
Burnham Road, Woodham Mortimer, CM9

- PROPERTY TYPE
Cottage
- BEDROOMS
4
- BATHROOMS
2
- SIZE
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Key features
- Work or run a business from home
- Grade II* LIsted Detached Cottage
- Outbuilding/Garaging including generous office space
- Four double bedrooms
- Three reception rooms
- Fitted kitchen with oil fired AGA
- Separate 2nd floor shower room
- Overall Plot of 3/4 of an Acre
- Exposed timbers, beams and other historical features
- Open countryside views to front
Description
ACCOMMODATION
Located in grounds of 3/4 of an acre with outstanding countryside views to the front this stunning detached Grade II* listed home dates back to the late 16th/early 17th century, with facility to work or run a business from home. The property has been sympathetically improved to make a very desirable family home and boasts many historical features including multiple fireplaces, exposed timbers and beams. There are also half height panelled stairwells with extremely rare circa 1680-1715 paintings depicting revelling Bacchi and Satyrs. Accommodation is set over three floors, ground floor provides inner hall, cloakroom, three reception rooms and a fitted kitchen with integrated fridge, freezer and dishwasher and an oil fired aga. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms and a stunning re-fitted heritage bathroom featuring a red brick semi circular fireplace. The second floor provides the fourth double bedroom with oak crossbeams and a separate shower room.
To the rear of the house is a converted brick outbuilding which provides a utility room and further cloakroom. There is planning that has now lapse to extend the main house to join to the brick outbuilding proving and breakfast dining area.
Externally there is a shingle in and out driveway which provides significant parking facilities with enough space for caravan or motorhome. A significant factor is the converted cart lodge and stables which provide twin garages, open bay storage and a large office space. This space is ideal to run a business or work from home as it has broadband and telephone connectivity.
LOCATION
Woodham Mortimer is a small village between Danbury and Maldon. The village has a local pub (The Hurdlemakers Arms), the parish church of St Margaret’s (c.1080), a golf driving range, a village hall and a cricket club. Woodham Mortimer is only 7 miles due east of the city of Chelmsford and its excellent choice of facilities, including two outstanding grammar schools, a bustling shopping centre, a station on the main line into London Liverpool Street and access onto the A12. Closer to home, the picturesque village of Danbury also has a choice of shops, amenities and two preparatory schools (Heathcote and Elm Green) and the nearby town of Maldon has a good range of shops and other amenities.
LISTED BUILDING EXTRACT
C16 of earlier origin with early C18 facade and later alterations. Timber framed, red and black brick faced. Left and right red brick chimney stacks with attached octagonal shafts. Dentilled eaves cornice. 3 first floor, 2 ground floor windows all C20 small paned casements, those to ground floor with segmental arches. Casement window to return gable attic. Central vertically boarded door, flat canopy over. Internally the 2 front rooms each with angled rear corner fireplaces. Ground floor left fireplace with C17 wooden moulded surround and mantel. Sun Insurance Plaque formerly on outside wall and dated 1774 is attached to surround. Semi-circular red brick hearth. Moulded gun rack over. Panelled cupboard. First floor right fireplace, C17 moulded surround and mantel, moulded cornice, panelled cupboard. The panel over the fireplace is late C17 painted and is alleged to depict the Fire of London, with South Bank foreground, river and flames arising from buildings on the far bank, old St. Pauls with the Tower of London to right are discernable. The rear C16 staircase is inserted into an earlier building. Moulded string and handrail. The angled splat balusters follow the line of the dogleg 2 storey and attic stairs. The walls have 11 half height panels, each with a circa 1680-1715 painting depicting revelling Bacchi and Satyrs. Some paintings are of single figures with musical instruments, some are groups of figures with goats, sheep and bulls, one with a man faced leopard. 2 figures are blowing bubbles. The paintings have been inspected by Mr. Clive Rouse and staff of the British Museum, to date no other similar paintings are known. There are several moulded board doors and also vertically boarded doors. Chamfered bridging joists to original building. The building was known C18 as Salters Folly - Mr. Salter lived at Tyndales, Southend Road. Brick facade probably by Obediah Barker, Brickmaker.
AGENTS NOTE
We would like to make interested parties aware that outline planning with all matters reserved was passed on the nearby Golf driving range and pitch and putt course for up to 18 dwellings to be built. Further information can be found on Maldon District Council Website under planning reference - 22/00482/OUT
PLANNING PERMISSION
Rear Extension
Planning Consent was granted in 2014 via Maldon District Council under Application Ref: HOUSE/MAL/10/00999 for demolition of the existing rear porch and construction of an extension which would provide a garden/breakfast room with glazed aspects to both sides and would connect the main house to the external building with the utility room and wc. We understand that this consent has since lapsed and interested parties should enquire with Maldon District Council about the process for reinstating this consent.
AGENTS NOTE
We would like to make interested parties aware that outline planning with all matters reserved was passed on the nearby Golf driving range and pitch & putt course for up to 18 dwellings to be built. Further information can be found on Maldon District Council Website. Application Reference - 22/00482/OUT
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- Band: F
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- Yes
- GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
- Yes
- ACCESSIBILITYHow a property has been adapted to meet the needs of vulnerable or disabled individuals.Read more about accessibility in our glossary page.
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