4 bed detached house for sale

St. Arvans, Chepstow, Monmouthshire NP16

For those seeking a rural lifestyle this country home offers the perfect answer. Once a forester's cottage it is in an idyllic setting surrounded by a patchwork of farmland and woodland. The house has been carefully extended and now offers a substantial and generously proportioned four bedroomed family home with four reception rooms. Occupying gardens and grounds it includes a large double garage, lean to greenhouse, parking area and outbuildings offering two workshops linked by a useful covered area, both an established formal garden area including a pond and orchard areas, a productive enclosed mature vegetable garden with sheds, a paddock and its own mature woodland area. On a south-west facing plot the grounds lead down to the Fedw Brook.

Situation

Located in the heart of the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the edge of Chepstow Park Woods, accessed off the B4293 Chepstow to Devauden road via a country lane linking the hamlets of Pontysaison and The Cot. Excellent walking routes are on the doorstep with paths straddling the Wye Valley with routes to Tintern Abbey and the Offa's Dyke path. The nearest country public house The Fountain Inn is just under 2 miles away at Trellech Grange. For outdoor enthusiasts who like to walk, cycle or ride there are opportunities on the doorstep.
The two nearest villages of Devauden and St Arvans offer strong community links centred around their village halls and play areas with pubs and saddlery in St Arvans and a village stores and garage in Devauden.
The market town of Chepstow is just 5 miles away where you can find supermarkets, including M&S, Tesco and Lidl, shopping facilities, leisure centre, bars, restaurants and schools.

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Excellent state and private schools both at primary and secondary level can be found at both Chepstow and Monmouth. Although in a rural setting, the property is within easy commuting distance of the regional centres of Bristol (22 miles), Cardiff (34 miles) and Newport (22 miles). The M48 is 6 miles away with the M4/M5 interchange only 14 miles away and the M50 just half an hour away giving access to the south-west and the Midlands.

Accommodation

Stepping inside to the Entrance Hall with its slate tiled floor, and stairs to the first floor, a door leads to a triple aspect reception room with its vaulted and beamed ceiling, stripped pine floor, woodburner and french doors leading to a raised deck overlooking the garden. The downstairs cloakroom/shower room is well appointed with quadrant cubicle shower, WC and vanity unit with inset wash hand basin and velux rooflight. At the heart of the house, and part of the original cottage, is the dining hall with woodburner and the old dresser still in situ, together with built in cupboards. Doors lead to the dual aspect large study with stripped pine floors. A second reception room also accessed from the dining room has french doors, leading out to the raised terrace that wraps around the front of the house and bifold doors lead from here into the large triple aspect kitchen/living/breakfast room.

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This area is the most recent addition to the house with a large picture window overlooking the garden, this room is flooded with light from the sliding french doors with floor to ceiling windows either side and enjoys stunning views of the grounds and countryside beyond. The contemporary style kitchen with silestone worktop includes a boiling water tap, an integral multi function oven, dishwasher, a ceiling extractor over a large AEG induction hob set in an island unit and plumbed space for an American fridge freezer. This room benefits from indian sandstone tiles with under floor heating, an entrance area to the side with storage units leads to the back door and garden. The original kitchen with oak units and granite worktop offering well thought through storage has become the utility and useful preparation area with integral under counter fridge, space for washing machine, Neff double oven and Neff induction hob with overhead extractor and integral dishwasher.

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Upstairs a wide landing, with airing cupboard and wardrobe storage, serves four double bedrooms and family bathroom. The dual aspect principle suite overlooks the garden with stripped pine floors and recently fitted shower room with large shower, inset wash hand basin and WC. Two other double bedrooms overlook the front garden, one with a large picture window and the other is dual aspect with stripped pine floors. The fourth double bedroom has a built-in wardrobe and hatch to boarded attic space with window. The family bathroom has a white four-piece suite with bath, WC, vanity unit with inset wash hand basin and quadrant shower.

Outside

Approached off a country lane a five-bar gate and post and rail fence enclose a raised tarmaced parking area which leads to the double garage, with storage in the roof and a large lean to greenhouse to the side, and a paved footpath with steps, bordered by raised flowerbeds, leading down to the front door. A retaining wall to the rear of the property is separated from the lane by a native Monmouthshire hedgerow which runs along the full extent of the eastern boundary of the property.
The grounds are divided into three distinct areas.
A lawned formal garden, enclosed by mature hedgerow on all sides, with well stocked flower beds with steps up to a paved terrace around the house with patio area, covered with a pergola. This looks over the garden with its built-in barbeque and ornamental pond with some raised beds. This in turn leads down to the orchard with a variety of mature fruit trees with woodland beyond.

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To the side of the house set back above the patio is an outbuilding that has plumbing and electric and is divided into two secure workshops with a covered drying/store area. A gate leading into the paddock with a path up to the large, enclosed vegetable garden is the second distinct area of the grounds. Served by the old goat sheds which are now repurposed as store area with a rainwater collection system provides water for the numerous raised beds stocked with vegetables and including rhubarb, fruit bushes and strawberry beds. The far south-eastern boundary of the property enclosing the paddock is a combination of a post and wire fence and hedging with a gate to the neighbouring farmers field.
The third distinct area of the grounds is the woodland on the north-west side of the property with pedestrian gates into it leading from both the orchard and paddock bounded in part of a country lane and the Fedw Brook.

Services

Mains water and electricity, Private drainage (septic tank), Fibre broadband (current supplier Sky with 150Mbps)
Oil fired central heating (external Worcester boiler)
EPC Rating D

Local Authority

Monmouthshire County Council
Council Tax Band F

Tenure

We are informed the property is freehold, intending purchasers should verify this with their solicitors

Viewing

Strictly by appointment via the Agents David James Chepstow