House For Sale £950,000
Dawlish Road, Exeter, Devon, EX2

Pixie Cottage is a charming Grade II listed thatched property, set in a 0.58 acre site in a desirable position in the south Exeter suburb of Alphington. The cottage, dates from the late 16th or early 17th century, offers plenty of period character including exposed timber beams and sash windows, while to the rear there are splendid walled and very private gardens and parking for at least six cars.

The ground floor has three comfortable reception rooms, with the sitting room featuring a stone-built fireplace, the formal dining room with its French doors opening onto the rear gardens and the comfortable family room with its impressive arched fireplace recess.
The 25ft kitchen and breakfast room offers plenty of storage space, an AGA cooker and space for all the necessary appliances, as well as space for a breakfast table for informal dining. There are four windows and a door, welcoming plenty of natural light and opening onto a large patio terrace and rear gardens.

There are five bedrooms upstairs, three double and two single bedrooms one of which could be used as a home office or a dressing room. The main bedroom is also accessed via its own staircase and includes an en suite bathroom, while one bedroom has its own washbasin. There is also a family bathroom with a shower bath.

At the front of the house there are delightful gardens with an area of lawn, immaculate hedging and colourful shrubs and flowerbeds, while to the rear, the gardens include a partially shaded terrace, two areas of well-maintained lawn and fully stocked flowerbeds, together with border shrubs, hedgerow and trees. There is also a greenhouse and a large walled vegetable patch for growing your own produce. There is a well with a submersible pump offering plenty of garden irrigation.

The property is located in the popular southwest Exeter village of Alphington, a mile and a half from the city centre and within easy reach of various local amenities, as well as the beautiful surrounding Devon countryside. The village has a pub, church, primary school, surgery, pharmacy, post office and a convenience store all within 200m. Nearby Cowick Street provides a range of everyday facilities, while there are also a variety of shopping and leisure options at Marsh Barton and the nearby Stone Lane Retail Park. Exeter city centre is easily accessible from the property by car, a 15 min bus service or on foot via the Exeter River Park, which provides further shopping, pubs, restaurants and sports facilities on the historic quayside with the cities of Plymouth and Bristol offering more extensive choices.

The area has plenty of leisure activities to choose from such as golf and tennis clubs, a walking group, Premier Rugby, football, horse riding, sailing, hiking the Jurassic and SW Coast paths, fishing as well as access to three sandy beaches within 15 miles of the property.

The area offers excellent transport links and Exeter's two main stations are all within two miles of the property. Trains run regularly to the smaller nearby cities as well as Bristol, Plymouth, and London Paddington or Waterloo. The A30/303 and M5 lead to the national motorway network providing convenient road links to the East, West or North and to Exeter International Airport, just over five miles away, offering both internal and international flights.

The region is well served by good state (S) and Independent (I) schools. Primaries: S: Alphington and nearby Ide and St Leonard's CofE, I: Cathedral Secondaries: S: 5 city, three nearby grammars served by buses, I: Exeter School and The Maynard. Many other prep and independent secondary schools within reach. FE: Exeter Mathematics School and Exeter College. The world-renowned University of Exeter is also less than two miles away from the property.