If you happen to love the concept of village residing, whereas nonetheless having loads of equestrian amenities handy, then look no additional than this historic dwelling.
Faculty Farm is in the course of Tintinhull village in Somerset, which can be dwelling to a main faculty, St Margarets parish church, tennis courts, a heated outside pool, village corridor with espresso store and the well-known Nationwide Belief-administered Tintinhull Home Gardens.
Close by cities embrace Somerton, Citadel Cary and Sherborne. There are mainline railway stations at Citadel Cary, with a service to London Paddington, in addition to Yeovil or Sherborne, with a service between Exeter St Davids and London Waterloo.
Native equestrian centres embrace Naydon Equestrian (9 miles), Chard Equestrian Centre (11 miles) and Mill Home Equestrian Centre (29 miles).
If you happen to want a vet, get in contact with Delaware Veterinary Group, who’re quarter-hour away (5 miles), whereas when you fancy a day trip looking head out with the Blackmore & Sparkford Vale.
Faculty Farm is in the marketplace with Jackson-Stops for £1.45m. Let’s have a look round…
This property has direct entry from the centre of the village to the safe equestrian amenities behind the home, inside the whole plot of roughly 10 acres. The land is split right into a seven-acre area, a floodlit outside area, a one-acre orchard and gardens.
There are six stables, a tack room, device shed/workshop, area shelters, feed room and hay barn, plus two garages.
The gardens embrace a walled backyard entered via an arched studded wood door with properly stocked borders of fuchsias, Outdated Blush climbing roses in addition to a lot of mature timber and wisteria protecting the entrance of the home. The gardens to the rear function roses, lavender, field hedges, liquid amber, crimson maple, rowan, and malus timber. There’s a conventional timber shed, greenhouse and vegetable backyard, together with rhubarb, black/redcurrants, tomatoes, asparagus, leeks, courgettes, beans, parsnips and potatoes.
The Grade II-listed Faculty Farm has been the house of the present house owners for the previous 32 years. With origins stretching again to the mid-Sixteenth Century, it additionally has some seventeenth Century additions.
There are a lot of options together with unique flagstone flooring, inglenook and hamstone fireplaces, beamed ceilings, stone mullion home windows and window seats. It has a south-facing drawing room, a eating room and a examine/comfortable.
The kitchen/breakfast room has reclaimed oak flooring, a gas-fired AGA, Belfast sink, shaker-style models underneath a newly fitted Silestone worktop, and house and connection for a dishwasher. There’s additionally house for a big desk and chairs within the kitchen, with a totally fitted walk-in larder off the kitchen, in addition to a boot room, separate cloakroom and utility room.
Upstairs there are 4 double bedrooms, one with an en-suite bathe room and two with bespoke fitted cabinets. There are two loos, one among which has a separate bathe.
A big loft room on the second flooring is good further lodging for youngsters and/or household and pals.
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