Property Details: • Type: Detached • Tenure: FREEHOLD • Floor Area: N/A
Key Features: • Historic Country Estate • 10 Acres of Beautiful Parkland Grounds • 7 Bedroom 16th Century House • Substantial Wine Cellar • Beautiful Views • Ultra-Fast Broadband
Location: • Nearest Station: Stansted Airport Station • Distance to Station: 6.360956328704489 miles
Agent Information: • Address: The Old Post office, 4 Church Street, Sawbridgeworth, CM21 9AB
Full Description: <p>Folio: 15775 Stebbing Park is a former manorial estate, dating back to Norman times with a fine 16th century, 7 bedroom country house. It sits centrally in 10 acres of undulating wooded parkland with fantastic views. It is a short walk to the historic core of the unspoiled village of Stebbing whose thriving community offers a vibrant public house, pre-school, junior and infants schools, Parish Church and excellent community shop. Felsted is close by with its renowned independent prep and senior schools and the flitch town of Great Dunmow is a few minutes drive providing a wide selection of amenities, including shop, doctors, supermarkets, public houses, restaurants and schools. Access to the A120 (Dunmow South) is 4 miles distance and to the M11 (Jct 8) is 11 miles. Mainline train stations at Stansted Airport, Bishop’s Stortford, and Braintree provide services to London Liverpool Street.</p><p></p><p>This fine house, is listed Grade 2* and is of exceptional heritage and architectural significance. The estate was formerly in the ownership for four centuries of the Capell family, the Earls of Essex. It is a heavy timber framed 7 bedroom home with high ceilings, impressive reception rooms, large sash windows having wonderful views across the picturesque and tranquil grounds and river valley. Along with the impressive house, the estate enjoys a Norman Motte Castle and moat (Scheduled Monument) and the grounds including a spring fed lake, together with about 300 yards of Stebbing Brook and extensive woodland areas. Early viewing of this historic country property in an idyllic setting is highly recommended.</p><p></p>