"Outstanding detached family home with spacious and versatile accommodation Impressive dining garden room Orangery style entrance hall Photo voltaic solar panels Superb garden plot of over a third of an acre Good off road parking plus garage Delightful semi rural setting with fine views

The Property This attractive individual detached house enjoys a delightful rural setting and has been exceptionally well extended, updated and improved to provide an outstanding family home. The centre piece is the spacious dining garden room across the rear, semi open plan to the kitchen breakfast room. A porch opens to the orangery style entrance hall, which in turn leads to the reception hall and sitting room. A study or fifth bedroom, utility room,cloakroom WC and integral garage complete the ground floor. There are four double bedrooms on the first floor, one with an en suite shower room, plus a well appointed family bathroom with both shower and bath. The landing incorporates a useful study area.

The original house is of cavity brick construction, rendered externally, under a pitched tiled roof with insulated cavity brickwork extensions under flat roofs. The house benefits from double glazing, photo voltaic solar panels and oil fired central heating, underfloor to the dining garden room with radiators elsewhere.

The Outside The house is set back from the road in a fine plot extending to over a third of an acre and measuring approximately 328 by 43 6" 99.9m x 13.28m overall. A block paved in and out coach drive provides good off street parking to the front and leads to the integral garage. There are beech hedges to either side and a brick planter with silver birch tree to the front.

A gate to the side leads to the rear garden, which is some 235 71.5m in length and laid to lawn with an extensive area of decking adjoining the rear of the house, herbaceous borders, ornamental shrubs and conifers and mature silver birch and ash trees.

There is an above ground octagonal swimming pool, 16 5m in diameter, with an air source heat pump and filtration plant, timber garden shed workshop 12 x 12 3.65m x 3.63m , a second timber garden shed and a timber garden shelter gazebo 13 9" x 12 6" 4.19m x 3.8m and a fire pit.

The Location The house stands towards the south western end of the small and attractive Hertfordshire village of Bygrave, the whole of which is designated Green Belt. The ancient centre of the village was surrounded by defensive moats in the 14th Century and the parish church, dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch, dates from Saxon times. The Birches is less than a mile and a half from the mainline railway station in Baldock and only 1.6 miles from the High Street of that market town. Baldock is on the London to Cambridge mainline and regular services run throughout the day. The fastest journey to London St Pancras takes just 33 minutes and to Cambridge 32 minutes. The town stands just off the A505 with Junction 10 on the A1 M being only 2.8 miles away.

The Knights Templar founded the town of Baldock in the 1140s. Today the town centre boasts many imposing period buildings and the broad High Street is a particularly notable feature. The town provides excellent shopping, schools including the highly regarded Knights Templar School , pubs and restaurants, with the adjoining towns of Letchworth Garden City and Hitchin providing an even wider range of facilities.

Services MAINS water, sewerage and electricity are connected to the property.
BROADBAND A choice of providers with claimed download speeds of up to 1000 Mbps.
MOBILE SIGNAL Most providers claim up to 4G coverage, O2 claims to provide 5G.

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