Exceptional country estate with superb leisure facilities

Description

A truly exceptional and historically significant detached country residence dating back to the 15th century, beautifully extended and enhanced over generations to create an impressive and highly versatile family home of remarkable character. The principal house provides six generously proportioned bedrooms and an elegant blend of period architecture and later sympathetic additions. Original features sit comfortably alongside expansive living and entertaining spaces, offering both grandeur and warmth. Thoughtfully designed leisure facilities further elevate the lifestyle on offer, making the property equally suited to refined family living or hosting on a grand scale. At the heart of the home lies the kitchen, a welcoming and beautifully appointed space designed for both practicality and sociability. It forms the natural hub of the house. Adjoining the kitchen is the family snug which leads to a magnificent formal dining room offering a graceful setting for entertaining, with working original inglenook fireplace, and sash windows complemented by working shutters which allow natural light to flood the room while maintaining privacy and an authentic period feel.

The sitting room is both refined and inviting, ideal for entertaining or unwinding, with further original fireplace and sash windows reinforcing the home’s timeless elegance. The playroom or further reception room provides excellent flexibility and leads internally to the spa and pool area. The swimming pool has a hydraulic tiled floor offering both innovation and versatility, at a touch of a button the floor can be raised or lowered, allowing the pool to transform seamlessly from a full depth swimming pool to a shallow leisure space, or even to a fully tiled floor that extends the surrounding room for entertaining events. Beyond the pool, the spa complex is further enhanced by a secondary kitchen, ideal for entertaining or independent use, along with a bedroom or treatment room served by an en-suite bathroom. Alongside the family home, the pool complex is currently operated as a private-hire spa, known as Nortonbury Spa
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The first floor offers four generous double bedrooms all with ensuite bathrooms, on the second floor there are two further bedrooms and an ensuite bathroom.
Complementing the main residence is a fully self-contained three-bedroom, three-bathroom bungalow/annexe barn conversion, ideal for multi-generational living or guest accommodation.

Set within attractive, well-maintained grounds, the property also benefits from garaging and outbuildings.This rare offering combines historic prestige, modern flexible living.

Location

Located in Norton, on the north-eastern edge of Letchworth Garden City in North Hertfordshire, England.

Letchworth Garden City station 1.5 miles (London Kings Cross station from 29 minutes)
A1(M) J9 2.8 miles
Hitchin 3 miles
Cambridge 29 miles
Bedford 19 miles
London Luton Airport 13 miles
London Stansted Airport 26 miles

Following the doctrines of Ebenezer Howard, Letchworth Garden City was designed to cleverly combine the rural feel of the countryside with various amenities including good transport links, and shopping and leisure facilities. There is a Heritage Foundation, which works to preserve the legacy of the town to ensure that its traditional charm is maintained.

Now very much catering to the needs of the 21st Century, the town has a gentrified air with elegant and stylish homes set in large gardens surrounded by mature trees. It is claimed that in keeping with the ambitions of the time, only one tree was felled during the entire initial construction phase of the town.

Interestingly until the late 1950’s Letchworth was very much a ‘dry’ town and even to this day the town centre has fewer than half a dozen pubs - a remarkably low number for a town of its size. Letchworth Garden City has a good choice of high street stores, speciality gift shops and restaurants. The local area offers a vast array of attractions including a museum, a cinema, historic houses, parks, gardens, and the renowned Letchworth Golf Club.

There is a wide range of schools in the district. Independent schools include St Francis College, St Christopher, Kingshott School, and Heath Mount School is close by.

Communications are excellent; the A1(M) (J9) is 2.8 miles distant, whilst fast and frequent trains leave from Letchworth Garden City Station, just over a mile away, and arrive at London Kings Cross from 29 minutes. London Luton airport is just over 13 miles away and Stansted Airport 26 miles approximately.

Square Footage: 7,217 sq ft


Acreage: 2.67 Acres