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House For Sale £1,500,000
The Drive, Watling Lane, Thaxted, Dunmow


Description
Chelmer House is an attractive family home offering almost 2,600 sq. ft. of light-filled accommodation arranged over two floors. The ground floor accommodation flows from a welcoming reception hall with exposed wooden flooring and useful cloakroom, and includes a generous sitting room with feature fireplace, a second larger wooden-floored sitting room with feature open fireplace and sliding doors to a large conservatory with French doors to the terrace. Adjacent is a spacious dining room, also with sliding doors to the conservatory. The rear aspect kitchen/breakfast room has a range of wall and base units, modern integrated appliances, and space for a good-sized table for more informal meals. The ground floor accommodation is completed by a useful fitted utility room and two inter-connecting storerooms.

On the first floor the property provides a generous dual aspect L-shaped principal bedroom with built-in storage and en suite bathroom, three further double bedrooms, all with built-in storage, and a modern family bathroom.

The home also has full planning permission granted to create a substantial 4,000 sq ft modern home that would elevate the plot. Full planning details UTT/22/3206/HHF

The property is approached over a sweeping driveway offering plenty of parking space and leading past the house through a five-bar gate to a detached L-shaped stable block with four loose boxes and hardstanding. The garden is laid mainly to level lawn and features a swimming pool with paved surround and a paved terrace, the whole ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining and enjoying views over the property’s (approx.) 5 acres of stock-fenced and tree-lined paddocks, including an area adjacent to the house and stables suitable for use as a manège.

The picturesque market town of Thaxted pre-dates the Domesday Book and is full of properties of considerable architectural interest including the famous Guildhall, church, windmill and numerous mediaeval houses. The town offers a good range of day-to-day amenities including local shops, public houses, cafés, restaurants, GP and dentist surgeries and a popular primary school. The market town of Great Dunmow, Saffron Walden and Bishop’s Stortford offer a wider range of day-to-day facilities including independent and high street stores, shopping centres, retail parks and excellent sporting facilities. Thaxted 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, St. Margaret’s Prep, Stoke College and Gosfield.

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