Binford Lane, Lydeard St. Lawrence, Taunton, Somerset, TA4

A wonderfully situated country house, in the arts and crafts style, within beautifully timbered grounds with tennis court, pool and garden pavilion.

The charm and intrigue of the original arts and crafts cottage has been cleverly and greatly extended, now providing a most appealing country house where great thought and planning has been the theme throughout the creation of the present house. Standing proudly in its gardens and grounds of some five acres, all principal rooms enjoy views over the gardens and the first floor windows enjoy glimpses of the Quantock Hills. On first arriving at the property there is ample parking in a designated gravelled area adjacent to the entrance to the house.

The black terracotta floor within the entrance, together with plenty of coat hooks, provides a good boot room, which gives access to the cloakroom and study with underfloor heating, and a laundry which is well fitted with built in cupboards, open shelves and plumbing for washing machines. A particularly light and spacious kitchen is well fitted with panel fronted wall and floor mounted cabinets and a four-oven electric AGA set within a fireplace surround. There are good quality integrated appliances, a walk in pantry and a breakfast area with a crockery dresser and French doors into the garden. The dining room has a stripped pine floor, overlooks the gardens and has a cleverly designed door leading into the library corridor with a wall of bookcases and a secret intercommunicating door. The drawing room, with Sonos speakers, is arranged in two generous areas including a sitting area with a door into the ‘sewing room’. A more formal sitting area has a bay window with French doors out into the garden, a handsome original fireplace with herringbone brick surround, original pine floor and a door leading to the secondary staircase. A further door leads through to the original entrance hall with herringbone brick floor. A family room has a door into the rear lobby with a cloakroom with wc and wash basin. The turning staircase leads up to the first floor with a gallery landing with doors to the principal bedroom suite including a dressing room with extensive built in cupboards with comprehensive double hanging and full length hanging space with dressing mirrors, shoe drawers and drawer chests. The en suite bathroom is particularly spacious and well fitted with marble tiles and a freestanding rolltop bath with ball and claw feet and a ‘metre wide’ Water Monopoly (Lefroy Brooks taps), wash hand basin, wc and shower cubicle. The en suite and dressing room have underfloor heating. The master bedroom is attractively decorated and has a ‘Chesneys’ marble fireplace with an open grate, double aspect and a pine floor. A family bathroom has fired earth tiles around the panelled bath with shower, fired earth basin and wc and built in linen cupboard. There are two further bedrooms from this landing and the inner landing leads to a particularly spacious bedroom with French doors out onto a roof terrace, a further bedroom with generous under eaves storage cupboard and walk in cupboard and a further bedroom also having under eaves storage cupboards. A second family bathroom has wc, wash hand basin and a panelled bath.

Tax Band: F