Broadclose Road, Barnstaple, EX31 2DN

** Open House for Saturday 26th September between 10am - 12pm ( by appointment only) **  A much-loved detached three-bedroom family home, offered for sale for the first time in over 30 years, with generous gardens, two garages and huge potential to modernise, remodel or extend (STP). A rare chance to create something special and make it completely your own.

There is a particular appeal to a house that has been happily lived in for decades and has never been subjected to somebody else’s idea of a fashionable makeover.

This detached three-bedroom home in Sticklepath has not been on the market for more than 30 years and, while it is now ready for its next chapter, that is precisely what makes it so appealing.

Behind the traditional exterior is a surprisingly generous family home with three separate reception rooms, a kitchen/diner, three double bedrooms, two garages, gardens, parking and plenty of scope to rethink, remodel and potentially extend, subject of course to the necessary consents.

In other words, this is not a house where you are paying a premium for somebody else’s grey kitchen, fashionable taps and carefully chosen floor tiles.

It is a house you can make your own.

The ground floor already offers an excellent amount of living space. There are three reception rooms, giving you the luxury of being able to create distinct spaces for everyday family life: perhaps a generous sitting room, a proper dining room and a snug, playroom or home office.

The kitchen/diner sits at the heart of the house and, alongside the attached garage and ground-floor shower room, provides some obvious possibilities for anyone thinking more ambitiously about opening up the layout.

Depending on your plans and budget, there is potential to open spaces up, reconfigure the existing accommodation or explore extending the house to create the sort of large, sociable kitchen/family space that has become such an important part of modern family living.

Upstairs, there are three genuine double bedrooms rather than two doubles and the inevitable box room. One bedroom also has the unusual bonus of a walk-through dressing room, while a family bathroom and separate WC complete the first floor.

Outside, there is even more to work with. The gardens wrap around the house in different sections, including a side garden with pond and patio, a vegetable garden, greenhouse and a rear garden with workshop/potential garden room.

There is also a second detached garage, in addition to the garage attached to the house, while off-road parking at the front accommodates approximately two cars.

For anyone who enjoys gardening, tinkering, working from home, storing bikes, boats and surfboards or simply wants enough outside space that the family is not living on top of one another, there is a lot here to play with.

The house does require modernisation and refurbishment, but importantly it already has the ingredients that are much harder to add later: a superb location, a detached position, generous living rooms, three double bedrooms, two garages, and well-established gardens.

FINER DETAILS

- Detached three-bedroom house, three reception rooms, kitchen/diner, two garages, gardens and off-road parking

- In need of modernisation and refurbishment.

- No onward chain

- Council Tax: Band E

- EPC: Pending

- Traditional brick construction with a terracotta tiled main roof and flat roof to the attached garage

- Gas central heating & double glazing

- Mains gas, electricity, water and drainage

- Ultrafast fibre broadband available in the area

- Ofcom indicates ‘Good’ mobile coverage with most major providers

- Off-road parking for approximately two vehicles

- Attached garage plus separate detached garage measuring approximately 6.88m x 3.00m

- Garden shed, greenhouse and workshop/garden room

Viewings: Strictly by appointment with the sole selling agent, Nic Chbat, of Match Property Estate agents (Part of the Match Property Group).

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