The Street, Shalford

This delightful, detached period home offers flexible and spacious living accommodation, beautifully presented throughout with an abundance of original features. The property includes two reception rooms, with open fireplaces, a traditional country-style kitchen with a breakfast area. There are four bedrooms, en-suite and bathroom facilities.
Set within a generous private plot, the property enjoys established gardens with seating areas, perfect for outdoor dining and entertaining, enclosed vegetable garden. A gravel driveway provides parking for numerous vehicles.
Completing this exceptional home is an additional charming, detached cottage, featuring two double bedrooms and two shower rooms, and the main sitting room with adjoining summer room — ideal for guests, extended family, or as a potential rental opportunity. EPC Rating E.
The property
The Setting
The property is situated in the picturesque village of Shalford, within the parish of Braintree, offering a fabulous community spirit. Within the village there is a 13th century church, primary school, village hall and local store and a public house, The George, that dates to 14th Century. Shalford is a short drive to Braintree town centre, which offers a more comprehensive range of shops, restaurants, and public houses, as well as a mainline railway station providing direct services to London Liverpool Street. For those travelling by car, the nearby A120 offers excellent connections to Colchester, Bishop’s Stortford, and the M11, each approximately 20 miles away. Stansted International Airport is also conveniently located, being less than a 30-minute drive from the property.
Accommodation
The main front door opens onto an entrance lobby with doors opening onto the dining room to the right and a traditional cottage style kitchen/breakfast room to the left with original features such as exposed beams to the walls & ceiling. The bespoke kitchen has been fitted with a good range of country-style base and wall units and there is an external door to the rear garden. A further door opens onto a hallway with a turned staircase to the first floor and further doors to a dual aspect sitting room, where the original features continue with exposed timbers to the walls and ceiling, a redbrick Inglenook fireplace with inset woodburning stove. The dining room completes this floor.The first-floor landing area has doors leading to the principal bedroom with en-suite toilet facilities, large built-in wardrobes and views to the front and rear gardens. There are a further three double bedrooms and a family bathroom with additional shower facilities that completes this floor.
Outside
To the front of the property is a carriage, gravel driveway offering parking for numerous vehicles and side access to the rear garden. The private gardens extend to approximately 0.3 of an acre, being divided into enclosed vegetable garden, garden to the main house with entertaining terraced patio and additional gardens to the separate cottage with its own patio.
Detached Cottage
The side access leads to an additional spacious detached cottage facilities with a door opening onto an entrance hallway with doors to a downstairs bedroom with window to the front, a bathroom, fully integrated kitchen and sitting room with adjacent summer room. A staircase rises to a study area and a further double bedroom and shower room.
Services
Oil fired central heating to the main house & electric heating to the annex. Mains drainage, water and electricity are connected.
Local Authority
Braintree District Council