At its heart a period farmhouse built in 1852, incorporating parts of an earlier dwelling, now skillfully enlarged with contemporary extensions giving a huge amount of light to the accommodation. The property is in excellent structural order and easy to maintain as a permanent home with air-source heat pumps providing economical hot water and central heating, under-floor throughout much of the ground floor.

With its sliding glazed bays opened, the kitchen-dining area becomes an indoor-outdoor room, ideal in hot weather and the sitting and music room combination is an additional year-round entertaining space. The library has bookshelves on all four walls and the original Gascon fireplace and bread oven. A utility room, downstairs shower room, games/hobby room complete the ground floor accommodation. The first floor bedrooms all have comfortable proportions and there is the potential to add an adjoining shower room to bedroom 1.

Outside, a workshop and carport for two vehicles are conveniently located on the arrival side. The garden has a great variety of plantings and specimen trees and a sheltered patio for outside dining. The swimming pool is ideally set on a lower level with a particularly large paved area.

Rooms:

Ground Floor

Entrance hall, 2.7x 5.1m, with fine Gascon staircase in oak.

Sitting room, 5.3×5.2m, with exposed beams, stone fireplace and period sink feature. Opening through to:

Music room, 4.8x7m, with fitted carpet and three floor to ceiling bay windows.

Library, 5.2×5.1m, with original Gascon fireplace, bread oven and stone sink, bookcases on all walls.

Kitchen, 4×4.6m, with comprehensive suite of fitted units, with Belgian granite worktops. Halogen and gas hobs with extractor, two ovens, dishwasher and integrated fridge. The kitchen links through to:

Dining room, 5×5.1m, with exposed roof timbers and sliding bays on two walls.

Utility room, 1.8×3.6m, with sink and connections for laundry appliances.

Downstairs shower room with WC.

Games/hobby room, 5.8×4.8m, with lower ceiling and small storeroom off.

Gallery room, 5.2x4m, with wine cellar and stair rising to a small gallery with access to WC & basin and Bedroom 3.

Workshop, 5.6×3.6m, with racking for tools, two heat-pump tanks for CH and HW. Apart from the Sitting, Music and Gallery rooms, the ground floor has under floor heating.

First Floor

Bedroom 1, 5.2×5.2m, with double aspect windows. Potential for an adjoining shower room under sloping roof.

Bedroom 2, 5.3×5.2m, with south window. Door through to:

Bedroom 3, 5.3x6m, with exposed roof timbers and glazed bays above the music room.

Family bathroom, 3.7x3m, from half landing, with bath, shower, basin & WC.

Bedroom 4, 3.6x4m, with north window. Additional WC & basin.

Boxroom, 2×2.5m, with north window.

Outside

Pillars and gates approach a visitor parking area and carport for 2 vehicles. Twin Stiebel Eltron heat pumps.

A paved walkway surrounds the house, opening onto a sheltered patio for outside dining. A pretty pond has lilies and exotic plantings. A gently sloping lawn is framed by a great variety of flowering shrubs, bushes and specimen trees. Swimming pool, 12x6m, with insulating roller cover, ideally set on a lower level with a generous paved surround. The property’s boundaries are fully fenced and delineated by mixed hedges. 0.42 hectares in all.