The Rows Church Road, Layer de la Haye, Colchester, CO2 0EU

The Rows Church Road, Layer de la Haye, Colchester, CO2 0EU

The Rows Church Road, Layer de la Haye, CO2 0EU Colchester town centre 5.5 miles, Colchester North Station 6.5 miles (London Liverpool Street about 51 mins) (Distances are approximate) A detached house with outbuildings and stunning mature gardens in an elevated setting with panoramic views across Abberton Reservoir towards Mersea Island Entrance lobby Hall Sitting room Conservatory Kitchen/breakfast room Garden room Study Utility room Cloakroom 3 Bedrooms Sun room Family bathroom Garage Landscaped formal gardens Kitchen garden Swimming pond Timber summerhouse Garden stores Privy Greenhouse About 1.7 acres PROPERTY The Rows is situated in a beautiful secluded and elevated position, with panoramic views across Abberton Reservoir. Dating from the 1950s, the house was built on the site of a farmhouse and is constructed of brick elevations under a peg tile roof. The roof tiles were recycled from the old original farmhouse. There is considerable potential to extend and improve the house, subject to the necessary planning consents. The interior would benefit from some updating and has light and spacious rooms with some spectacular views to the south and east across the gardens towards the reservoir and the coast. At the heart of the house is a well-proportioned sitting room with a fireplace housing a woodburner with doors to a rear lobby and office as well as a spacious conservatory with a small ornamental pond. The kitchen/breakfast room is equipped with a range of cupboard and drawer units with integrated electric oven and hob and oil-fired Aga. The kitchen provides ample dining space and has quarry tile flooring with a door through to the conservatory, which provides attractive southerly views of the garden. Located off the front hall is a utility room and cloakroom. From the sitting room an oak staircase provides access to the first floor which has a sun room with, three bedrooms and a bathroom, all with delightful views of the surrounding countryside and garden. There are photovoltaic panels on the house and garage roof providing renewable electricity as well as solar panels providing hot water. SITUATION The property is situated in a delightful rural setting to the south of the village of Layer de la Haye, which has a good range of local amenities including a primary school, two public houses and a village store. Colchester is approximately 5.5 miles away and benefits from a wide range of shopping and recreational amenities, as well as mainline rail services to London Liverpool Street from Colchester North Station and Marks Tey, with a journey time of about 51 minutes from the latter. There are a number of well-regarded schools within reach including Layer de la Haye Primary School, Stanway School, Colchester Royal Grammar School, Colchester High School, St Mary s and Holmwood House Prep School.

OUTSIDE The property is approached via a right of way over a long private farm track which also provides access to some agricultural barns to the north of the house. The Rows has its own private driveway, which leads through an avenue of shrub roses to a parking and turning area adjacent to the detached double garage. The beautiful mature gardens surround the house and are stocked with an exceptional range of plants and shrubs including lilac, hydrangea, daffodils, numerous roses as well as a wide variety of mature trees. Doors from the house open onto a paved terrace with a timber pergola adorned with roses. The large lawn is interspersed with many mature specimen trees including ash, oak, holly, walnut, aspen, lime, alder, rowan, chestnut, hazel, liquid amber, crab apple, eucalyptus, a variety of willows, balsam poplar, giant sequoia (wellingtonia) and many silver birches. At the bottom of the garden is a fabulous swimming pond stocked with water lilies, bulrushes and irises and accessed via a timber jetty. To the west is a timber summer house and a further pond and there are also many fruit trees including quince, apple and plum. There is an abundance of wildlife in the locality including nightingales, cuckoos and all three types of newt in the ponds. To the north of the garage is a kitchen garden with vegetable beds, fruit bushes, apple and walnut trees as well as stunning rambling roses. Behind the garage there is an outbuilding comprising a log store, garden store and potting shed with adjacent composting bins. There is a garden privy and a greenhouse.

DIRECTIONS From Layer de la Haye, proceed in a southerly direction along the B1026 towards Great Wigborough. The driveway to The Rows is on the right-hand side just before the Layer Causeway and the property is located on the left-hand side at the top of the track. SERVICES Mains electricity and water are connected. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating and hot water. TENURE & METHOD OF SALE The property is being offered for sale via private treaty freehold with vacant possession upon completion. LOCAL AUTHORITY Colchester Borough Council. Tel No 01206 282222. Council Tax Band E VIEWINGS Strictly by prior appointment via the vendors Sole Agents, Nicholas Percival, on 01206 563222 or email info@nicholaspercival.co.uk. Ref R10484. RIGHTS OF WAY, WAYLEAVES AND EASEMENTS The sale is subject to all rights of support, public and private rights of way, water, light, drainage and other easements, quasi-easements and wayleaves, all or any other like rights, whether mentioned in these particulars or not. IMPORTANT: we would like to inform prospective purchasers that these sales particulars have been prepared as a general guide only. A detailed survey has not been carried out, nor the services, appliances and fittings tested. Room sizes should not be relied upon for furnishing purposes and are approximate. If floor plans are included, they are for guidance only and illustration purposes only and may not be to scale. If there are any important matters likely to affect your decision to buy, please contact us before viewing the property. Nicholas Percival Chartered Surveyors & Estate Agents Beacon End Farmhouse, London Road, Stanway, Colchester, Essex CO3 0NQ

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