The House
Step into the big open-plan kitchen/dining room, the kitchen part being a big oak framed extension that blends seamlessly with the older part of the house; light pours in through floor to ceiling glass walls, big double doors open onto the garden.
Straight ahead is the dining area, with a hefty table to gather round for scrumptious celebration dinners. Off to the right there’s a utility room with a loo to one end, and to the other, a boot room with a walk-in pantry.
Next to the dining room is the living room, lovely and cosy with sofas to curl up on and a wood-burner to keep you toasty on colder days; a whopping 8ft x 4ft projector screen is great for family movie nights. Beyond the living room is Bedroom 5, with an ensuite shower room.
Bedrooms 1-4 are upstairs , along with a family bathroom with a free standing bath and separate shower.
Outside at the front of the house there's a big south facing terrace with garden furniture and a barbecue, a barrel sauna and a hot tub; sit back, close your eyes and just enjoy being here with the peace and quiet and fresh country air. Tiptoe through the wild flower meadow to the side of the house, roll up your trousers and have a paddle in the stream that trips happily along at the bottom of the garden.
Local Area
From the doorstep of Otterhead House you can walk for miles around the field and lanes of the Blackdown Hills and you probably won’t see a soul. Over the road are Otterhead Lakes, once part of a Victorian estate that fell into ruin during the war years, now a tranquil nature reserve where beavers have been spotted, where ducks dabble on the lakes, kingfishers dart by the stream and dragonflies dance.
Just up the road is the sleepy village of Churchinford where you can stock up with local goodies at the community run shop and have a pub lunch at the York Inn. A couple of miles the other way is Bishopswood with a nature reserve and the award-winning Candleight Inn.
The Somerset county town of Taunton isn’t far, with big name and independent shops, a traditional park with an adventure course and golf club, a choice of places to eat, and on the outskirts of town, a multiscreen cinema and bowling alley.
Go for family days out at Wildwood Escot, Forde Abbey and Axe Valley Wildlife Park - all within easy travelling distance. For days by the sea the beaches of the Jurassic Coast are easy to get to - at Lyme Regis you can visit Dinosaurland Fossil Museum, and go out to sea on a mackerel fishing trip; at Seaton you can take a tram ride along the Axe estuary and wetlands, over the hill in Beer there’s Pecorama and Beer Quarry Caves, and a few miles on is the Donkey Sanctuary at Sidmouth.
Wherever you go, whatever you do, come back to Otterhead House to unwind for the evening before you head off to bed for a blissful night’s sleep. Beautiful holidays, wonderful memories.