4 bedroom detached house for sale

KESTRELS is a nicely proportioned Grade II Listed detached barn conversion providing versatile living accommodation placed in this most attractive cluster of homes forming a private courtyard setting. The property contains many features associated with a property of this type, including exposed beams and timbers and a brick fireplace.

The front door opens into an entrance hall where stairs rise to the first floor and doors lead off to all principal living areas. The main living area combines sitting and dining space in one large open-plan area, partially divided by open studwork and forming a broad L shape. The room features an exposed brick fireplace with fitted stove and three windows drawing in natural light. From here a door opens into a study which provides ideal space, should there be a need to work from home, exposed timbers and window to the side. There are two further reception rooms accessed from the main hallway, creating a family room or a ground floor bedroom with window to one side and door opening out to the rear, whilst a separate dining room has windows to the front and side and a range of exposed timbers. The kitchen looks out to the rear providing a range of storage cupboards and worktops, door to outside and space for appliances along with a fitted Esse oil-fired stove which also provides radiator heating. A separate utility room provides further worktops and storage cupboards and has a door to outside. A shower room, also accessed from the entrance hall, contains a 3-piece suite.

Upstairs the first floor landing provides access to 4 bedrooms and family bathroom which contains a 3-piece suite.

OUTSIDE, the property sits behind a front garden area which contains a range of well-established plants and shrubs, whilst an adjacent gravel driveway leads to a further parking area and double cart lodge, which has been shortened internally by the creation of a useful storage shed.

The gardens to the rear are a particularly impressive feature of the property, thoughtfully landscaped and containing a wide variety of mature plants, shrubs and trees, creating some lovely outside space with its paved terrace providing ideal space for outside entertaining. There are areas of lawn, a vegetable plot containing fruit cages, a greenhouse and summer house to one side.

DUDDENHOE END is a small hamlet which is approximately 6 miles from the market town of Saffron Walden, and ten miles distant from the market town of Royston. Audley End Station (London's Liverpool Street) lies some 5 miles from the hamlet. Duddenhoe End has a thatched church and is surrounded by Essex farmland.