House For Sale £2,500,000
An historic moated Manor House set in about 20 acres.
Location
• Guilden Morden is a parish village located about 16 miles south west of Cambridge. The popular area benefits from two public houses, parish church, village hall and post office. Comprehensive shopping facilities can be found in nearby Baldock and Royston.
• Ashwell & Morden railway station is approximately 4 miles distant with regular rail services to both Cambridge and London.
• For the commuter, Guilden Morden is well placed for the A505 and A10 and the A1(M) trunk road leading south to the M25, and north to the Midlands and beyond.
• Guilden Morden has a primary school with secondary schooling available at Knights Templar at Baldock and Bassingbourn Village College. There is independent schooling at Kingshott School, Hitchin for the 3-18 years age group and St Christopher's School, Letchworth for the 4 – 18 years age group, St Francis' at Letchworth, Kimbolton School and a range of independent schools in Cambridge.
• Clubs and activities are available in the village for all ages and include but are not limited to a football club, cricket club, Women's Institute and local history group.
(all distances and times are approximate)
Description
Morden Hall is a substantial timber framed former manor house set on a private moated site at the end of a long driveway on the edge of the well connected village of Guilden Morden. An earlier house was built on the site which is said to have been destroyed in the Peasants uprising at the end of the fourteenth century but the origins of the present house date back to the 15th century when a family called Haselden rebuilt the property incorporating some elements from the original house. The building has been much altered and added to over the centuries but is a fine example of a high grade heavy timber framed building originally a manor house but later adapted for use as a farmhouse.
Approached from the west the prominent front elevation features three tall gables with decorative barge boards, two are jettied, and the whole is coloured with ochre render with inserted later Georgian style sash windows. Of particular note internally are the honey coloured beams evident throughout the house and the light and spacious practical accommodation which is unusually light for a building of this style and construction.
The main bedroom is vaulted to full height with large mullioned and transomed leaded light windows which let in lots of light. The atmospheric dining room has a tall heavily beamed ceiling and French doors leading out into the garden. The entrance hallway, sitting room and fine drawing room feature oak flooring.
Overall there are five first floor bedrooms and three bathrooms two of which are en suite. A sixth bedroom is found on the second floor. The accommodation is shown in greater detail in the attached floor plans.
In addition to the house there is a well appointed pretty cottage at the end of the drive with an integral double car port and attached workshop. This building offers a practical space for guests or staff and has potential to be expanded at ground floor level if required (subject to any necessary consents).
To one side of the drive there are further outbuildings including a modern portal framed machinery store incorporating two rooms currently used for offices together with a large games room. There are also some animal pens attached to this building.
The property is accessed from Trap Road and has a long road frontage with a tree belt. The entrance crosses a cattle grid and a long metalled driveway leads down towards the house and outbuildings flanked on either side by parkland paddocks with water and field shelters and wooded boundaries. The drive passes the modern outbuilding mentioned above in front of which is a parking area and leads on to the cottage.
The house is accessed over a bridge over the moat and from this point you enter the gardens which are laid to lawn and incorporate floor beds and shrub and herbaceous planting. A further arched wooden bridge to the right hand side leads to the other side of the moat, the well wired hard tennis court and the remainder of the land and the mature broad leafed woodland to the east. In all about 20.67 acres
Note: A public footpath crosses the property well away from the house and cottage from south to north.
Square Footage: 4079 sq ft
Acreage: 20.8 Acres
Location
• Guilden Morden is a parish village located about 16 miles south west of Cambridge. The popular area benefits from two public houses, parish church, village hall and post office. Comprehensive shopping facilities can be found in nearby Baldock and Royston.
• Ashwell & Morden railway station is approximately 4 miles distant with regular rail services to both Cambridge and London.
• For the commuter, Guilden Morden is well placed for the A505 and A10 and the A1(M) trunk road leading south to the M25, and north to the Midlands and beyond.
• Guilden Morden has a primary school with secondary schooling available at Knights Templar at Baldock and Bassingbourn Village College. There is independent schooling at Kingshott School, Hitchin for the 3-18 years age group and St Christopher's School, Letchworth for the 4 – 18 years age group, St Francis' at Letchworth, Kimbolton School and a range of independent schools in Cambridge.
• Clubs and activities are available in the village for all ages and include but are not limited to a football club, cricket club, Women's Institute and local history group.
(all distances and times are approximate)
Description
Morden Hall is a substantial timber framed former manor house set on a private moated site at the end of a long driveway on the edge of the well connected village of Guilden Morden. An earlier house was built on the site which is said to have been destroyed in the Peasants uprising at the end of the fourteenth century but the origins of the present house date back to the 15th century when a family called Haselden rebuilt the property incorporating some elements from the original house. The building has been much altered and added to over the centuries but is a fine example of a high grade heavy timber framed building originally a manor house but later adapted for use as a farmhouse.
Approached from the west the prominent front elevation features three tall gables with decorative barge boards, two are jettied, and the whole is coloured with ochre render with inserted later Georgian style sash windows. Of particular note internally are the honey coloured beams evident throughout the house and the light and spacious practical accommodation which is unusually light for a building of this style and construction.
The main bedroom is vaulted to full height with large mullioned and transomed leaded light windows which let in lots of light. The atmospheric dining room has a tall heavily beamed ceiling and French doors leading out into the garden. The entrance hallway, sitting room and fine drawing room feature oak flooring.
Overall there are five first floor bedrooms and three bathrooms two of which are en suite. A sixth bedroom is found on the second floor. The accommodation is shown in greater detail in the attached floor plans.
In addition to the house there is a well appointed pretty cottage at the end of the drive with an integral double car port and attached workshop. This building offers a practical space for guests or staff and has potential to be expanded at ground floor level if required (subject to any necessary consents).
To one side of the drive there are further outbuildings including a modern portal framed machinery store incorporating two rooms currently used for offices together with a large games room. There are also some animal pens attached to this building.
The property is accessed from Trap Road and has a long road frontage with a tree belt. The entrance crosses a cattle grid and a long metalled driveway leads down towards the house and outbuildings flanked on either side by parkland paddocks with water and field shelters and wooded boundaries. The drive passes the modern outbuilding mentioned above in front of which is a parking area and leads on to the cottage.
The house is accessed over a bridge over the moat and from this point you enter the gardens which are laid to lawn and incorporate floor beds and shrub and herbaceous planting. A further arched wooden bridge to the right hand side leads to the other side of the moat, the well wired hard tennis court and the remainder of the land and the mature broad leafed woodland to the east. In all about 20.67 acres
Note: A public footpath crosses the property well away from the house and cottage from south to north.
Square Footage: 4079 sq ft
Acreage: 20.8 Acres
