House For Sale £500,000
Well situated away from busy traffic and in one of our sought-after villages, this light and airy detached house offers a versatile layout and a lovely outlook at the rear from its generous rear garden.
The Property
Clearly much altered and improved over the years, initially the layout strikes you as quite traditional but the property offers much more than meets the eye. The great thing about this house is that each room very much has its own purpose and in turn this gives flexibility for those that need to work from home, have a ground floor bedroom or perhaps a hobby that needs its own space!
As you enter into the entrance lobby the landing window floods the stairwell with natural light. A practical ceramic stone effect tiling runs through the hall and kitchen. To one side is a cosy living room in duck egg hues. The stone open fireplace is nice and simple and the hardwearing wood effect flooring give this room a more modern feel, whilst the particularly large windows let in lots of daylight.
Opposite the sitting room is an impressive dual aspect kitchen / breakfast room. It’s a great sociable family-friendly space with lots of room for a decent size table and very tastefully fitted out with modern cream units and black granite worktops. The integrated appliances include a fridge, freezer and dishwasher whilst a traditional chimney breast opening houses space for an electric range cooker. A useful utility area is discreetly located just off the kitchen and has been adapted by the current owners to create a handy understairs larder cupboard with shelving. They have created hanging space in the recess useful for airing clothes by the warm water pipes. To the rear a further area houses space and plumbing for a washing machine and further storage.
Beyond the kitchen a side lobby leads out to the rear patio area, making it convenient for both entertaining and household chores, whilst a door opens to the downstairs cloakroom. To one side is a surprisingly good size extra reception room – the perfect family room / play room. Alternatively, it would be a fabulous home-office if you like to be able to remain undisturbed by the rest of the family.
There’s certainly no shortage of ground floor living space here - at the rear of the side lobby another door opens through to the UPVC conservatory, currently used as a dining room. This gives you a nice triple aspect over the gardens as well as double doors opening out to the rear. This is accessed via another small room currently used a boot room by the owners with free standing coat and shoe cupboards. However it would make a useful study, library space or hobby room with space for a piano, or room for crafts perhaps?
On the first floor landing, again there is a great sense of light from two easterly facing windows that catch the morning sunshine and overlook the gardens. An airing cupboard houses the hot water tank, and a family bathroom is fitted with modern white suite. A Mira shower is over the bath, and there’s pedestal wash hand basin and low level WC. The floor is tiled and there’s a modern ladder-style chrome radiator / towel rail too. The bedrooms are all a generous size, the three largest all have some built-in storage (one has been converted into a childs desk / study space) and the fourth bedroom is a good single.
The gardens are of a generous size and are plenty to keep the keen gardeners occupied but their layout is equally suitable for those who want to just want to potter at weekends and keep the lawn mowed. The main lawn is framed by a stone-edged perennial border which is also dotted with attractive shrubs. A mature horse-chestnut tree shelters the garden to the north, whilst an attractive honeysuckle clad arbour screens a patio / BBQ area sure to get any afternoon sun. At the bottom of the garden is a vegetable garden with raised beds.
A lap panel fence screens the garden from the lane and a gate opens to the front where there is a gravelled area. This houses a greenhouse and outside tap for gardening and cleaning the car. This area is screened by mature hedging and steps lead down to the attractive patterned concrete driveway with electric car charging point. This extends across the front of the house and provides ample off-road parking. Behind the house is a further sheltered seating area, ideal for your morning coffee and a trellis screens a useful log store, the external oil-fired boiler and modern PVC oil tank.
Outside
From Ilminster head east on the B3168 through Whitelackington, passing Dillington house on your left. Continue for approximately a mile, passing the crossroads to Kingstone and Shepton Beauchamp and just before you reach the s-bend before Seavington, you will see the small church of Seavington St Mary on your right-hand side. Take this small right hand turning and as you come into the village on Church Street the property can be found on the left-hand side as indicated by our For Sale board.
Seavington is an attractive village made up of two small parishes, Seavington St Mary and Seavington St Michael, both with their own parish churches and sharing a lovely community shop and café, recreation ground with children’s playground, village hall and pub. Nearby, the pretty village of South Petherton also offers a range of day to day amenities although almost equidistant is the Medieval market town of Ilminster, the centre of which is dominated by the ancient Minster and a thriving range of independent stores including butchers, delicatessen, hardware store, antiques and homeware stores as well as two supermarkets. Ilminster has a convenient road access to both the M5, junction 25 lies 13 miles to the north-west and 1 mile to the A303, now dual carriageway most of the way to the M3. There is a mainline railway station at Crewkerne c.5 miles (London Waterloo) which also has a Waitrose supermarket, and the county town of Taunton c.15 miles has a further mainline station (London Paddington) and a wider range of shopping facilities. Bath, Bristol and Exeter offer excellent cultural and shopping facilities within approximately an hour’s drive. The World Heritage designated Jurassic coastline lies c.20 miles to the south.
The Property
Clearly much altered and improved over the years, initially the layout strikes you as quite traditional but the property offers much more than meets the eye. The great thing about this house is that each room very much has its own purpose and in turn this gives flexibility for those that need to work from home, have a ground floor bedroom or perhaps a hobby that needs its own space!
As you enter into the entrance lobby the landing window floods the stairwell with natural light. A practical ceramic stone effect tiling runs through the hall and kitchen. To one side is a cosy living room in duck egg hues. The stone open fireplace is nice and simple and the hardwearing wood effect flooring give this room a more modern feel, whilst the particularly large windows let in lots of daylight.
Opposite the sitting room is an impressive dual aspect kitchen / breakfast room. It’s a great sociable family-friendly space with lots of room for a decent size table and very tastefully fitted out with modern cream units and black granite worktops. The integrated appliances include a fridge, freezer and dishwasher whilst a traditional chimney breast opening houses space for an electric range cooker. A useful utility area is discreetly located just off the kitchen and has been adapted by the current owners to create a handy understairs larder cupboard with shelving. They have created hanging space in the recess useful for airing clothes by the warm water pipes. To the rear a further area houses space and plumbing for a washing machine and further storage.
Beyond the kitchen a side lobby leads out to the rear patio area, making it convenient for both entertaining and household chores, whilst a door opens to the downstairs cloakroom. To one side is a surprisingly good size extra reception room – the perfect family room / play room. Alternatively, it would be a fabulous home-office if you like to be able to remain undisturbed by the rest of the family.
There’s certainly no shortage of ground floor living space here - at the rear of the side lobby another door opens through to the UPVC conservatory, currently used as a dining room. This gives you a nice triple aspect over the gardens as well as double doors opening out to the rear. This is accessed via another small room currently used a boot room by the owners with free standing coat and shoe cupboards. However it would make a useful study, library space or hobby room with space for a piano, or room for crafts perhaps?
On the first floor landing, again there is a great sense of light from two easterly facing windows that catch the morning sunshine and overlook the gardens. An airing cupboard houses the hot water tank, and a family bathroom is fitted with modern white suite. A Mira shower is over the bath, and there’s pedestal wash hand basin and low level WC. The floor is tiled and there’s a modern ladder-style chrome radiator / towel rail too. The bedrooms are all a generous size, the three largest all have some built-in storage (one has been converted into a childs desk / study space) and the fourth bedroom is a good single.
The gardens are of a generous size and are plenty to keep the keen gardeners occupied but their layout is equally suitable for those who want to just want to potter at weekends and keep the lawn mowed. The main lawn is framed by a stone-edged perennial border which is also dotted with attractive shrubs. A mature horse-chestnut tree shelters the garden to the north, whilst an attractive honeysuckle clad arbour screens a patio / BBQ area sure to get any afternoon sun. At the bottom of the garden is a vegetable garden with raised beds.
A lap panel fence screens the garden from the lane and a gate opens to the front where there is a gravelled area. This houses a greenhouse and outside tap for gardening and cleaning the car. This area is screened by mature hedging and steps lead down to the attractive patterned concrete driveway with electric car charging point. This extends across the front of the house and provides ample off-road parking. Behind the house is a further sheltered seating area, ideal for your morning coffee and a trellis screens a useful log store, the external oil-fired boiler and modern PVC oil tank.
Outside
From Ilminster head east on the B3168 through Whitelackington, passing Dillington house on your left. Continue for approximately a mile, passing the crossroads to Kingstone and Shepton Beauchamp and just before you reach the s-bend before Seavington, you will see the small church of Seavington St Mary on your right-hand side. Take this small right hand turning and as you come into the village on Church Street the property can be found on the left-hand side as indicated by our For Sale board.
Seavington is an attractive village made up of two small parishes, Seavington St Mary and Seavington St Michael, both with their own parish churches and sharing a lovely community shop and café, recreation ground with children’s playground, village hall and pub. Nearby, the pretty village of South Petherton also offers a range of day to day amenities although almost equidistant is the Medieval market town of Ilminster, the centre of which is dominated by the ancient Minster and a thriving range of independent stores including butchers, delicatessen, hardware store, antiques and homeware stores as well as two supermarkets. Ilminster has a convenient road access to both the M5, junction 25 lies 13 miles to the north-west and 1 mile to the A303, now dual carriageway most of the way to the M3. There is a mainline railway station at Crewkerne c.5 miles (London Waterloo) which also has a Waitrose supermarket, and the county town of Taunton c.15 miles has a further mainline station (London Paddington) and a wider range of shopping facilities. Bath, Bristol and Exeter offer excellent cultural and shopping facilities within approximately an hour’s drive. The World Heritage designated Jurassic coastline lies c.20 miles to the south.
