4 Bedrooms Detached house for sale in East Street, Ilminster, Somerset TA19 | £ 375,000

Property Description

All the conveniences of town are right on your doorstep at this unique property. Along with superb garage facilities, the accommodation offers much more than meets the eye on every level.

The Property
Having evolved over many years, we'd describe this property somewhere between "loft-living" and "scandi-style" as it manages to blend all the best bits of modern living and rustic character. The use of wood gives you a sense of cosiness throughout, whilst the spacious and versatile layout is really centred by the open plan kitchen / living space on the middle level with its hard wearing timber effect flooring and central woodburner.

From the street, steps lead up past the first sun terrace to your left to the entrance, where a useful porch gives you somewhere to hang coats and also leads out to the rear garden. This leads into the central family room / dining space which is open plan to the kitchen / breakfast room and is a great sociable area with room not only for your dining table but a sofa or couple of comfy chairs. From here, steps lead up to the sitting room. This is a nice size, feeling spacious with its open vaulted ceiling and white painted beams helping to reflect light from the south facing window looking down on the attractive street scene from above. Double glazed French doors open to the garden via a steel walkway, whilst a timber spiral staircase leads down to a lovely double guest bedroom with en-suite shower room. Again, French doors open to a lower level of courtyard garden.

Back on the middle floor the kitchen / breakfast room is nicely fitted with modern birch fronted units including integrated gas hob and electric oven, whilst there is space for an upright fridge / freezer. Beyond the kitchen is a compact and useful utility area with plumbing for washing machine and outlet for tumble dryer, with door to a cloakroom giving you WC facilities on all levels of the property. There are two further rooms that could be bedrooms or extra reception rooms, whilst a staircase with understairs storage cupboard leads up to the top floor. Upstairs is a great master suite, which consists of a dressing area with plenty of built in wardrobe and storage space, as well as a cupboard housing the gas wall mounted boiler for central heating and hot water. Up here velux windows let light in from the east and west giving you plenty of daylight but lots of privacy too. To one side of the dressing area is a double bedroom with built-in wardrobe, whilst to the other side is another attractively fitted shower-room.

Outside
The gardens have a real Mediterranean feel being completely enclosed by brick and stone walls, sheltering the property from any northerly winds and giving an unusually private aspect for a property in such a central position. Keen gardeners will see the benefit of the sheltered niches. Indeed the garden is currently stocked with herbs, sun loving perennials and tree palms, indicative of the sunny aspect, whilst the lower shady areas close to the property would be ideal for pots of shade-loving plants. There's a very useful side access gate at street level, leading around to the back of the property, past an enclosed area behind the neighbouring outbuilding used as a log store and garden storage area. Throughout the rear garden, steps meander to different levels, including a raised deck that catches the evening sun and a top terrace where there is currently a lean-to potting shed but could be used as a fabulous area to sit and enjoy a drink, looking straight out over the attractive period rooftops of the town centre to Herne Hill and the surrounding countryside. Here, at the very top of the garden is a pedestrian gate to a shared footpath that in turn leads up to the High Street / Butts.

One of the major attractions of this property though is the integral garage. Not only is this large enough to take three cars with ease, but high enough to take even a motor home or similarly tall vehicle to one side. There is power and light connected and the sliding doors can be opened together, separately or as a single pedestrian door. At the rear a further door opens onto the garden at the rear.

The property is in the heart of the community, near to a wide variety of independent stores. These are mostly centred around the market square and 15th century Minster church and have everything you need from an award-winning butchers, delicatessen, cheese and dairy shop, homewares, antiques stores, clothes boutiques and gift shops.

Ilminster is also well served by a town-centre Tesco store with ample free parking. Alongside is a bowls club and tennis club and close-by a town library. Ilminster Arts Centre is a vibrant arts venue with licensed café and there are plenty of other places to eat too, including pubs, cafes, restaurants and take-aways.

The town also benefits from several hairdressers / beauty salons and a dental surgery as well as modern health centre on the southern side of the town with two doctors' surgeries. Ilminster is arguably one of South-Somerset's prettiest market towns and has everything you need for day to day living on your doorstep. Should you need to go further afield it benefits from superb road links via the A303 and A358. The town has two schools, Greenfylde First School and Swanmead Middle School.

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