5 bedroom detached house for sale

The Barns is an attractive part-weatherboarded family home offering more than 2,600 sq. ft. of characterful accommodation arranged over two floors. While in need of some cosmetic modernisation, the property offers the prospective purchaser an ideal opportunity to create a stunning family home with period features including some leaded glazing, exposed beams and original fireplaces. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming through reception hall with flagstone flooring, a useful cloakroom/shower room and storeroom. It includes an interconnecting suite of rooms comprising a vaulted 27 ft. living room with feature exposed brick open fireplace, a 25 ft. reception room with patio doors to the courtyard garden, and generous dining room. The wood-lined kitchen has quarry-tiled flooring, a range of wall and base units, integrated appliances, space for a good-sized table and a door to the garden. The ground floor is completed by a bedroom wing providing two good sized bedrooms. On the first floor the property provides a generous dual aspect principal bedroom with dressing room, two further well-proportioned bedrooms and a family bathroom.

The property is approached over a tarmac driveway offering private parking and giving access to an integral carport and to a detached weatherboarded barn, suitable for a variety of uses. A front aspect courtyard garden, accessible from the hall and large reception room, provides an ideal family and entertaining space, as does the generous part-walled rear garden which is laid mainly to level lawn interspersed with mature shrubs and features a summer house and paved terrace, the whole screened by mature trees.

The small village of Little Canfield sits near to the popular market town of Great Dunmow and its thriving high street with a wide range of independent shops, cafés, restaurants, public houses, leisure facilities, popular weekly market and primary school. Ideal for the commuter, the property enjoys easy access via the A120 to the M11 and the national motorway network and Stansted Airport which provides excellent rail links to London Liverpool Street in around 45 minutes together with frequent national and international flights. The area offers a good selection of independent schools including Felsted, Howe Green House, Bishop’s Stortford College, Saint Nicholas, New Hall, St. Anne’s Prep and St. Cedd’s.

Agents note: the vendor of this property is a relative of an employee of Strutt & Parker