THIS property dates back to the 1700's and local folklore has it that The Grange was a stopping off place for pilgrims travelling to Glastonbury.

It was a single house until the mid 1900s when it was divided into two separate homes. However, both are once again owned by the same family and there is now an opportunity to recreate the earlier single, substantial country house with its flexible ancillary accommodation, or indeed to achieve an income from its component parts, as the current owners have done.

The entire property is Grade II listed and is an attractive two-storey country house built of dressed Lias stone with pale red brick infilling under a Roman clay tiled roof.

Both houses have good-sized rooms with excellent ceiling heights and have retained some lovely architectural features including diamond-paned leaded lights, impressive flagstone and oak parquet floors, vaulted ceilings, inglenook and carved stone fireplaces and ceiling beams.

Both houses have four good-sized double bedrooms, all with good outlooks. Abbots Grange also has a fifth double bedroom adjacent to its principal bedroom which would make an ideal nursery and currently serves as a yoga room.

The Grange has a lovely outlook at the front up a village lane towards the church and across a neighbouring paddock. The rest of the house looks out across its garden which is fringed by a backdrop of mature trees.

Abbots Grange meanwhile looks out partly across its courtyard but mainly to the rear across its beautiful, part-walled garden towards the unspoilt ridgeline of the Polden Hills.

SUMMARY; Location; Ford Lane, Stawell, Bridgwater; Price; £2,100,000; Agent; Knight Frank; Contact; 020 3869 4758.