Appletree Dell, Dog Kennel Lane, Rickmansworth, WD3

Presidential Estates are delighted to offer for sale, for the first time since 1953, the entire Dell located within, but on the edge of the picturesque Chorleywood Common.

Appletree Dell is located on Dog Kennel Lane and comprises of five separate properties.

No 1. A detached barn originally built in the 1700s as an apple barn and converted in 1861 to a two-bedroom dwelling and further refurbished and modernised in 2002 to what it is now. A bijou cottage with far reaching views on the edge of the common offered with a with a parking space.

No 2. A semi-detached cottage built in 1861 with two bedrooms, modified in the 2000’s with a front south facing courtyard garden and a useful rear outhouse, with far reaching views and offered with a parking space.

No 3. A semi-detached cottage built in 1861 with two bedrooms, modified in the 2000s with a front south facing courtyard garden and a useful rear outhouse, with far reaching and offered with a parking space.

No 4. Originally two houses built in the 1700s and modified in 1861 and then again in the 50’s and late 90’s. This house has four bedrooms and three reception room, a kitchen breakfast room, a wine cellar, two bathrooms and a downstairs cloak room and utility room. The properties beautiful garden is not to be missed. The property comes with a period correct double garage and cobbled courtyard.

Muntjac Lodge. Situated at the bottom of the Dell this one-bedroom cottage is perfect for a teenager needing their own space or as a handy rental. The original building constructed in the 1800s is now a bijou cottage with its own garden and parking.

All the properties are presently rented out for the gross sum of £9000 per calendar month.

The entire property is now offered for sale as a whole on a freehold basis for the guide price sum of
£ 2,500,000. Please note that the properties are also for sale on an individual basis, although Muntjac Cottage and 4 are to be sold together.

History

Appletree Dell was first listed on local maps in late 1700s, when it comprised of two farm cottages. In or around 1860 a development occurred and No 4 and the Apple Barn had their roofs raised and nos. 2 and 3 were constructed between the two….

When the Metropolitan railway was constructed in the 1800s, “Squatters Cottages“ began to pop-up all-over Chorleywood Common, constructed by railway workers who as the railway came further out of London, found the distance to return into London became more arduous.

Muntjac Lodge at the bottom of the Dell was originally a Squatter’s Cottage. Around this time the Dell adopted a new name “Tibble’s Dell “as there were some seven or so families of Tibbles exclusively living there. To the rear of the property are outhouses which were also constructed as part of the development. These were originally shared facilities, a bread oven (now not in existence) a WC, connected to a septic tank and now used only by Muntjac Lodge.

Around 1950 the then owner of the Common (the son or nephew of the original owner) sold off all the cottages to his tenants. Today it is in single family ownership, and this will be the first time for over 75 years that the entire Dell is for sale. Chorleywood is where the white bread that we all know and love was originally formulated and processed by a local baker. His daughter who was quite wealthy owned several houses on the Common which she rented out.

Notably no 1 Appletree was rented to the band Crowded House in the early 1980s. The sellers still to date, have New Zealanders turn up to see the groups humble beginnings and given that the whole band lived there it must have been a crowded house!

Please see all photos and floor plans and contact Stewart Weedon at Presidential Estates for any further questions. Please note all buyers will need to be financially qualified to proceed to viewing.


Muntjac Lodge EPC E
1 Appletree Dell EPC E
2 Appletree Dell EPC D
3 Appletree Dell EPC D
4 Appletree Dell EPC D


Disclaimer. Reasonable endeavours have been made to ensure that the information given in these particulars is materially correct, but any intending purchaser should satisfy themselves by inspection, searches, enquiries, and survey as to the correctness of each statement.