Matching Green, Harlow, Essex, CM17

The original cottage perhaps dates back as far about 1650 and is predominantly timber framed with attractive features and Grade II Listed, considered to be of architectural and historical merit.. As would be expected from a building of this age, there is significant history including use as a shop, but is now a family home. The accommodation includes a hall which leads to a dining room with a bay window, sitting room with hardwood flooring and an open fireplace, kitchen/breakfast room overlooking the rear garden, a good sized utility room, a study and a ground floor cloakroom. Two staircases lead to the first floor, where there are four bedrooms which are generally well-proportioned and have lovely views to front and back. One bedroom has an en suite shower room and there is a family bathroom with a roll top bath.

Outside, a gravelled driveway to the front provides parking for three or four cars and leads to the attached garage. The front garden is laid to lawn with shrub borders and there is a smaller garden behind with views over open fields. Although this is a rural area, there is easy access to the motorway network (M11 J7a and J8), there are also mainline stations at Harlow and the London Underground Central Line at Epping and a good primary school in Matching Green.

Matching Green is considered to be one of the prettiest West Essex villages, and enjoys a convenient location for Harlow and the M11 motorway (Junction 7) providing access to London, the M25, Cambridge and the Midlands. The London Underground (Central Line) is accessible from Epping (approx 10 minute drive). There is a mainline rail service from Harlow (6 miles) to London Liverpool Street, and good shops, schools, recreational and sporting facilities, including indoor pool, golf course etc, are available in Harlow and Bishop's Stortford (10 miles). There are village shops at Hatfield Heath (3 miles) whilst Matching Green has a primary school and village inn.