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5 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
5 bed
4 bath
2.20 acre(s)

Key information

Tenure: Ask agent
Ground rent: £0 per annum | review period: unconfirmed
Service charge: £0 per annum
Council tax: Band TBC
Broadband: Super-fast 38Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
Water: Ask agent
Heating: Ask agent
Electricity: Ask agent
Sewerage: Ask agent
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Property description & features

  • Five bedooms
  • Three reception rooms
  • Four bathrooms
  • Fitted kitchen/breakfast room
  • Essex Barn and outbuildings
  • Retained original features
  • Extensively refurbished
  • Grounds of 2.2 acres
Believed to date from the 16th Century, Brook Farm offers accommodation arranged over three
floors. The present owners have undertaken a tremendous amount of improvements/renovation including replacing the main roof, windows and heating systems, and have reinsulated the structure with woollen insulation.

The entrance hall, with exposed brickwork, leads to three spacious reception rooms with a wealth of beams and Inglenook fireplaces. All the fireplaces have fully working woodburning stoves. The substantial dining room, complete with the original style brick floor, is perfect for entertaining. The bespoke kitchen/breakfast room offers a range of handmade solid oak painted units incorporated appliances, quartz worktops, boiling water tap, a range cooker, central island with breakfast bar, there is further complimentary built-in storage cupboards and underfloor heating. There is a separate utility room and cloakroom.

To the first floor the principal bedroom features a dressing room complete with hand-made oakdoored wardrobes and an en-suite bathroom with double shower and freestanding bath, there is a secondary staircase from the kitchen/breakfast room up to this bedroom. The second bedroom comes with a double height ceiling and original features including a fireplace complete with wood burner. There is also a wood burner in the principal bedroom and another bathroom with double shower opposite. The second floor has two further bedrooms, each with newly fitted en-suite bathrooms featuring showers.

The property has surrounding gardens with a second gated entrance, seating areas, lawns and mature trees with a feature red brick and flint wall. The plot extends to approx. 2.2 acres and offers space for paddocks. Pathways lead round the farmhouse and to the detached Barn, a substantial outbuilding offering potential as a 4 bedroom conversion (subject to planning consent) with adjoining outbuilding with tiled roof offering potential for stabling and storage.

The small village of Barnston lies in a convenient
and well-connected position close to the larger
village of Great Dunmow and within easy reach of Braintree, Chelmsford and Stansted Airport. Great Dunmow has a variety of everyday amenities, including local shops, cafés and restaurants and a large supermarket. There are also two primary schools in the village and a secondary school, while the independent Felsted School is located in the nearby village of Felsted. Braintree is eight miles away and Chelmsford is 11 miles to the south, with both offering a variety of shops, supermarkets and leisure facilities, as well as further state and independent schooling. The A120 is half a mile away and provides easy access towards Stansted Airport, while Chelmsford mainline station offers services to London Liverpool Street, taking 36 minutes

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    Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on August 20, 2022

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    Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
    Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
    Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s

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    Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on August 20, 2022

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    Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
    Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
    Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
    Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
    Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services

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