£900,000

4 bed cottage for sale

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Freehold

Guide price

£900,000

4 bed cottage for sale

Burnham Road, Woodham Mortimer CM9

4 beds
2 baths
3 receptions
EPC rating: F

Key Information

Tenure:
Freehold
Council tax band:

Local area information

Property location

Nearby amenities

  • Woodham Walter Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School 1.6 miles
  • Priory Primary School, Bicknacre 1.9 miles
  • South Woodham Ferrers 4.1 miles
  • North Fambridge 4.8 miles

These distances are calculated in a straight line. The actual route and distance may vary.

Features and description

  • Freehold
  • Grade II* LIsted Detached Cottage
  • Outbuilding/Garaging including generous office space
  • Four double bedrooms
  • Three reception rooms
  • Fitted kitchen with oil fired aga
  • Stunning family bathroom with heritage suite and feature fireplace
  • Separate 2nd floor shower room
  • Overall Plot of 3/4 of an Acre
  • Exposed timbers, beams and other historical features
  • Open countryside views to front
Guide price £900,000 - £995,000
Accommodation


Located in grounds of 3/4 of an acre with outstanding countryside views to the front this stunning detached Grade II* listed home dates back to the late 16th/early 17th century. The property has been sympathetically improved to make a very desirable family home and boasts many historical features including multiple fireplaces, exposed timbers and beams. There are also half height panelled stairwells with extremely rare circa 1680-1715 paintings depicting revelling Bacchi and Satyrs. Accommodation is set over three floors, ground floor provides inner hall, cloakroom, three reception rooms and a fitted kitchen with integrated fridge, freezer and dishwasher and an oil fired aga. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms and a stunning re-fitted heritage bathroom featuring a red brick semi circular fireplace. The second floor provides the fourth double bedroom with oak crossbeams and a separate shower room. To the rear of the house is a converted brick outbuilding which provides a utility room and further cloakroom. Externally there is a shingle in and out driveway which provides significant parking facilities with enough space for caravan or motorhome as well as access to the converted cart lodge and stables which provide twin garages, open bay storage and a large office space with broadband and telephone connectivity.
Location


Woodham Mortimer is a small village between Danbury and Maldon. The village has a local pub (The Hurdlemakers Arms), the parish church of St Margaret’s (c.1080), a golf driving range, a village hall and a cricket club. Woodham Mortimer is only 7 miles due east of the city of Chelmsford and its excellent choice of facilities, including two outstanding grammar schools, a bustling shopping centre, a station on the main line into London Liverpool Street and access onto the A12. Closer to home, the picturesque village of Danbury also has a choice of shops, amenities and two preparatory schools (Heathcote and Elm Green) and the nearby town of Maldon has a good range of shops and other amenities.
Listed building extract


C16 of earlier origin with early C18 facade and later alterations. Timber framed, red and black brick faced. Left and right red brick chimney stacks with attached octagonal shafts. Dentilled eaves cornice. 3 first floor, 2 ground floor windows all C20 small paned casements, those to ground floor with segmental arches. Casement window to return gable attic. Central vertically boarded door, flat canopy over. Internally the 2 front rooms each with angled rear corner fireplaces. Ground floor left fireplace with C17 wooden moulded surround and mantel. Sun Insurance Plaque formerly on outside wall and dated 1774 is attached to surround. Semi-circular red brick hearth. Moulded gun rack over. Panelled cupboard. First floor right fireplace, C17 moulded surround and mantel, moulded cornice, panelled cupboard. The panel over the fireplace is late C17 painted and is alleged to depict the Fire of London, with South Bank foreground, river and flames arising from buildings on the far bank, old St. Pauls with the Tower of London to right are discernable. The rear C16 staircase is inserted into an earlier building. Moulded string and handrail. The angled splat balusters follow the line of the dogleg 2 storey and attic stairs. The walls have 11 half height panels, each with a circa 1680-1715 painting depicting revelling Bacchi and Satyrs. Some paintings are of single figures with musical instruments, some are groups of figures with goats, sheep and bulls, one with a man faced leopard. 2 figures are blowing bubbles. The paintings have been inspected by Mr. Clive Rouse and staff of the British Museum, to date no other similar paintings are known. There are several moulded board doors and also vertically boarded doors. Chamfered bridging joists to original building. The building was known C18 as Salters Folly - Mr. Salter lived at Tyndales, Southend Road. Brick facade probably by Obediah Barker, Brickmaker.
Agents note


We would like to make interested parties aware that outline planning with all matters reserved was passed on the nearby Golf driving range and pitch and putt course for up to 18 dwellings to be built. Further information can be found at:

Ground Floor

Entrance Hall
6' 3" x 4' 7" (1.91m x 1.40m)

Cloakroom
2' 8" x 7' 2" (0.81m x 2.18m)

Sitting Room
16' 1" x 15' 3" (4.90m x 4.65m)

Dining Room
15' 0" x 12' 5" (4.57m x 3.78m)

Snug
11' 6" x 11' 4" (3.51m x 3.45m)

Kitchen
13' 3" x 10' 0" (4.04m x 3.05m)

First Floor

Landing
15' 5" x 13' 10" (4.70m x 4.22m)

Bedroom One
15' 3" x 16' 0" plus wardrobes (4.65m x 4.88m)

Bedroom Two
11' 2" x 15' 4" (3.40m x 4.67m)

Bedroom Three
15' 5" x 11' 2" (4.70m x 3.40m)

Bathroom
13' 0" x 9' 8" into recess (3.96m x 2.95m)

Second Floor

Landing
8' 9" x 5' 9" (2.67m x 1.75m)

Bedroom Four
15' 6" x 9' 5" (4.72m x 2.87m)

Shower Room
13' 0" x 9' 8" (3.96m x 2.95m)

Outside

Grounds extend to approximately 0.75 of an acre

Lawned garden with ornamental duck pond

Large brick terrace with oak pergola

Large enclosed kitchen garden area

In and out shingle driveway

Extensive parking facilities

Space for caravan/boat or motorhome

Outbuiildings

Four Bay Cartlodge (left to right with approximate measurements)

bay 1
20' 0" x 10' 0" (6.10m x 3.05m) features double doors and has power and light available and is used as a workshop but has also been used as a garage for a small vehicle.

Bay 2
20' 0" x 9' 5" (6.10m x 2.87m) features double doors with power and light available and is used as a garage/storage.

Bay 3
20' 0" x 9' 0" (6.10m x 2.74m) is open fronted and is currently used for storage and provides access via a door to:

Bay 4
- home office

19' 9" x 10' 3" (6.02m x 3.12m) Ideal for home working or to run a small home based business from with double glazed sash windows, power, light, broadband and phone points.
Planning permission

Rear Extension
Planning Consent was granted in 2014 via Maldon District Council under Application Ref: House/mal/10/00999 for demolition of the existing rear porch and construction of an extension which would provide a garden/breakfast room with glazed aspects to both sides and would connect the main house to the external building with the utility room and wc. We understand that this consent has since lapsed and interested parties should enquire with Maldon District Council about the process for reinstating this consent.
Agents note

We would like to make interested parties aware that outline planning with all matters reserved was passed on the nearby Golf driving range and pitch & putt course for up to 18 dwellings to be built. Further information can be found at:

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