Hertford Road, Welwyn

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this beautiful country home set in stunning, extensive grounds of 1 acre, and benefiting from a recent, premium quality, modernisation and refurbishment throughout. This was designed with a real architectural flair for stylish living and implemented with no expense spared. An extremely rare opportunity to acquire a house with such traditional external appeal yet a bright, clean, modern interior offering the space and facilities to complement your needs perfectly. What makes this house unique is that the River Mimram meanders peacefully through the large garden, which extends across both river banks. This an extremely unusual combination of waterside living yet fully private grounds.

Accommodation:
Approached via a private gated driveway, the traditional oak beamed porch leads you to a solid oak front door flanked by attractive windows. Inside, the hallway is light, bright and spacious with doors to the convenient downstairs cloakroom, the dual aspect office and the dining room.

Double doors lead you into the large living room. This is a fabulous room, being nearly twenty five feet in length, triple aspect with double doors to the garden and a large fireplace. Some of the particular strengths of this house are the immaculate, imaginative and clever fine details found throughout, and this room absolutely encapsulates that. The ceiling features beautiful cornice work, the walls have lovely panelling and the two windows have seating emphasising their stylish shaped alcove design. Just one of many beautiful rooms that really catch the eye.

Leading directly from the lounge is the bar/snug room. A great fun addition and a terrific entertaining space, being dual aspect and with double doors leading out into the garden.

The dining room, accessed directly from the hallway or through double doors from the living room, is well proportioned and connects seamlessly out to the main patio area via full width bi-fold doors. A lovely, bright room flooded with natural light by the multiple windows and glass doors and perfectly positioned within the clever ground floor layout.

Adjoining the dining room is the fabulous kitchen, with open access from the dining room enhancing the natural flow of movement from room to room. As you would expect in a house of this quality the kitchen is of the highest specification, offering a comprehensive range of fitted appliances as well as a breakfast bar big enough to seat four comfortably. Additionally the kitchen has further space for casual seating or casual dining topped off by glorious views and access out to the rear garden via large bi-fold doors.

From the kitchen there is a perfectly placed utility room, naturally lit by a sky light and with doors to the rear garden and the garage. The garage itself is large enough for four cars, has its own cloakroom and is currently configured with extensive storage and subdivided into different garage and workshop areas.

Within the garden, overlooking the river, is a large, recently built summer house/office/workshop/gym of a good size, being over twenty six feet in length. What a stunning location for a building fit for so many potential uses. Maybe even a guest bedroom or a camp out summer retreat - the possibilities are endless.

From the ground floor hallway the wide staircase leads up to a large, galleried upper hallway which has extensive storage, doorways to each of the five bedrooms, the family bathroom and the lovely south west facing roof terrace. The main part of the house is of a Dutch Barn roof style and the upper rooms and hallway have been wonderfully designed to incorporate as many of the interesting architectural features as possible. It works incredibly well visually, giving this large home a friendly and welcoming feeling.

The master bedroom has substantial fitted wardrobes and a simply stunning bath and shower room en-suite. Three of the other bedrooms have fitted wardrobes, with two of those rooms benefiting from en-suite shower rooms also.

Exterior:
The mature grounds, extending to around 1 acre, are really very special indeed. Beautifully designed and configured they really do provide country living alongside practical, landscaped and curated spaces for relaxing and entertaining. There are multiple patio areas, open lawns, a well established Koi carp pond, an ornamental fountain feature, a huge range of plants, bushes and specimen trees, and not forgetting the idyllic river winding its way across the garden. This garden is the wonderful beneficiary of the tremendous attention to detail that is so clearly present throughout the whole property. It is a peaceful yet glorious place to enjoy your leisure time and wind down after a stressful day working.

Location:
Maran House enjoys a unique position, being in an idyllic countryside setting in the village of Digswell yet within easy reach of multiple transport links. Welwyn North Station is within a 20 minute walk, from where trains reach London King's Cross in just over 30 minutes. The village of Digswell also benefits from local shops, St Johns primary school, the Cowper Arms pub, a tennis club and various other clubs and societies. Welwyn Garden City is a couple of miles away offering a wide and varied range of amenities. You can also walk for miles through the surrounding countryside along the many footpaths and bridleways. Within the area are many state and private schools including Sherrardswood, Haileybury, Duncombe and Heath Mount. The A1(M) links to the M25 and both Luton and Stanstead Airports are within 30 to 40 minutes drive.