Common Road, Chorleywood, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, WD3

A fine country home on a stunning mature plot about 1.75 acres

Description

The Orchard is a captivating Arts and Crafts-style residence, dating from circa 1907, offering elegant and characterful accommodation across three floors. Set within an impressive, secluded mature plot about 1.75 acres, this home beautifully combines period features with practical family living.

Throughout the property, original features abound, including picture rails, attractive fireplaces in the principal rooms, and authentic door locks and handles, all contributing to its character.

The entrance is via a tiled porch leading into a welcoming hallway with wood flooring. The drawing room, with its dual aspect and period open fireplace, enjoys delightful views over the grounds. This room flows seamlessly into a garden room - an ideal space in which to enjoy the ambience of the setting. The dining room is equally inviting, featuring a period fireplace with a tiled surround and garden views.

A bright and airy family room benefits from dual aspect bay windows and a wood-burning stove, providing a cosy retreat during winter evenings while offering views over the orchard to the front. The kitchen/breakfast room is another double aspect space, fitted with an excellent range of wall and floor units, complemented by a central island topped with granite work surfaces. Integrated appliances include a Miele double oven, Aga with electric hotplate, dishwasher, and fridge. A useful walk-in pantry adds to the practicality. The breakfast area, with built-in seating, overlooks the garden - an inviting spot to start the day.

Beyond the kitchen lies an inner hall with access to the garden and courtyard, alongside a generous utility/boot room and separate plant room. Completing the ground floor are a cloakroom and a cellar, ideal for wine storage, as well as a storage room housing boilers, a water tank, and a water softener.

Stairs rise from the hall to the spacious landing. The principal bedroom is a lovely room with views to the front over the orchard garden and features custom built wardrobes and a generous en suite bathroom with shower, bath, twin basins and floating WC. There are three further double bedrooms on this floor all with lovely views over the grounds. A generous family bathroom serves these bedrooms and has a bath, shower, vanity unit and WC with attractive tiling. An additional bedroom is used as a study and to the side of this room is a useful night cloakroom.

The second floor offers versatile accommodation, perfect for a nanny, guests, or older children, with two spacious bedrooms and two bath/shower rooms, plus a TV room.

Outside
This stunning home stands in an unrivalled location in Chorleywood fronting the Common and is known locally as the house with the daffodils in Spring. The house is approached through a gravelled carriage driveway with lawn to the side and a fabulous orchard to the front with apple, plum and pear trees and is enclosed by mature hedging to the front. There is ample parking for cars and a detached double garage with light, power and electric car charging point plus storage above.

The gated rear garden is a stunning feature of this beautiful home with a pretty terrace for entertaining and a wonderful expanse of lawn interspersed with lovely flower and shrub beds, mature trees and hedging and a wild garden to the very rear making a perfect setting for this remarkable home for all the family.

There is a garden workshop, useful log store and bike store.

Location

The Orchard occupies a lovely position adjacent to Chorleywood Common with its 188 acres of woodland walks, grassland, horse tracks and 9-hole golf course and cricket club. Chorleywood village with its selection of shops, cafés and restaurants is about half a mile walk across the Common and the nearby station provides a frequent service to London Baker Street and The City as well as the Chiltern Turbo to Marylebone.

Communications are excellent with junction 18 of the M25 approximately a mile away with links to the major motorway network and airports (Heathrow approx. 13 miles).

More comprehensive amenities are at Watford with the renowned Grove Country Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort (approx. 6 miles). The historic Moor Park Golf Club is approximately 5 miles away.

The area is well served with both private and state schools with Christ Church primary school and Clement Danes secondary school approximately 0.5 miles away.

Square Footage: 5,150 sq ft



Directions

From Rickmansworth Station roundabout take the first exit onto the A404 Chorleywood Road, continue and cross over Junction 18 of the M25. Follow the road through the next set of traffic lights. At the next set of traffic lights turn left into Common Road and The Orchard will be found on the right before Woodland Lane.