Bridford Road, Christow, Exeter, Devon, EX6

The house has a striking, contemporary design featuring exterior walls covered with white-painted render between areas of honey-coloured stone, all sheltering under a slate roof with deep eaves

The interior employs open space combined with full height, floor to ceiling windows to provide a light and airy feel throughout the house. In addition, all the reception rooms and bedrooms face either north-west or north-east looking out on the view whilst remaining cool in summer.

The sitting and dining rooms are inter-connected to one another and to the kitchen/breakfast room in an open plan arrangement, with a compact study off the former. Both have sliding French windows opening to the paved terrace outside, which allows the house to be opened out to the garden in fine weather. They also have oak floors and each share an exposed stone wall with a double sided fireplace.

The kitchen/breakfast room is also good-sized with plenty of space accommodating a large central island with a long, wide oak work surface for in-kitchen dining. It is also fitted with a slate-tiled floor and farmhouse-style units incorporating a range of built-in electric appliances.

Upstairs there are a total of four double bedrooms off the part-galleried landing. The principal bedroom suite incorporates a large en suite dressing room equipped with built-in wardrobes and a separate, en suite bath and shower room.

The guest bedroom also has an en suite shower room, whilst the remaining two bedrooms share the family bath and shower room. In addition, the principal bedroom has its own balcony with views over the garden and grounds to Dartmoor in the distance.

Two of the other bedrooms and the dressing room also have access to a separate, adjacent balcony that shares the view.

Garage block, garden and grounds
Lillies is down a narrow lane with a turn-off just beyond the house into a large gravelled parking area, where there is space for several vehicles. To one side is a triple garage block incorporating a studio with an integral shower and WC in the roof space.

Behind the garage block there is a small area of woodland and beside it a vegetable garden incorporating raised beds. The garden extends around the house primarily on its east side where a paved terrace overlooks a lawn bound on its open side by post and rail fencing with a large paddock on the far side bounded by a stream on the northern side.

There is a further paved terrace at the front of the house, which is west-facing and enjoys the evening sun. In all the garden, pasture and woodland amount to about 2.67 acres (1.08 hectares).

Tucked away but not isolated, Lillies is situated within the Dartmoor National Park on the western side of the pretty Teign Valley, looking across the valley towards Doddiscombsleigh and close to the Tottiford and Kennick reservoirs.

The centre of the thriving village of Christow is just three quarters of a mile away and contains excellent amenities including a church, primary school , store and post office, pub and community hall, with regular bus services to local schools and Exeter.

The village also hosts a traditional rural village show every year (see are more extensive facilities to be found in the nearby moorland town of Moretonhampstead or in Exeter city centre.

There are also good nearby transport links with regular rail services from Exeter St Davids to both Paddington and Waterloo and Exeter Airport offers national and international connections including a regular service to London City Airport.

There is a wide choice of schools locally including the primary school in the village (Ofsted rated Good) and several popular independent schools, including Exeter School, Exeter Cathedral School and The Maynard.