Key features
Property Features
Description
The site has southerly views over countryside and is a most deceptively spacious former single-storey agricultural lambing shed of over 300 square meters with approval under Class Q for its conversion to form a full residential dwelling with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living room, lounge, cloakroom, games room and study, and set in just under a half acre of parking and garden and agricultural land. The site should qualify for betterment planning.
Details
Set in countryside just north of the pretty hamlet of West Buckland, and midway between Barnstaple, the administrative centre of North Devon and South Molton, an expanding town to the east, all within 5 to 8 miles.
The site has southerly views over countryside and is a most deceptively spacious former single-storey agricultural lambing shed of over 300 square meters with approval under Class Q for its conversion to form a full residential dwelling with 4 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, living room, lounge, cloakroom, games room and study, and set in just under a half acre of parking and garden and agricultural land.
There are about a hlaf dozen other properties in the area around Elwell but not immediately adjoining at the end of a no through country lane about a half mile to the north east of West Buckland with its noted Independent School. West Buckland a popular rural village is set around the ancient parish church with many period cottages and a number of more modern developments and itself being about a mile north of the A361 Barnstaple to South Molton North Devon Link Road which provides the property with very convenient access.
To the north east of the property is the Exmoor National Park with its massive expanse of heather clad moorlands for walking and riding whilst to the west the dramatic North Devon coastline with its sandy beaches at Saunton and Croyde with the more dramatic cliffs around Combe Martin, Lynton and Lynmouth to the north.
The A361 connects through to Junction 27 on the M5 motorway to the east side of Tiverton where there is also the Parkway Railway Station from where journey times to London/Paddington are approximately 2 hours distant.
Current Plans Show
Entrance Hall
Cloakroom
Study Area
2 Double Bedrooms
Both En Suite Wet Rooms
2 Further Double Bedrooms
Family Bathroom
Living Room
Lounge
Games Room
Utilty Room
Car Parking
Grass Paddock
Prior approval for Class Q granted on the 22nd August 2024 under applcation number 78976 by North Devon Council for a change of use of agricultural building to dwellinghouse (Class Q ( A & B ) )
NOTE – A previous potential buyer achieved planning for a new build on site under application number 81068 on the 7th January 2026. These plans are not being sold with the barn as they are copyright but it does show the barns potential.
Copies of the approval available from the North Devon Council website or from the selling Agents.
NOTE – Open fronted shed to left in photo to be removed as part of planning approval.
