4 bedroom semi-detached house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Grade II Listed Former School House
- Sought After Hamlet
- Period Features
- Three/Four Bedrooms
- Two Bathrooms
- Entrance Hall With Galleried Landing
- Kitchen/Breakfast Room With Alpha Stove
- Cottage Garden & Gated Parking
- Freehold
- Council Tax band E
Situation - A rural, yet accessible location within the popular hamlet of Appley, with the Globe Inn, small primary school, village store and Appley Pavillion - a thriving community hall.
Wellington is within 6 miles and offers a good range of day to day facilities along with the popular Wellington School. The property is equidistance between three of the top schools along the Devon/Somerset border.
The county town of Taunton and the cathedral city of Exeter are both within an easy drive and offer a greater range of shops, amenities, sixth form Colleges and Exeter University. The M5 motorway is easily accessible at junctions 26 and 27 and mainline rail stations at Tiverton Parkway and Taunton having regular services to London Paddington.
Description - An attractive Grade II Listed former school house in the very heart of Appley Cross, just 15 minutes (6 miles) from Wellington. The property has a wealth of period features and charm throughout.
In brief, the property comprises entrance/dining hall, sitting room, shower room, country kitchen/breakfast room, utility and conservatory on the ground floor. Upstairs the galleried landing leads to three/four bedrooms and a bathroom with large storage cupboard. Outside is a pretty cottage garden and gated parking.
Accommodation - Front door into vaulted ceiling Dining Hall/Entrance with wooden staircase to Galleried Landing. Exposed A frames and beams and beautiful window to the front. Door into Sitting Room, stripped floorboards and inglenook fireplace, with huge lintel, bread oven, pretty stone nooks and detailing, woodburning stove. Two windows to front aspect. Across the hallway, entrance to inner hall. Door to Shower Room, with WC, wash hand basin and shower cubicle. From hallway, door into Kitchen/Breakfast Room. A lovely room with ample space for dining. Dual aspect windows, stone flooring, original exposed beams and lintels. Large inglenook with wood lintel, exposed stone and deep tiled sill housing the Alpha Stove. Bespoke fitted kitchen base and wall units in cream, topped with a dark quartz work surface. Ceramic sink, plumbing for dishwasher. Recess and door through to Utility Room, with ample space and plumbing for white goods, dual aspect windows, sink and great storage. Further door to the conservatory a lovely space for plants, potting and good access to the garden.
Upstairs the Galleried Landing leads off in two directions. To one end, an inner corridor leads to two pretty Bedrooms. One has two windows to the front and the other a picture window to the side aspect.
At the other end of the Landing, is another corridor leading to a good size Bathroom with bathtub, WC, wash hand basin, wall lights and window to the side. Door to large storage cupboard.
Door to Principle Bedroom Suite - consisting of two interconnecting double Bedrooms. The first room is presently set out as an office with dual apsect windows to both side and large storage cupboards. A pretty door leads into the second room, currently the Master Bedroom with window to front. These two rooms offer flexible space.
Outside - Outside the property is entered via gates, giving secure parking for several cars. The pretty cottage style garden is predominately to the front and side of the property, with level lawned area, two mature apple trees and a plum tree and shrubs interspersed with gravelled areas, lovely places to sit and affluent flower beds which are well stocked and tended. A well built timber shed provides additional storage and wood store.
Services - Oil fired heating. Mains electricity and water. This property has the benefit of standard broadband(Ofcom), Mobile coverage available inside with O2, and Vodafone (Ofcom).
Viewings - Strictly by arrangement through Stags Wellington
Directions - From junction 26 of the M5 motorway (Wellington) continue to the roundabout with the A38 and take the first exit signposted Exeter. Bear left at the next roundabout and continue past the Beambridge Inn on your left hand side and continue to the top of Whiteball Hill. At the top of the hill turn right signposted Greenham, Appley and Ashbrittle.
Continue on this road passing through Greenham and then into Appley. Take the first left hand turn at Appley Cross (before the school) and you will see the property on the right hand side.
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference 32853648. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by Stags - Wellington.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on February 5, 2022
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on February 5, 2022
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services
Energy Performance data and Internal floor area: obtained on January 19, 2024 from The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 or the Home Report if in relation to a residential property in Scotland.
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.