Hopkins Homes at Beaulieu, Beaulieu, Chelmsford, CM1 6FU

The Abberton is a three-bedroom home across three floors, and at over 1,400 sq ft it's substantially larger than most three-bedroom homes.

The extra floor is where that space comes from and once you understand the layout, it makes complete sense. The ground floor is given entirely to the kitchen and daily life.

The kitchen/dining room is a genuinely large room for a three-bedroom home, wide enough to accommodate a proper dining table and still leave the kitchen working comfortably alongside it.

Bi-fold doors open the full width of the rear of the room to the garden, so when you're hosting, the inside and outside become one space rather than two separate ones.

A utility room sits off the hallway keeping laundry out of the kitchen, and a cloakroom completes the ground floor. The living room sits on the first floor.

Moving it off the ground floor means the kitchen/dining room can be as generous as it is without compromise, and the living room gains the separation and quiet that a ground floor room alongside a busy kitchen rarely gets.

Bedroom 3 shares this floor with the family bathroom and is the right size for a child's bedroom, a guest room or a home office. The top floor is given to two bedrooms.

The principal bedroom measures has a fitted wardrobe and en suite. Bedroom 2 is a proper double with the same full width as every room in this home.

Both rooms share a floor, giving the top of the house a calm, private feel that's genuinely separate from the floors below.

As a Hopkins home at Beaulieu, the Abberton comes with flooring included throughout, a fully fitted kitchen with integrated appliances, and heating via air source heat pump with underfloor heating to the ground floor and thermostatically controlled radiators above.

You can see exactly how it all comes together in our showhome.

Room Dimensions Ground Floor Kitchen / Dining Area - 6.48m x 4.79m 21'3" x 15'7" First Floor Living Room - 5.23m x 4.79m 17'2" x 15'7" Bedroom 3 - 4.19m x 2.49m 13'8" x 8'2" Second Floor Master Bedroom - 4.79m x 3.89m 15'7" x 12'8" Bedroom 2 - 4.79m x 3.06m 15'7" x 10'0"