4 bedroom detached house for sale

NIMNEY HOUSE is a fantastic opportunity to purchase a unique family home in the centre of the historic and outstanding village of Much Hadham. It is the first time the house has been on the market for 35 years and enjoys a superb location in the centre of the village but private, bordered by allotments, sports fields and within walking distance of fine undulating countryside and popular with commuters with access to the M11 and mainline train stations to the south.

The house is both well-equipped and presented and has benefitted from significant expenditure in recent years particularly to the bath/shower rooms and kitchen/breakfast room. The accommodation is arranged over three floors. An entrance hallway with a parquet floor, leads to a ground floor cloak and shower room.

From the hallway there is a door through to the sitting room with a fireplace and French doors to the garden and adjoining this there is a substantial dining room with fireplace at one end and doors out to the garden. There is also a doorway from the hallway and to the excellent kitchen/breakfast room. The kitchen/breakfast room is first class with a bar at one end and has a significant range of modern base and wall storage cupboards, double sink and Miele appliances, pair of ovens, coffee making machine, American style fridge-freezer and a secondary fridge-freezer. There is a central island unit with granite work surfaces and an induction hob. There is also a wine fridge, dishwasher and cabling for a wall mounted TV. The utility room also has granite work surfaces and houses the electricity fuse box and meters. A doorway leads to a secondary hallway with a second cloakroom and to a family/recreation room. There is a front door to this area of the house, and it would be possible to create an independent annexe. The family/recreation room has a significant number of high quality fitted cupboards and drawers and a bar in one corner. A staircase leads to the first floor where there is a large bedroom and adjoining bathroom.

In the main house, on the first floor, there is a landing with linen cupboard and a master bedroom suite where there is a large walk-in shower room and dressing room and a range of fitted wardrobes and storage cupboards. There are two further double bedrooms both with en-suite facilities and benefitting from fine views over the grounds. A staircase from the landing leads to the second floor which runs from one end of the house to the other and could provide an additional pair of bedrooms, an office, or a games room.

OUTSIDE, Nimney House is well set back from the High Street in a private location inside a set of remote-controlled gates on brick piers. The driveway leads to a sizeable parking and turning area in front of the house as well as to the garage. The gardens are very much a feature; they are well established and partly wooded. These gardens are a mixture of shrub borders, maturing coniferous and deciduous trees, terraces, and an unusually shaped garden pod for evening entertainment. Beside the house there is a brick-built boiler room with two modern gas fire boilers which provide the heating and the hot water.

Towards the rear of the garden there is a hard tennis court. There are further storage buildings for garden machinery. The grounds to the rear of the house enjoy a southerly aspect and of particular note is the unusual privacy afforded by this extensive village garden and the well-established trees and shrubs.

PLANNING - Considerable work has been undertaken to establish the likelihood of gaining planning consent for residential re-development of the garden. It seems likely that an appropriate planning application would be successful, but the family have decided not to apply for planning and to sell the property freehold without any restrictions, uplifts or covenants.

Much Hadham is a very popular and well known East Hertfordshire village with local store, health centre, garage, fire station, recreation ground, public house and primary school. The area is convenient for the commuter, as it is situated almost equidistant between the A10 and M11. The towns of Bishop’s Stortford and Ware lie approximately 6 miles and 8 miles distant respectively, and provide a more comprehensive range of facilities, and both have mainline stations to London Liverpool Street. There are two golf courses within 2 miles of the village.