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"A 2 bedroom detached bungalow requiring updating together with garage and attractive garden in favoured cul de sac

SITUATION AND AMENITIES Quietly situated in a favoured no through road on high ground, with pleasant views over Combe Martin village, towards open countryside, yet the property is within easy access of the village centre and sea front. The regional centre of Barnstaple is about 10 miles, and houses the areas main business, commercial, leisure and shopping venues. Junction 27 of the M5 Motorway and Tiverton Parkway Mainline Rail are about 42 miles distant. The property is within 15 minutes of both Exmoor and Ilfracombe, and a little further a field are the popular surfing and sandy beach resorts of Croyde and Woolacombe. DESCRIPTION A mature detached bungalow which offers bright and spacious accommodation, but which would benefit from general updating. The property presents elevations which are colourwash rendered beneath a tiled roof, and there may be potential to convert the loft space into additional accommodation, subject to planning permission. Double glazed sliding doors to ENCLOSED ENTRANCE PORCH Glazed inner door and matching side panel to ENTRANCE HALL Built in cloaks cupboard. Meter cupboard. Trap with retractable ladder to large loft space. SITTING ROOM / DINING ROOM A bright double aspect room with ornamental fireplace. Views to front over the village, and farmland to the rear over the garden. KITCHEN / BREAKFAST ROOM Stainless steel sink unit, adjoining work surface, drawer, cupboard and appliance space under. Plumbing for washing machine. Creda free standing electric cooker. Stelrad Ideal Elan wall mounted gas fired boiler for central heating and domestic hot water. Good range of wall cupboards. Room for small breakfast table. Further work surfaces, drawers and cupboards beneath. Matching wall cupboards. Shelved larder cupboard. Secondary glazed windows. Double airing cupboard housing factory lagged cylinder. It is considered that the kitchen could be re-modelled, with better use made of the built in cupboards, relieving the other end of the room to create a more useable dining space. BEDROOM 1 With wash hand basin. BEDROOM 2 Secondary glazed. BATHROOM Panelled bath, mixer tap / shower attachment, tiled surround. Pedestal wash hand basin. Mirror fronted medicine cabinet. Separate cloakroom with low level WC and wash hand basin. OUTSIDE The property is approached from the road via a driveway, which provides ample parking and turning space, and leads up to the single detached garage which has an up and over door. Between the access road and the front garden is a deep bank of mature shrubbery, including masses of hydrangeas. The front garden is principally laid to lawn. There is access at both sides of the bungalow to the rear garden, where there is a pathway at lower level with steps leading up to a terrace, doubling up as a clothes drying area. There is a good area of lawn, an ornamental pond, summerhouse, well established trees and shrubs including camellia, bamboo etc. There is then access to a side garden, where there is a timber garden shed, aluminium framed greenhouse and vegetable area, all fenced enclosed. LOCAL AUTHORITY North Devon District Council, Civic Centre, North Walk, Barnstaple, Devon. 01271 327711. DIRECTIONS From the seafront in Combe Martin, with your back to the sea, proceed up the High Street (A399) and pass the Post Office on your left. Eventually bear right, signed Barnstaple, pass the church on your right and climb Rectory Road. Within a few hundred yards, Knowle Gardens will be seen on your left, Number 12 is the first in on the right hand side. SERVICES All mains services. Gas fired central heating. REFERENCE 37924 You may download, store and use the material for your own personal use and research. You may not republish, retransmit, redistribute or otherwise make the material available to any party or make the same available on any website, online service or bulletin board of your own or of any other party or make the same available in hard copy or in any other media without the website owner's express prior written consent. The website owner's copyright must remain on all reproductions of material taken from this website."