5 bedroom detached house for sale

Tenure: Freehold

An exceptional five bedroom home, converted from a Cornish Engine house with approx nine acres of gardens and paddocks, sand school, stable block and a large wooden barn. A rare and unique opportunity to own a piece of Cornish history within three miles of Fowey.

Entrance Hall
Wooden staircase rising to the first floor with useful under-stairs cupboard, tiled floor, radiator and wooden panel door leading through to the dining hall and a further wooden panel door that gives access into:

Cloakroom
Low level WC, ceramic bowl sink with mixer tap over set on a tiled hearth with storage below. Tiled floor and a centrally heated radiator.

From the entrance hall, a wooden panel door gives access through into:

Dining Hall
A dramatic room with high ceilings, huge recessed arched wooden windows with double glazed panes enjoying views over the garden. The room has huge slate paved slabs with the central part of the room having recessed carpeting, and there are exposed painted ceiling beams and exposed granite lintels over the wooden double doors that lead out to a small slate balcony enjoying views down towards the stables and on to the fields. Cast iron centrally heated radiator, exposed stone walling to one end of the room and around the window. Double wooden doors with glazed panes give access through into:

Kitchen/Breakfast Room
A dual aspect beautifully appointed room with large wooden sash window looking to the front of the house and two wooden double glazed windows also looking down on to the gardens with views over the lake and to the woods beyond. Range of built in wooden kitchen units with granite work surface and granite splash-backs. A focal point of the kitchen is the oil-fired double oven AGA with a separate AGA electric unit with two ovens fired by electricity and a gas hob over. Above the AGA there is an extractor fan set behind the wooden mantel over the AGA, and there is a wooden island with inset Franke sink with mixer tap over and granite work surface with a separate inset wooden chopping board. Plenty of further cupboards and drawers surrounding the island which also has attached to it a wooden table to the side. Tiled floor, vaulted ceiling with exposed wooden A-frames, purlins as well as wooden lintels over the windows. Overall a superb room. From here, double wooden glazed doors gives access through into:

Sitting Room
Dual aspect room with wooden French doors with large glazed panes providing access and views on to the gardens and a further wooden double glazed window looking to the front of the house. Vaulted ceiling with exposed wooden A-frame and purlins and wooden lintel over the window. A wood burning stove is set on a slate hearth under a recessed brick chimney. Exposed wooden flooring, cast iron centrally heated radiator, television point and phone point.

From the Kitchen/Breakfast Room, a wooden staircase descends to the lower ground floor. There’s a tiled floor, centrally heated radiator and panel doors that give access into:

Boiler Room
This room houses the oil-fired boiler providing central heating and hot water to the building.

Bedroom Five
Wooden double glazed window looking on to the gardens with views over the lake on to the woods behind, centrally heated radiator, built-in recessed wardrobe with double wooden panel doors and a further panel door that gives access into:

En-Suite Shower Room
Low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin and a large double shower with chrome shower and wall-mounted Grome shower controls. Fully tiled walls and floor, built-in chrome centrally heated towel rail and an electric extractor fan.

From the hallway, a further wooden door with glazed panes gives access into:

Utility Room
Wooden kitchen units providing plenty of storage with work surface and an inset Belfast sink with mixer tap. Tiled splash-backs, space and plumbing for washing machine with plenty of space for separate dryer if required. Tiled floor, centrally heated radiator and a built-in cupboard with wooden doors housing the water filtration unit and a further large built-in cupboard with slatted shelving providing plenty of storage. Inset spotlights, further door providing access through into a large storage cupboard below the property. Large wooden door with two glazed panes gives access from the utility room into the rear garden.

From the entrance hall on the ground floor, a wooden staircase rises to a large half landing that leads up to the first floor landing where these is a large wooden window with deep slate topped sill looking down towards the stables and the fields. On the landing there is a built-in cupboard, centrally heated radiator, exposed wooden ceiling beams and painted panel door that gives access into:

Cloakroom
Low level WC, wash hand basin and painted wood panelling to dado level.

Bedroom Two
Large wooden double glazed window set in a large recess with a built in window seat enjoying views over the rooftop down on to the garden, the lake and the fields. Exposed roof timbers, cast iron centrally heated radiator, telephone point and a large walk-in wardrobe with hanging rail, shelving and built-in spotlights. Painted panel door gives access into:

En-Suite Bathroom
Low level WC, wash hand basin with mixer tap and a tiled bath with chrome taps and shower over. Built-in extractor fan, exposed ceiling beam, fully tiled walls and floor and a centrally heated chrome towel rail.

Bedroom Three
Huge wooden window set in a deep recess with a large slate topped window seat enjoying views to the front of the house on towards the fields and the driveway, exposed wooden ceiling beams and a built-in cupboard with hanging rail and shelf over. Centrally heated radiator, wash hand basin with mixer tap set on a tiled hearth with splash-back. In the corner of the room is a built-in shower unit with folding shower door, fully tiled walls and a wall-mounted Mira shower unit.

From the first floor landing, stairs continue up to the second floor landing where there is a centrally heated radiator, further wooden window with deep slate topped sill looking down the garden to the Sand School and the stables and to the countryside beyond. Exposed ceiling beams and further painted panel door that gives access into:

Bedroom Four
Beautiful dual aspect room with wooden double glazed windows with a large slate topped sill. Exposed wooden lintel, exposed roof timbers throughout the room and a second level to the room accessed over a number of steps to a sitting area with large stone floor and huge wooden double glazed windows looking down on to the garden. Centrally heated radiator, television point and a walk-in wardrobe with its own little window and a further cupboard housing the hot water cylinder.

En-Suite Bathroom
A two level dramatic bathroom with a low level WC, a pedestal wash hand basin, walk-in shower with glazed door and wall and fully tiled walls. The lower part of the bathroom has fully tiled walls and floor and steps lead up to the second tier with exposed granite flooring with a Victoria & Albert style slipper bath with views through the wooden double glazed window into the trees and down to the garden. Exposed wooden window lintel, centrally heated chrome towel rail and extractor fan.

From the second floor landing, a further panel door gives access into:

Master Bedroom Suite
Steps lead up past a further large wooden window to a huge dramatic vaulted bedroom with exposed A-frames, purlins as well as beautiful wooden sliding doors with huge glass panes providing views into the treetops and down on to the garden and lake and the countryside beyond. The doors also give access on to a wooden balcony from which to enjoy these wonderful views. This is quite an extraordinary bedroom with wonderful treetop views, part-tiled floor with the other half carpeted and two tall cast iron centrally heated radiators. To one side of the room there is a sunken Jacuzzi bath with hand held shower attachment, a further fully tiled wet room with a huge chrome showerhead and separate hand held shower attachment and centrally heated chrome towel rail. Accessed from the room is a walk-in wardrobe with plenty of hanging rails, storage, built-in spotlights and a Velux rooflight.

En-Suite Cloakroom
Low level WC, and a tiled shelf holds ceramic bowl sink with wall-mounted mixer tap. Tiled floor, large built-in mirror over the sink with built-in spotlights.

Outside
Wheal Henrietta sits in approximately nine and a half acres of gardens and two paddocks. A tarmac driveway leads to the front of the house where there is parking for numerous cars. Surrounding the house are gardens mainly laid to lawn with a well stocked stream fed lake with a central island and an assortment of fish including large carp. There is a small orchard with apple, plum and pear trees and a stream borders the gardens on the western side where there is a belt of woodland providing a sanctuary for a host of wildlife. Round the house there are numerous sitting out areas with one area looking down over the pond accessed from the sitting room and another enclosed paved sitting area beside a small fish pond to the side of the house. These are superb large gardens in a wonderful rural location.

The driveway leads from the house down to the floodlit Sand School surrounded by post and rail fencing and also down to the stable block with a tack room and feed store. Beyond here there’s a newly built wooden barn measuring 20m x 10m ideal for further storage etc.

Property Ref:1_903_2231873