Dart Cottage, Postbridge, Devon, PL20 6TJ

£345,000 Duchy Leasehold

• A detached stone cottage close to amenities and open moorland •

• Approximately 0.75 acre of garden and paddock • Entrance hall • Pantry • Boot room •

• Dining room • Study • Sitting room • Breakfast room • Kitchen with Aga • Family bathroom •

• Master bedroom with ensuite wash/dressing room • Three further bedrooms • Drying room •

• Large garage and parking • Attractive gardens • Moorland view • Woodshed/oil store •

The Property

Dart Cottage is a character detached granite built

home beneath a slate roof. It is well presented and

has good natural light with four receptions plus a

study, a kitchen with an oil fired Aga and plenty of

additional useful spaces like the pantry, boot room

and drying room. There is a smart family bathroom

upstairs, an ensuite wash room adjoining the master

bedroom and three other bedrooms comprising two

doubles and a single room. The cottage is centrally

heated by oil to radiators and has two woodburning

stoves, one in the sitting room and one in the lounge.

Outside is a large granite built garage, a wood and oil

store, a pound and a paddock. The gardens are

attractive and enjoy a view to the moor up towards

Bellever. NOTE - this property is a Duchy Leasehold.

Please read the guidance notes for an explanation of

this type of tenure.

Situation

Located in Postbridge in the middle of Dartmoor,

Dart Cottage is just yards from the local pub, village

shop and the open moor. The East Dart river is close

by with its granite hump back bridge and the ancient

clapper bridge. The ancient stannary town of

Chagford is about 7 miles away where there is a wide

variety of day to day and specialist shops. Tavistock

is about 10 miles and Exeter is approximately 18

miles. From Postbridge children would be bused to

Widecombe Primary School or Ashburton

Community College for senior schooling.

Entrance

A gated entrance at the side of the property leads to

a small cobbled yard with access to both the garage

and to the front door. The front door is a painted

timber stable door with a leaded glass upper panel.

Entrance Hall

A bright entrance hall with a staircase to the first

floor with painted balusters, a useful understairs

cupboard and a separate cloaks cupboard. There is a

single panel radiator, a fitted spotlight cluster, a

telephone point and painted granite walls.

W.C.

Fitted with a low level w.c., three fully tiled walls, a

window to the rear, a basin set into a vanity unit with

tiled splashbacks and a wall light point above.

Boot Room 8' 2'' x 8' 0'' (2.49m x 2.44m)

With its own door to the exterior, the boot room has

a built in store cupboard, a recess for boots and

storage and a single panel radiator.

Pantry

Set just to one side of the hall with a part glazed door,

a fly screen window to the exterior and fitted

shelving.

Recreation Room 11' 10'' x 0' 0'' (3.60m x 0.00m)

A south west facing room with a double glazed sash

window looking over the garden and paddock

towards the clapper bridge. There is a T.V. point, a

single panel radiator and a part glazed sliding door

into the study.

Study 11' 4'' x 8' 4'' (3.45m x 2.54m)

The study has a double glazed sash window looking

out to the garden with a porthole window to the side.

It has fitted wainscotting, two wall light points, a

single panel radiator and fitted shelving. Broadband

comes into the room.

Sitting room 17' 1'' x 12' 1'' (5.20m x 3.68m)

A bright room with a double glazed door and a

separate window looking out to the garden and a

large recessed granite fireplace with a slate hearth

and granite bressemer and a fitted woodburning

stove. A window pelmet is fitted, coving, a T.V. point,

a double panel radiator and a ceiling mounted

spotlight cluster.

Breakfast/dining room 12' 0'' x 12' 11'' (3.65m x

3.93m)

A door leads from the hall into the breakfast room

which has a further doorway to the kitchen. The

breakfast room has been fitted witha range of base

and wall cabinets and work surfaces and could easily

be converted to a kitchen by installing a Rayburn

range to docentral heating, cooking and hot water.

Presently the oil fired central heating boiler is set into

the chimney breast and concealed by a pair of

louvered doors. There are four ceiling downlighters,

a double glazed sash window looking to the front,

coving and a double panel radiator.

Kitchen 12' 1'' x 6' 10'' (3.68m x 2.08m)

The kitchen has a window to the side and to the front

of the property which allow in plenty of natural light.

An oil fired Aga is fitted and a range of base units with

oak work surfaces and tiled splashbacks. There is

space for a fridge and a fitted ceramic sink with a

chromed mixer tap. Plumbing is fitted and there is

space for an automatic washing machine, the ceiling

is coved, the floor is laid with vinyl, there are two

downlighters and there is a built in tiled store

cupboard. This room could become a scullery if the

breakfast room were converted to the kitchen.

First floor landing

A bright split level landing with a large east facing

window to the side of the property. The balustrade

is painted with stained wood handrails and there is a

pendant light, wall light point, stripped doors and a

single panel radiator. To one end of the landing

there is a walk in drying cupboard with hot water

pipes and a concealed hot water cylinder with

immersion heater.

Bedroom 2 12' 0'' x 10' 2'' (3.65m x 3.10m)

This south west facing bedroom has a double glazed

sash window looking out over the garden and

towards the clapper bridge at the bottom of the

paddock. There is a shelved recess, a decorative

frieze, a door to the dressing room and a single panel

radiator.

Dressing room 8' 5'' x 9' 8'' (2.56m x 2.94m)

This room has a double glazed sash window looking

out over the garden. It has a basin set into a tiled

vanity top with tiled splashbacks and a mirror and

light fitting above. Wardrobes are built in with

hanging space, shelving and drawers.

Bedroom 1 15' 5'' x 12' 0'' (4.70m x 3.65m)

An attractive bedroom with both a porthole and a

double glazed sash window looking towards the

south west over the garden towards the clapper

bridge. There are two built in wardrobes to either

side of the chimney breast, a decorative frieze and a

double panel radiator.

Bedroom 3 13' 2'' x 12' 1'' (4.01m x 3.68m)

A double glazed sash window looks to the front of the

property, there are two ceiling mounted

downlighters, a single panel radiator, access to the

loft space and a door leading through to bedroom

4/dressing room.

Bedroom 4/dressing room 12' 0'' x 7' 1'' (3.65m x

2.16m)

A door leads from this room out to the landing and

the room has a window overlooking the cobbled

yard, a pendant light and a single panel radiator.

Bathroom

A bright room with a broad obscure glazed window

and fitted extractor fans. There is a pressed steel

bath in white with a fully tiled surround, side panel

and walls and a fitted mixer/shower tap. A pedestal

wash hand basin is fitted and a low level w.c., there

are picture rails, coving and a single panel radiator.

Exterior

Entrance

Metal gates lead into the cobbled yard on the east

side of the property where the front door is located,

the sliding door to the garage and also a gate set into

the wall which leads through to the garden.

Garden

Set on the south east and south west sides of the

property, the garden is laid out with paved and crazy

paved patios, gravelled paths with wood bounded

flower borders and shrubberies and raised vegetable

and fruit beds. There are two lawns, one of which is

framed by low stone walls on the south west of the

property from where there is a view across the

paddock to the clapper bridge and the moor beyond.

Garage 22' 8'' x 11' 7'' (6.90m x 3.53m)

The garage has wooden sliding doors and is granite

built with a corrugated roof and concrete floor.

Power and light is fitted.

Wood/oil store 13' 4'' x 11' 2'' (4.06m x 3.40m)

This useful storage area is constructed of a mixture

of wood and corrugated metal and conceals the large

oil storage tank and has plenty of space for firewood.

A large door open onto the lane at the side of the

property for ease of access and the shed is open

fronted into the garden. Currently sited in the

garden are some dog pens and a pound, as the

present owner is a breeder and trainer.

The paddock

Extending to approximately ⅓ acre, the paddock is

laid to pasture and stock fenced and has a gentle

gradient which leads down to the banks of the East

Dart river.

Parking

Along the lane at the side of Dart Cottage is an

opening with parking for approximately three

vehicles. A gated access leads from the parking into

the paddock and pound.

Tenure

40 years remaining on the lease.

Rent

The current annual rent is £3,000.

Services

Mains electricity, private water and drainage.

Council Tax Band

F

Directions

Dart Cottage is located at grid reference 648779.

From Fowlers go to the top of the Square and turn

left. Take the first right into New Street and follow

the road/lane for 2½ miles to the B3212 at Beetor

Cross. Turn right and drive along the B3212 onto the

moor staying on this road into Postbridge. Once in

Postbridge, look out for the East Dart Hotel and pub.

Dart Cottage is just past it on the left.

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