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Jackson-Stops & Staff - Taunton
8 Hammet Street, Taunton, Somerset TA1 1RZ
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Garden Entrance, Porch, Reception Hall, Cloakroom, Sitting Room, Drawing Room, Kitchen, Rear Hall and Secondary Staircase, Secondary Porch, Dining Room, Utility / Secondary Kitchen, Main Hall, Rear Hall, Galleried Landing, Cloakroom, Principal Bedroom, Main Landing, Three Further Bedrooms, Nursery Bedroom / Dressing Room, Bathroom, Shower Room, Study, Second Floor Studio / Bedroom, Bathroom,
Cottage Annexe: Entrance Porch, Dining Hall, Kitchen, First Floor Sitting Room, Bathroom, Two Bedrooms, Well Stocked Mature South Facing Gardens, Streams, Pond, Small Copse, Kitchen Garden, Glasshouse, Garage. In all about 0.4 Hectare (1.1 Acres)
Four Gables is one of a number of attractive and well preserved period properties in a small hamlet set on an escarpment enjoying wonderful far reaching views to the south. The property is within a mile and a half of the village of Combe St. Nicholas with its post office, village stores, public house, Church and primary school. The small country towns of Ilminster and Chard are approximately three miles away with a good range of shopping facilities and Honiton, well known for its lace making and pottery, also offers a good range of shopping facilities. Taunton, the County Town of Somerset, lies approximately 11 miles to the north and offers a shopping centre with many of the well known high street stores, out of town shoppingcomplex and other recreational and sporting facilities. Taunton is also well known for its good Independent schools including QueenÍs and KingÍs Colleges and Taunton School. Taunton has a main line railway station with a direct service to London Paddington (the fast train taking approximately one hour and forty five minutes). Communications to the West Country have greatly improved over recent years. The M5 motorway at Taunton (Junction 25) and the A303 giving fast access to Exeter. Clayhanger is within half an hourÍs drive from some of the south coast resorts including Sidmouth,Branscombe, Beer and Lyme Regis. The unspoilt area surrounding Clayhanger is within a conservation area and has a number of bridleways and footpaths for those wishing to walk and ride.
In all Four Gables is a stunningly attractive and beautiful property. It enjoys total privacy and yet has excellent amenities close at hand and ready / quick access to road, rail and air links.
THE PROPERTY
This truly enchanting old house is unique in so many ways, and is very aptly named Four Gables. The property has a particularly intriguing faÙade literally with its four gables anddeep thatched roof. It is believed the house dates back to the 17th Century, belonged to the Church until 1911 and during the eighteen hundreds the house was, in all probability, run as aschool. The accommodation retains a wealth of character with all the principal rooms enjoying glorious views. It is the setting which is so special at Four Gables, facing due south and set inthe most beautifully stocked and timbered gardens with springs and well, streams, ponds, small copse with numerous specimen and flowering trees and a number of mature herbaceous borders and shrubberies. In addition to the main house there is a well converted and detached Coach House, which provides a garage and a two bedroom cottage annexe.
ACCOMMODATION
Garden Entrance
Porch: With carriage light and studded panel front door to:
Reception Hall
Cloakroom: With WC, wash basin.
Sitting Room: With historic feature bay leaded light window. Further south facing casement window looking towards the garden. Exposed ceiling beams and inglenook fireplace with Bressumer beam, iron canopy.
Drawing Room: A delightful room with handsome fireplace with marble mantelpiece and exquisite corn and vine carved tablets. Ceiling timbers and window enjoying glorious views through the gardens and across the hill side. Door to:
Kitchen: With two oven Aga set into the fireplace, tiled surrounds. Welsh Dresser, floor mounted Trianco Red Fire boiler. Further range of floor and wall mounted cupboards. Door to:
Rear Hall with Secondary Staircase.
Secondary Porch: Leading from the Kitchen out into the garden and door to:
Dining Room: With white painted stone walls and glorious outlooks over the gardens. This room also has direct access to a small terrace and gardens.
Utility / Secondary Kitchen: This room has immediate access to the Main Kitchen and Dining Room and has a stainless steel sink with cupboards below, plumbing for washing machine and dishwasher, electric meters and electric cooker points. Return to:
Reception Hall: A further small pane glazed door leads to a further intriguing:
Rear Hall: With leaded light windows, elaborate cornice, cloaks cupboard and partly glazed and panelled door to the Circular Drive and north lawn.
FIRST FLOOR
Galleried Landing
Inner Lobby
Cloakroom: With wash basin, cupboard below, tiled surround, shaver socket, WC.
Principal Bedroom: A charming room with raised floor area, reputedly a praying step used by the monks, partly leaded light east window with window seat, further window enjoying leafy outlook over the gardens to the south. Return to:
Main Landing
Bathroom: Being mainly tiled with panelled bath with mixer tap and shower attachment, WC and bidet and recessed wash basin, tiled surrounds and cupboards below.
Bedroom: With high arched window enjoying glorious views over the south garden and beyond. Built in cupboards and wardrobes providing plentiful hanging space and shelved clothes storage.
Study: With excellent range of built in cupboards with fold away desk. Further cupboards providing good hanging space, bookcases and door leading through to:
Shower Room: With tiled shower cubicle with adjustable shower head, WC and wash basin set into vanity unit with cupboards and drawers below, heated towel rail / radiator and door leading through to:
West Landing: With secondary staircase leading down to the rear hall and cupboards and staircase to second floor and doors through to:
Bedroom: Window with enchanting outlook and door to:
Nursery Bedroom / Dressing Room: With built in cupboard housing the hot water cylinder with immersion heater and ample slatted wood shelving.
Bedroom: With feature windows to both south and north. Lovely views and built in cupboard providing hanging space, a further shelved cupboard.
SECOND FLOOR
With built in cupboards.
Bathroom: With WC, wash basin and panelled bath with overhead shower.
Studio Bedroom: With exposed roof timbers with spot lighting and wash basin set into work surface with cupboards above and below.
These two rooms have feature ñeyebrow windowsî to the east and west.
OUTSIDE
The double hardwood drive gates lead into the carriage drive, which encircles the north lawn with a mature magnolia and a more distant backdrop of magnificent sycamore trees. The stream flows down the eastern boundary and flows through a pretty water garden with an unusual stone built conical cover over the springs and well top.
The COTTAGE ANNEXE has been cleverly converted from the Coach House with Entrance Porch with glazed front stable door into Dining Hall, which has a pine staircase rising up to the first floor with ample room for a dining table. A door leads into the Kitchen, which is particularly well fitted, making good use of all space. The staircase rises up to a galleried landing to a Sitting Room with exposed beams, exposed stonework wall and velux windows. It has doors leading to the Bathroom, which is fitted with a panelled bath with shower, WC and wash basin. There is a single Bedroom, at present set out as a study and a double Bedroom with a good range of built in cupboards. A well covered pergola with vines lies immediately to the west of the cottage and provides a lovely sitting out area under dappled shade.
A majority of the gardens at Four Gables which lie to the south and west are quite beautiful and include gently sloping lawns, bordered by well designed and stocked flower and shrub beds and a number of mature trees. The gardens lead down to the POND which is partly shaded by a magnificent oak and has weeping willow and two rustic bridges, one covered with wisteria. The pond has a number of mature lilies, bull rushes and reeds. It also has a small grass covered island built on stone arches. A small COPSE has a number of conifers, silver birch and maple and has an under canopy of tree peonies and other flowering and specimen trees. To the far west is a KITCHEN GARDEN area and an aluminium framed GLASSHOUSE. A deep terrace lies along the south front of the property and provides good sitting out area enjoying the views down through the garden and across to the other side of the valley. In all the gardens and grounds amount to about 0.45 hectares (1.12 acres)
OTHER INFORMATION
Services Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority South Somerset District Council, 25 Brympton Way, Yeovil, Somerset BA20 2HT. Telephone (01935) 462462.
Tax Band G (£2,206.22 2007/2008)
property reference: JATA27836
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