House For Sale £850,000
Lydford railway station was opened in 1865 to cater for Victorian
holidaymakers visiting nearby Lydford Gorge. Rossmoyne and its neighbour
were reputedly built as homes for the two daughters of a senior executive of
the South Devon and Tavistock Railway.
The pair of semi-detached houses were therefore built to a very high
standard and of the two Rossmoyne is better positioned with lovely, uninterrupted south-westerly views down the wooded valley of the River
Burn and across to Brentor church, a local hilltop landmark. The property
has painted and rendered walls under a slate roof with its own, semi-detached coach house. Rossmoyne was bought five years ago by
its current owners after a period of prior neglect and since then it has
undergone a wholescale programme of sympathetic refurbishment.
Internally the house has good-sized rooms with tall ceilings and tall sash
windows, which provide a light and airy feeling throughout. It has also
retained many of its original architectural features including timber floors
throughout most of the house, a fine main staircase, fireplaces, picture rails
and Victorian stained glass. The house has a central reception hall with the
two principal reception rooms positioned on either side of it and the sitting
room benefits from having French windows through to the conservatory that
looks out over the stunning surrounding countryside. To the rear is the study, rear hall and cloakroom with a boxed, period WC. The kitchen/breakfast
room is fitted with contemporary units and a range of built-in electric
appliances. Adjacent to it is a good-sized laundry room with a flagstone floor
and an electric Rangemaster 110 cooker inset in the original range fireplace.
Upstairs are a total five double bedrooms.
The principal bedroom has windows on two sides with far-reaching views
and an en suite bathroom. The guest bedroom has an en suite shower room
with the three remaining bedrooms sharing the family shower room.
Rossmoyne is approached off a quiet, seldom-used lane via a stone
driveway rising gently up to a gravel parking area beside the property. The
driveway continues upwards to the coach house with brick-paved apron
and integral stable, tack room and hayloft. A tall, dressed stone wall forms
the rear boundary and butting up to it is a gravelled seating area with lovely
views down over the garden and adjacent woodland. Immediately behind
the house is a gravelled courtyard with a bicycle store, secure store and
adjacent plant room.
The garden extends out in front of the house and to one side and is best
described as an informal woodland garden. The River Burn trickles through
the garden as a gentle brook which lets children happily play in and around
it safely within the confines of the property boundaries. Immediately in front
of the house is a sweet, enclosed lawn and seating area. Below this is the
garden which comprises two areas bisected by the raised driveway.
On one side of the drive is an area of woodland and on the other an area
of flat grassland beside a bog garden, both bounded by a thick fringe of
woodland containing a rich variety of mature trees including beech, copper
beech, western red cedar, red pine and a fine monkey puzzle tree below the
house
Lydford 1.7 miles, Lydford Farm Shop 2.1 miles, Tavistock (Mount Kelly) 7.3 miles, Okehampton 10.6 miles (Exeter St. David's station 34 minutes), Launceston 14.4 miles, Exeter city centre/Exeter St. David's station (Paddington 2 hours)/M5 34 miles, Tiverton (Blundells) 40 miles, Exeter Airport
40.3 miles (London City Airport 1 hour) (All distances and times are approximate)
holidaymakers visiting nearby Lydford Gorge. Rossmoyne and its neighbour
were reputedly built as homes for the two daughters of a senior executive of
the South Devon and Tavistock Railway.
The pair of semi-detached houses were therefore built to a very high
standard and of the two Rossmoyne is better positioned with lovely, uninterrupted south-westerly views down the wooded valley of the River
Burn and across to Brentor church, a local hilltop landmark. The property
has painted and rendered walls under a slate roof with its own, semi-detached coach house. Rossmoyne was bought five years ago by
its current owners after a period of prior neglect and since then it has
undergone a wholescale programme of sympathetic refurbishment.
Internally the house has good-sized rooms with tall ceilings and tall sash
windows, which provide a light and airy feeling throughout. It has also
retained many of its original architectural features including timber floors
throughout most of the house, a fine main staircase, fireplaces, picture rails
and Victorian stained glass. The house has a central reception hall with the
two principal reception rooms positioned on either side of it and the sitting
room benefits from having French windows through to the conservatory that
looks out over the stunning surrounding countryside. To the rear is the study, rear hall and cloakroom with a boxed, period WC. The kitchen/breakfast
room is fitted with contemporary units and a range of built-in electric
appliances. Adjacent to it is a good-sized laundry room with a flagstone floor
and an electric Rangemaster 110 cooker inset in the original range fireplace.
Upstairs are a total five double bedrooms.
The principal bedroom has windows on two sides with far-reaching views
and an en suite bathroom. The guest bedroom has an en suite shower room
with the three remaining bedrooms sharing the family shower room.
Rossmoyne is approached off a quiet, seldom-used lane via a stone
driveway rising gently up to a gravel parking area beside the property. The
driveway continues upwards to the coach house with brick-paved apron
and integral stable, tack room and hayloft. A tall, dressed stone wall forms
the rear boundary and butting up to it is a gravelled seating area with lovely
views down over the garden and adjacent woodland. Immediately behind
the house is a gravelled courtyard with a bicycle store, secure store and
adjacent plant room.
The garden extends out in front of the house and to one side and is best
described as an informal woodland garden. The River Burn trickles through
the garden as a gentle brook which lets children happily play in and around
it safely within the confines of the property boundaries. Immediately in front
of the house is a sweet, enclosed lawn and seating area. Below this is the
garden which comprises two areas bisected by the raised driveway.
On one side of the drive is an area of woodland and on the other an area
of flat grassland beside a bog garden, both bounded by a thick fringe of
woodland containing a rich variety of mature trees including beech, copper
beech, western red cedar, red pine and a fine monkey puzzle tree below the
house
Lydford 1.7 miles, Lydford Farm Shop 2.1 miles, Tavistock (Mount Kelly) 7.3 miles, Okehampton 10.6 miles (Exeter St. David's station 34 minutes), Launceston 14.4 miles, Exeter city centre/Exeter St. David's station (Paddington 2 hours)/M5 34 miles, Tiverton (Blundells) 40 miles, Exeter Airport
40.3 miles (London City Airport 1 hour) (All distances and times are approximate)
