Property of the week: A period house of many, many rooms in Monkleigh

Guide price: £510,000

Agent: Brights of Bideford

The 19th century Old School House at Monkleigh is a four-bedroom character property of many, many rooms.

Decorated to a modern standard with oil-fired central heating and double glazing, this beautiful period house has to be viewed to be fully appreciated.

The light and airy layout is highly versatile, with a variety of rooms including an office/play room, music room, dining room, living room and more, giving the new owners bags of scope to adapt the space to their needs.

Above: The dining area is part of the kitchen/diner and a very good space. Credit: Brights of Bideford 

The Old School House is believed to date back in part to 1875 and it has a wonderful homely feel, with a fine south facing aspect that all the main rooms enjoy.

Above: The kitchen area.

Above: The play room/office is a handy versatile room downstairs. Credit: Brights of Bideford

Set between Torrington and Bideford, Monkleigh has its own school, church and popular village pub, with the main towns only a few miles’ drive away.

Inside the Old School House, the kitchen and dining area is a large L-shaped communal room, with the kitchen offering plenty of work space, units and space for two appliances underneath plus electric induction cooker.

The dining area looks directly over the main front garden with a side window giving views of the distant fields. The kitchen/dining area adjoins a utility room that includes a aide exit to the house plus plumbing for two appliances, space for a freezer and this in turn adjoins a shower room with shower and toilet.

The main entrance hall gives way to a sizeable reception room, adjoining the study/music room plus a large multi use room currently used as an office/play room.

Above: The spacious reception room greets you as you enter the Old School House. Credit: Brights of Bideford

The living room is also a good size, with an open fireplace, spate surround and hearth, with double patio doors opening on to the front garden.

Upstairs is given over to the four bedrooms plus the bathroom with bath and shower over.

Outside, the property has double gates or a pedestrian entry gate, as well as a lean-to garage with power and light connected.

The front of the house has a generous lawned garden, which enjoys a high degree of privacy and a fine southerly aspect with natural hedge borders, lilac shrubs and apple tree. There is a hardstanding area which is ideal as a patio or seating area.

A gated side pathway leads to a useful (especially if you have children that go to the school) rear pedestrian gate and rear bin/recycle area which also includes the oil storage tank.

Another gate then accesses an attractive and secluded rear courtyard style garden area with plant and shrub beds.

For more information or to arrange a viewing, call Brights of Bideford on 01237 473241, email info@brightsofbideford.co.uk or view online at brightsofbideford.co.uk.