Ivy Cottage, Bambers Green, Takeley, Nr Bishops Stortford, CM22

I Ivy Cottage is situated in Bambers Green which is a scattered hamlet of principally period properties, located broadly equidistant between the market town of Bishop's Stortford (Hertfordshire) and Great Dunmow (Essex).

The property is one of pair of similar period cottages set back from a small green with open countryside to front and back, yet is very accessible to the M11, mainline station and Stansted Airport.

The cottage has benefitted from a significant extension about six years ago and this involved the construction of a kitchen and breakfast room at the back of the house, a useful, well equipped utility room with an oil fired boiler and an adjoining shower and cloakroom. At the front of the building there are two original reception rooms; a dining room and a sitting room with a fireplace.

On the first floor are two double bedrooms both at the front of the property, a single bedroom and a well equipped bathroom.

Outside, there is a driveway with parking for four to five cars. There are a number of outbuildings to the front of the houise an office/workshop which is a timber framed building with electric and heating. Then there is a very generous double garage/workshop and log store, a chicken shed with brick footings and boarding under a slate roof. The rear gardens are well established with a terrace, lawns and shrubs and a greenhouse. At the back of the garden there is a pond with a water feature and rill.

The total plot amounts to just over 0.25 of an acre.

Bambers Green is a small hamlet of mainly period houses situated in open countryside almost equidistant from Great Dunmow and Takeley,.which is a West Essex village situated Takeley lies about four miles to the east of Bishop’s Stortford, and has a village shop, post office, primary school, cricket and football fields and public house. The market town of Bishop’s Stortford provides a wide range of amenities including shops and schools and mainline station to London's Liverpool Street. The M11 motorway (3 miles) provides excellent road communications with London, Cambridge and the M25.