For Sale5 Bedroom Semi-Detached House in Ipplepen, Newton Abbot, Devon, TQ12£1,250,000

An impressive and spacious period house overlooking extensive gardens and grounds, with views to the hills beyond. Bulleigh Barton Manor is situated in a sheltered valley with views across its gardens to the hills beyond. Now part of a small community, it is an impressive, spacious and historic period house, attached to its neighbour. The front section of the house has the appearance of 18th or 19th century origins, whilst the rear wing is of much earlier provenance. The main rooms are well proportioned with high ceilings and have period character and style with such features as exposed beams and stonework, attractive fireplaces and decorative cornicing. Either side of the entrance hall are the large drawing room with wide bay and French doors out to the gardens, fireplace and woodburner, and to the dining room with parquet floor, fireplace with woodburner, exposed beams and double doors opening to the sitting room with shuttered window. To the rear is the spacious fitted kitchen/breakfast room and another hall gives access to the study, utility room with door to courtyard, cloakroom and storeroom/gym. The property has the advantage of superfast fibre broadband with speeds available up to 900 Mbps, making working from home a real possibility. On the first floor, doors from the landing open to the large principal bedroom/ dressing room/bathroom suite with bay window affording lovely views over the gardens and grounds to the hills beyond, the guest bedroom/bathroom suite and a further bedroom. A rear hallway leads to another bedroom/shower room suite and family bathroom, as well as to the self contained one bedroom flat. There is a separate stone outbuilding behind the house comprising the triple garage and workshop on the ground floor and stairs up to a fully boarded storage area. The entrance drive leads to plenty of parking and turning space beside the house and the house overlooks the extensive gardens and grounds, including sweeping lawns with plant borders and ornamental shrubs and trees and a path leading to a delightful secret garden enclosed by high clipped hedging and incorporating the kidney shaped swimming pool and summerhouse. Bulleigh Barton Manor has a three phase electricity supply which would support the installation of a superfast charger for an electric vehicle. A separate area of gardens includes the wildlife pond encouraging an abundance of wild flora and fauna and with a greenhouse and store shed. Adjoining the gardens are a range of well fenced pasture paddocks with copse.