5 bed country house for sale

South Molton EX36

Stitchpool Farm is available as a whole or in up to five lots, comprising in total 138.7 acres with the farmhouse well situated to the south side of the land and provides exciting opportunities for farming, holiday accommodation, equestrian, residential and/or other diversification opportunities, subject to necessary consents.

Stitchpool Farm comes to the market for the first time in many years and offers a variety of opportunities, together with the adjoining productive farmland. The property occupies an accessible position with easy access to the A361 North Devon link road, providing routes to Barnstaple, the greater North Devon area and also links to the M5 and Exeter.

There are an extensive range of recreational and other facilities within the area with popular towns of Barnstaple and South Molton within easy reach. Recreational facilities include the North Devon coast line, together with a wide range of activities such as walking, riding and sporting throughout the area.

Stitchpool Farmhouse stands within its own grounds, a detached stone & slate roofed property being Grade II listed and offers the opportunity for prospective purchasers to modernise, improve and renovate part of the house to suit their requirements.
The accommodation currently splits in to two parts and comprises as follows: To the east side of the house, door to kitchen with fitted units and laminate floor, beamed ceiling and under stair cupboard. Sitting room with large feature fireplace containing woodburner, wooden floor and beamed ceiling. At the rear of the kitchen a small utility area. On the first floor, three double bedrooms off the first floor hallway leading to a family bathroom at the rear of the house with bath, shower over, hand basin and WC.
Accommodation to the west side, requiring renovation comprises door to utility/boot room with access to the main kitchen area, large fireplace and bread oven blocked in behind Rayburn, further door to the main sitting room with a large feature fireplace with bread oven. A rear utility room currently containing sink, shower and WC. Stairs to the first floor with two bedrooms together with a former bathroom.

Stitchpool Farm Stable Cottage:
The cottage provides a beautifully converted three bedroom holiday accommodation being a short distance from the main farmhouse, on the opposite side of the yard at one end of the traditional farm buildings.

The cottage has been designed to ensure that disabled visitors can also make full use of the property, together with their family and friends and the available accommodation is briefly described as follows: Main door to a small entrance hallway with flagstone floor containing sink and washer drier. Leading in to an open plan kitchen/diner/lounge area with the kitchen having a full range of white goods. The adjacent lounge/dining area leads on to the downstairs bedroom being a double room with an en-suite wetroom, including shower with hand rails and a seat, WC with the necessary seat and pull bars. On the first floor a further two bedrooms both with built in wardrobes, together with a large double airing cupboard on the landing containing also the hot water tank, loft access and a family bathroom with a spa bath, separate shower and WC. Adjacent to the main door, a covered decked terrace which is currently used as a outside dining area with a built in barbecue and a hot tub.

An extensive range of traditional buildings surrounding the concrete farmyard, being stone built under slate roofs and currently providing 16 stables/loose boxes of varied sizes being well laid out with a mixture of cobbled/concrete floors, together with a tack room, workshop and further storage areas with a loft space throughout for storage.
The land is principally to the south east side of the farmhouse and comprises four enclosures of pasture land as can be seen on the farm plan, outlined in blue.

An exciting opportunity for purchasers to acquire 12.3 acres of land in total including a stable barn, horse walker and sand school/arena, together with a single storey barn, proving an opportunity subject to confirmation of planning to establish a dwelling with a footprint of 190 metres squared approximately.
The proposal is to acquire permission to convert to a four bedroom dwelling with lounge, kitchen and bathroom, further details available from the agent. Nearby the facilities include four bay steel portal frame barn under a fibre cement roof, currently accommodating ten loose boxes and a tack room, either side of a central concrete passage, horse walker and sand school arena, together with two fields of permanent pasture grass land. Access is via the farm drive with a concrete road forming a large part of the entrance way.

In addition, there are two bio mass boilers located on this part of the property, one currently providing the heating for the house and cottage and the second one has in recent years been used as a log drying facility. Lot 2 outlined in red on the plan.

Located to the west side of the farm yard, the steel portal framed building being 75ft x 60ft with adjoining cattle shed, 113ft x 40ft permission has been granted on 6th November 2024 under the Town & Country Planning (general permitted development) (England) Order 2015, schedule 2 part 3 class Q, for change of use of agricultural building to four dwellings (Class Qa)(B), the plans provide for four units of two bedroom accommodation and offer the opportunity subject to consent to amend this to a smaller number of larger units.

Further details from the agent are available and the land adjoining the building provides an excellent opportunity for a range of recreational uses. Lot 3 is outlined in green on the plan.

The farm land comprises two principal blocks, the first being a 62.4 acre block of productive pasture land, mainly level, situated to the north of Stitchpool Farmhouse & yards, with excellent council road access as well as excellent access from the farmyard area. The fields are conveniently sized enclosures with traditional hedge and bank boundaries and shown outlined in orange on the attached plan. Lot 4 is outline in orange.

A further separate block of land situated on the east side of the council road comprises 39.5 acres in total, being permanent pasture land with traditional boundaries and excellent road access. Lot 5 is outlined in black.
General remarks
Tenure and possession
The property is offered for sale by private treaty with the benefit of vacant possession upon completion, subject to any rights of holdover which may be required.

Services
Mains electricity, septic tank drainage to the farmhouse and holiday cottage. Heating of the farmhouse and cottage currently from the biomass boiler, situated within Lot 2 but if separated there is already in place an oil fired central heating system situated adjacent to the cottage. A borehole water supply with a well/spring supply in addition, operated on a pressure system with a uv filter situated at the holiday cottage.

Rights of Way, Easements, Wayleaves etc
It is not known that there are any public footpaths or access over the property but the property is offered and as far as required by the vendors will be conveyed subject to all other rights of way, easements, wayleaves, privileges and advantages whether specifically referred to in these particulars of sale or not.

Outgoings and Other Information
The council tax on the farmhouse is band B and on the holiday cottage is band B.

Local Authorities
North Devon District Council, Barnstaple, North Devon EX32 2GR