7 bedroom house
High Street, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire, SG10 6BS
Guide Price
£1,250,000
Residential Tags: Grade II*, Jacobean
Property Tags: N/A
Land Tags: Paddock
Summary Details
- First Marketed: May 2022
- Removed: Dec 2022
- Residential Tags: Grade II*, Jacobean
- Property Tags: N/A
- Land Tags: Paddock
The highly regarded village of Much Hadham offers an excellent pre-school and primary school, a public house and parish church. It is located approximately 5 miles from the market town of Bishop's Stortford which offers a multitude of shopping and sporting facilities and highly rated schools for all ages. Bishop's Stortford has a main line railway station with commuter services to London's Liverpool Street and on the outskirts of Bishop's Stortford access is available to the M11 (junction 8) with the A1 and Cambridge to the north and the M25 and London to the south. Stansted Airport is also conveniently located to the east of Bishop's Stortford.
THE WHITE HOUSE Offered to the market for the first time in sixty years, The White House is a delightful Grade II* listed village home. Pictured in Pevsner's 'The buildings of Hertfordshire,' this remarkable house has links to the acclaimed architect Raymond Erith, known for designing and rebuilding 10 Downing Street, and dates back to the Elizabethan era, with a number of fascinating original features including a Tudor staircase, fine fireplaces, gothic windows and hidden wall paintings.
Occupying a significant position in the centre of this popular Hertfordshire village, the house comes with 0.75 acres of well-established grounds, and has vast potential for modernisation and extension.
ACCOMMODATION On entering the imposing double front doors, there is a bright reception hall with direct access onto the garden and a door to a substantial cellar. From the hall, is a drawing room with a bay window, which leads to a family room/study. To the other side of the hallway is a dining room and a kitchen/breakfast room with an Aga, which leads to a rear lobby with larder and downstairs bathroom. The first floor has a stunning galleried landing, with five bedrooms leading from it, two bathrooms and a separate WC. From here are two staircases to the second floor, which has two further bedrooms.
OUTSIDE Outside, the house has beautifully maintained gardens which have been fully landscaped and back onto open paddocks. Amongst the grounds are various fruit trees, shrubs and borders, as well as a loggia with views over the gardens and an area set aside for a vegetable plot. In addition, there is a series of useful outbuildings. The paddock to the rear benefits from a covenant preventing development.
ARCHITECTURAL NOTE The White House is believed to date back to the Elizabethan or Jacobean eras and saw significant remodelling in the 18th century, which included moving the staircase to the central reception hall. The exterior was refaced in the early 19th century, adding a regency façade and gothic porch. Pevsner is quoted to have written, "….a delightful, white, early circa 19th century front of seven bays with a gothic porch and arch windows with gothic glazing bars and hood moulds. Inside, the house is older, with some wall paintings upstairs of circa 1600." The house then saw further works in 1935, under the supervision of famed architect Raymond Erith.
PLANNING PERMISSION There is approved Planning and Listed Buildings consent for the demolition of the garage outbuildings and the erection of a single storey rear extension, new garaging and alterations to landscaping. Full details can be found on the East Herts Council planning website under references: 3/21/2752/HH & 3/21/2753/LBC. The proposed plans would create a stunning, contemporary, vaulted kitchen/garden room and reconfiguration of the first and attic floors to create an impressive master bedroom suite with en suite bathroom and dressing room, and an en suite to one of the attic bedrooms.
MATERIAL INFORMATION - Tenure - Freehold
- Annual service charge amount - N/A
- Service charge review period - N/A
- Council tax band - F
VIEWINGS Strictly by appointment with the Agents.
Marketed by: Cheffins, Saffron Walden
THE WHITE HOUSE Offered to the market for the first time in sixty years, The White House is a delightful Grade II* listed village home. Pictured in Pevsner's 'The buildings of Hertfordshire,' this remarkable house has links to the acclaimed architect Raymond Erith, known for designing and rebuilding 10 Downing Street, and dates back to the Elizabethan era, with a number of fascinating original features including a Tudor staircase, fine fireplaces, gothic windows and hidden wall paintings.
Occupying a significant position in the centre of this popular Hertfordshire village, the house comes with 0.75 acres of well-established grounds, and has vast potential for modernisation and extension.
ACCOMMODATION On entering the imposing double front doors, there is a bright reception hall with direct access onto the garden and a door to a substantial cellar. From the hall, is a drawing room with a bay window, which leads to a family room/study. To the other side of the hallway is a dining room and a kitchen/breakfast room with an Aga, which leads to a rear lobby with larder and downstairs bathroom. The first floor has a stunning galleried landing, with five bedrooms leading from it, two bathrooms and a separate WC. From here are two staircases to the second floor, which has two further bedrooms.
OUTSIDE Outside, the house has beautifully maintained gardens which have been fully landscaped and back onto open paddocks. Amongst the grounds are various fruit trees, shrubs and borders, as well as a loggia with views over the gardens and an area set aside for a vegetable plot. In addition, there is a series of useful outbuildings. The paddock to the rear benefits from a covenant preventing development.
ARCHITECTURAL NOTE The White House is believed to date back to the Elizabethan or Jacobean eras and saw significant remodelling in the 18th century, which included moving the staircase to the central reception hall. The exterior was refaced in the early 19th century, adding a regency façade and gothic porch. Pevsner is quoted to have written, "….a delightful, white, early circa 19th century front of seven bays with a gothic porch and arch windows with gothic glazing bars and hood moulds. Inside, the house is older, with some wall paintings upstairs of circa 1600." The house then saw further works in 1935, under the supervision of famed architect Raymond Erith.
PLANNING PERMISSION There is approved Planning and Listed Buildings consent for the demolition of the garage outbuildings and the erection of a single storey rear extension, new garaging and alterations to landscaping. Full details can be found on the East Herts Council planning website under references: 3/21/2752/HH & 3/21/2753/LBC. The proposed plans would create a stunning, contemporary, vaulted kitchen/garden room and reconfiguration of the first and attic floors to create an impressive master bedroom suite with en suite bathroom and dressing room, and an en suite to one of the attic bedrooms.
MATERIAL INFORMATION - Tenure - Freehold
- Annual service charge amount - N/A
- Service charge review period - N/A
- Council tax band - F
VIEWINGS Strictly by appointment with the Agents.
Marketed by: Cheffins, Saffron Walden
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.