2 bedroom flat for sale

A spacious and elegant apartment comprising the ground floor and cellar of a Georgian house close to the town centre. Stunning sitting room, kitchen/dining room, two en-suite double bedrooms, parking and garden. Cellar/potential garage. EPC Band F.

Situation

Ridgeway House is situated on the south side, and set back from Exeter Road, in an elevated position in the market town of Honiton, which is located in the heart of East Devon. Honiton provides for most day to day needs, with good road communications providing easy access onto the A30 to Exeter, about 16 miles to the west and the A303 to the east, and mainline rail station on the London Waterloo line. Honiton is famous for its antique and bookshops, and twice weekly street market.

The cathedral and university City of Exeter has excellent travel facilities including M5 access, international airport and mainline trains to London Paddington. Exeter offers cultural, scholastic and shopping opportunities unrivalled in the southwest.

The south coast at Sidmouth is about 9 miles and the fishing villages of Beer and Branscombe are within easy reach.

Description

Lower Ridgeway House is an elegant and spacious apartment located on the ground floor of a delightful Grade II Listed house, dating back to the early 19th century and which displays fine architectural features of the period. The property is accessed via a substantial entrance porch which has broad stone steps leading to the handsome front door into the entrance foyer and onto the wide carpeted central hall. There is a hanging coats cupboard in the hall and a deep cupboard adjacent to the kitchen which houses the electric central heating boiler, pressurised hot water cylinder and space and plumbing for a washing machine.

The sitting room is a stunning double aspect room with floor to picture rail height windows with internal shutters, deep moulded cornice, ornate ceiling rose, and Minster style stone fireplace. The kitchen/dining room is fitted with a range of timber effect units with a laminate worktop, double sink, slot-in-electric cooker, integrated dishwasher and fridge/freezer. There is a full height window with internal shutter, door to the sitting room and door to hall.

The master bedroom has deep built-in cupboards, and en suite bathroom including bath with shower over, WC and stylish washbowl with cupboards below and tiled walls. There is a useful storage area over the en-suite. A French door leads out to the private patio.
 
Bedroom 2 is also double size and with en-suite shower room, with WC, shower cubicle, washbowl and cupboard. There is a storage space above the en-suite. French doors lead from the bedroom into the sun room which has door onto the patio area and is a useful garden storage room.

Outside

The property is approached via the sweeping private, shared drive through shrub borders to the designated parking located to the front of Ridgeway House. The entrance to Lower Ridgeway House is via the handsome front porch. To the south side of the house is the garden, which is currently communally shared with the first floor apartment, but which could be divided to provide a designated private garden if required.
 
Double doors at the front of the house open into the cellar which is currently used for storage but could provide garaging for a small car. There is a covered area on the side below the apartment verandah with a pedestrian door into the cellar area which has power, light and water supply and extends to approximately 40 square metres.
 

Agents note

Stags would like to point out that the first floor apartment, Upper Ridgeway House, is also for sale. Details are available from the agents.

Viewing

Strictly by appointment via the sole agents Stags on .

Directional note

From Honiton High Street proceed in a south westerly direction through the traffic lights and shortly after the turning into Mill Street and nearly opposite Rookwood Close, the entrance to Ridgeway House is on the left.

Services

Mains electricity, water and drainage.

Tenure

The property is being offered with a 125 year lease (starting in 2008) so has 121 years remaining.

Local authority

East Devon District Council, Council Offices, Knowle, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 9HL, Tel:

Web find reference

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