Manor Garden House is an exceptional and most elegant Grade II* Listed family home set in wonderful grounds. The front of the property is Tudor and dates back to the 17 th century. Originally built and known as the Angel Inn, it was rumoured that King Charles II stayed here on journeys out of the capital. The rear of the house is classical Georgian architecture and both sections of the house have been seamlessly combined over the centuries that followed. It is beautifully presented and retains many features indicative of 17th and 18th century architecture and craftsmanship, including sash and casement windows, wooden flooring, high ceilings with fine cornicing and original panelling and fireplaces. Offering almost 3,300 sq. ft. of sensitively modernised accommodation, the ground floor flows from a spacious yet welcoming reception hall with black-and-white tiled flooring and a feature
open fireplace. It comprises a generous sitting room with early 18th century panelling, window
seating and feature fireplace, a spacious office
with a glazed corner cupboard also with panelling and window seating and a large dining room with feature fireplace with woodburning stove. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a spacious kitchen/breakfast room for more informal dining. At first floor there is a generous vaulted bedroom with exposed beams, built-in storage and en-suite bathroom and four further well-proportioned double bedrooms with a modern family shower room.

The property is approached through a doorcase
with plain pilasters and a moulded cornice hood and through twin stone pillars and double wooden gates over a gravelled side driveway and courtyard providing private parking for multiple vehicles and giving access to a paved dining area, double garage and outbuilding with fitted utility room and gardener’s cloakroom. The well-maintained rear gardens, are a particular feature of this property, laid mainly to level lawn interspersed with mature shrubs and trees leading down to the River Ver where there are many seating areas. Also to the rear is a paved vegetable garden with raised beds
and shed and a generous terrace with a central
path to a sitting and dining area bordered by an
impressive formal parterre-style topiary garden,
ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining.
For the keen angler Manor Garden House enjoys a private right to fish the River Ver, one of England’s Rainforests, a rare chalk stream offering clear, mineral rich water, attracting a large variety of aquatic plants and wildlife and particularly favourable to the brown trout.

Located on Fishpool Street a highly regarded
road within St Albans conservation area and just
over a mile from the mainline station and half a mile from the city centre, with close proximity to
the Roman Verulamium Park and River Ver.