5 bedroom detached house for sale

A unique architect-designed detached family home in need of renovation. Opportunities for modernisation, expansion, improvement and/or development. A large secluded and mature garden. In the Mont le Grand Conservation Area. Close to the city centre, the hospitals, schools and local amenities.



Situation - Exeter is a Cathedral and University city situated on the River Exe. It offers a wide range of amenities including well-regarded schools, sporting and leisure facilities, as well as many excellent dining and shopping opportunities and theatre, music and cultural activities. The sea and Dartmoor are close by. The M5 is easily accessible to the east of the city at junction 29, which links to the A30 and A38 trunk roads. There are good inter-city railway services connecting to London and the rest of the country.
The property is about a mile east of Exeter city centre. The RD&E hospital and the St Luke’s campus of the University are both within a few hundred yards. There is easy access to local facilities in Heavitree and Mount Radford, with Waitrose and Co-Op supermarkets, doctors’ surgeries, Post Office and a range of independent cafes, restaurants and pubs. Exeter School and The Maynard School are close by. Local primary schools include St Leonard’s and St Michael’s (Heavitree). Local bus services are excellent.

Description - This generously-sized house is set within a popular area of Exeter. It was built to a high specification for the parents of the vendor, on the site of a property destroyed in the 1942 blitz. Constructed in 1953, with additions in the early 1960s, it has never previously been on the market. It offers versatile and deceptively spacious accommodation over two floors, including five bedrooms. There is a need for renovation and potential for improvements and extension, or complete redevelopment subject to planning permission.

Accommodation - On the ground floor there is a light and airy entrance hall with a staircase leading to the first floor. To the front of the house are separate well-proportioned and sizeable dining and living rooms, each with two large windows. The kitchen is to the rear, with plenty of space for storage and appliances and with an adjacent store room and W/C with basin. Outside, the remaining part of the original 1880s house offers potential for a home office, storage or play space. An opportunity could exist to build, for instance, a two storey extension towards the back garden, enlarging the kitchen and providing the opportunity to install an en suite bathroom to the bedroom above.
On the first floor there are five good-sized bedrooms, a bathroom and separate W/C. Two large double bedrooms are front facing. Bedrooms three and four are above the garage and have built-in storage space. Bedroom five is to the rear of the house above the kitchen. In addition there is a bathroom, separate W/C and cupboard off the landing. The capacious loft is boarded and insulated, and is accessed by a retractable ladder.

Outside - The property offers a surprising amount of outside space. To the rear there are expansive low maintenance gardens, including a mature apple tree, within a Victorian brick-walled perimeter. There is side access to the single garage and access to the front garden through a side passageway. At the front a driveway leads to a single garage and ample car parking space. There is an agreement for rear vehicular access from Polsloe Road to be created.

Services - All mains connected.
Gas combi boiler installed November 2022.
House rewired in 2011.
Standard, Superfast and Ultrafast broadband available. Multiple mobile networks available.

Opportunities For Development - The property sits on a plot of about 0.17 acres (see land plan online). The agents believe that there is potential for conversion and expansion, for instance into six individual apartments, or for demolition and total redevelopment given the sizeable plot on which it stands. Options could be explored subject to relevant planning permissions. Please speak to the agents for additional information.’

Directions - From the Stags Southernhay office go down Barnfield Road, turn left at the traffic lights on to Western Way and take the fourth exit from the roundabout on to Heavitree Road. Continue up Heavitree Road past Waitrose and the property is on the left before the traffic lights, just after the end of the bus lane.