6 bedroom house

A fine Arts & Crafts village house with large garden.


Description

Geldards is a substantial village house which dates back to the beginning of the twentieth century. The house has architectural styling inspired by the Arts & Crafts movement which was very fashionable at the time. With a particularly steeply pitched plain tiled roof with projecting dormers, mullioned bay and casement windows the property was originally built as a vast extension to the neighbouring property. Of particular note internally is the lofty, galleried and vaulted reception hall with its elegant staircase (which provides a great space for parties and formal dining) with a welcoming wood burning stove set into a fire surround, dado height panelling and an oak floor with ebony inlay.

The current owners have carried out an extensive sympathetic renovation over their tenure including the recent installation of a sound system to some rooms and the house is immaculately presented providing well proportioned family accommodation arranged over two principle floors with a surprisingly large third attic storey.

Off the entrance hall is a fine drawing room with an open fireplace, deep windows and French doors to the garden. The heart of the house is the large family kitchen/dining room which has Shaker style painted units, a granite topped island and a larder area with utility beyond. The units incorporate some integrated appliances a four oven gas Aga, dishwasher, and there is space for a range cooker. This great family space incorporates a dining area and leads to the French doors at the rear of the drawing room which open out onto a large paved terrace and the gardens. At the other end of the hallway is a family room approached through a lobby with built in bookshelves behind glazed cupboard doors. This room has a wide inglenook style brick fireplace with gas fired stove and mullioned window to the garden. The large laundry/ utility room has access to the driveway and there is also a cloakroom on the ground floor.

The first floor accommodation is reached via the fine staircase and long galleried landing. The main bedroom overlooks the garden, has a dressing area with built in wardrobes and an en suite bathroom with separate shower and roll top bath. The other bedrooms on this floor are all individual, two with outlooks over the garden and a fourth single bedroom set down a long corridor with an adjacent family bathroom. From the other end of the landing there is an additional flight of stairs which lead to a characterful study with dormer window, book shelves and storage built into the eaves and from this stairwell there is access to the top floor. Here the walls are insulated and lined with tongue and grooved panelling all painted in a calming palette. There is a double bedroom, a large bedroom/sitting room overlooking the garden and a shower room on this upper floor.

Outside
To the front a brick and flint wall with central wrought iron gate opens onto a shingled entrance court with climbing plants and a brick path leading up to the arched entrance porch. To the left of the house is a driveway with parking for up to three cars and the single garage. To the rear are beautiful landscaped gardens with a deep paved terrace surrounded by neat clipped box hedging enclosing planting. Steps lead up to the rest of the first section of garden which is partly walled and laid mainly to lawn. To one side is a double glazed “garden room/conservatory” with power and light laid on and beyond this deep shrub and herbaceous borders with a further paved seating area enclosed by a return of the adjacent wall. Beyond this area are raised vegetable beds and at this point the garden opens up to a greater width which runs behind the neighbouring property to the right. There is a wooded area underplanted with a mass of Spring flowering bulbs, a small orchard underplanted with wild flower garden, further shrub and herbaceous planting and a path leading through a woodland area and by a pond to to a further outbuilding/ potting shed, lined with plywood and with power laid on and an external water supply.

In al about 0.39 Acres

Location

Popular village with well-regarded primary school, doctors surgery, two public houses and “Days” bakery.

Picturesque market town of Saffron Walden (4 miles) with a wider range of shopping, recreational and cultural facilities

Local bus service running between Cambridge and Saffron Walden. Rail links from Great Chesterford station to London Liverpool Street and Cambridge. Fast service to London available from Audley End (5 miles).

Excellent road links via A11 and M11 to Stansted airport, the M25 and London.

Cambridge Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the Wellcome Trust, Genome Campus and a number of other Research and Business Parks within the area.

Local primary schooling is within the village with secondary schooling at Saffron Walden Country High and Joyce Franklin Academy in Newport (Depending on intake per academic year). There are many renowned independent schools in Cambridge.

(all distances and times are approximate)

Square Footage: 3,579 sq ft




Acreage: 0.39 Acres

Marketed by: Savills, Cambridge