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See how verdicts work4-bedroom semi-detached house · CO9 3PH
Listing removedReduced £10k (−2.7%) on 20 JunListed 256 days
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Quote Ref: DP0213 - Guide Price £375,000 to £385,000 Please quote this reference when requesting further details, because you are going to love this beautifully presented three/four-bedroom semi-detached home situated at the end of this popular cul-de-sac in Sible Hedingham.
The property has really well extended ground floor accommodation with three potential reception rooms, a comparatively big driveway for 8 cars and a garage.
This great family home is entered via a composite front door that leads you into the welcoming hallway with doorways leading to the living room and dining room, there is a staircase that climbs to the first floor with an understairs cupboard and there is a window with blinds to stay looking over the side aspect.
The living room is a fantastic room with engineered wood flooring and a feature fireplace with a wood burning stove and side built in storage.
A feature of this home is that there are detailed venetian textured plaster walls occasionally to add to the internal character and ambience.
There is a covered radiator and a large, double-glazed recess window overlooking the front aspects.
Next is the dining room, a great entertaining space large enough for an eight-seater table and chairs with vertical timbers breaking up the wall textures and then an opening to the kitchen and double doors leading top the third reception room or fourth double bedroom, depending on family needs.
The kitchen is part of the single storey extension, a great size galley style kitchen with a range of modern wall and base units with quartz worktops, a Rangemaster oven with a 5 ring gas hob and warming drawers and extractor hood over, there is an integral dishwasher and a sunken single sink unit, windows overlook the rear and side aspects and there is a side doors and a built in cupboard.
The final room downstairs can be used as either a reception room or a fourth bedroom which is its current usage with double doors leading out to the garden and a radiator.
On the first floor is a landing with doors leading to all the three bedrooms and the bathroom, there is an airing cupboard and a loft hatch to a fully boarded loft space.
Bedroom one is situated at the rear of the home, a generous double room with a set of curtain fronted wardrobes and a window overlooking the rear garden.
Bedroom two is to the front of the house, again a double room with a radiator and window overlooking the front aspects. Bedroom three is a generous single room with radiator and a window to the front.
To finish this floor is the family bathroom which is a modern white suite fitted room to include a p-shaped bath with shower over, a low level flush wc and a hand wash basin surrounded by fully tiled walls and an obscured window to the rear aspects.
Outside: To the front of the property is a great brick paved driveway for a round 8 cars along with a single garage that has an additional storage area to the rear as well and a courtesy door to the side.
A side path leads down the side of the house going past the door to the kitchen and then out and down to the rear garden.
A south facing rear garden with a fabulous feel, there is a timber cabin measuring 3.7m x 2.29m currently being used as a workshop but could make a great outdoor office, there is ‘The Snug’ a covered open fronted space for cosy evenings even when it’s raining.
There is a patio with space to sit out and enjoy those summer barbeques, and all surrounded by wood panel fencing keeping this garden very private.
There is an area of lawn and some rear borders for planting, so this has it all. Services: Mains Electricity. Gas fired heating. Mains Drainage. Braintree Council Tax Band C.
There are BT Openreach and Gigaclear Broadband Standard, Superfast and Ultrafast broadband connections up to 1000mbps available at his property (according to Ofcom broadband checker).
Current owners use EE.
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