Exotic Devon home with pool and sauna in 'timeless' village for sale

It's the stuff dreams are made off - you could own very own 40ft indoor pool with exotic wall murals

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If some of your favourite hobbies are reading, swimming and relaxing in a sauna, this dreamy North Devon home could be just the property for you. Lying close to the centre of the timeless, tranquil village of Horwood, and within 10 minutes of Instow beach, Bream House is a unique detached home with glorious southerly views and many unusual features.

Understood to have been built in 1997/1998, this fabulous four-bedroom house boasts a spacious main reception area overlooked by a galleried library or study - the ideal spot for any bookworm - and its own 40 ft indoor swimming pool complete with exotic wall murals and a sauna.

The substantial house exudes quality, with extensive use of oak throughout the property, including the staircase, gallery and quality doors, a built-in sound system, and underfloor heating. And while the property is well presented, it would also benefit from updating - allowing new owners to add their own quirky touches to this already one-off home.

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The property's reverse-level accommodation has been arranged to give the main reception rooms the best of the views. The four bedrooms are therefore on the lower level but have direct access, in most cases via a sun lounge, into the garden.

The first floor of the property features an entrance hall, a kitchen and breakfast room, and a spacious, L-shaped, open plan lounge and dining room, with one if its three windows framing unobstructed panoramic southerly views across the valley below, and its sliding patio doors opening to an enclosed and private balcony.

An oak staircase from the rear of this room leads up to the galleried library and study area which has a sloping ceiling, fitted wall-to-wall oak bookshelves, and a large triangular atrium-style window with far-reaching sea views.

Currently used as a snug or TV room, bedroom four has a Jack-and-Jill en suite that can also be accessed from the hall. At drive level, the ground floor features a utility room, a lower hall, and a boiler room.

It is also home to a master bedroom that boasts a patio door to a sun lounge, plus a dressing room, and a striking en suite bathroom with a sunken two-person hot air massage bath, and a large walk-in shower with both overhead and body jets.

Bedroom two has its own en suite bathroom with a sunken bath, plus patio doors to the sun lounge, while bedroom three features an en suite shower room.

For those who love a morning dip, there is a passageway linking the master bedroom to the pool area, the main reception area, and an external door.

Head outside and you will find a glorious garden that features ponds and waterfalls. With an infinity design merging with the background views, the rear garden is arranged as a series of external 'rooms' with the formal garden taking centre stage and separately screened areas for a kitchen garden and soft fruit.

The indoor pool, however, is a real feature of the property, whisking swimmers away to the jungle and tropics with every stroke. While the heated pool features mosaic tiles with a dolphin motif, the pool walls are entirely decorated with quality murals depicting jungle and tropical scenes.

A garden room area is an integral part of the pool hall, and has been constructed as a permanent building with three main windows, three roof lights, and French doors opening onto an outside terrace. An opening leads into the sauna room.

According to estate agents Stags, which is marketing Bream House for offers in excess of £900,000, the swimming pool, garden room, sauna and plant room, could potentially be converted into a self-contained, single-storey annexe for relatives or as a holiday let or as a leisure space, subject to any necessary planning permission.

In accordance with the 1979 Estate Agents Act Section 21, a declaration is made that the vendor is related to an employee of Stags Estate Agents.

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