7 bedroom house

Coggeshall Hall has been occupied by the present owners for many years, and is thought to date back to the 16th Century. Alterations and improvements were undertaken during the 18th and 19th Centuries, including the impressive columned Georgian facade.

Approached via a central entrance hall, the drawing room and morning room occupy the later Georgian section of the house and face west. Benefitting from open fireplaces both have retained the shutters to the sash windows. The sitting room has windows to both side aspects and has beautiful oak flooring and an impressive exposed brick inglenook with hearth. A second staircase leads to the first floor. From this room a second staircase decends to the ground floor cloakroom, and a door giving access to the garden. The cloakroom forms part of a striking tower, extended by the present owners, providing two ensuite facilities to the bedrooms above. Next, we come to the kitchen/breakfast room, fitted with a superb range of Bultaup cabinets and integrated appliances. Also retained is the original bread oven. The views from this room extend across the topiary garden, across the wild flower meadow and beyond to the parkland.

A good size utility/laundry room serves the kitchen and gives access to the cellar and rear patio. A third stairwell. giving access to the first and second floors, is located between the kitchen/breakfast room and the outstanding dining room.

The first floor has five generous bedrooms with the Pincipal bedroom offering an en suite with marble enclosed bath. A spiral staircase leads to the second floor and two further double bedrooms.

Coggeshall Hall is a Grade II listed character family home set amongst open countryside of North Essex. The local villages of Kelvedon and Coggeshall have excellent local amenities including several pubs, renowned restaurants, a post office, General Store, news agents and local butcher. The village of Kelvedon offers mainline rail service to London’s Liverpool Street. The larger market towns of Braintree and Chelmsford offer a much wider range of commercial, entertainment and shopping amenities, the latter having an excellent mainline rail connection to London’s Liverpool Street with an average journey of 38 minutes. Stansted Airport to the east caters for domestic and international flights. Superb road connections are also found nearby with A12 and A120 leading to Junction 8 of the M11 being nearby.

The area also has a number of excellent state and private schools including Colchester Royal Grammar, King Edward VI Grammar School and County High School for Girls, The Felsted Schools and New Hall.

The property is set within approximately 12 acres of mixed grounds. Five acres of formal gardens have been well thought through, offering rose gardens and part walled topiary beds, with cut pathways leading through to a flower meadow. this continues through to a seven acre pasture, joining the river Blackwater to the eastern boundary. A walled rear terrace steps down to the previously mentioned topiary garden and an outbuilding housing a sauna, jacuzzi and shower facitilies. The grounds include a fine example of an Essex Barn, also Grade II curtilage listed offering circa 5,000sq ft of storage. Further outbuildings include an office, a studio and a tandem garage. All are hard wired alarmed to the house.

The grounds host an abundance of wildlife including, deer, otters, badgers and buzzards.

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