Over Stowey, Bridgwater, Somerset, TA5

A particularly handsome country house together with attached cottage set within private parkland grounds enjoying glorious views over the surrounding landscape.

Park House presents a wonderful opportunity for those wishing to find a handsome, manageable country house, conveniently situated for good transport and schooling. Believed to date back to the early 19th century Park House was built for Lord Taunton, who occupied the property as a pied-a-terre during the construction of a larger mansion nearby. The house boasts many hallmarks of a house of its age including well-proportioned rooms with cornicing, elegant fireplaces and tall, small paned windows enjoying lovely outlooks over the gardens. The property has well-arranged and proportioned reception rooms together with a magnificent traditional style conservatory.

A recessed porch leads into a vestibule with doors leading through to a cloakroom with separate wc. A glazed door leads into the main hall and has an archway leading through to the music room with handsome marble fireplace with a Jotul wood burning stove, cornice and recessed shelving. The drawing room also has a handsome fireplace with Jotul wood burning stove, recessed sitting area, a corniced ceiling with doors leading into the conservatory with French doors leading onto a terrace in the garden. The staircase hall has a fine turning staircase and doors into the library with excellent range of bookcases, a fireplace with marble mantlepiece and Jotul wood burning stove, a cornice and a door leading out into a greenhouse. The lower hall has a recessed plant room and doors to the cellar and to the well-proportioned dining room with recessed cupboard with green base shelving, a fireplace with marble surround, and open grate, intricate ceiling cornice and a ceiling rose. There are doors from the dining room leading into the conservatory with French doors leading out onto a terrace in the garden. The inner hall has a cloakroom with separate wc, a door to the gardens and a door into the kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen is extensively fitted with a range of natural wooden panel fronted wall and floor mounted cupboards, and an oil fired four oven AGA. There is also a double electric oven and gas hob and a door leading into the rear utility hall with utility room with stainless steel sink, ample shelves and cupboards and a walk-in larder with meat hooks, excellent shelving and a door that leads into the cottage. A fine turning staircase lit by a tall, small pane window leads to the first-floor landing where there are doors through to a guest bedroom with a double aspect, corner cupboards, a wash hand basin and windows with lovely views, a guest bedroom also having a double aspect and having an en suite bathroom with shower, a panelled bath, wc and wash hand basin. The inner landing leads to the principal bedroom having glorious views, an en suite bathroom with a wash basin, wc, double shower, a recessed built-in wardrobe cupboard and a linen cupboard. A further bedroom having glorious views up to the hillsides and Quantock Lodge has an en suite bathroom with wash basin, bath and wc. There is a door from the main landing into an inner landing with good sized linen cupboard, family bathroom with roll-top bath, wc and wash basin and a staircase leads down to the fifth bedroom which is of good size, has built in cupboards and lovely views.

The Cottage
Ground floor with entrance porch and hall and a door into the sitting room with a wood burning stove and a utility room, which has a shower and wc. A staircase rises up to the first floor where there are three bedrooms, a bathroom and a spacious kitchen/dining room, which has a door out onto the first-floor outside staircase.

A pillared entrance with timber doors leads into the sweeping gravelled drive running through the well-timbered woodland, the drive then opening out to a generous turning area and parking in front of the house. Lawned gardens surround the drive, partly shaded by the magnificent mature trees and an original stone wall provides the backdrop to well-stocked shrubberies. A sitting out terrace is found to the side of the conservatory, enjoying all available sunshine facing south. There is parking space on the adjoining lane, which leads into the cottage and to the original coach house. A small courtyard lies to the north side of the house and gives access to the boiler house with a Grant oil fired boiler, a log store and has a gate leading into the walled garden, which is beautifully stocked, has many mature shrubs, a greenhouse and an open summerhouse. From the walled garden is a further gate into a further lawned area of garden, which can be enjoyed by the cottage and there is further gravelled parking with many mature oaks and gates out onto the passing lane.

The original coach house provides excellent storage, a workshop and garage and as previously mentioned, can be accessed from the passing lane. There is a detached garage building providing garaging for three vehicles and an adjoining garden store. A level paddock, is found to the side of the original tennis court on which the chalet style pool house was built and has a 30ft x 12ft heated pool. There is entertaining space around the pool, a plant room and a changing room. There are two greenhouses found behind the pool house. There is vehicular access to this area of the garden, where there are lawned areas and raised beds. A further drive leads from the front of the house to the copse and leads through to the secondary paddock.

In all the gardens and grounds amount to 10.83 acres (4.350 hectares).

Tax Band: H