5 bed detached house for sale

London Road, Newport, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11

White lodge is a highly individual, detached family home providing spacious and well proportioned living accommodation with many attractive internal period features, situated towards the edge of this popular Essex village, yet within a convenient distance of all local amenities, schooling and mainline station. The front door opens into an enclosed porch, in turn leading to a wide reception hall which features an attractive, natural wooden floor, stairs rising to first floor and window to side drawing in natural light. A lovely sitting room features a square bay window to the front and glazed door to the side providing an attractive dual aspect and period style fireplace with attractive patterned tiled inserts. A separate dining room has a bay window to side and a fireplace, whilst a rear hallway leads to a useful utility room and has a door with stairs leading down to the basement. A breakfast room with feature brick built fireplace and glazed double doors opening to outside provides an attractive additional reception room with large walk-in pantry and door to the kitchen which features a range of storage cupboards finished in light wood, complemented by dark worktops with coloured tile splashbacks and attractive exposed natural brick wall. There are windows to the rear and side drawing in natural light with a door opening to outside. The first floor landing leads to 5 bedrooms; the master being a most impressive room with dual aspect window to the front and side and family bathroom which contains bath and shower cubicle, in addition to a separate WC.

Externally, the property sits back from the road in a slightly elevated position approached by a driveway which provides off-street parking space to the front for several vehicles. There is block paved terrace to one side which extends around to the rear where gardens are laid predominantly to lawn, extending along the other side of the property and bordered by well established shrubs. In all, the total plot extends to about 105ft x 66ft.

Newport is an attractive village situated to the south east of Saffron Walden (3 miles) on the B1383. The village offers a fine church, primary school, Joyce Frankland Academy Secondary & Sixth form, public houses, a mini supermarket, doctors surgery, pharmacy and restaurant. The village also has its own mainline railway station to both London Liverpool Street and Cambridge. In addition, going south, there is access to the M11 at J8 and Stansted Airport is approx. 9 miles away.