Description
A handsome and substantial village house which offers beautifully appointed, light and airy accommodation of immense charm and character in a sought after village location. Council Tax band G, EPC rating F, Freehold
Situation - Beauchamp Cottage is situated in the centre of the highly popular village of Hatch Beauchamp. The village provides a thriving community with a hotel, public house, a Primary School, playing fields and a busy village hall. Taunton the County Town of Somerset is seven miles to the North West and has an excellent range of shopping, leisure, recreational and scholastic facilities. The property is well located with access to the A303, the M5 motorway at junction 25 and there is a mainline railway station at Taunton with direct railway links to London Paddington and the rest of the country. Taunton is also home to Somerset County Cricket and Taunton Racecourse.
Description - Beauchamp Cottage is a handsome and substantial village house which offers beautifully appointed accommodation of immense charm and character and is presented in excellent order throughout. It offers light and airy accommodation with the majority of the rooms enjoying views directly to the front garden. The house provides particularly spacious family sized accommodation arranged over three floors with six bedrooms, three reception rooms and a kitchen/breakfast room with utility. There are gardens to front & rear, double garage and ample parking.
Accommodation - The front door leads to an entrance hallway with downstairs cloakroom and coat cupboard. A further door leads through to a rear hall with stairs to first floor, door leading out to rear garden and doors to the reception rooms. The drawing room has a beamed ceiling and recessed arched display recesses on either side of the former chimney breast overlooking the garden with exposed wooden floor which extends through to the sitting room which is a wonderful light and airy room which has beamed ceilings, window to front and recessed alcoves on either side of the fireplace with inset woodburning stove. There is a separate study with a range of built in bookshelves, front aspect window. The kitchen is fitted with a range of free standing units, sink unit, fireplace with inset oil-fired AGA, window overlooking the garden, flagstone floor, beamed ceilings. There is a separate utility room with door to front, oil fired boiler, space for washing machine, dishwasher, separate dryer, fridge freezer and separate chest freezer.
On the first floor there is a galleried landing with stairs to second floor and doors off to the bedrooms. The principal bedroom has an en-suite and separate dressing area. There are three further bedrooms on the first floor all with wonderful views over the garden, some with built-in wardrobes, a bathroom and separate wc.
On the second floor there are two bedrooms in the attic space, both with exposed beams and wooden floors.
Outside - A five bar gate from the village lane opens on to a gravelled hardstanding and parking area with parking for a number of vehicles. There is a detached double garage with sliding double doors and pitched roof. The front garden is predominantly laid to lawn and is part walled with a number of specimen trees, shrubs and herbaceous planting and pond. There are two stone built storage sheds.
The rear garden is also laid to lawn with brick terrace along the back of the house and overlooks the neighbouring orchard which includes a number of ancient trees in a park-like setting.
Services - Mains electricity, water. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating. EV charger in the garage. Superfast broadband available (Ofcom), mobile signal good outdoors, variable indoors with EE and 3 (Ofcom). Please note the agents have not inspected or tested the services.
Directions - Proceed out of Taunton on the A358 towards Ilminster. Take the left hand turn off the main road and proceed into the village of Hatch Beauchamp. Proceed past the Hatch Inn Pub and onto Village Road, where the property can be found on the right, just before Farthings Hotel and Restaurant.
