Woodspring House, Clevedon

'Woodspring House is one of a kind! We've transformed the property in our 7 years and recreated the garden into fun zones, all with spectacular views and birdsong. Home working in the heavens has been a treat! Daylight flooding the front rooms and garden. The living room bays are distinctive and high ceilings, ornate features bring a smile daily'

The home

Built around the early 1840s, this fantastic home has an abundance of both character and style. Measuring in excess of 3500 square feet, plus an outstanding garden office, this home gives its residence a fantastic choice of space to enjoy, entertain and relax.

The main home is arranged over three similarly sized storeys, with entrances available to the home on all floors. The hub of the home is the exceptional kitchen/diner to the ground floor, measuring 10 x 3.65 metres, with doors out to a lovely sunny courtyard, ideal for summer evenings.

There is a feeling of quality instilled throughout the home, with much of the work having been done over recent years by the current owners.

The kitchen typifies this attention to quality. Fitted by Kitchen Partners to a bespoke specification, the kitchen has Dekton worksurfaces, two Neff ovens, two Neff steamers/microwaves, induction hob, Quooker hot water and filter tap, Capel wine fridge, Neff integrated separate fridge and freezer.

Bathrooms have also been done with style and quality. The main bathroom was designed and supplied by Harry Powells and the WC and first floor shower room being individually sourced using high end products. All bathrooms have been professionally fitted by S J Price and tiled by Mike Dace.

The ground floor is also home to a gym, a music room, a playroom and a WC. The ground floor has underfloor heating, beneath the Mandarin Stone tilled flooring and this floor has also been rewired within the current owners seven year tenure.

The first floor is home to a grand central hallway, with entrance from the side of the house. Off of this hallway is a delightful 10.4 metre long living space, made up of two interconnected living rooms. Being positioned at the front of the house, and benefitting from bay windows, this is a fantastic, bright room to enjoy all year round. The fireplace also gives this room the potential to be a brilliant spot for the family to gather on colder winter days and evenings.

Off of the first floor hallway is also a cinema room, utility room and the first of six double bedrooms, adjacent to a recently fitted shower room

To the top floor there is a family bathroom, five double bedrooms and an en-suite bathroom to the main bedroom. With the elevated position of this home, the top floor rooms all benefit from a beautiful open and green aspect, with the home situated amongst several established trees.

Topped with a Welsh slate roof and rendered stone walls, this is a home which offers quaint, considered style but a wealth of space, with several different zones and options for spaces to enjoy together or to offer plenty of space for everyone to have as their own, ideal for a large family or multi-generational living.


The outside

Woodspring House is set on a generous plot, with secure gated entry to the front, controllable by fob or from your phone. The plot stretches from Hill Road, on the edge of Herbert Gardens to the front, right the way to the border the gardens of the houses of Dial Hill Road, to the rear.

It is at the back of the garden where the incredible views can be soaked up from the beautiful garden office, decking, outdoor kitchen and ‘Urban Cedar’ hot tub, which are positioned to get sun all day and soak up the fantastic view towards the Mendips, the Bristol Channel and South Wales. All wifi connected, this is an area which can be for socialising, working or getting away from both!

The rest of the garden has been dynamically yet sympathetically developed by Phil Stovell Garden Design, to give a choice of several private and level spaces from which to sit, play or relax. External lighting has also been tactfully installed throughout the garden.



The history

Local historian, Jane Lilly, has done some research on the history of this fantastic Frade II listed home. Jane tells us that:

The land was advertised for sale in 1841 by the owner of Laurel Bank - it seems that Woodspring, Hampton House and Bassnett House as well as Goldwell with Speen House to the back of it, were all built on that large piece of land.

Woodspring House was first owned by Thomas Barrett, who ran a boarding school there, until 1850, when Mr Joseph Cottle rented the house from him as a boarding house. It was run by his wife, Mary Cottle until the couple then built Stancliffe in Wellington Terrace and opened a boarding house there.
The census of 1881 Felicia and Louise Vaughan, sisters in their early fifties who had private means lived at the house with a cook and a housemaid, Sarah Backer and Annie Hopkins. The house had eleven rooms with four people there. This pattern remained in places, private families living at the house, in 1906 Mr Field was sharing with Miss Highmore. In 1911, Miss Alice Long, a lady in private means again, was at the house with two servants, a cook, Mary Draper Miles, and housemaid Daisy Stock.


Our sellers added ‘We are aware the property was then split into 3 flats (one over two floors) – we have an old plan of the layout – hence the 3 entrances (both sides and the rear). When we bought it in 2018 it was a tenanted 3 bed flat at lower ground floor and a 5-bed house above. We returned it to a family house and have transformed the garden.’




The future

This home has extant planning permission for a loft extension, which can be made available in detail for prospective buyers. The plans (from Wall Architecture) are for a master suite on this newly created floor, with a dressing room and bathroom. Views would be even more impressive from this space, with two front and two rear dormers

A planning application is also being prepared (pending) for off-street parking to the front/side of the house, the details of which the sellers are happy to show in more detail and pass on to the new owners.


Living in Clevedon

From much of this home you have joy of seeing much of the surrounding town to which this home sits at the heart. Sweeping sea views, rolling hills and the quiet town are all visible from the house and can be closer enjoyed just beyond the doorstep. Just minutes from the seafront, the home has easy access to the Clevedon Coastal Path which connects the town with Portishead, and includes the peaceful spots of Ladye Bay, Margaret's Bay, and Walton Bay.

A few minutes walk, you’ll find Hill Road and Alexandra Road, both of which offer a choice of café’s, restaurants, independent clothes shops, book shops and art galleries. Fawn Coffee Shop is a lovely spot to grab your morning flat white, whilst Escala tapas bar and Murrays neighbourhood restaurant are highly regarded and bring a local challenge to the flourishing food scene of nearby Bristol.

Clevedon has a real abundance of green space and pleasant walks, including Alexandra Park, Sunhill Park, Herbert Gardens and Dial Hill which are all minutes away, with woodland walks around Court Woods and Nortons Woods also nearby. You can also join the Poet’s Walk path which offers views out across the Bristol Channel and beautifully highlights the area’s natural beauty.

Whilst Clevedon is well-positioned for those wanting to commute to Bristol, Cardiff, or London, it has evolved into a thriving, nature-loving and artistic town in its own right. Full of character and community, it’s a dynamic seaside town with a rich history, picturesque surroundings, and a vibrant independent scene.