4 bed terraced house for sale

The Glebelands, Moretonhampstead TQ13

Chain free – Far reaching countryside views from this spacious 3/4 bedroom, 3 bathroom (2 en suite) town house located in a quiet setting in a popular Dartmoor town. Well-proportioned rooms throughout, south facing courtyard garden, parking & garage.

Situation

The Glebelands is a small and relatively modern development set on a quiet no-through road in the moorland town of Moretonhampstead, a picturesque and popular town surrounded by spectacular countryside set within Dartmoor National Park. The town is conveniently only 15 miles (about 30 mins drive) from the county capital of Exeter. This thriving town has all the amenities you could need on a daily basis including a Post Office, convenience stores, shops, pubs, restaurants and tea shops, doctors and dental surgeries, library and church. There is a primary school in the town with a ‘Good’ ofsted rating

Being located on the moor there is some excellent walking and other outdoor activities on your doorstep. The Wray Valley Trail provides a mostly off-road cycling and walking route all the way to Bovey Tracey through the idyllic village of Lustleigh. Other sporting facilities include sports centre and gym, bowls club and an open air swimming pool.

Moretonhampstead is well located for commuting to Exeter approximately 15 miles away, from where you can access the rest of the country via the M5 motorway. The A30 to Cornwall is approx. 6 miles to the north of the town. There is a regular local bus service to Exeter where there is a railway station on the mainline to London Paddington, around 2.5 hours distant. Exeter also has an airport with flights to national and international destinations.

Description

This spacious family town house has some wonderful southerly views over the Dartmoor countryside and forms part of The Glebelands, a small, quiet development built around 20 years ago on a no-through road. Moretonhampstead town centre is only a short, level walk away via a cut-through at the entrance to the development. The playing field and park at The Sentry are also easily accessed opposite the end of the cut-through.

Accommodation extends to a very generous 142 sqm/1,532 sqft over three floors with a flexible layout providing three or four double bedrooms over the top two floors, two of which have en suite shower rooms as well as a family bathroom. Reception accommodation comprises of an entrance hall, cloakroom/WC, spacious kitchen which is partially open to the living room with plenty of space for both sitting and dining room furniture. There is a further sitting room on the first floor which can alternatively be used as fourth double bedroom.

The large garden room is off the living room providing additional reception space and which opens to the enclosed south facing courtyard garden. There is a parking space immediately to the front of the property as well as a good sized single garage with a further parking space in front. Further space is available for visitors to park on the road.

Being a modern home with high levels of insulation, gas central heating and double glazing throughout, the house is energy efficient scoring an impressive EPC rating of C, helping to keep energy bills down.

Accommodation

The front door is sheltered by a storm porch and opens to the welcoming entrance hall where there is a useful under stairs cupboard and a cloakroom/WC. Doors open to both the kitchen and to the living room. Oak effect flooring extends throughout the hall and into the kitchen which has a comprehensive range of floor and wall mounted storage units with stone worksurfaces and tiled splashbacks, incorporating a one and a half bowl stainless steel sink and mixer tap, a four burner mains gas hob, electric fan oven and grill with extractor over, and an integrated dishwasher. There is a freestanding under counter washing machine and an upright free standing fridge/freezer which will also be included.

The kitchen is partially open to the living room where there is plenty of space to function as both a sitting and dining room creating a social, modern family space. A window and French doors look through and open to the garden room conservatory providing useful additional reception space with room for garden furniture. French doors open to the courtyard garden.

Stairs rise from the hallway to the first floor landing with an airing cupboard, off which is the sitting room which could alternatively be utilised as a fourth double bedroom. From here there are some lovely southerly views over the Dartmoor countryside. A stone inset fireplace with gas coal effect fire and wooden surround and mantel creates a warming focal point. Bedroom three is on this level, a double bedroom with a view from the window to the front, and a built-in wardrobe. The fully tiled family bathroom has a white suite with chrome fittings comprising of a bath, wash basin and WC plus a heated towel rail.

Stairs rise from the landing to the second floor where there are two further generous double bedrooms. A hatch from the landing with a pull down ladder accesses the fully boarded loft space with a light, which provides useful storage. The en suite main bedroom has two dormer windows to the front and a bank of fitted wardrobes providing storage. A door opens to the en suite shower room with a corner shower, wash basin, WC and heated towel rail. With some wonderful far reaching elevated views through the dormer window bedroom two also has built-in wardrobes and an en suite with shower, wash basin, WC and heated towel rail.

Outside

There is a brick paved parking space immediately to the front of the property with a further parking space in front of the large single garage which is at the end of a block of three, giving three parking spaces in total. There is further space for visitors to park on the road. To the rear of the house is a south facing paved courtyard garden fully enclosed by wooden close board fencing with a mature Wisteria trained along one side. Due to the staggered layout of the neighbouring properties, and with no houses immediately behind, the garden offers a very good degree of privacy.

Tenure: Freehold

Council Tax: Council Tax band D Approx £2,513 Per Annum

Services: Mains water, drainage, gas, and electricity. Private drainage. Gas central heating.

Broadband: Standard and superfast broadband speeds are available in the area but please confirm with your preferred provider.

Flood Risk: Rivers & Seas – Very Low, Surface Water – Very Low

Local Authority: Teignbridge District Council, Forde House, Brunel Rd, Newton Abbot TQ12 4XX, .

Agents Note: Some images incorporate virtual staging to give an idea of how the room could look furnished.

Viewings: Strictly by appointment with the selling agent: James Taylor – The Agency UK Teignbridge