Property description

Characterful 7 bedroom country house providing comfortable flexible family living in an idyllic rural setting close to the North Cornish coast. Two cottages and potential for a B and B / holiday letting business. 10 acres of paddocks, lawned gardens, mature orchard, feature lakes and picturesque gardens.

Cann Orchard is located in a rural, accessible position approximately 1 mile from the popular village of Marhamchurch, with its primary school, public house, 14th century church and village shop. The North Cornish Coast is approximately 3 miles to the west with beaches at Bude and Widemouth Bay, much prized by surfers, and within easy reach of the A39 Atlantic Highway. The popular coastal resort of Bude is approximately 3 miles to the Northwest, and has a good range of individual shops, supermarkets, leisure and sporting activities, doctors, hospital and veterinary surgeries. At Launceston, approximately 17 miles to the Southeast, the A30 provides access to the cathedral cities of Truro to the west and Exeter to the east, where there is a mainline railway station, international airport and access to the M5 motorway network at Exeter.

Cann Orchard is situated in an idyllic tranquil and picturesque, rural valley setting only minutes from the North Cornish Coast. This lifestyle property offers a splendid country residence with opportunities for multi-generational living, holiday letting and Bed and Breakfast business, extensive orchard for apple juice or cider making and the land for livestock or equestrian uses.

Cann Orchard house offers spacious and flexible family living whilst maintaining many of the original character features that you would expect from a property of this era including exposed ceiling beams, wooden windows, feature fireplaces and slate flagstone floors. The main part of the house as previously been used as a successful Bed and Breakfast business, with the owner’s accommodation to the rear and two cottages were run as a holiday letting business and provide potential to generate an income. The property benefits from high ceilings and generous proportion rooms, part double glazed and oil-fired central heating in the main house and The Coach House.

Cann Orchard Cottages

From the parish road a separate gravelled drive leads to a substantial parking and turning area enclosed within hedges, stone walls and bank to the other side, nicely separating and maintaining privacy for the main house front gardens from the cottages.

The Coach House

The accommodation briefly comprises: Entrance hall; laminate flooring and understairs cupboard, stairs rising to first floor. Bedroom 4; a dual aspect double room, wash hand basin. Kitchen; laminate flooring, feature fireplace with wooden mantel and stone surround, fitted base units, Belling freestanding electric oven, stainless steel sink with double drainer. Sitting / dining room; a dual aspect room, views over the garden, exposed ceiling beams and wood burning stove on slate hearth. On the first floor: Large landing. Cloak room; WC and sink. Bedroom 1; double bedroom, exposed wooden beams and corner wash hand basin. Family bathroom; WC, wash hand basin and shower cubicle. Bedroom 2; double dual aspect bedroom, exposed wooden beams, Bedroom 3; double bedroom, wash hand basin.

Little Coach House

Entrance porch; slate flagstone floor, shelving and two windows. The accommodation briefly comprises: Kitchen / dining / living room; a triple aspect room, exposed ceiling beams, laminate flooring in the kitchen and carpet for the remainder of the room. Fitted base and wall units, stainless steel sink with drainer. Montpellier electric double oven and 4 ring hob, Villager wood burner on slate hearth, window enjoying views over the front garden. On the first floor: Landing with window to the front, bedroom 1; a double bedroom, views over the garden, eaves storage and airing cupboard. Bedroom 2; twin room, window overlooking garden. Shower room; shower cubicle, WC and wash hand basin.

Gardens And Land

The property extends to approximately 10 acres of lawned gardens, orchards and a pasture paddock in with road frontage enclosed within Cornish bank hedges and post and wire fences.

Cann Orchard is accessed from the quiet parish road, via a gated entrance onto a shrub and tree lined gravelled drive which leads through the lawned gardens to a parking and turning area in front of the house. A further gated entrance leads to the cottages, over a gravelled drive onto a parking and turning area at the side of the cottages.

The extensive, secluded gardens provide a peaceful and relaxing haven, large lawns interspersed and bordered by colourful mature shrubs and trees, timber decked and gravelled seating areas to chill out and enjoy alfresco dining and entertaining. In the small valley below the house are two wildlife lakes which are overlooked from the large timber decking and summer house / outside bar, providing a wonderful setting for summer barbeques and parties. The extensive apple orchard of approximately 100 productive trees and a pretty coppiced woodland, planted with shrubs and rhododendron bushes attract various wildlife and provide interesting walks around the grounds. The paddock is conveniently located on the other side of the lakes from the house, which is ideal for recreational, or livestock/equestrian uses.

Garage (5.25m x 4.38m (17'2" x 14'4"))

Open Fronted Store (8.71m x 2.94m (28'6" x 9'7"))

General Purpose Store (9.03m x 4.76m (29'7" x 15'7" ))

Services

Water – Mains
Drainage – Private
Electricity - Mains
Heating – The house and The Coach House - Woodburning stoves and Oil central heating
Little Coach House – woodburning stove
Telephone and Broadband – BT connection
EPC – F27 / E40 / F22

Local Authority

Cornwall Council, County Hall, Treyew Road, Truro, Cornwall TR1 3AY.

Viewing Arrangements

Strictly by appointment with D. R. Kivell Country Property
Amenities

Tranquil Valley Setting

7 bedroom country house

Lifestyle property

Annexe potential

Two cottages

10 acres of paddocks, gardens and mature orchard

Large feature lakes

Storage building

Idyllic rural yet accessible location

3 miles from the North Cornish Coast