has a double aspect and French windows leading out onto the terrace. A door leads through to the Study, being well-fitted with cupboards and bookshelves and a further door leads back into the Rear Hall Entrance. The hall has a slate floor, built-in cloaks cupboards, Cloakroom with wash basin and WC and a Utility Room. The Sitting / Play Room provides an ideal teenager’s den and has a galleried sitting area. The rear hall also gives access to the Kitchen / Breakfast Room, the kitchen area being well-fitted with a range of shaker style painted wall and floor mounted cupboards with a central island, a four oven oil fired Aga and a low level oven and two ring ceramic hob. A door leads from the kitchen to the rear entrance Boot Room with a deep china sink with wooden drainers and a walk-in Pantry. FIRST FLOOR An elegant arch topped small pane window lights the staircase and first floor landing, which has built-in cupboards, airing cupboard and doors to a Bedroom with two windows with seats, wash basin and built-in cupboards. There is a Bedroom opposite with wash basin, built-in cupboards and a door through to a Guest Bedroom enjoying lovely views across the garden. The Principal Bedroom has built-in cupboards, is a beautifully light and spacious room having four windows all looking out to the gardens. The En Suite Bathroom has a panelled bath, wash basin, WC, heated towel rail and built-in storage cupboards. The Family Bathroom is well-designed, has a panelled bath, an oval wash basin set into a marble surround, a shower, heated towel rail and WC. The Fifth Bedroom is at present used as a dressing room, and has built-in cupboards. A staircase leads up to the second floor landing:- SECOND FLOOR Second floor landing with excellent storage space and Sixth Bedroom with exposed ceiling timbers and built-in cupboards. Ground Floor First Floor Second Floor THE OLD RECTORY Approximate gross internal floor area 4721 sq ft / 438.5 sq metres (excludes restricted head height) Measured in accordance with RICS guidelines. Every attempt is made to ensure accuracy, however all measurements are approximate. This floor plan is for illustrative purposes only and is not to scale. GARDENS & GROUNDS Formal lawned gardens stretch out to the front of the house, enjoy a lovely southerly aspect and are adjoined by a deep terrace. There are two beautifully stocked herbaceous borders, two mature apple trees and a gravelled path leading down to the end of the garden where there is box hedging providing a good degree of shelter and privacy. The garden is partly walled and has an arch topped garden door leading out towards the church. The Kitchen Garden with useful Tool Shed and Potting Shed has a soft fruit cage, vegetable beds and a Wooden Greenhouse. Less formal gardens are planted with a variety of magnolias and Metasequoia with an under canopy of rhododendrons, azaleas and camellias creating a small, private arboretum. This area of garden has three shallow ditches, which lead down to the ornamental Pond shaded by a mature weeping willow. There is a Chicken Run, being well secluded, and a small home built assault course. A tiny bridge leads over a Stream and along a further stretch of garden with a low screen of hydrangeas. The drive leads into The Old Rectory, passes over the stream and gives access to excellent Parking to the rear of the house where there is also a Kennel, a Timber Built Open Fronted Garage and Workshop with recycling and dustbin store behind. There is a deep terrace at the rear which enjoys the morning sun and a small pedestrian gate leading out on to the village lane. The gently sloping Paddock stretches up to the east, is well- fenced and amounts to about 1.5 acres. In all the gardens and grounds amount to approximately 1.789 hectares (4.422 acres). PROPERTY INFORMATION SERVICES in these particulars, all contents, fixtures posted to Milverton. Proceed along this road Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. and fittings, garden ornaments and statues, for approximately 3 miles and on a double Oil fired central heating. carpets and curtains are specifically excluded bend, turn left sign posted to Langford from the sale. Certain items may be Budville. Continue through the village of available by separate negotiation. Langford Budville and at the far end bear LOCAL AUTHORITY right at a right hand turn and continue on Taunton Deane Borough Council VIEWING to the B3187. Proceed until reaching Spring The Deane House, Belvedere Road Grove Cross and turn left sign posted to Taunton, Somerset TA1 1HE By prior appointment with the sole agents Bathealton. Carry on down this hill into the www.tauntondeane.gov.uk Jackson-Stops & Staff, Taunton office: 8 valley and on approaching the village itself, Telephone: 01823 356356 Hammet Street, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 1RZ at the first junction bear slightly left and Tel: 01823 325 144 proceed for 50 yards or so and turn right into TAX BAND: G the property. DIRECTIONS (TA4 2AN) CONTENTS, FIXTURES AND Proceed into Wellington from the Taunton FAST FIND 62839 FITTINGS direction, travel through the high street and Details prepared October 2015 Unless specifically mentioned as included turn right at the staggered junction, sign Photographs taken Summer 2015 Based upon the Ordnance Survey Map with permission of the Controller H.M.S.O.