5 Bed Detached House For Sale

Needing room for a big family? This spacious period home needs some improvements but is brimming with character and offers generous room sizes and lovely high ceilings over three floors, alongside plenty of parking and a safe garden, all tucked away at the top of a no-through lane.

The Property - Greystones has a real feeling of grandeur from the moment you enter. Whilst little is known about the history of the house, it is believed to have been one of the first homes built in Shyners Lane with a terrace of Victorian cottages added to the rear sometime later. It was clearly the 19th century home of someone of good status within the village, with its granite and marble tiles, fireplaces, mullioned leaded windows and art nouveau details making it the perfect home for buyers who love a bit of character. The proportions are grander than many of the smaller Victorian cottages we see in this area, with exceptionally good ceiling heights throughout and accommodation that is adaptable for the modern family with plenty of room for everyone to find their own personal space.

On the ground floor you enter through a glazed front door typical of the era, with tall glazed leaded top light and mullioned side window letting in more natural light to the hall. The original marble chequerboard flooring is still in situ and staircase (the first of two) leads up to the first floor and beyond. Under the stairs is a useful cupboard for coats and shoes, whilst a dado and picture rails add to the period feel. To one side is a good size sitting room, very traditional in its feel with a large ornate fireplace of the period.

Both this room and the adjacent dining room / study have their original ceiling roses too, whilst the floor of the sitting room boasts its original parquet wood flooring. Across the hall, the current vendors use the next reception room as a family room or second living room but it is perfectly well proportioned to use as a formal dining room. This room is graced by an original black marble fireplace and pretty period cornice. To one corner a former doorway with pretty leaded light now provides extra light as a window.

The inner hall runs across the rear of the house and has an air of “upstairs downstairs” with a little serving hatch to the middle reception room and a practical quarry tiled floor. A small step leads up to a handy downstairs cloakroom, again with a period feel by way of a traditional high level WC and a wash hand basin just outside. Two more small steps lead up to the breakfast room, large enough to dine in. An open fireplace has a timber mantelshelf and hamstone lintel and like all the reception rooms it overlooks the garden. A door opens into the kitchen fitted with a range of white modern units and worktops incorporating a one and a half bowl single drainer composite sink, finished with black and white metro tiling. There is an integrated slimline dishwasher. As was often the case in the grander period homes, a second more lowly staircase leads up from the kitchen to the second floor and underneath is another useful under stairs cupboard.

Adjoining the kitchen is a super walk-in larder / pantry with mullion window to the front and plenty of room for both fridges and freezers as well as room for extra shelving for all your dry goods and tins.

Beyond the second stairs a further door opens into a convenient loggia, an open faced room leading to the garden with hamstone walls, timber beams and a polycarbonate roof. This is used as a utility area currently, with space and plumbing in two areas for washing machines etc.

Retracing your steps to the main hall, and the grander of the two staircases takes you to the initial first floor landing. A large master bedroom enjoys a double aspect with views over the village. Another cast iron period fireplace makes a nice focal point. Adjacent is a bathroom with further mullion leaded window and heritage style suite including wash hand basin and freestanding claw foot bath with shower handset over and Victorian style towel rail / radiator. Simple tiling adds to the period look. The second bedroom also has a pretty cast iron fireplace. Continuing along the first floor the Inner landing has a separate WC with heritage style low level WC and wash hand basin and even a view across the village. A couple of steps lead up to another section of landing with a useful separate shower room. On this landing are two further good size bedrooms – both would take double beds or would be generous singles for a child. A door opens to the top of the second staircase leading down to the kitchen.

The second floor is accessed via an original staircase from the main landing and was no doubt part of the original accommodation perhaps as a nursery and luggage room as was often the case during the 19th century. The second floor currently offers a generous bedroom with further mullion window to the front and ample access to under eaves storage, boarded for those things such as Christmas decorations and suitcases. Adjacent is a very useful walk in store, which despite the sloping ceilings has reasonable head height and with the necessary consents to install a velux window or similar, would make a lovely extra bathroom, shower room or single bedroom / office.

Outside - The property is approached over a historic vehicular right of way running along the front of Shyners Terrace and culminating effectively in a dead-end at Greystones, creating no passing cars. It therefore enjoys a quiet position well away from any traffic and very safe for younger family members. The old lane becomes a footpath beyond Greystones. The tarmac driveway provides lots of parking and the current owners have added a further turning area / parking space.

There is a timber store to one side, abutting the north end of the house with plenty of room for bikes and garden machinery. There is also an outside tap. The garden is not large in comparison to the size of the house, but there is plenty of potential for keen gardeners to make more of it, whilst younger families will appreciate the safe lawn and the option to make it fully enclosed by shutting the wide double gates at the mouth of the drive. Older families and those with busy lifestyles will like the fact there is very little to maintain.

Situation - Merriott village has an excellent range of local services including a garage, a petrol station, two stores, a post office, pub, a pharmacy (which will collect prescriptions and deliver medicines), and a pottery. There is a church, a chapel, and a village hall, tithe barn and social club which are all host to a wide range of activities. There is also a recreation ground with junior and senior play areas, cricket and football pitches, tennis courts and a bowling green, separate squash club and court. The village also has its own pre-school and primary school. Merriott has excellent road links to both the A303 and A30, both of which lie within a short drive. The nearby town of Crewkerne has a main-line station (London-Waterloo) and Waitrose supermarket among other local facilities.

Services - Mains gas (central heating via combination boiler), mains drainage and water, mains electricity.

Broadband - Ultrafast broadband is available.
Mobile phone coverage - Network coverage is good both indoors and outdoors.
(Information from

Local Authority
Somerset Council

Tenure
Freehold

Council Tax
Band E

Property Information - The former coach house is now a separate dwelling accessed via Glebelands, the cul de sac behind and the visible doors beneath the coach house are merely a facade and do not provide any access across this property.
The property is NOT a listed building, it is however located within a conservation area.
We are aware of remedial works required to the property. Please ask the office for information prior to making an appointment to view.