SITUATION The rural Devonshire village of Winkleigh offers an excellent range of facilities and services including local shops, a butcher, post office, doctor's surgery, veterinary surgery, church, two pubs, a mobile bank and library and a primary school. The village and community also offer a wide range of social clubs and activities including a new leisure center on the outskirts of the village offering tennis, lawn and short mat bowls, billiards and table tennis. The northern town of Okehampton on Dartmoor is twelve miles south and offers a wider range of facilities and services including three supermarkets, more shops, accountants, solicitors, a dental practice, country hospital, high school/college and a community golf course. . Barnstaple, the regional center of North Devon, is just over twenty minutes' drive away and with the Cathedral and Exeter University City to the south, both offer the wide range of shops, services and facilities one would expect of the capital and county seat. Tiverton, the M5 motorway at junction 27 and Tiverton Parkway railway station, which offers a fast intercity train service to London Paddington, are about an hour's drive and there is also an international airport at Exeter.
There are excellent recreational and sporting facilities in the local area with further leisure centers at Crediton, Okehampton, Chittlehamholt, Chulmleigh and Barnstaple as well as tennis courts and clubs including indoor center 'Tarka' at Barnstaple, local rugby clubs, football and cricket, world famous fishing on the Rivers Taw and Torridge, further golf courses nearby at Libbaton, Chittlehamholt, Chulmleigh and Down St Mary, excellent walking and horse riding in all directions, racecourses at Haldon Exeter and Newton Abbot, and sailing and watersports in scenic and scenic North Devon. rugged coast, about 45 minutes away by car.
DESCRIPTION 4 FORGE END is a modern family home conveniently situated on a quiet cul-de-sac of similar properties just a five minute walk from the center of Winkleigh. The property consists of a modern hollow block construction with plastered and colored whitewashed facades under a tiled roof with double glazed PVC windows and doors. Internally, the spacious accommodation briefly comprises a large entrance hall, south facing living room, large eat-in kitchen, separate utility room, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, two further bedrooms and a family bathroom. The property also benefits from oil central heating. To the outside and to the front is an off road car park for at least four to five vehicles (NOTE TO AGENTS: There is a pedestrian right of way over the bottom corner of the car park to allow neighboring properties access to their garden). Driveway to the large garage/single workshop with light and electricity connection. To the rear, manageable level gardens surround the property on three sides. Overall, 4 Forge End offers an exciting opportunity for a very comfortable, low maintenance family home.
VERBOTEN A paved driveway leads from the car park to the
STURM VERANDA With terracotta tiled floor, exterior lighting on one and a half sides, PVC double glazed front door opening to
VERBOTEN SALA A spacious hall with white painted panel doors to the cloakroom, lounge and kitchen/dining room on one side, an easy turning staircase with wooden balustrade and handrail on one side leads to the first floor landing. The entrance hall also benefits from a ceramic tiled floor, two radiators, a cloakroom, a central ceiling light, a vaulted ceiling and a useful storage cupboard under the stairs.
WARDROBE Furnished with a matching white suite consisting of a low level toilet and wall mounted basin with tiled splashbacks, beneath a dark PVC double glazed window to one side with a white painted sill. There is ample hanging space in a corner with the electricity meters and fuse boxes above, tiled floor, vaulted ceiling, radiators and central overhead light.
LIFE ZIMMER A pretty south facing living room with double glazed PVC doors with views and exit to the decked area and garden beyond. To one side, a marble-effect framed fireplace and mantel, with a slate hearth and charcoal-effect electric fireplace. The living room is furnished with three double wall lamps, radiator, TV and telephone connection and vaulted ceiling. Fully glazed, multi-leaf French doors open on one side
KITCHEN/DINING ROOM ZIMMER DINING AREA - A large double orientation room for 8-10 people, with double glazed PVC windows to the sides and rear, overlooking the garden and lots of natural light. The dining area features a radiator, vaulted ceiling, telephone jack, matching ceramic floor and central ceiling light. KITCHEN AREA: Furnished with a range of matching pine fronted units along one wall below a solid granite work surface with peninsula breakfast bar to one end, tiled back walls, dish rack to one side and shelving above including a stainless steel double drainer sink with mixer tap beneath a PVC double glazed window to the Side with threshold to the garden. In one corner there is space and space for a fridge freezer with matching cupboard whilst on the opposite side a fireplace alcove with matching tiled back walls houses a freestanding 'De Longhi' stainless steel cooker. In one corner is the "Trianco Eurostar" diesel boiler, which provides hot water and supplies the radiators. The kitchen features a ceramic tile floor, coved ceiling and triple brushed chrome ceiling light cluster. At one end, a white-painted door opens to the
UTILITY ZIMMER Furnished with a good range of matching pine fronted cabinets on two sides beneath a granite effect roll top work surface, tiled splash walls and matching wall cabinets including and featuring a single stainless steel drainer with single handle mixer tap positioned beneath a double dark uPVC glazed window. to the front, side space and lines for washing machine and dishwasher/dryer. The utility room also benefits from a ceramic tile floor, a brushed chrome triple spot cluster in the ceiling, a hatch to the ceiling space, a radiator and space to hang clothes. At one end a rear PVC door with a recessed bubble glass light leads onto the paved patio area at the side of the property.
Back in the entrance hall, a few easy to turn stairs lead up to the property with a white painted wooden balustrade and handrails on one side and a PVC double glazed window on the other
FIRST PISO LANDING With white painted wooden panel doors leading to the bedrooms and bathroom. To one side another paneled white painted wooden door opens onto the ventilation cupboard which houses the factory insulated hot water tank with electric immersion heater and slatted base. The landing also benefits from a hatch to the roof space, a vaulted roof, a central ceiling light and a single wall light.
MAESTRO BEDROOM A large double bedroom with a double glazed PVC window to the rear with a painted wooden sill and radiator below, enjoying fabulous views from the roof terrace across Winkleigh to open countryside and Dartmoor in the distance. To one side is a double built in wardrobe with double sliding doors and a clothes rail with shelf above. The bedroom also features a vaulted ceiling, central ceiling light, and TV and phone connections. In one corner, a white-painted panel door opens onto you
AFTER GEIST ZIMMER With fully tiled walls and a matching white suite consisting of a single shower cubicle with a stainless steel mixer tap and a fully glazed shower screen to one side, wall hung washbasin beneath a mirror and extractor hood, three recessed spotlights in the ceiling.
BEDROOM 2 Another spacious double bedroom with double glazed PVC windows to the side with painted wooden benches and a radiator underneath which in turn allows for lovely views from the roof terrace over Winkleigh to the open countryside and Dartmoor in the distance. In one corner, double sliding doors open to a double built-in wardrobe, fitted with a clothes rail and storage shelf on one side. Vaulted ceiling and central spotlight.
BEDROOM 3 A large single bedroom with double glazed PVC windows to the front with a painted wooden threshold and radiator underneath. To one side, two lacquered panel doors give access to a double built-in wardrobe, fitted with a clothes rail and a good range of shelving. Vaulted ceiling, telephone line and central ceiling light.
BATHROOM A well appointed bathroom with fully tiled walls and matching white suite comprising of bath with tub with stainless steel mixer tap and wall mounted shower attachment on a riser, washbasin with mirror, shelf and shaving lamp and low level toilet. There is a dark uPVC double glazed window to the rear with a tiled sill and radiator underneath. The bathroom features a vaulted ceiling and three center ceiling lights.
OUTSIDE From the quiet cul-de-sac a tarmac driveway leads to a large paved parking and turning area that has ample space for four to five vehicles and gives access to the SINGLE GARAGE / WORKSHOP, an important addition and useful feature of the property is an alveolar block and a Color wash under a slate gabled roof with an electric sectional door, concrete floor and wooden pedestrian door and window to one side. At one end is a workbench with shelves. Light, electricity and water connected.
Back to the car park and to one side of the front door a wooden pedestrian gate opens to a gravel driveway which runs along the back of the garage and opens onto a larger gravel garden to the side of the driveway bordered on one end and bordered by a wood paneled fence on one side . There are attractive raised beds to the sides and rear, while in one corner the oil tank is protected by a wood paneled fence. The extensive gravel garden continues up the side of the house past the external electricity meter box to the rear garden which is mainly grassed and bordered by wooden panel fencing. From the gravel driveway on the south side of the house two stone steps lead upstairs giving access to the living room through the double French doors. The lawn continues around the remaining side of the house, also bordered by wooden panel fencing, to a small paved patio which in turn gives access to the utility room through the back door and returns to the car park via a driveway.
SERVICES City electricity, city water and sewage. Oil boiler for sanitary hot water and radiator service. Telephone connection subject to BT regulations.
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