Listed for £475,000
October 15, 2024
Sold for £182,000
2007
Sold for £90,000
2003
Sold for £56,000
1998
Dating back to the Georgian era, Melbourne House is a stunning THREE bedroom family home, spread over three floors. This partially Grade 2 listed family home has been extended over the years to provide ample and adaptable accommodation.
Viewers are greeted with the breath taking frontage of the property, benefitting from a modern glass room with log burner to use throughout the 12 months of the year. There is enormous potential to further adapt to create an annexe if required.
The accommodation offers a feature entrance hall with spindle balustrade stairwell leading to all floors, dual aspect sitting room with log burner and original cornicing, dining room and extended kitchen area with French doors to the glass room and modern fitted kitchen with integrated appliances.
The glass room with its stunning log burner provides a tranquil rest or entertaining area, with doors leading to a utility/playroom, and a double garage/workshop with a staircase leading to a generous hobbies/playroom.
The first floor accommodation provides access to bedroom one with its walk-in wardrobe and the beautiful shower room, worthy of a luxury hotel.
The second floor landing provides storage cupboards and doors leading to bedroom two, with feature original beams, and bedroom three offering a skylight as an added extra feature.
Outside, the grounds speak for themselves, with a security gate entrance and walled boundary providing access to the large drive for numerous vehicles. Landscaped garden with level grounds ideal for children playing and entertaining, leading up to the glass room which opens right up for the summer months or enclosed & cosy with the log burner in the winter.
The property is located on Melbourne Street only a minutes walk to local shops and schools or the town centre while the North Devon link road provides access to the M5 and Parkway mainline station to London Paddington or Reading for the Elizabeth Line.
Entrance Hall - Greeted with boxed eaves and round-headed doorways that have rusticated quoins, the large double glazed entrance door with arch window above and solid Oakwood flooring with spindle balustrade stairwell leading to all floors, consumer box and glass panelled doors leading to.
Sitting Room - A wonderful dual aspect light and airy living space that is well presented and spacious with two feature radiators and sash windows with secondary glazing to side and front aspects, stunning cast iron log burner fireplace with granite hearth and mantle surround, t.v. and telephone point, original feature architraves with flat ceiling and circular light pendant architrave in keeping with the cornicing enjoying the views out and over the front garden.
Dining Room - Continuing with solid oakwood flooring, radiator, coving, inset spotlighting with doorway leading through to.
Extended Kitchen Area - Continuing with the same kitchen fittings to offer an element of kitchen extension offering a range of cupboards and drawers with inset LED kickboard spotlighting and roll top work surfaces over with matching high rise upturn, mirrored USB Plug sockets, spotlight fixing, feature radiator with laminate flooring and uPVC French doors leading out into the stunning glass room and doorway leading through to.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room - Kitchen breakfast room
A modern well fitted kitchen offering a wide range of cupboards and drawers under a roll top worksurface with matching upturn and Adobe one and a half square bowl sink unit with mixer tap over, integrated appliances including a fridge/freezer, dishwasher, Neff double oven. Matching eye level cupboard with under lighting, built in four ring Neff electric induction hob with stainless steel splashback and matching chimney style cooker hood above, inset spotlighting and further spotlight fixing with glass fronted display unit and t.v. point. Double glazed sash window looking out to front aspect into the glass room and garden.
Glass Room - A stunning eye catching addition used throughout the whole year benefitting from eight large tinted sliding glass doors that opens along the front and side to the maximum width. Complimented with matching glass roof benefiting from a stunning cast iron log burner fireplace and tiled flooring looking out onto the stunning frontage with doors leading to.
Utility Room/Play Room - Commonly used as a utility/playroom featuring an orangery glass roof offering a radiator and double glazed windows, over looking into the garage with the range of cupboards and work surface offering a built in stainless steel sink unit with mixer tap, matching upturn, cupboard. t.v. point, USB plug socket points, uPVC double glazed window to side aspect and spotlight, further centre island/breakfast bar with cupboards under and radiator and door leading to. This room offers the potential to create a second kitchen area if an annexe is required in the future.
Cloakroom - Offering a close coupled low level w.c. with radiator and inset spotlighting with laminate flooring.
Double Garage/Workshop - Offering a generous double garage/workshop space built approximately in 2009 with an electric roller door to front aspect and insulated roof space with double glazed window to side aspect, light and power, further window looking into the utility/play room with door and stairs leading to.
Play/Hobbies Room - A generous dual aspect room offering enormous potential to incorporate into the main accommodation if required that could potentially be used as an annex or bedroom if required, fitted with two velux windows to side aspect and double glaze window to front and rear aspects, radiator, and inset spotlighting.
First Floor Landing - Offering a spindle balustrade stairwell leading to the second floor with sash window and secondary glazing to front aspect, overlooking the front garden with radiator and doors leading to.
Bedroom One - A dual aspect double bedroom offering two large sash windows to front and side aspects with secondary glazing, two built in drawer units and walk in bifold door wardrobe with sensor lighting and radiator.
Family Shower Room - Offering a high end quality eye catching shower room recently refitted benefitting from an extra large walk in shower cubicle with glass screen and rain head with further attachment. Low level w.c. with hidden cistern and wash hand basin set on a vanity storage unit with cupboards, chrome electric radiator, inset spotlighting, foot warming underfloor heating, sash window with secondary glazing to front aspect, fully tiled throughout from floor to ceiling.
Second Floor Landing - Continuing with the spindle balustrade stairwell leading to the second floor landing with louvre door built in storage cupboards, velux window to front aspect offering partial views in the distant with doors and step up to.
Bedroom Two - A dual aspect double bedroom offering a velux window to front aspect, and upvc Georgian style sash window to side aspect with feature original beam.
Bedroom Three - A double bedroom offering radiator and Velux window to side aspect, feature skylight window and original feature beams add to the character of the property.
External - A real feature offering stunning kerb appeal from the moment you enter the grounds with its electric entry gate leading onto a large block paved drive area for numerous vehicles providing off road parking and level lawned and astro turf garden areas with feature seating area to look back at the property, secure with walled boundary and secure entry gate for the conscious security minded home owner. The drive continues leading upto the garage and front door entry offering a low maintenance frontage area that is perfect for entertaining or children playing within a safe and secure space.
AGENTS NOTE OF DISCLOSURE - Buyers must be aware there is a small strip of land located along the boundary wall of the entrance drive that is on license to use for the current owners to use as their own drive area. Any new owners will be required to apply for a new license
Disclosure - Licensed Area Of Drive - THIS LICENCE is made the 19th March 2007
BETWEEN LOWMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY LIMITED
of The Island Lowman Green Tiverton Devon (hereinafter called "the Company") of the one part and Property Owner and Property Owner both of 69 Melbourne
Street Tiverton Devon (hereinafter called "the Licensees") of the other part
WHEREAS
1. The Company is the estate owner in respect of the fee simple absolute in possession of the land coloured green on the plan annexed hereto (hereinafter called "the Green Land") free from encumbrances
2. The Company has agreed with the Licensees that the Licensees may enter upon the Yellow Land upon the terms and conditions hereinafter contained
NOW THIS DEED WITNESSETH as follows:-
1. THE Company hereby granted to the Licensees licence and permission for themselves and the members of their immediate family residing at 69 Melbourne Street and their servants agents workmen and contractors and other invitees in common with the Company
and all others having the like right to enter upon the Green Land in order to:-
(i) maintain it as garden
(ii) keep it tidy and free of weeds
(iii) to drive over it in order to park a car in a garage located on the licencee's
property
PROVIDED THAT the Licensees should satisfy themselves as to the safety of the said garage and shall be responsible for any damage caused to persons or property arising out of such use and shall fully indemnify the Licensor against all costs claims and liabilities arising out of such use
but not for any other purpose whatsoever
2. IT IS HEREBY AGREED AND DECLARED that the rights hereby granted shall not be severable but shall be enjoyed only so long as 69 Melbourne Street shall be occupied as one tenement and that the Company or its successors in title shall be restricted from using the Green Land in any manner they choose and from terminating this Licence at any time on four weeks written notice
3. THE Licensees shall not make any objections to a planning permission that may be sought by the Company in respect of the Green Land and the Licensees hereby confirm their agreement to any such application in advance
4. THIS Licence is personal to the Licensees and is not assignable
5. THE Licensees hereby covenant with the Company to:-
(i) make good any damage caused to the Green Land arising out of the exercise of the Licence hereby granted and to indemnify and keep indemnified the Company from any claims arising out of the exercise of such Licence
(i) not to interfere with or block the gates between Melbourne Street and the Green Land
6. TO the extent permitted by law the Licensees and their invites shall not have any claim against the Company arising out of the exercise of the Licence hereby granted and the Licensees shall hereby indemnify the Company against any claims made against it by an
invitee of the Licensees arising out of the exercise of the Licence hereby granted
7. THIS Licence is terminable by four weeks written notice given by either party to the other
IN WITNESS whereof the parties hereto have hereunto set their hands the day and year first before written
SIGNED by THE SELLER AND THE SELLER
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Agents Note - We understand from the seller that half of the property is a grade 2 listed building up to the the external down pipe. Extensions over the years were subject to accepted planning and building consent and fall outside the grade 2 listed area. Further information is available from the agent if required. Planning and building consents and construction dated 2009. The extensions provide potential to create a large self contained annexe if required. (subject to further building consent).
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