4 Bed Detached House For Sale

Nestled by the roadside within the small moorland community of Poundsgate, The Old Post Office is surrounded by the beautiful and dramatic landscape of Dartmoor National Park. There is stunning riding, walking and cycling country on the doorstep yet the location is by no means remote and is just a short ten minute drive of Ashburton and the A38 for Plymouth, Exeter and the motorway link beyond.

Poundsgate has a traditional pub, The Tavistock Inn, which is just a few hundred yards along the road and a bus service runs to the primary school at nearby Widecombe where there is a church, two pubs and cafes/tea rooms.

Ashburton provides a great range of everyday shops such as a post office, butchers, delicatessen, bakers, fish deli, iron mongers, Co-op and Spar stores. It also has a choice of schools and many clubs and societies plus well supported community arts centre. The larger towns of Totnes and Newton Abbot are each around a thirty minute drive and have comprehensive shopping centres and mainline railway stations to London Paddington.

Believed to probably date back around two centuries, though not listed, The Old Post Office is a traditional granite and thatch Devon cottage. As the name suggests the property is understood to have originally housed the village post office as well as the telephone exchange and bakery.

The accommodation has been upgraded to a high standard and features oak flooring, two traditional granite fireplaces with log burners, a stylish kitchen with sand blasted granite work tops, and oil fired central heating with a modern, efficient external boiler. There have been two recent extensions to the property which provide a useful utility/WC and a kitchen for the end wing.

At the far end of the cottage a separate entrance opens to 'The Bing' with a kitchen, reception room, WC, first floor bedroom and impressive bathroom. This has been used by the current owners as a holiday let/Airbnb and would be equally suitable for multi-generational living or can be incorporated with the accommodation of the main house.

Directly opposite the cottage there is an excellent former smithy building presented to a high standard and providing a useful office/hobbies area. Also on this side of the road is some 2.20 acres (as measured on pro-map) including a garden and paddocks, with stream, copse and modern timber stable block.


Council Tax Band: Band F at the time of preparing these sales particulars
Tenure: Freehold