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A wonderful former vicarage and chapel set amongst glorious gardens in a peaceful village in Devon

Built in 1850, East Grange was — in a former life — the vicarage and chapel for the small village of West Hill, in which it is located. The past 40 years have seen it used as a private family home and it now seeks a new owner to revel in all that this historic property has to offer.

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Striking for its former chapel with fanlight, cross final and turret, West Hill’s East Grange makes up the larger part of a vicarage designed in 1850 by the Revd George Buchanan Wollaston, a botanist, plantsman, watercolourist and architect who was articled to Auguste-Charles Pugin.

The property is currently on the market via Humberts at a guide price of £1.175 million.

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Just south-west of Ottery St Mary, Wollaston also designed the Church of St Michael the Archangel at West Hill.

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Now wisteria-clad and secluded, accessed via a meandering drive, four-bedroom East Grange enjoys views over lawns, well-stocked beds, a striking magnolia tree, apple and plum orchard, outdoor pool and separate studio/office.

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East Grange is currently on the market via Humberts at a guide price of £1.175 million — see more pictures, or enquire with the agent for further details. 

West Hill: What you need to know

Location: 8 miles East of Exeter and 10 miles West of Honiton in Devon. Ottery St Mary is just two miles away

Atmosphere: The quiet, rural village is home to a village store with an in-house butchers and a car garage. Neighbouring Ottery St Mary is home to a number of independent shops and restaurants, including a vintage shop, hardware store, book shop and gift shop, amongst others.

Things to do: Head to the coast to take in the best of the South West coastline. Sidmouth is approximately 6.4 miles away and is a great starting point from which to explore — either by land or sea. The Cathedral city of Exeter is also close by, home to numerous restaurants, pubs, theatre and shops.

Schools: Ottery St Mary Primary School is rated 'good' by Ofsted, whilst West Hill Primary School and The King's School are both rated 'outstanding.'

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Annunciata Elwes
Annunciata Elwes

Annunciata grew up in the wilds of Lancashire and now lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and an awful pug called Parsley. She’s been floating round the Country Life office for more than a decade, her work winning the Property Magazine of the Year Award in 2022 (Property Press Awards). Before that, she had a two-year stint writing ‘all kinds of fiction’ for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, worked in internal comms for Country Life’s publisher (which has had many names in recent years but was then called IPC Media), and spent another year researching for a historical biographer, whose then primary focus was Graham Greene and John Henry Newman and whose filing system was a collection of wardrobes and chests of drawers filled with torn scraps of paper. During this time, she regularly gave tours of 17th-century Milton Manor, Oxfordshire, which may or may not have been designed by Inigo Jones, and co-founded a literary, art and music festival, at which Johnny Flynn headlined. When not writing and editing for Country Life, Annunciata is also a director of TIN MAN ART, a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 by her husband, James Elwes.

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