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4 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
4 beds
2 baths
0.80 acre(s)
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Key information

TenureFreehold
Service charge£0 per annum
Council taxBand G
BroadbandSuper-fast 80Mbps *
Mobile signal
EEO2ThreeVodafone

Features and description

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Lovely period home with character
  • Three reception rooms plus study
  • Requiring some updating
  • Adjoining the River Ash and next to open countryside
  • Long, private driveway
  • Grade II Listed
  • Mature gardens of around 0.8 acre
  • Potential building plot (STPP)
A period house adjacent to open countryside with a potential building plot. Set in grounds of around 0. 8 acre.

Description

Ford House at Hadham Ford offers traditional characterful living and dates back to the early 1800’s.

A long sweeping driveway crosses the gardens to provide a turning and parking area and access to the front door via an attractive folly. The open entrance porch opens into the reception hallway with doors to the principal reception space. These include a formal drawing room, dining room and an additional snug/TV room as well as an area used as an office. Some of these rooms feature open fireplaces, the drawing room has a wood burning stove. The kitchen/breakfast room is fitted with a range of wall and base units and has space for an Aga

To the side of the house there is a conservatory/garden room providing potential additional indoor/outdoor entertainment space.

On the first floor there are four bedrooms, 2 of which have en suite facilities. The third bedroom has a part finished en suite shower room.

The house offers scope for further modernisation and improvement according to a buyers wishes.

On the outside, the gardens extend to around 0.8 acres and are partly walled with a delightful aspect to the River Ash and open farmland to the East. There are various mature shrubs and plants in the grounds including a delightful magnolia, willows, oak and a clambering wisteria covering the eastern elevation.

Potential Building Plot

In the southern section of the garden there is an area which may offer potential to create a separate dwelling in the future. It is around 0.3 of an acre.

NB: Internal Pictures taken October 2017

Location

The property stands in the hamlet of Hadham Ford on the fringes of the village of Little Hadham which offers a parish church, village hall, JMI school and a gastro pub / restaurant, the Nags Head.

Approximately 3.5 miles away is the market town of Bishop’s Stortford which provides multiple shopping and sporting facilities, schooling for all ages and and a mainline railway station with commuter services to London’s Liverpool Street.

On the outskirts of Bishop’s Stortford access is available to the M11 motorway with the A1 and Cambridge to the north and the M25 and London to the south.

The area is well known for country walks with a network of footpaths on the doorstep

The nearby A120 provides vehicular access also to the A10 again giving access to London and the M25 to the south.

Stansted London’s third international airport is also nearby.

Square Footage: 2,467 sq ft


Acreage: 0.8 Acres

Directions

SAT NAV POSTCODE SG11 2BW
The driveway to Ford House is diagonally opposite the Nag’s Head public house.

Additional Info

AGENTS NOTE:

There is an area of the garden (around 1/3 acre) at the entrance of the drive that may hold potential for building a house in the future. Planning is unlikely in the short to medium term, because of its proximity to the River Ash and current planning rules. However planning rules may change, hence the potential.

Services: Mains water, electricity, gas and drainage. Broadband connection.
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Savills - Bishop's Stortford
Savills - Bishop's Stortford
New Mead Barn, Wickham Hall, Hadham Road Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire CM23 1JG
01279 246720
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