Property description
Located at the heart of the ever popular village of Dymock, an historic Grade II listed former farmhouse offering substantial family accommodation. Set in about 1/2 acre containing a large detached barn.
ENTRANCE HALLWAY
A spacious and welcoming reception with a limestone floor. Casement window to the front with wooden shutters. Exposed beams. Open-well staircase with stick balusters leading to the first floor. Listed spice cupboard and doors opening to::
CLOAKROOM
Low-level W.C., wash-hand basin. Window to front. Coat hanging rail. Limestone floor.
SITTING ROOM - 22' 3'' x 14' 8'' (6.78m x 4.47m)
A spacious and character reception room with an attractive open fireplace, ready to take the chill off a winter's evening. A casement window to the front with wooden shutters and part panelled doors opening onto the rear gardens, allow lots of natural light into the room. Elm floor boards and oak beams, two radiators.
DINING ROOM - 15' 4'' x 14' 11' (excluding bay)' (4.67m x 4.54m)
A spacious room ideal for entertaining and once again lovely and light, having a panelled window to front with wooden shutters and a bay window overlooking the gardens to the rear. Lovely inglenook fireplace housing a woodburning stove on a brick herringbone hearth.
KITCHEN - 15' 8'' x 10' 8'' (4.77m x 3.25m)
Featuring an oil-fired Aga, with fitted base and eye level units and further free standing units, twin bowl sink-unit, worktops. Two former bread ovens, tiled floor and radiator.
STUDY - 16' 2'' x 14' 9'' (max but irregular shape) (4.92m x 4.49m)
A useful extra reception room having double glazed windows to rear and side and door leading into the REAR LOBBY.
LAUNDRY ROOM - 21' 4'' x 11' 11'' (6.50m x 3.63m)
Formed from the former dairy. Floor standing oil-fired central heating boiler. Period wash hand basin. 19th century quarry tile floor. Two windows to the side.
ON THE FIRST FLOOR
LANDING
Windows overlooking the front. Built-in STORAGE CUPBOARD. AIRING CUPBOARD. Two radiators. Doors opening into:
MASTER SUITE - 15' 3'' x 13' 0'' (4.64m x 3.96m)
The bedroom has a casement window to the front enjoying a most pleasant outlook across the village green to St Mary's church. Period fireplace and built-in wardrobes.
EN-SUITE
Panelled bath with shower attachment and fitted screen. Low level W.C., pedestal wash-hand basin. Tiled floor. Double-glazed window to rear. Fitted mirror, shaver and light point.
BEDROOM - 11' 10'' x 8' 11'' (3.60m x 2.72m)
Double-glazed window to rear. Radiator. Exposed beams.
BEDROOM - 14' 10'' x 11' 9'' (4.52m x 3.58m) plus recess
A character room featuring a period fireplace with two display niches, and a priest's hole Double-glazed window to rear, radiator.
BEDROOM - 13' 1'' x 12' 5'' (3.98m x 3.78m)
Twin windows overlooking the front garden.
BATHROOM
Panelled bath with Mira electric shower over. Fitted screen. Pedestal wash-hand basin, low level W.C. Double-glazed window. Radiator. Tiled floor. Shaver point.
BEDROOM - 12' 1'' x 11' 11'' (3.68m x 3.63m)
Period fireplace. Panelled window to rear. Radiator. Recessed bookshelving.
SECOND FLOOR SELF CONTAINED FLAT
Ideal for guests or as a teenager's suite but currently let out and generating an income.
SITTING ROOM - 16' 11'' x 16' 1'' (5.15m x 4.90m)
Exposed floor boards. Double-glazed window to front and rear with radiators under.
KITCHEN/DINER - 15' 4'' x 9' 5'' (4.67m x 2.87m)
Double-glazed window to front with a radiator under. Single drainer sink unit with storage under. Freestanding unit with integrated four ring hob and oven. Further storage units. Exposed floor boards.
BATHROOM
Panelled bath. Low level W.C., wash-hand basin. Radiator. Window to rear.
BEDROOM - 15' 9'' x 15' 8'' (4.80m x 4.77m)
Exposed floor boards. Double glazed window to front and rear. Built-in wardrobes.
CELLAR - 24' 11'' x 19' 1'' (7.59m x 5.81m)
There is a substantial free-draining cellar underneath part of the hall and the sitting room.
OUTSIDE
The property is approached from the village road by a driveway providing off road parking which continues past the house to the barn which has a double bay carport. Pedestrian access is via a hand-gate set in to a mixed boundary hedge, on to a gravel path leading to the entrance door. The front garden is laid to lawn featuring a fine magnolia tree. The principal garden is found to the rear of the property enjoying a southerly aspect. Adjacent to the house, with doors from both the reception hallway and study is a covered terrace, being an ideal spot to relax in the sun, giving a view across the garden. Next to the terrace is a POTTING SHED/STORE ROOM. From here you are led on to a level lawn featuring a garden pond. A low yew hedge then separates the lawn from the orchard and kitchen garden. The orchard is planted with a variety of ornamental fruit and nut trees. Within the plot is the large BARN offering great potential, subject to any necessary consents being granted. The barn is currently divided creating a TWO BAY CARPORT 36' x 15', a log store 24' x 15' also housing the OIL STORAGE TANK, a UTILITY AREA 11 x 7 containing two wash-hand basins and the FORMER VILLAGE STORE measuring 30' x 14' with quarry tiled floor. The whole plot amounts to about half an acre.
Property Features :
- Grade II listed village house
- Spacious and versatile accommodation
- Three reception rooms, five bedrooms
- Integral guest suite/annexe
- Substantial detached barn