House For Sale £2,500,000
Built about a century ago, West Hayes is a handsome, Lutyens-style family home with rendered and painted walls, contrasting brick quoins and a clay tile roof.
The house is set in about two and a half acres of grounds, elevated and positioned so that the rear of the house faces south looking out over the mature grounds to give a feeling of space and privacy. It has been the home of its current owners for about five years and during that time has undergone a full programme of refurbishment and today is presented with a striking contemporary interior finished to an exceptionally high, standard.
Originally the house was laid out with a domestic staff wing extending out from the eastern side of the house and this wing has now been fully incorporated within the house. All the principal reception rooms radiate out for the central reception hall, with the drawing room, sun room and conjoined kitchen and dining room all facing south across a broad, deep terrace that extends along almost the full width of the house.
Meanwhile the study and sitting room are both cosier and are positioned on either side of the hall. This layout creates a wonderful space for entertaining with the kitchen set at the hub.
This is beautifully laid out with a slate-tiled floor and fitted window seat and is equipped with painted timber units including a large island, granite work surfaces and a gas-fired aga and gas/electric aga Companion inset in a range fireplace. Below the ground floor are a suite of cellars that have been fully converted to serve as a bar/games room and adjacent cinema room.
On the first floor are five good sized bedrooms and four bath/shower rooms, with a further bedroom with its own dressing room in the attics. The principal bedroom is centrally positioned and south-facing with plentiful built-in wardrobes, large en-suite bathroom and French windows onto the roof terrace.
Outbuildings & Garden
West Hayes is approached via a tarmac drive that sweeps round to the front of the house to a substantial courtyard with sufficient space for several cars. Beside it are a double garage incorporating a separate workshop and an old mill, known as Little Hayes, that provides extensive further storage and garaging for a further vehicle.
The house sits centrally within its grounds, which are lawned and studded with a variety of mature trees including several fine cedars. Privacy is further enhanced by tall hedging that provides both visual and audio screening. The grounds slope gently downwards from the house with the rear, south-facing terrace, which is bordered by a stone balustrade, providing a perfect spot for both outside dining and more extensive entertaining in fine weather.
A flight of steps at one end of the terrace leads down to a further terrace beside a further sun deck, the home gym and an octagonal, heated plunge pool surrounded by timber decking and sheltered by evergreen hedging.
For convenience there is immediate access from the lower terrace/home gym/pool area to one of the house's two cloakrooms. In all the garden and grounds amount about 2.5 acres (1.01 hectares).
A30 1.4 miles • Ottery St. Mary 2.3 miles • Exeter Airport 4.8 miles (London City Airport 1 hour) • Sidmouth Beach 6.9 miles • M5 J29 7.6 miles • Exeter City Centre 11.3 miles • Exeter St. David's station 11.7 miles (Waterloo 2 hours 3 minutes/Bristol 57 minutes) • Colyton 13.6 miles (Distances and times approximate).
The house is set in about two and a half acres of grounds, elevated and positioned so that the rear of the house faces south looking out over the mature grounds to give a feeling of space and privacy. It has been the home of its current owners for about five years and during that time has undergone a full programme of refurbishment and today is presented with a striking contemporary interior finished to an exceptionally high, standard.
Originally the house was laid out with a domestic staff wing extending out from the eastern side of the house and this wing has now been fully incorporated within the house. All the principal reception rooms radiate out for the central reception hall, with the drawing room, sun room and conjoined kitchen and dining room all facing south across a broad, deep terrace that extends along almost the full width of the house.
Meanwhile the study and sitting room are both cosier and are positioned on either side of the hall. This layout creates a wonderful space for entertaining with the kitchen set at the hub.
This is beautifully laid out with a slate-tiled floor and fitted window seat and is equipped with painted timber units including a large island, granite work surfaces and a gas-fired aga and gas/electric aga Companion inset in a range fireplace. Below the ground floor are a suite of cellars that have been fully converted to serve as a bar/games room and adjacent cinema room.
On the first floor are five good sized bedrooms and four bath/shower rooms, with a further bedroom with its own dressing room in the attics. The principal bedroom is centrally positioned and south-facing with plentiful built-in wardrobes, large en-suite bathroom and French windows onto the roof terrace.
Outbuildings & Garden
West Hayes is approached via a tarmac drive that sweeps round to the front of the house to a substantial courtyard with sufficient space for several cars. Beside it are a double garage incorporating a separate workshop and an old mill, known as Little Hayes, that provides extensive further storage and garaging for a further vehicle.
The house sits centrally within its grounds, which are lawned and studded with a variety of mature trees including several fine cedars. Privacy is further enhanced by tall hedging that provides both visual and audio screening. The grounds slope gently downwards from the house with the rear, south-facing terrace, which is bordered by a stone balustrade, providing a perfect spot for both outside dining and more extensive entertaining in fine weather.
A flight of steps at one end of the terrace leads down to a further terrace beside a further sun deck, the home gym and an octagonal, heated plunge pool surrounded by timber decking and sheltered by evergreen hedging.
For convenience there is immediate access from the lower terrace/home gym/pool area to one of the house's two cloakrooms. In all the garden and grounds amount about 2.5 acres (1.01 hectares).
A30 1.4 miles • Ottery St. Mary 2.3 miles • Exeter Airport 4.8 miles (London City Airport 1 hour) • Sidmouth Beach 6.9 miles • M5 J29 7.6 miles • Exeter City Centre 11.3 miles • Exeter St. David's station 11.7 miles (Waterloo 2 hours 3 minutes/Bristol 57 minutes) • Colyton 13.6 miles (Distances and times approximate).
