ID REF: 0507                                     Near Tregaron, Ceredigion

Delightful Country Equestrian Property of Circa 15 Acres.

Charming 5 Bed Period Residence, Superb Equine Facilities including an

Indoor Riding Arena, Stabling for 6 (scope more), Outbuildings,

and Prolific Pasture Paddocks.

The property also offers a Covered Swimming Pool, and Far Reaching Views.

Teifi Valley setting – about 4 miles from Tregaron, 7 miles from Lampeter, 20 miles from Aberystwyth

This appealing character residence is of stone construction with mostly rendered elevations under a slate roof and is believed to date back to the early 1800s. The well presented accommodation offers 5 Bedrooms, 2 Bathrooms, Sitting Room, Dining Room, Kitchen and Snug with an Aga – all with the benefit of oil-fired central heating and leaded-light uPVC double glazed windows. The house is privately set in attractive gardens with a pond, an orchard, and a covered Swimming Pool. There is also a Detached Garage. The superb, well maintained Equestrian Facilities include an excellent full-sized Indoor Riding Arena with viewing area, a Lunging Ring, an American-style Stable Building offering 6 internal Stables, 2 further detached timber Loose Boxes/feed & tack rooms, a large Modern G.P. Building providing hay, straw and implement storage, and a further G.P. Building with feed room/storage. There is ample scope for more stabling within the outbuildings. The property enjoys far reaching rural views and amounts to approximately 15 Acres, including prolific, level to gently sloping Pasture Paddocks.

This Teifi Valley location edging the foothills of the Cambrian Mountains is both peaceful and picturesque – and ideal for those who enjoy the great outdoors – yet villages and towns are within easy driving distance as are numerous visitor attractions including the magnificent west coast, some 15½ miles away.

Price Guide: £725,000

THE ACCOMMODATION COMPRISES:

ENTRANCE PORCH:

7' x 4'3”. uPVC Entrance Porch with window panels on two sides and slate flooring. A stable door leads into a lobby opening out into the Kitchen.

KITCHEN & SNUG:

21'2” x 6'6” overall –

Kitchen Area:   9'8” x 6'6”. Range of pine wall and base units with beech work surface over, Belfast sink, plumbing and space for a washing machine and tumble dryer, tiled splashbacks, slate flooring, TNG wood panelled ceiling. Window to the front aspect.

Snug Area:   11'6” x 6'6”. Oil-fired Aga cooking range, tiled splashbacks, slate flooring, TNG wood panelled ceiling. Window to the front aspect. Archway leading through to the Dining Room.

DINING ROOM:

13'1” x 12'2”. Victorian-style fireplace with cast iron mantle and surround, original solid wood floor. Window to the rear aspect. Opening through to the Rear Hallway and Study.

REAR HALLWAY:

With main staircase to the first floor and half glazed external door to the rear. The hallway opens out into the Study.

STUDY:

12'2” x 7'6”. TNG wood panelled ceiling. Window to the rear aspect. Door through to the Sitting Room.

SITTING ROOM:

21'10” x 16' excluding bay. Exposed ceiling timbers, exposed stone fireplace housing a large multi-fuel cast iron stove on a slate hearth, with bressumer beam over and timber mantel. A triple aspect room with large bay window to the front, two windows to the rear and one window to the side. Second staircase to the first floor.

First Floor –

The main staircase from the Rear Hallway leads up to the spacious Landing.

MAIN LANDING:

TNG wood panelled ceiling with large access to the loft and doors off to 3 Bedrooms and Bathroom 1. Window to the front and window to the rear aspect.

BEDROOM 1:

10'7” x 10'10”. TNG wood panelled ceiling. Range of wall-to-wall cupboards. Window to the rear aspect.

BEDROOM 2:

13'1” x 7'4”. TNG wood panelled ceiling. Window to the rear aspect.

BEDROOM 3:

8'5” x 7'. TNG wood panelled ceiling. Airing cupboard. Window to the front aspect.

BATHROOM 1:

7'2” x 6'10”. White suite comprising roll-top cast iron bath on claw feet, pedestal wash hand basin, bidet, and close coupled W.C. Fully tiled walls, TNG wood panelled ceiling, solid wood flooring. Frosted-glass window to the front aspect.

SECOND LANDING:

Accessed via the staircase in the Sitting Room, with access to the loft and doors off to 2 further Bedrooms and Bathroom 2. Window to the front aspect.

BEDROOM 4:

12'9” x 9'2”. Built-in single wardrobe and further built-in double wardrobe. Window to the side aspect.

BEDROOM 5:

12' max. x 10'. Built-in double wardrobe. Window to the rear aspect.

BATHROOM 2:

White suite comprising panelled bath, pedestal wash hand basin, and close coupled W.C. Velux roof light to the front aspect.

Kitchen and Snug

Aga in the Snug

Dining Room

Study

Sitting Room

Bedroom 1

Bedroom 2

Bedroom 3

Bathroom 1

EXTERNALLY:

THE APPROACH:

The property is approached off a very quiet country lane, having a gravelled driveway which turns through a pillared entrance way into a tarmacadamed drive with ample parking and turning space at the front of the residence. A further gateway leads to the Equestrian Facilities.

THE GARDENS:

The established gardens provide an attractive setting for the house, with a delightful pond to the front together with lawned areas and defined shrubbery beds with an array of specimen shrubs. There is a patio to one side of the residence, a productive orchard garden to the rear, and a Greenhouse. Mature hedges and trees to the borders of the garden provide privacy. Situated in the front garden is a covered Swimming Pool.

SWIMMING POOL:

15.40m x 9.30m. A domed polycarbonate structure housing a pool with a wide paved surround.

The actual pool size is 9.30m long x 4.50m wide.

The pool's Filtration System is housed within an external Timber Shed.

DETACHED GARAGE:

7.50m x 5.50m. With pebbledash rendered elevations and a slate roof, up and over aluminium vehicular door to the front, and windows to the rear and both sides,

OUTSIDE W.C.:

Within a Lean-to at the rear of the Garage is a W.C.

EQUESTRIAN FACILITIES:

All being very well presented with an extremely clean and tidy gated yard.

MODERN INDOOR RIDING SCHOOL:

40m x 20m. Block built with profile roof and cladding, numerous roof lights and sodium lighting, double vehicular sliding door entrance to one side and five separate pedestrian doors, viewing area to one end and a sand surfaced arena.

MODERN G.P.

BUILDING:

18.50m x 9m overall. Partially block built with profile roof and profile clad sides, roof lights, double vehicular entrance doors, lighting, and partial concrete floor. Currently used for hay, straw and implement storage.

FURTHER G.P.

BUILDING:

(scope more Stables)

18m x 6.20m. Block built with a profile roof. One end of the building has pedestrian access and is used as a feed room with a built-in kennel area and has a stainless steel sink with double drainer. The remainder of the building is suitable for Stabling if required, but is presently used for storage. Power and lighting, two further pedestrian doors to the pine end, and vehicular access to the rear.

LUNGING RING:

14m diameter – circular lunging ring. Bounded by post and rail fencing.

STABLE BUILDING:

(6 Stables – scope more)

13.70m x 9.70m overall. Partially block built with profile cladding and roof, vehicular access to one end and pedestrian door to the other, concrete floor, power and lighting. Presently providing 6 Internal Stables (scope for more) – with inter-changeable divisions.

DETACHED TIMBER

LOOSE BOXES/

TACK/FEED ROOMS:

Double timber building, fully boarded with power and lighting and concrete floors throughout. Formerly used as 2 Stables, the building presently provides Feed and Tack Rooms as follows:-

Feed Room:   14'5” x 8'3”

Tack Room:   13'6” x 7'8” – opening through to a further Tack Room:-

Tack Room:   14'7” x 4'6”

THE LAND:

The property totals approximately 15 Acres.

The pasture is level to very gently sloping in nature and prolific, being divided into various enclosures, most of which have automatic drinkers.

There is a small turn-out home paddock adjacent to the main Stable Building and a further large paddock next to the Indoor Arena. The remainder of the pastureland is across a bridleway which intersects the land, and is divided into three further enclosures.

The land is bound by mainly stock fencing with natural hedgerows and lines of trees. Lovely far reaching views of the valley and hillsides can be enjoyed from the property.

Separate Entrance accessing the Riding School

Another view of the Riding School with the Modern G.P. Building to the right and lunging ring beyond

Modern G.P. Building

Further G.P. Building

G.P. Building with American-style Stabling

Lunging Ring

SERVICES:

We understand that the property is connected to metered mains water and mains electricity. Drainage is provided via a private system. The residence has oil-fired central heating. Telephone is understood to be connected and should be available to purchasers subject to the usual transfer arrangements.

FIXTURES &

FITTINGS:

Fixtures and fittings that are referred to within these particulars will be included in the sale unless otherwise stated.

WAYLEAVES,

EASEMENTS &

RIGHTS OF WAY:

The property is sold subject to and with the benefit of all wayleaves, easements and rights of way declared and undeclared.

The access track to the property leads into a bridleway.

TENURE &

POSSESSION:

We are informed that the property is freehold with vacant possession on completion, by arrangement.

VIEWING:

Only by prior appointment with the Sole Selling Agents –

ProFile Homes

Tel: 01550 777790

Email: contact@profilehomes.com

Website: www.profilehomes.com

THE LOCATION:

Approximate Distances:

Tregaron 4 miles, Lampeter 7 miles, Aberaeron 15½ miles, New Quay 19½ miles, Aberystwyth 20 miles, Carmarthen 29 miles southerly (with A48/M4-link), Cardigan 33½ miles, Swansea 47½ miles, Cardiff 76 miles.

Schools: Village primary schools are within easy driving distance. Tregaron has a secondary school, and there are comprehensive schools at Lampeter and Aberaeron.

Universities of Wales are located at Lampeter, Aberystwyth, Carmarthen, Swansea, Cardiff, Newport, and Bangor.

Tregaron is about 4 miles from the property – Ceredigion's smallest town, serving a widespread agricultural community, with a selection of shops, post office, weekly street market, hotel and cafe, doctors, primary and secondary schools, leisure centre and swimming pool, as well as a Red Kite & Information Centre (in the old schoolhouse), the Rhiannon Welsh Gold Centre, where goldsmiths can be watched at work, and a Celtic Craft Shop. With country lanes, tracks and footpaths leading out to glorious upland countryside, this old market town is a walking/cycling/fishing/bird-watching tourist centre for the region nowadays, but in former times it was famous for its knitted woollen products and was once a vital gathering and resting place for cattle and sheep drovers journeying across the mountains to the English markets. The town is named after St. Caron, who is said to be buried in the hillock that the town church stands on, although some believe the mound to be connected to pagan Druids. The 16th Century folk hero Twm Sion Cati (the Welsh Robin Hood) was born in Tregaron and is said to have used a cave in the nearby mountains as a bolt-hole. Another famous person hailing from Tregaron was Henry Richard, MP for Merthyr Tydfil, who founded the Peace Union, forerunner of the League of Nations. His statue was erected in the town square in 1883. The town is also well known for its annual Festival of Harness Racing, held on Dolyrychain Fields a few miles north of town. A picturesque drive can be followed from Tregaron eastwards across the wild moors along a narrow “mountain road” that travels through the scenic Abergwesyn Pass and on to join the A483 for Beulah and Builth Wells, where the Royal Welsh Showground is situated.

Cors Caron National Nature Reserve by the River Teifi (Tregaron's raised bog) is just north of the town – a huge, remarkable, red-tinged marshland, supporting a wide variety of birds (including red kites) and other flora and fauna, offering walks including a board walk with a hide and information boards. Cors Caron was formed at the end of the Ice Age – when a great lake filled with vegetation and peat, which continued to rise above the water. It is one of Europe's largest peat bogs and an important wetland reserve.

Strata Florida Abbey ruins will be found further into the uplands north-east of Tregaron on the banks of the Teifi, dating back to the 12th Century – the ‘Westminster of Wales' – where many Welsh princes are buried. The Cistercian monks controlled the economy of this upland region in the Middle Ages, owning vast areas of sheep farming land and exploiting the mineral resources as well as the rivers and lakes for fishing. They travelled over long distances, and built a network of roads over a wide region. The Cambrian Way Footpath can be accessed near Strata Florida, offering great ridge walking.

The Teifi Pools are a few miles north-east of Strata Florida, some 1500 feet up in the mountains, with three lakes, one being Llyn Teifi, the source of the River Teifi, which flows down southerly then turns westwards beyond Lampeter towards its estuary at Cardigan – a journey of about 70 miles. The river forms most of the boundary between Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, and is noted for its salmon and migratory trout (sewin).

The Cambrian Mountains occupy the region between the Snowdonia and Brecon Beacons National Parks to the north and south, the plateau generally being between 1500ft and 2500ft above sea level – remote, empty and magnificent – with the long-distance Cambrian Way Footpath travelling the length.

Golf: Cilgwyn Golf Club (founded in 1905) is an easy drive from the property, nestling in a picturesque valley near Llangybi village – an enjoyable 9-hole, level parkland course with trees, streams and ponds. There is a putting green and also an area for practising.

Lampeter, a traditional market town by the Teifi river, is about 7 miles away, providing good shops, main post office, a leisure centre with swimming pool, cafes, restaurants and pubs, doctors and dentists, primary and secondary schools, and university. The University of Wales at Lampeter is the oldest in the country (1822) and the smallest in Britain, occupying a beautiful setting in the Cambrian Mountain foothills. Lampeter's summer events include a Food Festival, the Rhys Thomas James Eisteddfod, the Drovers Arts Festival and a Carnival. The Welsh language and culture thrive in this small but busy town. Nestling on the border of Ceredigion and Carmarthenshire, Lampeter is the centre of a network of interesting country walks along footpaths, bridleways and quiet roads.

Aberaeron is 15½ miles distant, a Georgian port town set along the west coast between Aberystwyth and Cardigan at the mouth of the River Aeron, with a picturesque harbour and elegant, brightly painted houses, many of which were reputedly designed by the famous architect John Nash and are now listed buildings. This charming town offers good shopping and craft centres selling local produce, plenty of pubs and eateries, primary and secondary schools, doctors and dentists, leisure centre, swimming pool, 9-hole pitch & putt golf course, regattas, concerts, festivals, carnival, and delightful walks by the river and along the cliffs. The fine, late 18th Century mansion house of Llanerchaeron, also designed by John Nash, is located on the outskirts of the town in the Aeron valley. Now a National Trust property, the Llanerchaeron Estate is open to visitors in season and offers delightful walled gardens with glass houses, a range of historic outbuildings, extensive grounds and lovely views.

Along the coast, New Quay is 19½ miles away, hugging the hills overlooking Cardigan Bay, with terraces of narrow streets and delightful houses, and a selection of shops, pubs and restaurants. With its sheltered harbour and wide, sandy beaches, New Quay is popular with holidaymakers as well as sailing and water sports enthusiasts. The New Quay Cliff Walk climbs steeply above the town giving fabulous, far reaching views from the top. Regular boats leave the harbour for seal and dolphin-watching trips, as these delightful creatures have become quite a tourist attraction.

Aberystwyth is about 20 miles distant on the west coast. Situated at the mouths of the rivers Ystwyth and Rheidol, this delightful town lies between three hills and two beaches and is surrounded by beautiful, unspoilt countryside. Regarded as the “capital of mid Wales”, the town is home to the National Library, has a University set near the seashore (founded 1872), and a mix of architecture with several historic buildings. There is a wide promenade and a marina, and Victorian/Edwardian buildings line the front. The town has good shopping amenities, an excellent arts centre, cinema, leisure centre/sports facilities, general hospital, numerous cafes, bars and restaurants, hotels and pubs, and the usual seaside attractions, as well as the ruins of an ancient Welsh castle and, in the hills nearby, the remains of an iron age fort. There is an 18-hole parkland Golf Course at the edge of town with sea views. The Aberystwyth Electric Cliff Railway climbs Constitution Hill from the promenade, and stunning views can be enjoyed from the summit, where the famous Camera Obscura with its revolving mirror is sited (a reproduction of the Victorian original). Aberystwyth has a main line Railway Station as well as a Coach/Bus Station. Trains run to Machynlleth, Shrewsbury and Birmingham.

Devil's Bridge is near Aberystwyth, crossing the steep woodland gorge cut by the Rheidol river, with walks to the spectacular Mynach Falls, where the river Mynach plunges down some 300 feet to join the Rheidol river below. The Vale of Rheidol Railway (a narrow gauge steam railway) travels the 11¾ miles between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge, offering splendid views. Other attractions near Aberystwyth include the scenic Hafod Estate and the old metal mining village of Cwmystwyth in the upper Ystwyth Valley. Another scenic drive can be made across the upland moors from Cwmystwyth to Rhayader and the spectacular Elan Valley lakelands.

Carmarthen on the River Towy is about 29 miles southerly, with a mix of traditional and modern shopping amenities including well known high street stores, university college, general hospital, heritage centre, and main line railway station with good rail links through Swansea to Cardiff. Main roads radiate out to all regions, including the A40, A48-M4 Link, A484 and A485. The National Botanic Garden of Wales is a few miles west of Carmarthen with a Great Glass House designed by Norman Foster.