The Property:

This particularly attractive former mill house has been greatly improved in recent times yet retains considerable character. The property offers well-proportioned rooms with particularly good reception space. A spacious reception hall leads into a study with excellent bookcases and a further door into a garden room enjoying glorious views over the lawns and flower beds. The drawing room is found at the front of the house and enjoys all available sunshine, has traditional fireplace, a bay window and a door leading through to the sitting room having a lovely traditional period fireplace with wood burning stove and a further door leading into the dining room with an inglenook fireplace, a wood burning stove and a drinks cupboard/pantry. The kitchen has been completely refitted with good quality cupboards with granite work surfaces and electric AGA. There is a rear hall/boot room, with doors leading through to a utility area and a cloakroom. The first floor landing leads to a principal bedroom with glorious country views and a particularly well fitted bathroom with a drawer chest and wash hand basin, shower and roll top bath. The bathroom also has door off to the landing and has an adjoining dressing room which could also be used as a nursery bedroom. There is a further bedroom to the front of the house enjoying lovely outlooks. An inner landing leads to another principal bedroom with French doors out on to a balcony, a vaulted ceiling and an en suite bathroom. A further bedroom is found off the landing and adjoined by a family bathroom. A further staircase leads up to the second floor to a spacious bedroom/studio, again enjoying lovely outlooks.  

The Detached Granary Cottage has also been renovated in recent years and provides a reception hall, a ground floor bedroom and bathroom and a refitted kitchen. A double height studio/sitting room is found at the front of the cottage and has a staircase leading to a galleried bedroom.

Gardens and Grounds:

A traditional timber gate leads into the property and opens out providing ample parking for several cars and leads to the open fronted garage, which has a workshop and adjoining greenhouse. An original stone wall has an archway that leads to lawned gardens with a number of mature apple trees, a stable block with two loose boxes and open feed store and is adjoined with an attractively designed kitchen/garden with a series of raised beds. The lawned gardens stretch out to the west, have a number of beautiful old trees and have a river frontage. A mature weeping willow provides a feature to the garden and partly shades the lawned gardens where there is a original stone built summerhouse. Further lawned gardens lie to the front of the house, which is adorned with a number of climbing roses and a wisteria. A level river meadow lies across the river and has a gate at the far end leading out onto the adjoining lane by a road river bridge. There is a further area of land on the other side of the river with a number of mature trees. 

In all the gardens and grounds amount to approximately 0.864 hectares (2.135 acres)

Tax Band for Main House: G

Tax Band for The Granary Cottage: B

EPC Main House: F

EPC Granary Cottage: F

Location:

Whitehall Mill occupies a delightful riverside setting looking onto the Culm Valley, part of the Blackdown Hills, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The house enjoys glorious views over water meadows and up to the hills beyond and is just a mile from the village of Hemyock, which has a wide range of day-to-day amenities including a health centre, churches, garages, inn, post office, general stores, tennis club and a primary school and is also within the catchment area for the excellent Uffculme School. Culmstock, a short distance downstream, also offers a village store/café and a riverside pub. Wellington has a well-respected independent school with both junior and senior schools, whilst Taunton, the County Town of Somerset, has an excellent shopping centre with many of the well-known high street stores and excellent scholastic facilities. The area also has an excellent network of footpaths and bridleways.

Viewings: Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops Taunton office: 01823 325144.

https://www.jackson-stops.co.uk/online-auctions

IMPORTANT NOTICES 

This property is available for sale by online auction. Interested buyers will need to register in advance and complete an ID verification before being able to place a bid. Buyers should allow sufficient time to complete this process before the time period expires. If you are the successful bidder we will charge you a buyer fee and a deposit contribution which is held in a secure client account as agent for the seller as a holding deposit. You should check the “Buyer Information - Fees” document contained as part of the legal documents. You then have until 12pm UK time the next business day to pay the remainder of 10% of the purchase price and submit all signed sale documentation. You should contact your solicitor immediately after winning the bid and have 21 working days in which to complete the purchase.

If you do not carry out these steps before 12pm UK time the next business day, you may forfeit the entire amount of the holding deposit.

LEGAL PACK

A legal pack will be available prior to the sale and interested parties will need to register before accessing the legal documents. 

CONDITIONS OF SALE

The property will, unless previously withdrawn, be sold subject to, auction conditions and special conditions of the sale may be found in the legal documents. The purchaser shall be deemed to have notice of each condition and all the terms thereof and to bid on those terms whether they have inspected the said conditions or not.  

FEES

The purchase of this property is subject to a combined admin fee, part deposit and buyers premium of £5.000 including VAT as per the auction listing. 

We believe the property flooded in 2000 and 2008. We understand specialist works were carried out in 2009 including floodgates to external doors, two underfloor pumps located in the dining room and kitchen and low level external rendering surrounding the property acting as a waterproof plinth.

The Detached Granary Cottage has a separate council tax, its own EPC and separate services. Potential purchasers requiring a mortgage are therefore advised to clarify this criteria with their lender.