Limebeers Oakwell Farm

Limebeers Oakwell Farm
Kings Nympton, Devon
Limebeers Oakwell Farm
Kings Nympton, Devon EX37 9TE
George Nympton 2.5 miles; Kings Nympton 2.5 miles; South Molton 4 miles;
Chulmleigh 6.5 miles; Barnstaple 14 miles; Exeter 31 miles
Description
Limebeers Oakwell Farm comprises a most
attractive property package enjoying a superb
rural position with stunning views overlooking
the picturesque Mole Valley, affording not
only outstanding residential appeal but also
providing excellent opportunities for those
prospective purchasers with equestrian,
smallholder or other amenity interests.
The property is centred upon a character
detached Grade II listed period house,
believed to date from the 17th Century, of
stone, rendered and colour washed elevations
beneath a recently re-thatched roof. The
house provides comfortable and well
proportioned
four
bedroomed
family
accommodation, retaining many original and
period features, including large inglenook
style fireplaces, exposed stonework, stripped
pine doors, exposed beams and ceiling joists.
A most attractive Residential/Equestrian Smallholding enjoying panoramic views, comprising
a Grade II listed period house providing character four bedroomed family accommodation
with the benefit of beautiful gardens, an American style stable barn, full size manege and
pasture paddocks, in all about 6.44 Acres.
The property is initially approached over a
shared concrete track and hence over a
private gated driveway, with a large yard
providing ample space for car parking and
turning. Beautiful gardens create a wonderful
curtilage to the house, containing a pretty,
traditional linhay.
The property provides excellent equestrian
facilities with a superb American style stable
barn containing four boxes, a covered tacking
up area, tack room, feed store and hay barn.
Adjoining the car parking area is a useful
workshop, garden machinery store and log
store. Limebeers Oakwell Farm is further
complemented by a full size outdoor manege
and the adjoining productive pasture land,
divided into three convenient paddocks.
The sale of Limebeers Oakwell Farm
represents an outstanding opportunity to
acquire a charming and versatile residential
Guide Price £625,000
and equestrian
smallholding enjoying an
attractive and yet readily accessible rural
position, the property extending in total to
about 6.44 Acres.
Situation
The property occupies an outstanding
elevated rural position in gently undulating
countryside overlooking the valley of the River
Mole, situated equi-distant between the
sought after villages of Kings Nympton and
George Nympton.
The position of the
property is a particularly attractive feature,
enjoying panoramic views over its own land
and the predominantly wooded Mole Valley
beyond.
The villages of Kings Nympton and George
Nympton each provide a popular public
house, a village hall and parish church, with a
well regarded primary school and pre-school
at the former.
The nearby High Bullen
Country House Hotel offers an 18 hole golf
course, swimming pool, gym and excellent
leisure facilities. The market town of South
Molton is within easy driving distance
providing a thriving local community with a
good range of everyday services including
shops, banks, recreational facilities, primary
and secondary schooling. From South Molton
the A361 North Devon Link Road provides
quick and easy access to the regional centre
of Barnstaple to the north west, Tiverton and
the M5 motorway (Junction 27) to the south
east.
There are rail stations on the
Barnstaple to Exeter (Tarka) line at
Portsmouth Arms and Kings Nympton Station,
whilst mainline intercity rail links are available
at Tiverton Parkway. The A377 provides a
link to the cathedral city and county town of
Exeter, with international airports at Exeter
and Bristol.
Limebeers Oakwell Farm is well situated to
take advantage of the many country and
woodland walks in the area, together with a
wealth of other recreational activities including
horse riding, cycling, fishing on the rivers
Mole and Taw, hunting, shooting and further
golf courses at High Bickington and
Barnstaple. To the north east the Exmoor
National Park offers beautiful moorland
scenery with many foot and bridle paths,
whilst the spectacular North Devon coast with
its pretty villages and popular sandy beaches
of Instow, Saunton Sands, Croyde Bay,
Putsborough and Woolacombe is only about
45 minutes’ drive away.
Accommodation
Benefiting from oil fired central heating and
double
glazing
with
accommodation
conveniently arranged over two floors, as
follows:For approximate room measurements please
refer to the attached floor plan.
Ground Floor
Rendered and slate roofed Entrance Porch
with a part glazed front door and slate tiled
floor. Built-in cupboard housing the Trianco
Eurostar oil fired boiler for central heating and
domestic hot water.
Further fitted wall
cupboards housing the consumer unit.
Access hatch to roof space.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room
a lovely large
character kitchen enjoying a double aspect,
containing a good range of painted solid
timber fronted base cupboard and drawer
units with timber work surfaces over and
matching wall cupboard. Inset double bowl
single drainer ceramic sink with mixer tap.
Space and plumbing for both dish washer and
washing machine. Inglenook style recess in
stone surround with beam over, with space
and point for an electric range cooker. To one
side of the recess is a built-in shelved larder
cupboard and to the other is a built-in
domestic cupboard. Exposed ceiling beams,
part tiled walls and slate tiled floor. Opening
through into the...
Dining Room another double aspect room
with exposed ceiling beams, three wall light
points, shelved recess and slate tiled floor.
Double doors open through into a large...
Living Room a character open plan triple
aspect room with a central stone pillar,
exposed ceiling joists, oak boarded floor and
stairs rising to the first floor. This room
contains two early inglenook style fireplaces,
the smaller in a stone surround with a bread
oven and beam over, inset with a wood
burning stove set on a part slate hearth. The
second larger fireplace is also in a stone
surround with a beam over inset with a
Villager wood burning stove set on a part
slate hearth. Former bread oven now forming
a display recess, window seat enjoying lovely
southerly views, shelved display recess with a
wall light point, four further wall light points
and pretty domed recess formerly believed to
have been a Creamer. Double glazed French
doors lead out to the garden to the eastern
elevation, with a further double glazed door
leading out to a small Rear Entrance Porch
with a slate roof and outside light.
Adjoining on the ground floor, accessed from
outside, is a Shower Room containing a tiled
shower cubicle (currently disused), a low level
WC and pedestal wash hand basin with tiled
splashback, cold water tap and Heatrae Sadia
water heater.
Tiled floor, Dimplex wall
mounted electric fan heater and access hatch
to roof space.
First Floor
A spacious Landing with an enclosed Airing
Cupboard containing a hot water cylinder
complete with immersion heater.
Rear Landing with part exposed roof timbers
and recess with fitted book shelves.
Bedroom 1 a lovely large double aspect room
Limebeers Oakwell
Farm
enjoying fine views over the gardens and
surrounding countryside, containing a walk-in
wardrobe with double oak doors.
Two
recesses with fitted book shelves, further built
-in shelved cupboard with double oak doors
and part exposed roof timbers.
En-Suite Bathroom tiled to dado height and
containing a panelled bath, tiled shower
cubicle with power shower, vanity wash hand
basin with cupboard under and a close
coupled WC. Ceiling down lighters, shaver
socket, tiled floor and heated towel rail.
Bedroom 2 with an access hatch to roof
space, part exposed roof timbers and a builtin wardrobe cupboard.
Bedroom 3 enjoying beautiful countryside
views with a timber boarded floor and built-in
deep wardrobe cupboard.
Bedroom 4 currently used as an office.
Bathroom
a
generously
proportioned
bathroom containing a panelled bath in tiled
surround with a mixer tap, shower attachment
and glass shower screen. Pedestal wash
hand basin with a tiled splashback, mirror,
shaver light and socket over. Close coupled
WC, Dimplex wall mounted electric fan heater
and tiled floor.
Outside
The property is initially approached from the
quiet council lane via a shared concrete
entrance with a spur off leading into a private
gated driveway flanked on either side by
lawned areas. On the upper side is an
ornamental pond in a stone surround and a
vegetable garden contained behind low
grassed banks, whilst to the lower side of the
drive is a further vegetable garden and a hard
base suitable for a greenhouse.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
For clarification we wish to inform any prospective purchasers that we have prepared these sales particulars as a general
guide. They must not be relied upon as statements of fact. We have not carried out a detailed survey, nor tested the services,
heating systems, appliances and specific fittings. Room sizes should not be relied upon for carpets and furnishings. If there are
points which are of particular importance to you please contact the office prior to viewing the property.
The private drive continues into a large yard
area situated adjacent to the house providing
ample car parking and turning. A spur off the
main drive leads to a small upper yard onto
which the doors from the hay barn open. The
drive then continues past the house, flanked
on either side by lawned areas with a border
to the right containing a variety of shrubs and
flowering ornamental trees, to provide access
to a pretty traditional stone and double roman
tile roofed Linhay, 17'6" x 14'9" (5.33m x
4.50m). From here a gated access leads out
onto the adjoining pasture land.
The principal gardens adjoin the house to two
sides, those to the south comprising a lawned
area with stone edged flower and shrub
borders, intertwined with cobbled pathways.
The level gardens to the front of the house
are also interwoven with stone cobbled
pathways, containing an ornamental pond and
well stocked flower borders, with a stone
raised bed on the northern side. Silver Birch
trees provide dappled shade together with
further ornamental trees and shrubs. From
here a charming private lane, flanked with
natural hedges, affords a lovely walk along
the northern edge of the pasture land. It is
understood that the owners of Limebeers
have a right of way to continue along this
lane, which eventually leads back out onto the
council road.
The Outbuildings
Adjacent to the drive is a superb four bay
American style Stable Barn containing Four
Boxes, 12' x 12' (3.66m x 3.66m), with ornate
rendered and brick edged and arched
divisions, each with a stable door to the
outside and further door leading into a
covered Tacking Up Area, 50' x 9'6" (15.25m
x 2.90m). From here separate doors lead into
an L-shaped Tack Room, 19'9" max. x 15'10"
max. (6.02m max. x 4.82m max.), and a Feed
Store, 18'7" x 12'6" (5.67m x 3.80m), with a
further door to outside. This building has
been internally divided with a block wall to
create a separate Hay Barn, 43' x
11'11" (13.12m x 3.63m), with double profile
steel sheeted doors, power and water
connected.
‘an attractive and versatile residential
smallholding providing superb
equestrian facilities and enjoying
stunning rural views’
Also situated adjacent to the car parking area
is a part stone, cob and block Workshop
containing a fitted work bench with adjoining
Garden Machinery and Log Stores.
sloping block of south facing productive
pasture divided with timber posts and electric
tape fencing into three convenient paddocks,
each benefiting from trough watering.
Situated upon the land and accessed from the
adjoining pasture field is a full size Outdoor
Manege (40m x 20m), contained within timber
post and rail fencing with a sand and
shredded rubber base. Wonderful views may
be enjoyed from the manege over the
picturesque valley of the River Mole and
surrounding countryside.
In recent years the land has been utilised for
the grazing of horses although it may be
ideally suited to a variety of agricultural or
other amenity uses.
In total Limebeers
extends to about 6.44 Acres.
The Land
The adjoining land is currently used for
equestrian purposes and comprises a gently
Services
Mains water and electricity supplies.
Drainage to a private system. Telephone and
broadband at present connected. Oil-fired
radiator central heating system.
Outgoings
These are believed to comprise North Devon
Council Tax (Band F) on the house, together
with the usual service and environmental
charges.
Directions
From the Agents office in the Square in South
Molton proceed down South Street, and take
the turning left signposted to George
Nympton. Follow the road out of the town and
through the village of George Nympton and
after passing over the river bridge at the
bottom of the hill take the first right turn
signposted for Sampson and Sletchcott.
Follow this road up the hill and at Sampson
Cross turn right signed for Meethe and
Clapworthy. Continue for about 0.3 miles,
taking the first turning into a concrete
driveway on the left hand side. The entrance
to Limebeers Oakwell Farm will be found as
the right hand concrete fork at the bottom.
Viewing
Strictly by appointment with the sole selling
agents Greenslade Taylor Hunt, 23 Broad
Street, South Molton, Devon, EX36 3AQ.
Tel: 01769 574500 Ref: STM160048
Email: residential.southmolton@gth.net