Property description
For sale by public auction. Tuesday 26th July 2016, 7pm. Wells Golf Club, Wells. Auction Guide Price £450,000 to £500,000* A stunning Grade II* listed house now requiring renovation and improvement and benefitting from consent to extend the existing accommodation.
Number 8 High Street is a stunning period village home that dates, in part, to the 16th Century with latter alterations and additions. It now requires a degree of renovation and improvement and has the added advantage of consent to alter the layout of the existing accommodation, and also to extend it to the rear, which will combine the features and character of the original building with a more modern way of living with a large open plan living space on the ground floor.
The accommodation is arranged over two floors and currently comprises a wide wooden front door that opens into a good sized reception room which has an open fireplace with brick hearth and surround and then a door leading to the kitchen and steps leading to the dining hall. It is in the dining hall that there is a magnificent moulded cross-beam ceiling with intricate carvings and also a moulded stone fireplace (both of these features have been particularly mentioned on the property's listing). The kitchen sits to the rear of the house and has windows to the garden and doors leading to the rear lobby, with cloakroom, and second sitting room. This room has a separate front door, lovely high ceilings with exposed beams. Currently doors from the sitting room open into two further rooms and in turn a shower room.
From the dining hall stairs rise to the first floor onto a wide central landing. The largest bedroom is off to the right, with exposed beams and windows to both the front and rear. The two further bedrooms are both large double rooms with windows to the front. There is also a large bathroom on this floor.
The proposed accommodation will create a main living space with a separate self contained annex to the side. The main house will have two large reception rooms and an entrance hall. The kitchen and rear lobby will be combined and then linked to the Old Bakery by enclosing a courtyard area. This space will become a wonderful open plan room with kitchen and dining space and the Old Bakery will become a separate study. On the first floor the floor space occupied by bedroom two and the bathroom will be reconfigured to create two bedrooms and a central bathroom. The annex will comprise a living room with kitchen, bedroom and shower room. Copies of all the consents and plans are available from the agents.
OUTSIDE To the side of the house is a vehicular access which leads through a gate to a space for off road parking for several vehicles, together with a large garage/workshop.
The garden lies to the rear of the house is mainly laid to lawn with a couple of mature shrubs and enjoys a lovely sunny southerly aspect.
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Reserve Price: the seller's minimum acceptable price at auction and the figure below which the auctioneer cannot sell. The reserve price is not disclosed and remains confidential between the seller and the auctioneer. Both the guide price and the reserve price can be subject to change up to and including the day of the auction.
Property Features :
- Auction - 26th July
- Grade II* listed
- Semi-detached
- Currently three bedrooms
- Consent to extend