Priory Lane, Little Wymondley, Hitchin, Hertfordshire

A Grade I Listed seven bedroom house with commercial wedding facilities and a cottage in a convenient location.

Reception hall | Sitting room | Dining room | Study
Breakfast room | Kitchen | Utility | Boot room Principal bedroom with 2 dressing rooms and en
suite bathroom |6 Further bedrooms | WC Cloakroom | 3 Bathrooms | Shower room | 1 Bedroom cottage | Studio | Chapel | Barn with kitchen, lavatories, bar and 3 stores | Numerous outbuildings including a commercial kitchen, offices and stores | Garden

About 5.672 acres in all

The property
Dating from 1205 and originally a monastery with a hospital before its conversion to a mansion. The Priory is a detached, double-fronted family home offering more than 5,300 sq ft of light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged over three floors. With its extensive grounds, it presents a rare opportunity for continued use as a high-quality wedding venue.

Configured to provide an elegant and characterful setting for family living and entertaining, the property blends modern amenities with period features, including exposed beams, original stonework, and historic fireplaces. The accommodation flows from a welcoming flagstone-floored, double-height reception hall with a cloakroom and galleried landing above into spacious sitting and dining rooms, both with woodburning stoves set into feature fireplaces and twin French doors opening to the garden. The dining room also leads into a well-proportioned study.

An inner hall, accessible from both reception rooms and featuring a WC and garden access, opens into a large kitchen/breakfast room. This impressive space includes a feature fireplace, a range of wall and base units, a freestanding central island, modern integrated appliances, and a vaulted breakfast area with two sets of French doors to the garden. A well-equipped utility room adjoins the kitchen.

Stairs rise from the reception and inner halls to the first floor, which provides a large principal bedroom with two dressing rooms and an en suite bathroom with bath and separate shower, three further double bedrooms, one with en suite shower room, and a family bathroom. The property’s three remaining vaulted double bedrooms and a further family bathroom can be found on the second floor.

Set on a moated site extending to 5.672 acres, the property is approached over a shared gravelled driveway providing private parking and giving access to a detached cottage with reception room, fitted kitchen and bedroom with en suite bathroom. The formal garden is laid mainly to lawn and features paved terraces, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining, the whole bordered by mature shrubs and trees. The remaining grounds feature a private chapel, garden studio, parterre vegetable garden with greenhouse, numerous outbuildings including a commercial kitchen and offices and an extensive detached barn with a further kitchen, lavatories, a bar and useful stores, all surrounded by expanses of level lawn incorporating outdoor dining areas, a children’s playground and a moat with footbridge over, ideal for wedding photographs.

Location
Situated between Hitchin and Stevenage, the small village of Little Wymondley has a church, two pubs and infant and junior schools. Hitchin is an historic market town with a thriving high street, comprehensive shopping, regular markets, restaurants and coffee shops and sporting and leisure facilities including a swimming pool and football, rugby, cricket, swimming, cycling and running clubs. More extensive shopping, service and recreational amenities are available in Stevenage and Harpenden. Communications links are excellent: a bus service connects Little Wymondley to Hitchin and Stevenage, the A1(M) gives access to major regional centres, the motorway network and central London and Hitchin station (2.5 miles) provides trains to central London in around half an hour.