12 bedroom house

Features
Main house
Reception hall | Sitting room | Dining room
Kitchen/breakfast room | 3 Bedrooms | Bathroom Shower room |Cloakroom | Wine cellar | Cart lodge with 4 garages, double carport & store | Annexe with sitting room, kitchen, 2 bedrooms & shower room | Summer house | Outdoor covered dining area | 10 acre Garden and Parklands | 13 acre Woodland

Apartment 1
Sitting room | Kitchen/breakfast room
2 Bedrooms | Bathroom | Shower room

Apartment 2
2 Sitting rooms | Kitchen/breakfast room
3 Bedrooms | Bathroom | Shower room

Apartment 3
Sitting room | Family room | Dining room | Kitchen 2 Bedrooms | Bathroom | Shower room

Rowney Priory was a small religious Abbey
for Benedictine Nuns founded in or around
1164.

The Priory ceased to have any religious status at the dissolution of the monasteries in 1535, during the reign of Henry VIII. Subsequently the site went into private ownership and for several centuries it was a farmhouse. Thereafter several notable
people such as the Irish Composer Sir Michael William Balfe (best known for his Opera The Bohemian Girl) resided here between 1864 - 1874. In 1882 it was purchased by Mr J H Dugdale who
commenced significant change and by the turn of the 20th century the building and gardens as we see them today had been created.

The Property
This charming family home now being offered for the first time to the market in over 43 years includes almost 3,500 square feet of grand, elegant accommodation, presented in a traditional style with a wealth of period features. There is an
impressive wood panelled reception hall with a turning staircase and a galleried landing above, together with a well-proportioned sitting room of 29ft, with a south-facing bay window, French doors
opening onto the large terrace and a fireplace fitted with a wood burning stove. There is also a formal dining room and a kitchen with cream storage units, wooden worktops and an integrated hob and oven.

To the first floor there are three spacious double bedrooms, one of which has an en suite shower room, plus a family bathroom.

Adjoining the main house there are three well-proportioned comfortable apartments, 2 & 3 currently producing rental incomes. The ground floor apartment has a sitting room and two double bedrooms, there is also an open-plan kitchen and breakfast room, plus a shower room and en suite
bathroom. The second apartment, on the first floor, has two sitting rooms and three bedrooms, two of which are very generous doubles, plus a fully fitted kitchen and breakfast room, an en suite shower room and a bathroom. The third apartment, on the second floor, has two double bedrooms with fitted storage, a sitting room, a family room and a dining room, plus a well-equipped kitchen, an en suite bathroom
and an additional shower room.

The property also provides further accommodation in an annexe above the cart lodge, with two double bedrooms, an open-plan kitchen and sitting area, and a shower room.

General Remarks
Local Authority: East Hertfordshire Services

All 4 properties are subject to 6 monthly sewerage
charge of £200 each.

Council Tax:
Rowney priory Band H
Apartments Band F

Tenure: Rowney Priory Freehold
Apartments Leasehold
Apartment 1- Occupied
Apartments 2 & 3 let on AST Agreements
Planning

Prospective purchasers are advised that they must
make their own enquiries of the local planning
authority.

Wayleaves and easements
The property is sold subject to any wayleaves or
easements, whether mentioned in these particulars
or not.

Mileages
Ware town centre 4.7 miles, Ware mainline station 5.4 miles (47 minutes to London Liverpool
Street), Hertford town centre 6.2 miles, A1(M) (Jct 7) 9.0 miles, M11 (Jct 8) 13.4 miles, London 35
miles, Stansted Airport 17 miles, Luton Airport 24 miles

Location
The property is set in a rural location, just outside the small Hertfordshire hamlet of Sacombe Green, four miles north of the town of Ware. There are some local amenities nearby at High Cross, including a village shop and a primary school, while
there are similar amenities at Dane End, with both villages around two miles away. Ware town centre is just four miles to the south, and offers an excellent range of shops, supermarkets, amenities and leisure facilities. There are a number of excellent schools in the area, with the independent
Heath Mount School, St. Edmund’s College, Haileybury and Queenswood Girls School all within easy reach.

For leisure, golf is available at the neighbouring
Whitehill Golf Course. Ware mainline station
offers regular services to London Liverpool Street
(47 minutes), while the area is well connected by
road, with the M11, the A1(M) and the M25 all
within easy reach.

Outside
Two formal electric-gated entrances lead to the Priory, The tree-lined North Drive and the Woodland Drive. The gardens include extensive rolling lawns and meadows, with mature trees and a lake, a Pulham Garden, a large south-facing paved terrace area, which provides superb views across the gardens. There is also a summer house, a greenhouse for growing a variety of fruits and vegetables, and a splendid outside covered dining area.

Marketed by: Strutt & Parker, St Albans