5 bed detached house for sale

Bumpstead Road, Hempstead, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10

Ruses farmhouse offers well presented accommodation of over 4000 sqft and dates back to the 17th century. The Grade II Listed property has been in the same family for many years and the adjacent barns have in recent times been tastefully renovated creating a small community without reducing the privacy of the house and gardens. The property is approached via a sweeping gravelled driveway providing ample parking and turning areas and the south west facing gardens offer beautiful views across adjoining farmland.

Accommodation comprises a rear entrance porch/boot room leading to an inner hallway with large adjacent cloakroom and pantry/utility room. A truly impressive kitchen/dining room is 31ft long and houses an oil fired Aga and electric double oven and hob, and wall and base units with a central island. The dining end opens into the garden room which offers wonderful views of the adjacent countryside. An additional playroom, also accessed from the dining end, leads to the rear terrace and gardens also. The property has a wealth of exposed beams throughout and the main sitting and family rooms both have brick fireplaces one housing a multi fuel burning stove. A reception hallway adjacent to the reception rooms leads to an additional cloakroom and boiler room.

The first floor comprises 5 large bedrooms, the master having an adjacent bedroom which offer the potential to be a large dressing room and/or bathroom. There are 2 family bath/shower rooms and one has a Jack and Jill access. A small staircase leads to 2 large loft rooms which are ideal for storage or could offer the potential to create another useful living or office space.

Outside, Access to the property is via a gravelled driveway through the farm yard with adjacent barns. Ruses has ample parking and turning areas and planning permission has been applied for to create a double garage. There are two main areas of garden one south facing and one facing west with a large terrace adjacent to the house surrounded by lawn areas interspersed with mature trees and shrubs.

Agent's note: Further land of up to 7.73 acres is available by separate negotiation with a guide price of £200,000.

Hempstead has many period houses, cottages and a fine church. The market town of Saffron Walden lies some 7 miles from the village with an extensive range of social, recreational and educational facilities. There is access to the M11 (J9) and Audley End mainline railway station lies some 9 miles away providing regular services to London’s Liverpool St. The village of Steeple Bumpstead is about 3 miles away with a garage/filing station, post office and village shop. The City of Cambridge lies 17 miles away.