This Grade II listed Somerset longhouse and farmhouse is constructed of brick elevations under a slate tiled roof. Period features include traditional flagstone floors, inglenook fireplaces and various casement windows with seats.
Principal reception rooms include the more formal drawing room and dining room while the sitting room provides more informal family space and catches the afternoon sun. The kitchen/breakfast room is the heart of the house and contains an inglenook in the breakfast area; from here the back staircase leads up to the master bedroom.
Upstairs there are four first floor bedrooms in total including the guest suite and two further double bedrooms.
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Outside are just under nine acres of formal and informal gardens with paddocks and pasture surrounding them. Gardens include landscaped outdoor ‘rooms' filled with flowers and a barbecue area.
The house is located in a secluded rural position near Lympsham, which offers a post office, village shop, parish church and cricket and tennis clubs.
The guide price is £895,000. For further information please contact Savills on 0117 933 5803 or visit www.savills.co.uk.
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