Hodgeditch Farm & Cottages Chard Junction, near Chard, Somerset

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A delightful detached five bedroom

farmhouse, enjoying an elevated position with the benefit of far reaching southerly views.

Excellent family accommodation with light, airy and spacious rooms.

A formal courtyard of traditional stone and slate barns which have recently been re-roofed.

Three modern storage buildings,

together with a further separate range of modern buildings.

Set within nearly 31 acres of pasture

and woodland. Further land available by separate

negotiation.

Hodgeditch Farm & Cottages, Chard Junction, near Chard, Somerset TA20 4LN Holiday letting business for sale on the Dorset and Somerset border. Ideal home with income set within the rural countryside.

Detached 4 bedroomed farmhouse.

Adjoining 1 bedroomed annexe.

Two detached holiday letting barns (3 bed and 2 bed).

Established business let through a holiday letting agent.

Range of outbuildings including garaging with lean-to

storage attached.

Set in approximately 3.5 acres of gardens, grounds and

paddocks with stream running through the grounds.

Additional 3 bedroom cottage (Chantry Cottage) available

by separate negotiation.

Humberts

Mansfield House

Taunton

Somerset

TA1 3DN

01823 331234

stephen.richards@humberts.com www.humberts.com

Location

Hodgeditch Farm is located in a rural location near to Chard Junction located

between Chard and Axminster. Axminster has a railway station with a London

Waterloo service and is also home to Hugh Whittingstall’s deli restaurant. The

village of Tatworth has a primary school and village shop/post office. The

thatched public house of The Olde Pope Inn, known for good food within the

area, or The Golden Fleece, are both situated in Tatworth. Chard is just under 3

miles away and offers further amenities and facilities including supermarkets,

shopping and the secondary school of Holyrood Academy. The county town of

Taunton is 16 miles away and the university and cathedral city of Exeter is also

within easy reach.

The pretty fishing villages of Beer, Branscombe and the coastal resort of

Sidmouth make ideal day trips, along with the Seaton to Colyton tramway

There are golf courses at Chard, Honiton and Lyme Regis; sailing and boating

along the coast with moorings at Lyme Regis and West Bay.

The property is well situated to explore the Dorset and East Devon coastline

approximately 12 miles away which has World Heritage Status and is now known

as the Jurassic Coastline due to the fossils that can be found within the area. The

main visitors centre for the Heritage Coastline is located at Charmouth. The

historic coastal resort of Lyme Regis is within 12 miles with its famous cobb

harbour.

The Business

Hodgeditch Farm & Cottages have been in the same

ownership for the last 20 years. They have built up

an established and successful holiday letting

business with the cottages being let out through a

national holiday letting agents, Hoseasons.

Currently they let out the annexe known as Rose

Garden along with two further barn conversions and

currently have a gross turnover in the region of

£22,000 per annum.

There is potential to increase the business by

establishing a dedicated website for the property

coupled with internet advertising to increase trade.

Hodgeditch Farm

Detached period farmhouse with countryside views

providing on ground floor utility room, hall, cloakroom,

kitchen fitted with a handmade Shaker style units with

polished granite worktops, opening through into sitting

room with woodburning stove.

The kitchen opens through into a timber framed

open plan sunroom which leads out via French

doors onto a patio area and gardens.

Bedroom 1 is also on the ground floor with an en

suite shower room. At first floor landing, 3 further

bedrooms, shower room and family bathroom.

Outside to the rear is a patio area and private

garden with steps leading up to a gravelled area for

parking.

Rose Garden Cottage (Annexe)

The cottage adjoins the main farmhouse and could

be occupied by a family member or reincorporated

into the main farmhouse. Rose Garden Cottage is

currently let out as a holiday letting property and

provides on ground floor hall, sitting room and at

first floor landing, kitchen and bedroom with en suite

bathroom. Outside there is a landscaped formal

garden which has a high degree of privacy and is

where the property takes its name from due to the

planting.

The Cottages

The holiday letting cottages provide high quality

letting accommodation with oil-fired central

heating.

All the bathroom suites are white. Each cottage

has a flat screen television, DVD player and CD

music system. The kitchens include modern wall

and base units, electric cookers, microwave ovens

and fridge/ freezers.

The Old Barn

Two storey barn conversion providing on ground

floor hall, utility/cloakroom, kitchen/dining room,

conservatory and sitting room with Inglenook

fireplace with woodburning stove. At first floor

landing, bedroom 1 with en suite shower room, 2

further bedrooms and bathroom. Outside an

enclosed courtyard accessed from French doors

in the sitting room leading out on to a patio area

with seating.

The Stables

Single storey barn conversion providing hall, open

plan sitting/dining room and kitchen area with vaulted

ceiling with exposed beams and woodburning stove.

2 bedrooms and bathroom. Outside to rear a patio

area and an enclosed garden laid mainly to lawn.

Outside

The property is set in 3.5 acres including formal

gardens, the majority laid to paddock and with a

stream that runs under the driveway into a nature

pond before joining the river Axe.

The property is approached via an asphalt driveway

and half way down the driveway is a parking area

along with a garage with lean-to storage attached.

Next to the holiday letting cottages is a further

gravelled car parking area with garaging.

Attached to Hodgeditch Farmhouse is a laundry room

fitted with a Belfast sink and kitchen units used by the

guests and the complex.

Viewing

Strictly by appointment with agents Humberts. For further information contact Stephen Richards on

(01823) 331234.

Tenure

Freehold.

It should be noted that the driveway is owned by the property but the neighbouring properties, being

Hodgeditch Cottage and Chantry Cottage, have vehicular right of way.

Method of Sale

The property is offered by private treaty including a trade inventory to include furnishings, equipment and

fixtures and fittings in the holiday letting cottages excluding any personal items.

Directions

From Chard follow the A358 south heading towards Axminster.

At Tatworth, turn left and follow the road through the village to get to the B3167 at Perry Street.

At the staggered crossroad, follow the road straight over the railway line at Chard Junction, pass over the

River Axe and at the Dairycrest premises turn left and follow the road for ¼ mile. The property can be

found on the left hand side, clearly signed.

If you get to Ford Abbey or the railway line at Bridge you have gone too far.

File No. C6375

Mansfield House Silver Street

Taunton Somerset TA1 3DN

T: 01823 331234

E: stephen.richards@humberts.com