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5 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
5 bed
3 bath

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Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Band G
Broadband: Ultra-fast 1000Mbps *
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • 5 bedrooms
  • 3 reception rooms
  • 3 bathrooms
  • Detached
  • Single Garage
Sparrows is a delightful Grade II listed village house, located on this sought after street. The house features in the well-loved tale, The Gingerbread Boy. The illustration is by Robert Lumley, who lived in Cage End, Hatfield Broad Oak.
The house enjoys a wealth of period features including a large inglenook fireplace and good ceiling heights in the sitting room and extensive fitted shelving in the study. The charming drawing room enjoys a period fireplace and bay window and the large light kitchen/breakfast room has extensive views over the mature garden. The bedroom accommodation is well-arranged with a well-proportioned principal bedroom with en suite shower. There are four further good-sized bedrooms over two floors and a further two bathrooms. The two-bedroom cottage adjoins the house with its own access and has excellent rental potential. Downstairs is a kitchen, family room, and shower room and two bedrooms upstairs. The extensive mature garden is mainly laid to lawn and interspersed by mature trees and herbaceous borders. There is a single garage located beyond the cottage.


The village of Hatfield Broad Oak offers a local rural lifestyle with a church primary school, post office, two public houses, butchers, and a village shop. The village is surrounded by beautiful open countryside, ideal for walkers and cyclists. Hatfield Heath lies approximately 2 miles away, with a small supermarket, restaurants, tea room, and public houses. There is easy access to Bishop's Stortford offering a more comprehensive range of leisure and shopping facilities, highly regarded schools in both the private and state sector, as well as a mainline railway station with regular commuter services to London Liverpool Street. There are good road links via the M11 providing onward access to the M25.
Bishop's Stortford mainline station 6.5 miles (London Liverpool Street form 38 minutes). and Stansted Airport 4.8 miles. Distances and times are approximate.

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Places of interest

    A thriving, smart and socially-minded Herts town, Bishop's Stortford is ideally placed town for the commuter, just 40 miles north east of London, offering a wonderful combination of metropolitan living with surrounding rural countryside. It attracts movers, predominantly from London, looking for that quality of life, reassessing their home, health, family, community, schools and environment but still living within easy reach of the capital. The town itself provides a range of comprehensive shopping with a mix of High Street brands alongside smaller independent outlets, a variety of eateries , plus recreational facilities all located on one main long High Street. Bishop’s Stortford offers a real mix of period and modern properties. The north-west corner of the town, close to Bishop’s Stortford College, and the period houses close to the station are the most desirable, including the likes of Avenue Road, Grange Road, Maze Green Road and Dane O’Coys Road. To the west of town are The Hadham villages, to the north-west the Pelham villages with a charming mix of period houses and to the south east of town are The Matchings. Bishop’s Stortford has an excellent and wide choice of state and independent schools. Bishop’s Stortford College is located within the town and Hockerill Anglo-European College has been consistently ranked as one of the leading schools in the UK.

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    Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on August 24, 2022

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    Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
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