Property Details: • Type: Detached • Tenure: FREEHOLD • Floor Area: 3445 sqft
Key Features: • 3445 square foot, unlisted, detached home • Five double bedrooms, three bath/shower rooms • Three large reception rooms and a well-appointed kitchen/breakfast room • Impressive reception hall with studwork and a beautiful staircase • 2.11 acres of grounds including a private south-facing rear garden and patio • With a wide variety of trees and large kitchen garden • Gazebo, double garage, shed, greenhouse and detached workshop/office • 450 foot of frontage including a fenced lawn (with paddock potential) • Colchester City centre: 8 miles. Elmstead Market village centre: 1.5 miles • University of Essex Wivenhoe Campus: 3 miles
Location: • Nearest Station: Alresford (Essex) Station • Distance to Station: 1.4486547799697653 miles
Agent Information: • Address: Hyntle Barn, Silver Hill, Hintlesham, IP8 3NJ
Full Description: THE PROPERTY <br />Frating Lodge is a classically proportioned, early 1700s built detached home which is superbly positioned in grounds that measure 2.1 acres. <br /> <br />The house has a functional layout for a period home with three dual-aspect receptions rooms oriented around a large entrance hall. There are high ceilings, numerous windows allowing plenty of light and, although not listed, it retains period features including: exposed ceiling beams, studwork, heritage sash windows at the front, a detailed wooden staircase and some original doors. <br /> <br />The kitchen has been sympathetically modernised with Corian surfaces and includes a range cooker; both the breakfast room and the dining room have modern red-brick fireplaces, with the former including a log-burner. <br /> <br />The first-floor has five double sized bedrooms, one of which is in use as a study. Two of these rooms have en-suite bathrooms and family bathroom also has a cubicle shower. <br /> <br />GROUNDS AND OUTBUILDINGS <br />The grounds total 2.11 acres. To the front there is a 450-foot fenced lawn running adjacent to the drive, which leads into a turning circle and parking area with access to a large detached double garage. <br /> <br />Immediately adjacent to the house there is a formal side-garden with a parterre herb garden, and a private (south-facing) rear patio; this can be accessed by three sets of doors from the house, including one with a delightful trellised porch. <br /> <br />The remainder of the rear garden includes a wonderful mix of established trees (including Pyrus, Robinia and Cedar), lawns, an ornamental pond, and a large kitchen garden with raised beds, a potting shed and a greenhouse. <br /> <br />Further outbuildings include a charming gazebo which is ideal for summer evening entertaining and a detached barn with a kitchenette and a fireplace; this would make for an excellent office or hobby room. <br /> <br />LOCATION <br />Frating Lodge is one of two dwellings sharing a driveway and entrance off Clacton Road (sometimes knowns as “Main Road”) and is located between the villages of Frating and Elmstead Market, on the Tendring Peninsular. <br /> <br />Elmstead Market village centre is less than two miles from the house, where buyers will find a Budgens store, a petrol station and a Primary School. Colchester City Centre is five miles to the west where there are extensive services, and Frinton-on-Sea is ten miles to the east. <br />Colchester North Mainline station provides direct rail services to the City of London with journey times of fifty minutes. <br /> <br />DIRECTIONS <br />Postcode: CO7 7DG <br />What3Words location: ///quilt.professes.backpack <br /> <br />POINTS TO NOTE <br />The house is registered in Council Tax Band G with payments of £3479.00 PA. <br /> <br />The property is connected to mains water and electricity. It has an oil-fired central heating system and a private septic tank sewerage system. <br /> <br />Ofcom broadband estimate: Ultrafast available (900 Mbps upload and download speeds) <br />Ofcom mobile phone coverage estimate: Indoor = limited. Outdoor = likely in all networks <br /> <br />Parts of the front garden may be subject to an overage clause - ask agent for details. <br /> <br />EPC rating E. <br /> <br />GENERAL ADVICE <br />Before booking a viewing of any Brooks Leney property, we suggest buyers view its full online details including the street-view representation, the site map, the satellite view and the floor plan. If you have any questions, please contact Brooks Leney. A PDF version of the floorplan is available on request. These sales details were produced in good faith and are believed to be correct.