The Cottage

The Cottage, Cromer, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG2 7QA

Guide Price

£950,000

Property Highlights

Grade II listed detached house
Four/five bedrooms
Exposed beams and inglenook fireplace
Modern fitted kitchen
Refitted bathroom and shower room
Garage/workshop (potential annex STPP)
Off street parking behind gates.
Home office in the garden.

Property description

A Grade II listed 16th century tiled four/five bedroom detached house in the centre of the village of Cromer.

The property is a former Hall House that has been extended to the side and to the rear and now also includes a timber clad work shop and garage to the back, with off street parking for several vehicles. The house has approximately 2,043 sq. ft. of accommodation set over two floors. There is an entrance hall, a 31ft. sitting room/family room, with an inglenook fireplace, a study with an en suite shower room with underfloor heating, which could be used as a ground floor bedroom, a kitchen/dining room, a utility room and a conservatory. On the first floor there are four bedrooms and a refitted bathroom. Outside there is a home office with "mega fast fibre" broadband connection. The workshop/garage has three phase power supply, its own plumbing and waste outlet and a first floor storage area. There is also an additional store room and an outside oil storage tank and log store.

Ground Floor

The sitting room has exposed beams throughout and is divided by a central inglenook fireplace, with an inset wood burning stove. The property features diamond leaded windows to the front and rear with many other original features. The kitchen was refurbished six years ago with a range of base and eye level units, a butler sink with Groher boiler integrated tap and an Everhot electric range with three ovens. The study has a newly refitted en suite shower room.

First Floor

The master bedroom has exposed beams and original features and the second bedroom has a feature window seat. The refurbished family bathroom includes a bath with shower over, wash basin and WC.

Gardens

The front gardens are laid to lawn behind a hawthorn hedge with a path to the front door. To the side of the house is the main garden which is south facing, is laid to lawn with shrub borders and mature trees. There are steps up to a terrace with shingle seating area and another lawned area with a garden store, there is also a timber shed. The driveway to the front, sweeps round to the garage behind remote, electric five bar gates.

Situation and Schooling

Cromer is a hamlet in the civil parish of Ardeley, it is noteworthy for possessing Hertfordshire's sole surviving post mill. The current mill dates from 1681 on a site where a windmill has stood for over 600 years. The mill first opened to the public in 1991, and has continued to do so ever since. There infant and junior schools in the neighbouring villages of Weston, Ardeley and Walkern and secondary schools in nearby Stevenage and Baldock.

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