House For Sale £895,000
A large individual period home in a semi-rural location.
With plenty of space, open views and a wonderful garden, this detached house is conveniently located within the favoured Highweek area of Newton Abbot. Around 0.8 of a mile on foot from the town centre, the property enjoys a somewhat semi-rural situation overlooking fields and beyond towards parts of Dartmoor.
Within a few minutes’ stroll is All Saints Church and the well-regarded Highweek Inn public house/restaurant. For the commuter, Newton Abbot’s mainline railway station (1.4 miles) offers an express to the capital in just over 2.5 hours with the A380 South Devon Link Road south to Torquay and north to Exeter around 2 miles distance and the A38 Devon Expressway is around 4 miles drive.
Accommodation
Stepping inside, the accommodation is roomy and particularly light and airy with a classical feel. Presented over two floors, the front door with canopy over opens into a reception hallway with turning staircase to a part-galleried first floor landing and a window to the front providing natural light. The living accommodation includes a generously proportioned drawing room with three windows on two aspects and an open fireplace. A sitting room is double-aspect including patio doors to the rear garden whilst overlooking the front is a study. Originally two rooms and with doors to the rear terrace and garden is the spacious open plan kitchen/diner; the kitchen with a comprehensive range of cabinets and some integrated appliances. Off the kitchen is a separate plumbed utility room which provides access to a particularly large attached double garage with gardener’s WC and doors to both the front and rear.
The first floor has a bright part-galleried landing with window to the front, providing access to 5 well-proportioned bedrooms and a family bathroom with roll top bath and separate shower cabinet. The principal bedroom has a dressing area with walk-in closet and an en-suite shower room/WC, and bedroom 2 is also en-suite with shower, WC and basin, and a large, recessed wardrobe.
Parking
Excellent parking is provided by 2 separate driveways with space for multiple vehicles, the first at the front and the second to the side which also provides access to the large attached double garage.
Garden
Wonderful secluded gardens lying mainly to the rear with feature paved terrace adjoining the rear of the house and a further paved terrace at a lower level. Neatly-tended lawned garden gently sloping lawn from the house to the rear boundary. Colourful inset planting.
Agent’s Notes
Council Tax: Currently Band F
Tenure: Freehold
Mains water. Mains electricity. Private drainage. Oil-fired central heating.
Directions
From the Coast & Country office continue along the Queen Street one way system. Turn right into Albany Street. Continue straight ahead into Cricketfield Road. At the traffic lights turn left onto Halcyon Road (B3195). Continue straight ahead at the first traffic lights. Turn right at the next lights into Exeter Road (A382). At the roundabout take the first exit onto Ashburton Road (A383). Take the first right into Coombeshead Road. Continue straight ahead and at the junction bear right into Pitt Hill Road. Continue up the hill and at the top ‘T’ junction turn right into Highweek Village. Follow the left-hand fork in the road into Whitehill Road and follow the road down the hill. The property is on the left-hand side about halfway down the hill. Please note that Whitehill Road is a no through-road.
