Detached house for sale in Ickleton Road, Elmdon, Saffron Walden, Essex CB11

Lodge Farm is a substantial family home offering a combined total of over 3,813 sq ft of well appointed, adaptable and light filled accommodation. The brick-built, part weatherboard-clad home has a wealth of rich history and has seen an extensive scheme of sensitive extensions and renovations across five decades by its current owners, whilst retaining a wealth of characterful original features. The grand 22 ft. Central reception hall with its fireplace, fine oak wood flooring and turned stairway flows through a range of versatile and sociable living spaces. This includes a dual aspect drawing room with feature fireplace, tall, coved ceilings and large sash windows, and a bright dining/garden room with a striking octagonal domed skylight and French doors opening directly to a terrace. Internal bi-folding doors flow into a cosy sitting room and, on the opposite side, a door leads to a breakfast room with garden views. The kitchen has a range of wooden wall and base cabinetry and granite work surfaces, a cream Everhot range and a useful utility/boiler room adjacent. Completing the ground floor is a shower room.

The first floor is home to six charming and well-proportioned bedrooms enjoying various fitted wardrobes and pleasing elevated views across the mature grounds. Serving the bedrooms is a family bathroom, a luxurious en suite bath/dressing room to the principal suite and a Jack and Jill bathroom to two further bedrooms.<br /><br />The property benefits from a considerable wrap-around plot surrounded by unspoilt countryside. There is a sweeping gravelled in-and-out driveway and forecourt beside the main entrance and a separate driveway giving access to the attached garages and spacious outbuildings. Behind the house is an enclosed courtyard with buildings on 3 sides and a substantial brick wall on the south. These buildings include a handsome oak framed barn, part of which is used as a study, and the large brick barn on the west. Within is a paved terrace, lawns and flowerbeds. Beyond the courtyard is a walled kitchen garden with stocked beds and yew hedges. There is a Victorian style greenhouse and a croquet lawn. Beyond the gardens are fields, comprising four prospective paddocks. A seasonal winter stream runs along the north edge of the larger field.<br /><br />Lodge Farm is positioned close to the well regarded country border village of Elmdon, surrounded by picturesque North Essex countryside, with a various walking, riding and cycling routes. The nearby market town of Saffron Walden offers an excellent range of shopping, schooling and recreational facilities, including a golf course. Audley End and Royston stations provide regular services to London, while Great Chesterford has a station for Cambridge.