High Street, SG18

*GUIDE PRICE £900,000 - £950,000*

Beak's Reach is a lifestyle home in the picturesque style of an Italian lakeside villa. This custom-built riverside house is extremely energy efficient with an EPC rating of A (95 points). 44 solar panels provide 18kWp of power generation using two Tesla Powerwalls of 28kW battery storage to protect against power cuts and maximise energy savings. With conscious management, the current owners pay only £1 per month for combined energy.

The house and extended gardens sit either side of the River Ivel and is approximately 1.5 acres in total. There is 180 metres of river frontage with private fishing rights. The house itself sits on the east bank of the river and the rear courtyard garden is landscaped in porcelain tiles and raised borders and pergolas to provide all year-round garden access.

A full width 36 m2 oak balcony sits on the house-level veranda. Patio doors from lounge and kitchen provide an indoor/outdoor social-living flow. The veranda and the garden are illuminated with Philips Hue full-spectrum flood lights for long evenings and house parties. The veranda has an outdoor lounge seating and bistro area. Above, the Primary bedroom accesses the 36 m2 balcony that looks out over the garden and river.

Adjacent to the veranda is a covered BBQ kitchen and dining area and a log store for the lounge log burner. All timber comes from tree management on the land.

Across a footbridge is a 1 acre lawned garden which was formerly a pony paddock. It has 56 estate and fruit trees of differing species and maturity, including a much-photographed Weeping Willow which drapes across the river.

Dam's Ditch, an ancient brook, provides the western border between the garden and Henlow Common. Beyond the Common is open farmland with countryside walks.

At Beak's Reach, the River Ivel is in its Immature Stage, rising only 8 miles upstream. The river levels are managed by automatic weir control downstream at Langford Mill.