Combeinteignhead, Newton Abbot, TQ12

SITUATION Frog Cottage is well-positioned within the heart of the popular Teign Estuary village of Combeinteignhead with the position having a pleasant open south-facing aspect across the pretty valley. The village has a good sense of community with a village hall, the popular Wild Goose public house and the Coombe Cellars, a public house and eatery in a superb waterside setting where there is also a dingy sailing club, as well as being a popular spot for windsurfing and water skiing etc. The slightly larger village of Stokeinteignhead lies around a mile away and has a well-regarding primary school a community shop and a farm shop nearby. The position offers good access to Newton Abbot, which lies around three miles away with the Penn Inn roundabout offering immediate access to the South Devon highway and a fast link to Exeter and the M5 via the A380. The popular estuary village of Shaldon is around 2 miles away, a beautiful village with a sandy beach, various independent shops and cafes, a good selection of public houses and restaurants and a charming foot passenger ferry across to the seaside town of Teignmouth. The larger seaside town of Teignmouth is around three miles away and has a lovely promenade, a supermarket and a range of education options including Trinity School, offering both private primary and secondary education. There are mainline rail links to London Paddington from Teignmouth and Newton Abbot. Additionally the renowned Torquay boys and girls Grammar schools are within relatively easy reach.
 

DESCRIPTION Frog Cottage is a quintessentially beautiful Devon cottage with rendered elevations set beneath a Devon thatch with high chimney stacks and leaded-light windows. The property has wonderful character and charm throughout with many features including beamed ceilings, plank and muntin screens, oak panel and latch doors and oak floors to the first floor.

The cottage has undergone a programme of improvements in recent years to include sandblasting of the beams, re plastering where required, ungraded electrics, and the rear pitch of the roof and ridge have been rethatched. Additionally the electric heating system has been upgraded and mood lighting has been installed to in the sitting and dining rooms. The external elevations have been repainted and a parking space has been created by the excavation and landscaping of the external entrance area.

The wonderful farmhouse-style kitchen/dining room provides an excellent "hub" for the cottage with the high quality modern kitchen having integrated appliances and granite worksurfaces as well as a powder blue, oil-fired Aga. The sitting room is superb, cosy space with a beamed ceiling and an inglenook style fireplace with a recently refitted wood burner along with a bread oven. There is a useful lobby area/boot room to the rear of the house which opens to the attractive ground floor bathroom with a roll top bath. To the first floor there are 3 bedrooms, also with much character and charm and a modern shower room. Outside there are pretty cottage-style gardens and courtyards with a raised paved terrace, being a perfect spot for alfresco dining and outdoor entertaining.  

KITCHEN/DINING ROOM Quarry tiled steps rise to the oak panel and part-glazed entrance door that in turn opens to the open reception hall, a pleasing space, giving a good sense of the character of the house with plank and muntin screens and a beamed ceiling. This space opens to the farmhouse-style kitchen/dining room, providing an excellent "focal point" with space for a large table and chairs and there is a high beamed ceiling with spotlights. The kitchen has mood lighting and is well fitted an attractive modern range of units with extensive areas of polished granite work surface with attractive tiled surrounds and an under-mounted one and a quarter bowl and sink unit. Various integrated appliances include a Hotpoint ceramic hob with filter over and double oven beneath. There is a built in fridge, a dishwasher and freezer and a recess houses a powder blue Aga with stone surround and heavy beam over. There are ceramic floor tiles and a small paned leaded light mullion-style window overlooks the front aspect, having pleasant views to nearby period-style properties and rolling countryside beyond.  

SITTING ROOM A particularly lovely room/entertaining space with character beams to the ceiling and two front facing leaded light mullion-style windows with shutters, one of which has a deep oak sill and the other a window seat. Both enjoy views to the front aspect towards period-style properties and rolling countryside beyond. There is a fantastic inglenook-style fireplace with exposed stone work, a heavy beam over and a slate hearth, upon which there is a recently refitted log burning stove with bread oven above. An oak panel and latch door opens to turning stairs rising to the first floor, there are wall lights, an exposed plank and muntin screen, open display shelves and a recessed built-in cabinet with display surface and cupboard. Mood lighting and a modern electric radiator.  

REAR LOBBY A good practical space with slate floor tiles, a skylight and a recessed built in shelved cupboard, along with a feature curved wall with high level display shelf and space for a fridge freezer. A panel and part glazed stable door leads to the outside at the rear. The lobby area opens to....  

BOOT ROOM With a leaded light window, seat, coat hooks and a panel door that leads to the side courtyard area.  

GROUND FLOOR BATHROOM The bathroom is fitted with a period-style suite with ceramic-tiled surrounds and with the suite comprising a roll top, claw foot bath with mixer set, a large pedestal wash hand basin and a WC. There are slate floor tiles, a cupboard houses the hot water cylinder and a cupboard with mirrored door houses the washing machine. Skylight and opaque-glazed window.  

FIRST FLOOR LANDING Feature oak flooring, oak panel and latch doors to the principal first floor rooms, door to:  

BEDROOM ONE A lovely principal bedroom with high ceiling, exposed beams and oak flooring. A front facing leaded light window with oak sill and window seat has good views across the surrounding area towards countryside and a rear facing leaded light, also with window seat overlooks the pretty rear garden. There is a large built in pine wardrobe with hanging rail and shelf. Modern electric radiator.  

BEDROOM TWO A similarly attractive room being dual aspect with front and side facing leaded light windows taking in views over the surrounding area, similar to those described. Oak flooring, textured ceiling with exposed beams, spotlight, recessed eaves storage space and loft access. Modern electric radiator. 

BEDROOM THREE Another charming room with exposed beams, a front facing leaded light window with window seat with views as described, oak flooring, spotlights and a feature leaded light and coloured glass panel. Modern electric radiator. 

SHOWER ROOM Having a leaded light window overlooking the rear aspect and a modern suite with a unit having an area of surface with an inset wash hand basin, along with cupboards and drawers beneath. The is a tiled shower cubicle with electric shower and a WC. Towel rail. 

OUTSIDE Frog Cottage has pretty country-cottage style gardens and good additional outside spaces. Immediately to the side of the property there is a paved PARKING AREA enclosed by white washed walling and with paved steps and a gate rising to the entrance area from where steps rise to an external timber store. A pathway runs along the rear of the cottage and opens to an area where there is a water tap and an undercover area housing the tank supplying oil to the Aga. From this area paved steps lead up to two areas, one of which is a wonderful paved terrace with feature balustrade, providing a perfect spot for relaxing and outdoor entertaining etc. Above this there is a pretty landscaped garden with a trellis arched approach, being laid principally to two terraces of lawn with borders and raised areas of bedding stocked with a beautiful array of flowering plants including a mature rose bed. A high beech hedge runs along the rear of the plot, extending to the side thus affording a good degree of privacy and seclusion. The back garden, is something of a "sun trap" on a fine day also has good south-facing views towards nearby countryside.  

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Freehold
Council Tax Band E
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