4 bedroom detached house for sale

Tenure: Freehold

Drawing room, dining room and conservatory
Kitchen/breakfast room and utility room
Large family bathroom and cloakroom and w.c.
With delightful half acre partly walled gardens.
Garage, large workshop/ potential work unit.
Gas fired central heating

The house is set in gardens known as a Plantsman's garden and are featured in Creative Gardeners and The Cornwall Gardens Guide. The large modern workshop is set behind the garage and intriguingly is accessed through a high arched door through an old stone wall. The potential is there to adapt into a home office for those needing a home and work unit.

The property has received a program of restoration by the present owners over the last twenty years or so with tasteful re-styling to parts retaining the original Georgian integrity. This has included the addition of a part walled and large conservatory and the provision of an entrance hall of great style with its glass lantern roof.

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DESCRIPTION
Though having considerable privacy in the south facing gardens and completely hidden from view, nevertheless the property is a fine townhouse being at the top of Rhind Street and with the town centre being a short walk down the hill. The town of Bodmin has a good central location in the county being at the junction of the A30 and A38 trunk roads and has beautiful surroundings with the Camel Valley, River Camel and the Camel Trail just to the north and interconnecting into the town. To the south is the fine Fowey river valley and nearby Lanhydrock House and Golf Course. The town offers an ever expanding range of good facilities including fine educational facilities at Bodmin College and has been sought after by many due to its convenience within about twenty minutes drive of both the north and south coasts as a good centre to live in.


THE GARDENS
The property is approached from the hillside over a cobbled effect parking area and then with high walls and gates giving a private access onto the front court. Alongside this is the garage measuring 16' x 8'6" with electronically operated up and over door and having an opening to the rear into the substantial workshop about 19'6" x 9'3" and then extending into a further storage area which interconnects with the garage. The court has high screen and capped stone walls to one side with a further door into the workshop and a further slate paved area and high iron gate and arch leading into the upper garden. A further iron gate then leads onto the main front garden. The gardens are described in one of the guides as having "peaceful luxuriance" and to the front is a formal sun dial garden and this extends into various other parts through a myriad of old high stone walls, iron gates and arches and curving yew hedges. The higher garden is an informal orchard with ancient cider apple trees and more recently planted dessert varieties, some trained into espaliers. There is also a greenhouse measuring 19'3" x 8'9" with water supply and electricity laid on and a fruit garden area with netted enclosure. To the west of the house is a long lawn with serpentine deep borders along an original 10' stone wall and the curving yew hedge divides this lawn from the hidden sunken garden entered via a wisteria arch and with a small pond. Tucked away to one side is an old garden store.


THE ACCOMMODATION
The property is approached on the ground floor through the rear entrance hall carefully architect designed to blend with the Georgian style and having a semicircular window to one side and a large glazed lantern above, wide foot mat well, ceramic flooring and doors leading to the utility room and also through to the kitchen.

The kitchen has a range of fitted floor cabinets, beamed ceilings and inset ceiling spotlights, a blue Aga gas fired cooker which provides heating to one radiator to the self contained bedroom annexe above and provides additional water heating top up if required. There is a solid bed slate worktop to one side, two ring gas hob and a stainless steel one and a half bowl sink unit. The floor is finished in ceramic tiles and a door leads to a large walk-in larder with extensive shelving. French windows open to the south onto the front terrace and a spiral staircase then leads to the first floor principal bedroom.

This first floor area has a small landing with full height window overlooking the rear garden and part decorative glazed door leading to the double bedroom with a walk-in dressing room area and a further door opening onto the en-suite bathroom well re-fitted in recent years with a panel and part circular bath with mixer taps and shower head and a part circular glazed shower screen, fitted wash hand basin and low level w.c. set in cabinets and with ceiling skylight window and extractor fan.

Returning to the ground floor a further door opens from the kitchen through to the fine large dining room with wood strip flooring and fitted wall lights and a door opening onto the front terrace, further door to the drawing room and an arch into the inner hall. The inner hall has the staircase rising to the first floor, a door to the drawing room and a built-in understair cupboard and a door to the utility room also.

The utility room has a ceramic floor, further door to entrance hall, a Belfast sink with wood drainer and pillar taps and a built-in cupboard housing a gas fired central heating boiler. Also fitted wall cabinets, fitted floor cabinet and a part glazed door with obscure glass leading into the cloakroom with low level w.c. and wash hand basin.

The large drawing room has a fireplace with polished marble hearth and back and a decorative wood surround and dual aspect windows onto the side and front garden. There are four inset and arched recessed bookshelves, wood strip flooring and large French windows with glazing above opening onto the conservatory with its slate floor, double glazed windows and roof and fitted ceiling blinds. French doors onto the front terrace and this beautiful room enjoys attractive outlooks onto the partly walled side garden.
The landing has a large roof hatch with sliding roof ladder opening into the roof void which has been partly floored.

The family bathroom is of good size having a suite comprising a steel bath with corner taps, pedestal wash hand basin and low level w.c. and a separate and fully tiled deep shower cubicle. There is attractive half height wall tiling with dado mouldings, a vertical towel rail/radiator and lattice fronted double doors opening into the airing cupboard enclosing the factory insulated hot water storage cylinder.
Bedroom two to the front is a double bedroom with a range of fitted wardrobes and hat cupboards over with central mirror and an old cast iron recessed fireplace (not in use). There are fine views over the garden and town beyond towards Bodmin Beacon, similar views are enjoyed from bedroom three, the second front double bedroom. Bedroom four is located to the rear and is also a double bedroom with views over the side garden and the study has a fitted desk, side cabinets and bookshelves.
GROUND FLOOR

Entrance Hall 13'4" x 7'4" (4.06m x 2.24m).

Kitchen/Breakfast Room 22'5" x 12'5" (6.83m x 3.78m).

Utility Room 13'8" (4.17m) max x 10' (3.05m) max.

Dining Room 17'6" x 12'2" (5.33m x 3.7m).

Drawing Room 24'3" x 13'1" max (7.4m x 3.99m max).

Conservatory 17'1" x 13'7" (5.2m x 4.14m).

FIRST FLOOR

Bedroom One 12'5" x 11'8" (3.78m x 3.56m).

En-suite Bathroom

Bedroom Two 13'3" x 12'4" (4.04m x 3.76m).

Bedroom Three 12'3" x 10'10" (3.73m x 3.3m).

Bedroom Four 10'10" x 10'7" (3.3m x 3.23m).

Family Bathroom 13'8" x 10' (4.17m x 3.05m).

Study 9'6" x 6'6" (2.9m x 1.98m).

EXTERIOR

Garage 16' x 8'6" (4.88m x 2.6m).

Workshop 19'6" x 9'3" (5.94m x 2.82m).

Greenhouse 19'3" x 8'9" (5.87m x 2.67m).