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This property is no longer on the market
Floorplan
Map4 bedroom detached house
Study
Sold STC
Detached house
4 beds
2,415 sq ft / 224 sq m
Key information
Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Ask agent
Features and description
* OPEN HOUSE STRICTLY BY APPOINTMENT ONLY - SAT MARCH 19th * A charming Grade II listed cottage offering 4/5 double bedrooms, four receptions and extensive kitchen/dining room opening to the garden. Outbuilding with workshop, kitchen garden, herb garden, formal gardens with far reaching views across open countryside to the South. Generous gravel driveway and double garage with electric charge point. Walking distance to the village and a vast network of local country footpaths. EPC exempt.
Flaglands cottage offers a great deal of charm and character throughout. The property is in excellent condition both internally and externally, having been maintained and improved impeccably during the current owner’s occupation of 22 years.
Thought to date back to the 1600’s the cottage has been extended in more recent times, most recently benefitting from a fantastic single storey extension from the kitchen, which now provides a modern, vaulted dining/ breakfast room with stunning views of the garden and countryside to the South west. This generous space also opens via double doors onto the adjoining patio below the formal garden and gives further open access to the family room and ground floor cloakroom. The northwest wing of the house provides a charming sitting room with solid wood flooring, lovely views of the garden via a generous bay window and a wood burning stove on a tiled hearth. A further music / reading room also benefits from solid wood flooring, external access to the front of the cottage and an adjoining study which looks out to the northeast elevation.
The extensive utility/boot room is accessed via the kitchen and provides the recently installed pressurised water system, water softener and further external access to the surrounding patio to the east.
A turning stairwell leads to the four double first floor bedrooms. It is important to note that the master bedroom currently utilises the potential 5th double bedroom as an adjoining sitting/dressing room with its own log burning stove and fitted wardrobes. Utilised as it is, this entire southwest wing is dedicated to the master bedroom which also benefits from an ensuite shower room and walk in wardrobe. The three further bedrooms are all doubles, with fitted wardrobes sharing the family bathroom with separate corner shower. A small loft is accessed via the master with the main, extensive loft located on the landing with loft ladder.
EXTERNALLY
The formal gardens are laid out over two tiers. The lower tier sits above the driveway and double garage with woven willow fencing and a further herb garden to the front of the cottage. The second tier provides a stunning garden surrounded by lavender on a gravel seating area. Both sections of the garden benefit from facing southwest across far reaching arable farmland as far as the eye can see.
Established hedging and planting inspired by Beth Chatto’s dry garden with further specimen trees protect the opposite boundary to the northeast, which creates an extremely private and peaceful setting. Further landscaped seating areas are located at the top of the grounds within the
gravelled potager garden, which is surrounded and sheltered by beautiful espalier apple trees.
This section also provides a fruit cage and greenhouse, with a substantial weatherboarded outbuilding offering extensive garden storage and a workshop. Steps lead down from each tier to the lower patio that surrounds the property.
It is important to note that the double garage provides an electric charge point, storage above and a woodshed to the rear.
LOCATION
Flaglands Cottage enjoys a prominent position within this highly regarded Northwest village of Castle Hedingham, containing a wealth of fine period homes and cottages, named after its famous Norman Keep. Local amenities include a village shop, post office, two pubs, tea-room, doctor’s surgery, parish church, tennis club, a cricket ground and playing fields. The nearby market towns of Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree provide more extensive requirements. Witham, Kelvedon and Braintree provide commutability via mainline stations to London. There is a wide range of local schooling in all sectors nearby.
Flaglands cottage offers a great deal of charm and character throughout. The property is in excellent condition both internally and externally, having been maintained and improved impeccably during the current owner’s occupation of 22 years.
Thought to date back to the 1600’s the cottage has been extended in more recent times, most recently benefitting from a fantastic single storey extension from the kitchen, which now provides a modern, vaulted dining/ breakfast room with stunning views of the garden and countryside to the South west. This generous space also opens via double doors onto the adjoining patio below the formal garden and gives further open access to the family room and ground floor cloakroom. The northwest wing of the house provides a charming sitting room with solid wood flooring, lovely views of the garden via a generous bay window and a wood burning stove on a tiled hearth. A further music / reading room also benefits from solid wood flooring, external access to the front of the cottage and an adjoining study which looks out to the northeast elevation.
The extensive utility/boot room is accessed via the kitchen and provides the recently installed pressurised water system, water softener and further external access to the surrounding patio to the east.
A turning stairwell leads to the four double first floor bedrooms. It is important to note that the master bedroom currently utilises the potential 5th double bedroom as an adjoining sitting/dressing room with its own log burning stove and fitted wardrobes. Utilised as it is, this entire southwest wing is dedicated to the master bedroom which also benefits from an ensuite shower room and walk in wardrobe. The three further bedrooms are all doubles, with fitted wardrobes sharing the family bathroom with separate corner shower. A small loft is accessed via the master with the main, extensive loft located on the landing with loft ladder.
EXTERNALLY
The formal gardens are laid out over two tiers. The lower tier sits above the driveway and double garage with woven willow fencing and a further herb garden to the front of the cottage. The second tier provides a stunning garden surrounded by lavender on a gravel seating area. Both sections of the garden benefit from facing southwest across far reaching arable farmland as far as the eye can see.
Established hedging and planting inspired by Beth Chatto’s dry garden with further specimen trees protect the opposite boundary to the northeast, which creates an extremely private and peaceful setting. Further landscaped seating areas are located at the top of the grounds within the
gravelled potager garden, which is surrounded and sheltered by beautiful espalier apple trees.
This section also provides a fruit cage and greenhouse, with a substantial weatherboarded outbuilding offering extensive garden storage and a workshop. Steps lead down from each tier to the lower patio that surrounds the property.
It is important to note that the double garage provides an electric charge point, storage above and a woodshed to the rear.
LOCATION
Flaglands Cottage enjoys a prominent position within this highly regarded Northwest village of Castle Hedingham, containing a wealth of fine period homes and cottages, named after its famous Norman Keep. Local amenities include a village shop, post office, two pubs, tea-room, doctor’s surgery, parish church, tennis club, a cricket ground and playing fields. The nearby market towns of Sudbury, Halstead and Braintree provide more extensive requirements. Witham, Kelvedon and Braintree provide commutability via mainline stations to London. There is a wide range of local schooling in all sectors nearby.
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