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" A superbly presented and extended cottage in a delightful rural location. Sitting room, kitchen/dining room, super garden room, 3 bedrooms, 1 E/S and family bath. Detached workshop and office/study. Lovely cottage gardens, views.

SITUATION Sandy Knapp Cottage is situated in a delightful rural yet accessible location in East Devon between the picturesque villages of Broadhembury and Payhembury. Both villages offer primary schools, post office and shop, public house and churches. Although 2 Sandy Knapp has a Payhembury address it is located in the parish of Broadhembury.   The market town of Honiton is about 5 miles and provides an excellent range of shopping and recreational facilities with a station on the London Waterloo line. The A30 dual carriageway at Honiton provides excellent access to Exeter providing further shopping, cultural facilities, M5 access, international airport and London Paddington railway station. West on the A373 within approximately 7 miles is Junction 28 of the M5 motorway and there is a mainline London Paddington at Junction 27, Tiverton Parkway, ensuring that the property is readily accessible for travelling north. The beautiful south coast is within 15 miles at Sidmouth with other popular beaches, villages and harbours nearby.   The property has wonderful far reaching views across to Hembury Fort and is situated on the edge of the Blackdown Hills an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, with a variety of footpaths and bridleways to take advantage of the wonderful countryside. DESCRIPTION 2 Sandy Knapp Cottage is believed to date back to the mid 19th century and is of colour wash external appearance under a slate roof. The property benefits from powder coated upvc double glazing matching the painted hardwood of the garden room giving a fresh and contemporary look to the property. The property has been recently extended providing a superb kitchen/ dining room and master bedroom with en suite above, and now has the benefit of a fantastic workshop/ studio with laminate floor and fitted with the internet and a telephone connection, ideal for someone needing to work from home.   The accommodation is light and spacious, the double aspect sitting room has an oak floor, fireplace and inset Villager wood burning stove, cupboards to recess and a part glazed door to the garden room which is a lovely bespoke room with painted timber hardwood window frames and glazed roof. There is natural terracotta to the floor and door to the garden.   The rear boot /laundry room has space for stacking washing machine and tumble dryer, with adjacent downstairs cloakroom with pedestal basin, WC, Grant oil fired central heating boiler and hatch to loft.   The kitchen/dining room is a super triple aspect room with stone floor, fitted timber units with a black granite top and butlers sink, integrated brushed steel oven and Zanussi ceramic hob, space for dishwasher and freestanding fridge/freezer. The central island unit has a maple work top with open shelving, cupboards and drawers. French doors with side windows lead to the garden. From the kitchen there are super far reaching views over the garden to the countryside.   On the first floor are three bedrooms, the main bedroom is a lovely, airy double aspect bedroom with vaulted ceiling and sumptuous en suite shower room with oak flooring, wide shower cubicle with shower, a stylish rectangular basin and concealed cistern WC and heated towel rail. There is a walk-in wardrobe.   There are two further bedrooms, one with built in wardrobe and delightful southfacing views, and one with views to the rear garden. The stylish family bathroom has a white suite of bath with thermostatic shower, square basin with mixer tap and WC. The room is Travertine tiled, and has a chrome heated towel rail, oak plank floor and recessed down lights. OUTSIDE The property is accessed from the country lane via a short drive to a five bar gate, parking and turning area. The timber workshop is adjacent and with double opening doors to the parking area and has a concrete floor, power and light. There is a well presented double aspect studio/office with double glazed windows, laminate floor, wall lights and phone point. From the parking and workshop a path leads up through delightful cottage gardens with various seating areas from which to enjoy the view.   To the front of the house is a terrace and level lawn, and a path leads round the side of the house flanked by raised beds, to the rear yard where there is a useful garden/log store, oil tank and vegetable plot. DIRECTIONAL NOTE From Honiton heading west on the A373 Cullompton Road for about 5 miles and just after a sweeping left bend (before the Payhembury/ Broadhembury crossroads) turn left signposted Upton. Continue for approximately ? mile and the entrance to 2 Sandy Knapp Cottages is on the left. VIEWING Strictly by appointment through the sole agents Stags on 01404 45885. SERVICES Mains water and electricity, private drainage. Oil fired central heating. LOCAL AUTHORITY East Devon District Council, The Knowle, Sidmouth, Devon, EX10 8HL. Tel: 01395 516551. MAP REFERENCE Landranger No. 192 094 034 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. "