Codicote Road, Welwyn

Summary:

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this wonderful four bedroom, four bathroom family home ideally positioned between the villages of Welwyn and Codicote. This fabulous house offers spacious and flexible accommodation which includes a downstairs bedroom with an en suite shower room, as well as a stunning kitchen/dining room opening through full width folding doors onto the huge rear garden, within which is a large workshop, a really useful garden WC and a lovely detached garden room. The carriage driveway provides abundant off-street parking, which is further enhanced by an additional substantial parking area to the rear of the property, ideally situated in front of the double garage.

Accommodation:

An attractive entrance to the house with stone mullions to the windows and door frame, welcomes you into an entrance lobby that leads on into a generous central hallway that enjoys plenty of natural daylight through the large side facing window, along with multiple storage cupboards. From the hallway doors lead into the ground floor bedroom, a nice reception room/lounge, the office/study and a well placed guest cloakroom. To the rear of the entrance hall double doors open into the substantial living room beyond.

The front facing bedroom is a real asset that provides genuine flexibility to the house. Benefitting from a lovely en suite shower room and nicely placed to offer privacy, yet still well connected to the main living areas.

The reception room/living room is a lovely light, bright room thanks to the large front facing window in an attractive bay arrangement and is a perfect place for spending time together as a family. It is a real bonus having a second lounge, imbuing the house with a flexible and adaptable layout that really copes with the complex and contrasting needs of a busy modern family. This house shows numerous little details in its design and layout that exhibit the intelligent thought that has gone into it - it just works on so many levels.

Similarly, the study/office is the right size and in the right place to perform its role, offering good privacy yet easy connectivity, along with a useful exterior door opening to the side, linking readily through to the utility/laundry room. The room makes best use of the ample space available with a fitted desktop around two sides of the perimeter which would easily provide multiple work stations if required.

Taking the full width of the central part of the house, accessed from the hallway through attractive double doors with opaque glazed panels, is the fabulous living room. This is a large room by any measure at over twenty-six feet long, but is still bathed in natural light throughout the day from the windows at either end of the room, and enjoys nicely balanced as well as generous proportions. A stylish modern chimney breast is set across one corner of the room, hosting a sleek log burner beneath a contemporary solid wood bressumer beam, providing an elegant focal point as well as cosy winter warmth. Comfortably large enough to accept a number of sofas and chairs, as well as other occasional furniture besides, this charming room presents multiple options as to how you furnish and configure it to best suit your needs.

From the living room, a few steps take you down into the amazing kitchen/dining room. This room really delivers the WOW factor as you enter, with full width infinity doors flooding the room with light, ably matched by a glass roof stretching across the whole of the rear of the room. With open sky above and a beautiful vista stretching out across the patio to the garden room and then on into the far distance beyond, this room creates a fully Mediterranean experience right at home in Hertfordshire. It is an absolute joy, with the dramatic dark tones of the kitchen cupboards and worktops contrasting perfectly with the white walls and ceilings and the smart white tiled floor. Intelligent design has placed the fitted area of the kitchen around one side of the room, ensuring a good ergonomic layout, with more than ample storage provided by a comprehensive array of wall and floor mounted cupboards, along with a large island hosting more storage and a sink/drainer along with a useful breakfast bar. A full complement of quality appliances are integrated within the cupboards, with space designated for a free standing, double fronted fridge freezer which is plumbed in for a water cooler/ice maker. The rest of this capacious room is left open plan to use as best suits your lifestyle, and will easily absorb a generous dining suite as well as some casual seating. This room is sure to become the hub and heart of this fabulous home, with the incredible light and space, along with the wonderful free flow between the inside and outside, making it a wonderful place to spend time, both in your day to day lives, but especially when entertaining guests.

Upstairs there are three double bedrooms, all of which enjoy en suite facilities. Two of the bedrooms have shower rooms attached, and are arranged over split levels with their own staircase. The main bedroom has an en suite bathroom with a bath fitted with a shower attachment and screen, as well as a walk-in dressing room.

Exterior:
The house is set well back from the road, with a carriage driveway curving around a raised central feature lined with neat hedging. There is ample parking for cars beyond the two gated entrances, whilst a further driveway then runs alongside the house, opening into another area of hard standing in front of the double garage. Double gates give access through from the driveway into the rear garden, which is fully secure and enclosed and so ideal for children and pets. Running from the rear of the house alongside the garage and separate spacious workshop to the lovely garden room beyond is a superb patio, providing abundant space for relaxing and entertaining in a wonderfully sheltered spot between the house, outbuildings and the boundary wall. Raised beds in the centre and along one side show an appealing display of ornamental shrubs and grasses entirely in keeping with the surroundings. Double doors open into the rear of the garage and the workshop, making them both really usable spaces on a day to day basis, currently the garage serves as a game room and benefits from a cleverly placed garden WC set between both buildings. The garden room at the far end of the patio area is a premium quality installation with large bi-fold glass doors and a further full height window to the rear, along with power and light connected that makes it absolutely usable all year round. It would serve admirably as a gym, office, arts and crafts studio or a teenage hangout space, just as it works so well now as a garden lounge. Beyond the outbuildings the garden stretches away into the far distance with a delightful amalgam of lawn, bushes, shrubs, hedges and a fantastic selection of fruit trees, a wonderful natural space in which to relax and decompress after a busy day, enjoying the calming open aspect all around you.

Location:
This lovely home is perfectly placed to benefit from the great amenities within Welwyn and Codicote Village, being positioned just a few minutes walk from either of the high streets these great villages have to offer. This ideal location also offers excellent connectivity, with J6 of the A1(M) reachable within a few minutes drive, and Welwyn North, Knebworth, and Stevenage train stations all within a 15 minute radius, thereby offering a lovely semi-rural setting, yet still with exceptional links to both London and The North. The villages boast a variety of amenities, including a butcher's shop, restaurants, pubs, a chemist, convenience stores, dry cleaners and bakers, doctors, dentists as well as two fantastic primary schools, Welwyn St Marys in Welwyn Village and the outstanding Codicote C of E Primary School.

Buyers Information
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