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A shocking horsey house full with stables, enviornment, grazing, pool and entry to some unbelievable hacking


  • This beautiful Georgian farmhouse, which has been restored and offered to an excessive customary with wonderful equestrian amenities on the southern foothills of the Quantocks, is on the lookout for a brand new proprietor to get pleasure from all it has to supply.

    Grove Farm, in Somerset, is south-facing with views throughout farmland as much as the Quantock Hills. It’s inside simple driving distance to each Kingston St Mary and Bishops Lydeard. Taunton is 5 miles away with a great buying centre, plus mainline station with quick trains to London Paddington scheduled to reach inside an hour and 45 minutes. Junction 25 of the M5 motorway gives quick and easy accessibility all the way down to Cornwall and as much as Bristol, the Midlands and London through the M4. The Quantock Hills, the Blackdown Hills and Exmoor are all inside simple attain and supply intensive areas of countryside appropriate for strolling and driving.



    Native equestrian centres embody Pontispool Equine Sports activities Centre, which is simply eight miles out of your door (20 minutes), Kings Sedgemoor, which is half-hour away (23 miles), and Stockland Lovell, which is 40 minutes away (20 miles).

    Isle Valley Equine Vets (12 miles) might be readily available for any veterinary wants and should you like your searching, head out with the Taunton Vale.

    This property sits in round 12 acres and is available on the market with Jackson-Stops with a information worth of £2.1m. Let’s have a look round…

    The equestrian amenities embody an American-style barn with seven unfastened bins, 5 measuring 12×12’ and two foaling bins, measuring 15×12’, all with rubber matting. There’s a scorching water overhead horse bathe and solarium, and the stables have computerized drinkers. There’s a additional hay retailer, tack room and feed retailer.

    A newly constructed open-fronted implement barn is near the 40x20m enviornment, which is fenced with publish and rail and has an Equestrian Surfaces Ltd cushion monitor all-weather floor. The extent pasture is split into 4, two of which have timber-built discipline shelters, with publish and horse-safe wire netting.

    A drive lined with silver birch results in the rear of the home and its principal entrance. There’s gravelled parking for a number of automobiles and an open-fronted double storage with workshop space. The backyard has raised beds, plus a walled backyard the place there’s a pool and pool home.

    The pool home has a veranda entrance, limestone steps and gives an entertaining house and ancillary residing. Glazed double doorways lead into the reception space with room for sofas and a eating desk and film home windows with views as much as the Quantocks. There’s an offset bed room space and a Nobilia fitted kitchen. A bathe room has a bathroom, wash basin and bathe and a utility foyer has a door again into the walled backyard.

    Grade II-Listed Grove Farm has been restored and refurbished to a excessive customary with vitality saving specs. The inside design contains Jim Lawrence fittings, a Tom Howley kitchen with Miele and Liebherr home equipment, and Farrow & Ball colors all through.

    Grove Farm has a typical Georgian façade with a pillared cover entrance porch with a reception corridor, drawing room and eating room.

    The kitchen has a excessive vaulted ceiling with preserved panelling and uncovered timbers and has a central island with a Quartz work floor and inset Shaws sink with Quooker fusion brass faucet and a Bora Pura induction venting cook dinner prime. There are many storage cabinets together with a larder cabinet, crockery cabinets and drawers, cabinets with inset Miele microwave oven, a warming drawer and conventional oven and an extra vary of cabinets incorporating a full top Liebherr fridge and freezer and twin zone wine chiller. There’s an historic fire and window overlooking the rear courtyard. A door results in the backyard room, which has a limestone flooring, French doorways out into the gardens and a variety of Tom Howley cloak cabinets.

    An internal foyer results in a plant room and there’s additionally a cloakroom and an extra door into a comfortable/sitting room. A utility has a variety of cabinets, a sink and house for a washer and tumble dryer and opens right into a moist room with porcelain tiled bathe and a bathroom.

    A staircase leads from the principle corridor to a mezzanine touchdown with a visitor bed room. The household lavatory has two Lusso Stone sq. wash basins set upon a washstand with cabinets, with Jim Lawerence lights and wall mirrors, heated towel rail, a recent Lusso Stone tub, rest room and walk-in bathe.

    The principal bed room has a excessive ceiling with uncovered ceiling timbers, studwork panelling and hearth with a Bressumer beam with scorch marks, that are believed to ward away evil spirits. The en-suite bathe room is tiled with porcelain tiles from Mandarin Stone.

    There are two additional bedrooms – one a double room to the entrance of the home with views and walk-in wardrobe, plus an extra bed room with a staircase all the way down to the kitchen.

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