Green Road, Rickling Green, Nr Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11

THE THATCH is a charming detached Grade II Listed cottage with more recent additions, occupying a delightful setting placed in the very heart of what remains a popular and highly regarded village. The property provides nicely proportioned living accommodation combining features from its original period including exposed beams and timbers and impressive fireplaces, alongside more recent additions creating a unique and highly individual home.

The front door opens into an entrance porch which leads into the property. There is a side hallway where stairs rise to the first floor and a ground floor bathroom which contains a white 3-piece suite. There is a charming sitting room which looks out to the front of the property featuring exposed beams and timbers, brick laid floor, inglenook fireplace with log-effect gas fire. A snug area sits on the reverse of the inglenook with a door opening to the rear and open studwork providing a partial division to the dining room which looks out to the front, features attractive wood-block flooring and opens to the rear hallway. The rear hall itself links modern-to-old with a further staircase rising to the first floor and is open to the kitchen which is equipped with a range of storage cupboards and worktops with integrated appliances including oven and hob, dishwasher and microwave, with a window to the side drawing in natural light. The principal reception room sits across the rear of the property providing combining sitting and casual dining areas with windows to the rear and glazed doors to outside, both drawing in good amounts of natural light creating a bright and airy living space.

As already mentioned, there are two staircases which rise to the first floor accommodation; the first in the original part of the cottage rises to a study/landing area with a window to the front and exposed beams and timbers, in turn leading to a charming bedroom, again with exposed beams and timbers and dormer window to the front. The second staircase, accessed from the rear hallway, rises to a landing which, in turn, gives access to two good sized bedrooms and a family bathroom which incorporates a white 4-piece suite including bath and separate shower cubicle.

OUTSIDE, the property is approached by an un-made track to the front shared by neighbouring properties, this in turn leads onto a gravelled driveway which provides off-street parking space for several vehicles and also leads to a detached single garage. The property is set well back in its plot behind a lovely lawned garden area which borders the driveway and contains a variety of flowerbeds and borders stocked with an array of mature plants and shrubs creating a lovely natural border.

Gardens to the rear form a broad L-shape and are laid mainly to lawn with a paved patio adjoining the rear of the house providing ideal space for outside entertaining, with the gardens also featuring a variety of flowerbeds and borders, once again stocked with a variety of plants and shrubs, along with an impressive old tree. In all, the total plot measures approx. 152ft x 65ft.

RICKLING GREEN is a small north west Essex village surrounding the well known village green and cricket pitch. A public house and primary school are situated within the village which has access to the M11 (J8) approximately 7 miles distant and the historic town of Saffron Walden is approximately 7 miles to the north east. Mainline railway services are available from Audley End, Newport, Stansted and Bishop’s Stortford.