Seaton Down Hill, Seaton, Devon, EX12

4 Bedroom Detached Bungalow for sale in Devon

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Detached four bedroom chalet style house situated on the west side of town in an elevated spot with extensive gardens, driveway and double garage.


Summerhayes is an impressive and spacious chalet style house situated in an elevated position in Seaton with far stretching panoramic views towards the estuary, Axe Cliff, surrounding countryside and sea. The property offers flexible living and bedroom accommodation, with large open plan kitchen, dining and living spaces and bedrooms and bathrooms situated over two floors. Set within a generous plot, the property also boasts plentiful garden space and additional outbuildings including heated studio and office alongside a double garage.
Since purchasing the property, the current vendors have made several improvements including fitting a new modern family shower room, putting solid wood flooring through the hallway, and opening up the kitchen/diner space into a new conservatory overlooking the garden to create a large family space. The vendors have also carried out extensive landscaping works to the garden, with improvements to the outbuildings and the installation of solar panels to the roof of both the main house and garage.
The front door gives entry to the entrance hallway with solid wood flooring flowing throughout and cloakroom cupboard. Accessed on your right is the living room which is a spacious double aspect room with far reaching views toward the Axe Estuary and sea.
There is a large open plan, kitchen, living and dining space which provides an ideal area for families and entertaining. The kitchen area is fully fitted with cream base and wall units, subway tiled splashback, worktops, sink and integrated undercounter fridge. There is also space and plumbing for a washing machine, space for a slot-in freestanding cooker with integrated extractor above and a cupboard housing the gas central heating combi boiler. The kitchen flows into the dining area which benefits from built in bench seating and into a well-proportioned conservatory with solar glass roof and laminate flooring overlooking the garden.
There are two double bedrooms situated on the first floor. Bedroom one overlooks the garden and has large built-in wardrobes, whilst bedroom two looks onto the side of the property with en-suite WC and wash hand basin, which currently doubles up as a utility space with tumble dryer.
There is also a recently updated fully tiled modern family shower room, with large walk-in shower, concealed cistern WC, wash hand basin with integrated deep storage drawer and built in storage.
Stairs rise to a spacious first floor landing with Velux window and built-in storage cupboard. There are two large double bedrooms on the first floor - bedroom 3 has spectacular views toward the Axe Estuary, Wetlands and countryside with Velux window, whilst bedroom 4 has access to eaves storage and views over the rear garden. There is also a first floor fully fitted bathroom with WC, wash hand basin and bath with shower over.
The property benefits from gas fired central heating, uPVC double glazing and solar panels which feed back to the grid.

Double Garage: The property benefits from a detached double garage (measuring 5.38m x 4.38m) with power, light, up and over door, window and pedestrian door.

Garden Office: The garden office is situated in the lower part of the rear garden (measuring 2.35m x 2.91m) with heating and air con, power, light, water butt system and housing the controls and batteries for the solar panels.

Garden Studio: Detached studio space situated at the top of the garden with heating, power and light alongside external decking and impressive views (measuring 3.52m x 2.4m).

Outside: This property benefits from a sweeping paved driveway with parking for several vehicles in front of the detached garage with an additional parking area to the side of the property which is laid to gravel.
A low retaining wall borders the property to the front on Seaton Down Hill with mature hedge and flowering shrub borders.
The substantial rear garden has been extensively landscaped over several levels and is mainly laid to lawn with paved pathways and stepping stones, intermittent seating and planted areas, and several mature trees and fruit trees including apple, fig, pears, plum and cherry.
The lower part of the garden is mainly laid to patio immediately adjacent to the property with outside tap, alongside wooden shed, outbuilding with plumbing and power and an area laid to wood chip for bin storage.
The second level has an area of lawn with alfresco dining seating area and the garden office. A wooden pergola with steps leads up to a decorative gravel and paved cooking area with stone barbecue; followed by further steps up a sweeping lawn, with two flattened areas, one of which has an external power point and another with a sunken trampoline.
The garden lawn extends into the upper parts of the garden to the garden studio and decking with spectacular panoramic views alongside a greenhouse, brick wood store and raised beds for growing vegetables.

Important Information

• This is a Freehold property.

Property Ref: 224669_STN240194

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