House For Sale £1,300,000
The Property: An elegant, striking Georgian style detached four bedroom residence set in a quarter of an acre of beautiful landscaped gardens.
Description: This attractive detached, four-bedroom property is positioned in a quarter of an acre of gardens and was built in the 1930's in the Georgian style, with elegant sash windows, high ceilings and solid wood floors.
The current owners, who restored the house, have kept original features such as ceiling coving, quarry floor tiles in the kitchen, solid pine doors and open fireplaces. Through the handsome black front door you step into a spacious hallway flooded with light from a large window above the original staircase. The ground floor has three reception rooms which face south overlooking the front lawn, all with tall, elegant sash windows. To the right is the spacious family room or 'snug', with a tiled fireplace and contemporary log burner. The other side of the front door is the dining room, followed by the sitting room with its brick fronted open fireplace and triple aspect windows. On the other side of the hall at the rear of the house is the kitchen, with cream cabinets and warm red wall tiles reflecting the quarry tiles of the floor, and a partially glazed door leading onto the rear terrace. A downstairs cloakroom completes the ground floor rooms.
Upstairs, the four double bedrooms all face south, with the large principal bedroom leading to a spacious en-suite with both an air bath and shower. There is also a family bathroom on this floor.
The house also has very useful cellar space, currently used mainly as a workshop with storage, including a wine rack along one wall, and a utility room. At the rear of the property a large outbuilding has multiple rooms including a large double garage, workshop, wood store and garden equipment store, which could be developed, subject to planning permission, e.g. – into home working space and/or a games room or a gym.
A large sunny terrace in front of the outbuildings provides the perfect spot for outdoor entertaining, with brick-walled beds full of flowers and shrubs crossed with pathways leading to wide lawns at the front of the house, with a pretty diamond-shaped lily pond and two enormous copper beech trees marking the front boundary.
The Owners' Story
“We bought this house 46 years ago when it was derelict and destined to be knocked down. We're delighted to have been able to save it and restore it to a comfortable family home. We've loved living here, have brought up our children here and our grandchildren have often come to stay, they all loved the space and freedom. It's a great house for entertaining with plenty of space both inside and out: We have both a sitting room and a family room, which we call the snug, as well as the kitchen and dining room. The garden at the front has a big lawn where our children and their friends, then our grandchildren, played ball games, and gardens at the sides and back with lots of paths perfect for hide and seek.
We were careful to keep original features when we restored the house, including open fireplaces in the sitting room and snug where we now have a cosy log burner. The staircase is original, as are the sold pine doors, the floorboards under the carpets, the ceiling coving and the sash windows. We love the whole house, but our favourite room in winter is the snug, and in summer the best place to be is the terrace at the back of the house, which is a real sun trap.
We've had some wonderful times in this house: Our daughter got married from here, we had 50 people in the garden at our golden wedding; we have used the house and garden many times for hosting family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours at parties.
Now that we're ready to downsize we'd like to hand the house over to another family who we hope will enjoy living here as much as we have done.”
Council Tax Band G £3,434.42 Apr 22/Mar 23.
Location: Digswell is a village in Hertfordshire just two miles north of Welwyn Garden City, six miles from the county town of Hertford and 27 miles north of London. From the house it's just a few minutes’ walk to Welwyn North station, from where trains reach London King's Cross in 30 minutes and 1 mile from the motorway network. The village has a primary school, pub, local shop and tennis club. Digswell is surrounded by Hertfordshire countryside with lots of walks directly from the house through ancient woodland, around fields and meadows and along the River Mimram. “We've been walking around here for more than 40 years and we're still discovering new paths, ” say the owners of Castelmere.
Description: This attractive detached, four-bedroom property is positioned in a quarter of an acre of gardens and was built in the 1930's in the Georgian style, with elegant sash windows, high ceilings and solid wood floors.
The current owners, who restored the house, have kept original features such as ceiling coving, quarry floor tiles in the kitchen, solid pine doors and open fireplaces. Through the handsome black front door you step into a spacious hallway flooded with light from a large window above the original staircase. The ground floor has three reception rooms which face south overlooking the front lawn, all with tall, elegant sash windows. To the right is the spacious family room or 'snug', with a tiled fireplace and contemporary log burner. The other side of the front door is the dining room, followed by the sitting room with its brick fronted open fireplace and triple aspect windows. On the other side of the hall at the rear of the house is the kitchen, with cream cabinets and warm red wall tiles reflecting the quarry tiles of the floor, and a partially glazed door leading onto the rear terrace. A downstairs cloakroom completes the ground floor rooms.
Upstairs, the four double bedrooms all face south, with the large principal bedroom leading to a spacious en-suite with both an air bath and shower. There is also a family bathroom on this floor.
The house also has very useful cellar space, currently used mainly as a workshop with storage, including a wine rack along one wall, and a utility room. At the rear of the property a large outbuilding has multiple rooms including a large double garage, workshop, wood store and garden equipment store, which could be developed, subject to planning permission, e.g. – into home working space and/or a games room or a gym.
A large sunny terrace in front of the outbuildings provides the perfect spot for outdoor entertaining, with brick-walled beds full of flowers and shrubs crossed with pathways leading to wide lawns at the front of the house, with a pretty diamond-shaped lily pond and two enormous copper beech trees marking the front boundary.
The Owners' Story
“We bought this house 46 years ago when it was derelict and destined to be knocked down. We're delighted to have been able to save it and restore it to a comfortable family home. We've loved living here, have brought up our children here and our grandchildren have often come to stay, they all loved the space and freedom. It's a great house for entertaining with plenty of space both inside and out: We have both a sitting room and a family room, which we call the snug, as well as the kitchen and dining room. The garden at the front has a big lawn where our children and their friends, then our grandchildren, played ball games, and gardens at the sides and back with lots of paths perfect for hide and seek.
We were careful to keep original features when we restored the house, including open fireplaces in the sitting room and snug where we now have a cosy log burner. The staircase is original, as are the sold pine doors, the floorboards under the carpets, the ceiling coving and the sash windows. We love the whole house, but our favourite room in winter is the snug, and in summer the best place to be is the terrace at the back of the house, which is a real sun trap.
We've had some wonderful times in this house: Our daughter got married from here, we had 50 people in the garden at our golden wedding; we have used the house and garden many times for hosting family, friends, work colleagues and neighbours at parties.
Now that we're ready to downsize we'd like to hand the house over to another family who we hope will enjoy living here as much as we have done.”
Council Tax Band G £3,434.42 Apr 22/Mar 23.
Location: Digswell is a village in Hertfordshire just two miles north of Welwyn Garden City, six miles from the county town of Hertford and 27 miles north of London. From the house it's just a few minutes’ walk to Welwyn North station, from where trains reach London King's Cross in 30 minutes and 1 mile from the motorway network. The village has a primary school, pub, local shop and tennis club. Digswell is surrounded by Hertfordshire countryside with lots of walks directly from the house through ancient woodland, around fields and meadows and along the River Mimram. “We've been walking around here for more than 40 years and we're still discovering new paths, ” say the owners of Castelmere.
