3 bedroom detached house for sale

For an audio/video presentation of this property please click ‘virtual tour’ Star Cottage is situated on the edge of the popular village of Nayland amidst some of the most beautiful countryside that the Essex/Suffolk borders have to offer. The village has a highly regarded primary school, doctor’s surgery, village shop and Post Office, renowned butchers and The Anchor public house which is well known for its food. Some eight miles due south in the county of Essex is the historic town of Colchester which offers a wide range of shopping recreational and educational facilities (both private and state) together with a regular commuter train service to London’s Liverpool Street, taking approximately 50 minutes.

Star Cottage, which is Grade II listed, is thought to date as far back as the 16th century and is principally of heavy timber framed construction and presents painted, rendered elevations beneath a tiled roof. The house has been extended and altered over the years and in brief the accommodation now comprises a sitting room, dining room, well fitted kitchen with adjoining breakfast room, utility room, bathroom and separate shower room on the ground floor, whilst at first floor level there are two bedrooms and a landing bedroom which could be subdivided if desired.

The house fronts onto Bear Street and there is a wooden gated entrance to the side which provides off street parking for two cars, creating a cobbled and brick paved courtyard to the side, accessible from the kitchen/breakfast room. The garden is set behind a picket fence and is approached through a shrub clad arbour and a series of paved steps lead you through the garden, with areas of lawn to either side interspersed by a variety of flowering shrubs and trees including cherry and plum. To the side there is a wrought iron work arch with a shrub rose trained over it, giving access to a garden shed/workshop with power and light laid on. The path continues on through another shrub clad pergola and this pathway forks to different areas of the garden which is subdivided by shrub clad trellis work. To the left hand side there is a summerhouse with ornamental pond and raised herbaceous border to the rear, whilst to the other a pathway leads you to a trellis work gazebo. To the back of the garden are two mature silver birch trees.

In all the garden extends to about 0.15 of an acre.

Outside and Garden
A Grade II listed cottage in this picturesque village with an attractive garden. Sitting room, dining room, well fitted kitchen/breakfast room with aga, bathroom and shower room, 3 bedrooms, off road parking, in all the garden extends to about 0.15 of an acre.

Brick steps rise to the oak front door with central glazed panel which opens to the:

Sitting Room
(South and East)
23’2” (max) x 15’3” narrowing to 8’
This is an attractive reception room with a mellow red brick fireplace central to the end wall, with a raised brick hearth and dovre wood burning stove with cast iron canopy, secondary glazing, two radiators, four wall light points, exposed ceiling beams, stairs to first floor level, door to:

Cloakroom
Having low level WC, bath with mixer tap and hand held shower attachment, hand basin, heated towel rail, ceramic tiled floor and part tiled walls, extractor fan, built in medicine cabinet, exposed studwork and ceiling beams, two wall mirrors.

Dining Room
(South)
15’3” x 9’8” narrowing to 7’11”
Secondary glazing, radiator, ceiling beams, exposed studwork, four wall light points.

Kitchen/Breakfast Room
21’ (overall) x 10’6” narrowing to 9’6”
The area is split into two distinct sections, the first has a mellow red brick fireplace with heavy oak bressummer and inset Rayburn double oven oil fired aga with hob above, a range of fitted base cupboards and drawers with work surfaces and inset stainless steel single drainer sink unit with mixer tap, part tiled walls, brick floor, with part glazed stable door leading to terrace and driveway, four all light points. This room then narrows with a step up to the:

Breakfast Area
To the side is a shelved airing cupboard housing a large lagged cooper hot water cylinder with immersion heater (not tested). The breakfast area again has the brick floor with further kitchen units comprising cupboards, drawers and eye level cupboards with space for electric oven and hob with stainless steel extractor filter above, vaulted ceiling with exposed ceiling beams, radiator, eaves storage cupboard, skylight, built in cloaks cupboard.

Utility Room
6’7” x 4’11”
With a range of built in cupboards, work surfaces with stainless steel single drainer sink unit with mixer tap, plumbing for automatic washing machine and space for condenser dryer, recessed low voltage ceiling lights, extractor fan, door to:

Shower Room
With tiled corner shower cubicle with wall mounted shower rose, hand basin with mixer tap above and cupboards under, tiles, mirror, light and shaver point above, low level WC with concealed cistern, built in cupboards with display shelves to one side, ceramic tiled floor, recessed low voltage ceiling lights, extractor fan, vertical chrome heated towel rail/radiator

Stairs rise to the:

First Floor Landing/Bedroom One
(North and South)
15’2” (overall) x 10’11”
With exposed studwork and ceiling beams, secondary glazing, radiator, step up with doorway through to:

Bedroom Two
(North and South)
15’4” x 8’10” (average)
With secondary glazing, radiator, built in wardrobe cupboards to one end with storage cupboards above.

Bedroom Three
(North and South)
15’4” x 10’8” (to front of wardrobe cupboards)
Secondary glazing, radiator, built in wardrobe cupboards to the length of the end wall with steep storage cupboards above, exposed ceiling beams.

Outside and Gardens
The house fronts onto Bear Street and there is a wooden gated entrance to the side which provides off street parking for two cars, creating a cobbled and brick paved courtyard to the side, accessible from the kitchen/breakfast room. The garden is set behind a picket fence and is approached through a shrub clad arbour and a series of paved steps lead you through the garden, with areas of lawn to either side interspersed by a variety of flowering shrubs and trees including cherry and plum. To the side there is a wrought iron work arch with a shrub rose trained over it, giving access to a garden shed/workshop with power and light laid on. The path continues on through another shrub clad pergola and this pathway forks to different areas of the garden which is subdivided by shrub clad trellis work. To the left hand side there is a summerhouse with ornamental pond and raised herbaceous border to the rear, whilst to the other a pathway leads you to a trellis work gazebo. To the back of the garden are two mature silver birch trees.

In all the garden extends to about 0.15 of an acre.

Property Ref:84_1100_1644091