Crippings Farm, Leaden Roding, Essex, CM1 4PZ

Crippings Farmhouse is a Grade II Listed four-bedroom detached property of considerable character, with parts dating from the 17th and early 19th centuries. The house is of timber frame construction beneath a traditional peg tile roof, arranged over three storeys and occupying a central position within the main farmyard.

The property provides well-proportioned family accommodation retaining a wealth of period features throughout. The ground floor comprises a kitchen, boot room, utility room, office, WC, old dairy with adjacent pantry and cellar, a dining room with inglenook fireplace and a sitting room. The first floor offers three bedrooms and a family bathroom, with a fourth bedroom and playroom on the second floor.

Outside, the farmhouse sits within established gardens to all sides, principally laid to lawn and framed by mature trees and hedging, with a patio area to the front. A particular feature of the property is the partial moat to the rear, with a large pond to the east adjoining the access track to the farmyard. A single garage is situated to the front of the property.

The property is now in need of repair and refurbishment throughout, presenting an incoming purchaser with an excellent opportunity for improvement and modernisation, subject to obtaining the necessary listed building consents.

Water - Mains
Drainage - Private (septic tank)
Heating / Hot Water - oil fired central heating
Council Tax - Band E
EPC - F (with potential to be C)

A range of traditional farm buildings lies immediately to the north of Crippings Farmhouse. The buildings are arranged around the farmyard and offer potential for alternative uses, subject to planning.

These are described below:

Building 1 - Old Granary (4m x 4m): Timber frame with weatherboarded cladding beneath a slate tile roof, raised clear of the ground on four red brick corner supports in the traditional manner.
Buildings 1a-1d - Grain Silos: A row of four grain silos providing a combined storage capacity of approximately 270 tonnes, comprising one silo of 90 tonnes and three of 60 tonnes each.
Building 2 - Grain Drying Barn (5m x 6m): Timber frame on a brick plinth with weatherboarded elevations beneath a slate tile roof. Houses the grain dryer and additional storage of approximately 110 tonnes across five bins. Chemical store accessed via separate locked door. Single-phase electricity.
Building 2a - Lean-To (5m x 6.3m): Adjoining lean-to of timber frame beneath a slate roof, sectioned into former pig pens with breeze block walls and concrete floor and yard.
Building 2b - Store (6m x 4.4m): Concrete rendered store adjoining the rear of Building 2.
Building 3 - Long Barn (7m x 41m): A substantial timber frame barn on a red brick plinth with weatherboarded elevations and concrete floor. Arranged internally to provide a workshop, central store and open former pig pens, with single glazed windows to the workshop.
Building 4 - Former Pig Building (6m x 12.5m): Open-fronted former pig building with breeze block sty walls, part asbestos clad elevations and corrugated asbestos sheet roof.
Building 5 - Former Pig Building (5m x 4m): Timber frame with concrete addition beneath a slate roof, arranged internally into three sections with concrete floors and single glazed timber windows.
Building 6 - Cart Shed (18m x 5.2m): Timber frame cart shed with weatherboarded elevations beneath a slate tile roof and concrete floor, with a lean-to to one end.
Building 7 - Former block-built pig building (5m x 6.5m): with an adjoining overflow water tank on the southern elevation.