Whitehorse Lane, Welwyn

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely five bedroom, two bathroom family home enjoying an idyllic location overlooking the village green in the pretty hamlet of Burnham Green, just a few minutes south of Datchworth. Surrounded by glorious open countryside, yet within easy reach of Welwyn and Welwyn Garden City, this property has been intelligently extended and remodelled and now benefits from spacious and flexible accommodation arranged over three floors that includes a superb kitchen, delightful dining/family room and a separate living room and sitting room, along with a utility/laundry room that incorporates a useful guest cloakroom and generous wrap-around gardens set behind a private gated entrance that offer huge amounts of off-street parking and a detached garage.

Accommodation:
The pretty front door is inset with a number of glass panels and opens into a nice lobby area with its own window to the side that leads on into the entrance hall. From here doors are set either side of the staircase and lead into the separate living room and sitting room.

The living room has a wonderful bay window looking out over the front garden, filling the room with light and garden views, further boosted by glass double doors opening out into the garden at the side. This is a large room of well balanced proportions that really enhances the flexibility of this substantial family home. Easily able to absorb multiple sofas and chairs as well as other occasional furniture, it works in complete harmony with the rest of the ground floor to give you almost unlimited choice on how to configure and furnish each room to best suit your family’s day to day needs.

Across the hallway is the sitting room, another room with a really usable size and shape that will perform in any number of roles for you. Its position adjoining the kitchen would make it a terrific dining room if so desired, with the stylish fireplace housing a smart log burner and flanked either side by beautifully crafted built-in cupboards and shelving fitted into the alcoves, with matching panelling around the walls adding a real elegance to the room.

To the rear of the sitting room is the kitchen, an absolute design triumph with gloss white handle-free cupboards and smart contrasting grey quartz worktops. This is a fabulous modern kitchen with a comprehensive array of wall and floor mounted cabinets lining the perimeter, ensuring more than ample storage space and food preparation areas, both of which are further boosted by an ideally located central island that also offers a lovely breakfast bar. Set within the units is a full collection of integrated appliances, all from premium manufacturers, with glass splashbacks softly illuminated by concealed lighting under the cabinets, and subtle LEDs set into the plinths below. Practical, stylish and ergonomic yet spacious, this kitchen has it all.

To the rear of the kitchen, usefully connected to it by an open archway, is the wonderful L’ shaped dining/family room that flows across and around the rear and side of the house.To say that this room is flooded in natural daylight seems like a ridiculous understatement - The whole of the rear wall is glass, with glazed double doors at its centre opening out into the rear garden. To one end of the room is a further set of glass double doors and another separate window to the side, and if that isn't enough there are three Velux windows set into the slope of the roof. This is effectively a very large conservatory, exhibiting all of the benefits of that arrangement but without any of the drawbacks. There is a huge amount of floor space on offer, leaving you a wonderful choice as to how you lay it out and furnish it. It easily multi-tasks as a dining room and family room whilst still leaving plenty of open spaces for free and easy movement into, around and through the room, making it so usable for family time on a day to day basis and ensuring it will fully support you when entertaining large parties of guests if needed. It is a real delight !!

Set into one end of the room is a really useful utility/laundry room that doubles up effectively as a well placed guest cloakroom.

Up on the first floor is a light, bright and spacious hallway, complete with its own front facing window, that leads to three of the bedrooms, all doubles, and the family bathroom which is luxuriously appointed to include a separate free standing bath and a large shower. The principal bedroom enjoys windows to two different aspects and fitted wardrobes as well as a smart en-suite bathroom also featuring a separate free standing bath and a shower.

From the first floor hallway a further staircase rises up to the second floor which has been tastefully converted into two further large bedrooms, both of which benefit from built-in cupboards and eaves storage, abundantly lit by Velux windows offering wonderful views out over the village green to the front and open countryside to the rear.

Exterior:
The house is set well back from the road, allowing generous gardens to grace the wide frontage. Secure double gates open onto a substantial block paved driveway that flows past the lawn and flowerbeds at the front of the house, then extends back past the house itself to the detached garage at the rear. There is ample parking for a large number of cars and a large front garden that could be converted to provide even more parking if required. A paved pathway leads from the driveway to the front door of the house, passing the large lawned area as it does so, which is well shielded from the road and easily large enough to be used as a family social space. A paved patio runs back alongside the house and turns to fully extend across the rear, giving flat level access out from the dining/family room. The rear garden is predominantly low maintenance paved patio, surrounded by sheltering hedging, with a square of lawn in the corner which is just perfect for a children’s play area. The wrap-around layout of the garden, and the good secure boundary to the front, enable the front and back gardens to be fully used at all times, also affording sun and shade, whichever you prefer.

Location:
This wonderful property enjoys an idyllic location overlooking the lovely village green that occupies the centre of Burnham Green, ideally situated between Datchworth and Tewin. Surrounded by fabulous country pubs, both in the village and the other well supported villages that surround it, this is an extremely desirable location in the heart of the Hertfordshire countryside. A few minutes drive from mainline train services in Welwyn that can place you in London King's Cross within 20 minutes and similarly just a mile or so from the A1(M), this immaculate family home enjoys the best of both worlds - open countryside on your doorstep but easily connecting by road and rail both north and south for work and leisure, it's hard to beat.

Buyers Information
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