Fairytale Dartmoor cottage needs a new owner

Ready to steal hearts, this charming Devon cottage looks like it has jumped straight out of the pages of a fairytale. Enjoying a stunning elevated position near the thriving village of Lustleigh in Dartmoor National Park, Willow Wray Cottage is a substantial Grade II listed family home with five bedrooms, beautiful gardens, and outbuildings with potential.

Around four and a half miles from the town of Bovey Tracey, the original thatched house offers a range of historic features from inglenook fireplaces through to exposed period ceiling timbers. The first floor of the property has been thoughtfully extended and now boasts a recently renovated and modernised oak-clad single-storey extension which could be used as a single-storey annexe.

A stable door from the open-front thatched porch leads into the cottage’s spacious entrance hall which has a wood burner and stairs to the first floor. To the right of the entrance hall is a dual aspect sitting room with an inglenook fireplace, wood burner and original spiral stairs leading up to bedroom two.

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To the left of the entrance hall is a kitchen with a five-door Aga and access to a ground-floor cloakroom, a larder and a separate utility.

Take the stairs from the central hall and you will find a first-floor landing with access to two doubles and one single bedroom. The landing also leads to the versatile, single-storey extension, which comprises a recently fitted family bathroom with a rain shower, a double bedroom with an en suite, and a second sitting room. The extension also has external access and its own patio area.

Featuring gently sloping lawns with terraced vegetable and flower beds, established shrubs and a section of woodland to the rear, the gardens and grounds at Willow Wray Cottage are just gorgeous. To the front of the property there is a pretty stone pathway with gardens on either side, and a private driveway leading around the property to a parking area with a double garage.

To the rear of the property, you can relax on the stunning, paved sun terrace, off of which are terraced flower borders and the beautiful gently sloping lawns with ornamental shrubs and established trees.

For house hunters who enjoy a project, this property also comes with two stone and block outbuildings, plus a large Nissen hut, which - subject to planning - all offer development potential.

Willow Wray Cottage has a guide price of £880,000. Get in touch with Stags (01392 255202) to find out more.