Langdons, Chiselborough

Front Elevation

From North Street, the frontage is elevated above the road, Hamstone walls and steps to the front door with paved and loose gravel as well as mature plants and Spring/Summer plants. A front porch provides covered access to the front door. To the right is a storage workshop. To the left is a footpath which extends to the side of the house where the oil tank can be found. Also to the left is a raised wall and step up to lawn which is set on a slope and provides some access to the rear garden.

Rear Access

A right of access across a neighbouring property driveway leads to the parking area and access to the garage as well as wrought iron gated and railings providing access to the garden and steps down to the rear access to the house.

Ground Floor

The entrance porch opens through a wide timber door to the inner hall with front aspect windows offering natural light. To your right the hall opens to the wide and spacious sitting room with a feature hamstone wall which includes an open fireplace. (There are several small alcoves in the wall which are believed to have been small cupboards at one time, and a talking point is a splash of green paint which appears to be very old and initially resisted attempts to remove and has now been accepted as part of the history of the property).
Front and rear aspect windows offer lots of light and low ceilings make this a cosy space.
There is a box arch which leads to the dining area and this in turn has a door which takes you back to the hall and across from the entrance.
The flooring in the entrance hall, living and dining room is beautiful reclaimed solid oak.
So, back at the start point and now turning to the left, you pass the stairs and then enter to the kitchen/breakfast...

First Floor

This is a big footprint and provides a large principal bedroom with en-suite and walk-in dressing area.
A further 4 bedrooms are on this floor plus another 2 bathrooms, making this a great family space.

Rear Garden

The garden is set on a slope and is accessed up steps. The initial patio area to the rear is a great space to escape direct sunlight in the afternoons and evenings to dine al fresco.
Up the stairs leads to lawned area and then at the very top is the 'secret garden', delightfully tucked away is a very private space which overlooks the rooftops, has high hedging to the rear which backs onto agricultural fields and offers outstanding views across the countryside with a wonderful backdrop of the sunsets.

Garage and Parking

Parking for several vehicles in front of the garage which has space for a sizable car and comes with electric and light. Above the garage is a studio, ideal for your personal space as a separate office, artist/music studio or as the current owner has adapted, somewhere to enjoy your hobby such as with your train set. At the rear of garage is another large store room at ground floor level that is shelved and suitable for storage of various items.

Material Information

Council Tax Band: F
The title to this property is Freehold
Mains Water, Drainage and Electricity
Oil Fired Boiler for the Central Heating System
An AGA provides hot water during the colder months, this is then turned off during the summer an immersion tank on a timer then provides hot water
The fireplace in the sitting houses an open fire
We are informed that the chimney has been cleared every year, last cleaned May 2023
We are informed that the AGA is checked yearly along with the boiler, last serviced in October 2023
The drive to the rear which provides access to the parking and garage belongs to a neighbouring property with a right of access awarded to the owner of Langdons
Mains water stop cock is by the front door as this was at one time 2 separate cottages
The current owners had a water meter installed several years ago which is located at the bottom of the steps to the front
This property is NOT Listed, however, it does sit within the village Conservation Area
The property...

Book Excerpt 1993

Somerset Villages, the houses, cottages and farm of Chiselborough (pub: 1993)
Researched, prepared and published by the Somerset and South Avon vernacular building research group
13 NORTH STREET(HAMBLINS). Ref. 46.
The original house comprised kitchen, cross-passage, hall and inner room. The property was very extensively renovated ca. 1965 and little of the original features have survived, either internally or externally to enable a date of build to be determined. However, a re-positioned datestone, which was previously on the South gable is inscribed 1598.
Photographs taken in 1965 show that the roof trusses had purlins held by tusk tenons, suggesting that re-roofing took place early in the 19th century, probably when the 2-storey addition was built, and the house divided, probably at the cross-passage, into two cottages.
DATE and DEVELOPMENT. Despite the absence of dateable structural features it seems likely, based on the plan-form and the date-stone, that the house dates...