4 bedroom detached house

Located between Wethersfield and Shalford, this beautifully presented detached Grade II Listed cottage with a well maintained thatched roof, detached garage/home office/studio and south easterly facing garden with views over open countryside. Approached via an access road off the Braintree Road, next to a dairy farm, the property, has a private driveway leading to the garage. Formerly farm cottages the property has three staircases - the entrance hallway to the rear gives access to the central reception which features an Inglenook fireplace and access into the spacious study. There is a further sitting room with external door and vaulted ceiling. There is also a secondary staircase leading up to the first floor bedroom. Off the central hallway is also a dining room with another feature fireplace and stairs up to the first floor. Adjacent is a utility room and, opposite a bathroom, cloakroom and storage. The country-style kitchen/breakfast room features a vaulted ceiling, terracotta floor tiles, range of wood units, granite worktops and an inset rangemaster cooker. To the first floor the principal bedroom has ample fitted wardrobes and doorway into an en-suite. There are three further bedrooms.

The detached garage has a spacious studio/home office to the rear with additional loft storage above. To the rear is a sun terrace running across the rear of the property offering lots of space for outside entertaining with French doors opening from the main reception and hallway. Beyond the landscaped garden offers mature flower and shrub borders, trees and an expanse of well-tended lawns together with a summerhouse with open views across farmland. The village amenities at Wethersfield and Shalford are closeby with Braintree town centre within 6 miles and the A120 to Dunmow within 10 miles. The surrounding countryside offers an abundance of country walks and locations such as Gosfield and villages on the Essex/Suffolk borders.

Property Information: Tenure Freehold, Grade II Listing status, EPC exempt, oil fired heating, private drainage. Ref: BRS220165.

Braintree railway station approx. 6.3 miles (London Liverpool Street approx. 60 minutes) | Freeport Shopping Village approx. 7.3 miles
Wethersfield CofE Primary School approx. 1 mile | Gosfield Lake Resort approx. 5 miles | Main road links via A120/M11/M25 (Stansted Airport just 15 miles).