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Immaculate 4-Bedroom Detached Home – Exclusive Private Road, Hertford

Summary:
Simply Homes are delighted to present this beautifully appointed four-bedroom detached family home, perfectly located on a quiet private road with only two neighbouring houses. Combining elegance, space and versatility, it is presented in immaculate condition throughout and offers an exceptional lifestyle in one of Hertford’s most desirable locations. The property is just moments from Hertford East Station, providing direct trains to London Liverpool Street with a journey time of around 45 minutes – making it an ideal choice for City commuters who don’t want to compromise on family living.

Accommodation:
The ground floor is designed with modern family life in mind. A large, light-filled kitchen/dining room forms the heart of the home, complete with high-gloss cabinetry, expansive worktops, a central island with hob and breakfast bar, plus premium integrated appliances. This welcoming space flows naturally into a generous dining or reception area, perfect for both everyday living and entertaining.
To the rear, a superb 22ft living room stretches the full width of the house. With French doors, tall windows and a bay flooding the space with natural light, this impressive room is bright, adaptable and spacious enough to host multiple seating or dining zones. A guest cloakroom completes the ground floor.

Upstairs, a galleried landing leads to four generous double bedrooms and a stylish family bathroom. The principal suite benefits from fitted wardrobes and a luxury en-suite shower room, while the family bathroom is equally well appointed. Both feature high specification, digitally operated bath fillers and showers, combining convenience with a touch of luxury.

Summary:
Set behind secure electric gates and nestled within a private plot, this exceptional property offers a rare blend of luxury, versatility, and development potential. Built to a high specification by the current owners, this unique home includes a substantial 5-bedroom main residence, a self-contained 3-bedroom annexe, multiple outbuildings, and scope for further expansion or internal reconfiguration (STPP).

Accommodation – Main House:
Designed with family living in mind, the main house features a spacious open-plan lounge with a stylish kitchen and breakfast area, a separate sitting room, study, utility room, and ground floor cloakroom/WC.

To the upstairs landing, where you’ll find five generously sized double bedrooms, including two with en-suite bathrooms, plus a modern family bathroom.

Annexe:
Ideal for extended family, guests, or as a potential rental opportunity, the multi-level annexe offers a kitchen-diner, lounge, bathroom, and three bedrooms. It also benefits from its own private courtyard garden and driveway, providing complete independence from the main house.

Exterior:
Externally the home opens onto a beautifully landscaped, two-tiered private garden. The garden has been thoughtfully designed to offer both elegant entertaining spaces and peaceful areas for relaxation.

Location:
Enjoying an ideal location in a semi-rural position, the property is still within easy reach of Goffs Oak, Cuffley & Cheshunt amenities. Cuffley Station offers regular direct routes to London Moorgate, and there are excellent road links such as the A10, M25 & M11. Within the surrounding area there are a choice of highly regarded schools.

Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this charming four bedroom, two bathroom detached family home in a delightful rural setting, yet just minutes from Wormley and Broxbourne. This elegant period property displays a wealth of traditional craftsmanship and materials, with an abundance of period features still retained, such as solid wood and stone tiled floors, a beautiful fireplace in the living room, a gorgeous conservatory and a usable basement with direct access by stairs from the entrance hall as well as an intriguing solid wood trapdoor within the floor of the conservatory.

Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this stunning family home in immaculate decorative order throughout. Placed in the delightful rural location of Bull’s Green in Datchworth this property offers spacious and versatile living with a clean, modern style, yet is surrounded by beautiful open countryside with all the charm of local village life at your fingertips.

Accommodation:
The house has a modern, stylish yet homely feel, and this appeal starts right at the entrance, where you are welcomed by an attractive beamed and tiled porch leading to the impressive solid wood double doors. Inside, the spacious hallway is flooded with natural light from the glazed panels to the front and the window to the side aspect. The hallway extends through an open access to the large dining/family room, and via an inner hallway to the living room, a small storage room, the stairs and conveniently placed downstairs cloakroom.

The living room is well lit by large dual aspect windows, is a good size and shape to accommodate any number of furniture options you may wish, and has a really stylish modern wood burner in the centre of the outside wall. This will be a super cosy room on those chilly winter evenings.
The large dining/family room is simply stunning. With two sets of infinity doors leading to the garden as well as two large sky lights, this room is bathed in natural light and is perfect as a living and entertaining space all year round. Again, the size and shape of this room gives you plenty of options as to how you furnish and use it and benefits from some lovely touches like the modern integrated wood burner and the vertical designer radiators.

Summary:
Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this absolutely stunning property, set in the fully rural, wonderfully secluded location of Carneles Green, yet only a few minutes drive from the bustling town of Broxbourne. This unique Grade-II and idyllic home started life as a lovely country cottage and has now been sympathetically and stylishly expanded and extended into a beautiful country house, offering all the facilities that a modern family requires yet maintaining a real period feel, and all set in a stunning location in which houses very rarely becomes available. This is a real “once in a lifetime” opportunity to live in the countryside yet stay connected to the useful facilities of a large town, and get into London Liverpool Street in twenty seven minutes by train, or onto the London Underground network within thirteen minutes.

Accommodation:
The original entrance doorway opens into the large, linked dining room and living room, which form the major part of the original cottage ground floor, with both spaces merging seamlessly around the large central chimney. On one side is a lovely open brick built hearth and an ornate curved brick lintel. On the other side an old oak lintel frames a wood burner sitting on an attractive slate base. Well lit by multiple windows on all four aspects and with glazed double doors opening onto the garden at one end this is a truly flexible and attractive area that could fulfil a myriad of functions, easily adapting to your own lifestyle needs. Painted beams set into the ceiling provide an elegantly stylish link from old to new.

A rarely available 4-double bedroom detached family home situated on the desirable south side of Hertford on the ever-popular Mandeville Road. The home provides flexible accommodation across two floors and is conveniently located a stone’s throw from Hertford Town Centre and Hertford North train line.

Enter via the covered entrance porch into the reception hall with cloakroom/WC, leading to the sizeable front aspect study. From the dining room, leads on to the extended living room consisting of various storage, and an abundance of light via the skylight and French doors. At the rear of the property is the kitchen, featuring a range of fitted units and appliances, kitchen island and bi-fold doors to the garden. The kitchen is served by a separate utility room and additionally the converted garage that can serve as an additional reception room or bedroom.

To the first-floor landing, where there are four double bedrooms, with the principle bedroom benefitting from an en-suite bathroom and fitted wardrobes. The first floor also features a 3-piece family bathroom and additional fitted storage in the second and third bedrooms.

The exterior of the property consists of a large driveway with scope to extend further and access to the integral garage/workshop. The large rear, well tendered, private garden is mostly laid to lawn and has been nicely landscaped with mature shrubs, large initial patio area and raised rear decking. The garden features superb unobstructed views of the Hertfordshire countryside.

The property is a short walking distance to both Hertford North/East lines, Hertford Town and Catchment for Abel Smith Primary (Ofsted Outstanding), Simon Balle Straight through School, Richard Hale boys secondary, Presdales girls secondary & Morgans Primary. Mandeville road also benefits from its own hourly bus service to Hertford Town Centre.

Summary:
Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this absolutely charming chalet property set in substantial grounds within the lovely semi-rural Hertfordshire village of Letty Green. Surrounded by open countryside yet just a few minutes from the bustling centre of the county town of Hertford, this five bedroom, three bathroom property enjoys well proportioned and spacious accommodation with a large detached garage/workshop and loft rooms that really enhance the flexibility of this terrific family home. Already a spacious and well specified residence, this property also represents a fabulous development opportunity, subject to the usual consents.

Accommodation:
The solid wood front door, with decorative frosted glass panels, opens into a spacious L shaped entrance hall, enhanced by the centrally positioned staircase boasting ornate turned banisters with a delightful shaped decorative handrail. Intelligent design positions the three ground floor bedrooms and the family bathroom in one wing of the house, leaving the remaining family areas to flow nicely together with each other, supported by a perfectly placed guest cloakroom.
The living room is a great example of the easy connections throughout the property, with a glass sliding door opening out onto the rear garden, a single door giving access from the hallway and glazed double doors connecting readily through to the dining room. This is a nicely proportioned room, full of natural daylight thanks to the glass door and other windows and with a traditional open fireplace in exposed brickwork providing an attractive focal point as well as welcome winter warmth.
The adjacent dining room is fabulous. Again, well proportioned and comfortably large enough for a substantial dining suite and additional occasional furniture besides, the room is nicely lit by windows to two aspects and enjoys seamless access to the adjoining rooms by way of two sets of attractive glazed panel double doors.

A fantastic opportunity to acquire this handsome and imposing detached family house set in private grounds exceeding half an acre. This spacious and versatile accommodation has been extended and completely renovated in recent years to create a well-presented, modern family home.

Enter via the front door, into a spacious entrance hallway. The fully re-fitted kitchen features a range of new integrated appliances, quartz workshops, and modern units. The kitchen is served by a separate utility room. There is a stunning, almost 10 meter long, dual-aspect family room at the rear of the home with an exposed brick ‘feature’ fireplace, log-burning stove and skylight. The remainder of the ground floor comprises of a spacious and well-lit, dual-aspect living room, formal dining room, study and cloakroom/WC. All flooring, windows, fitted storage space, plumbing, roofing, electrics and doors throughout the property are new. The ground floor also has the added benefit of underfloor heating.

A stunning split-landing staircase leads to the first-floor landing of the home. There are five bedrooms in total, all new bathrooms and a re-modelled luxury principle suite, with a new walk in wardrobe and bathroom facilities. Each of the bathrooms also feature underfloor heating.

To the exterior, the property sits centrally within its half an acre plot, offering extremely private gardens with a gated sweeping driveway entrance, garage and parking for numerous vehicles. The beautiful wrap round garden is visible throughout the entire house and the property benefits from lots of natural light. There is also a recently constructed outbuilding with electricity and running water that can serve well as a home-office.

Doebridge Farm House – A Grade-II listed 3920sq ft property on 2+ acre plot, perfectly nestled on the fringes of the village of Sandon, Buntingford. This residence consists of a detached four-bedroom family home with much of the character retained and a large, detached barn, offering scope to convert into a second dwelling.

Enter via a spacious entrance hall, with plenty of space for boots and coats. The hallway leads to the impressive 31ft living room, which really feels like the hub of the home and showcases the plot that the property is positioned on with unobstructed views of the garden. The kitchen features an abundance of character, a range of base and eye level units, various freestanding appliances and is served by a utility room with cloakroom/WC and rear aspect boot room.

To the first-floor landing, via a central staircase and leading onto the four double bedrooms. Each of the bedrooms feature built-in wardrobes, with the two larger of the bedrooms also benefitting from an en-suite.

Externally the front of the property enjoys gated access to the gravel driveway leading to the large barn and offering potential to be converted and made into a separate dwelling (STPP). The 2acre+ grounds are a real focal point of the home, with it being fully enclosed, enjoying a southerly aspect and is predominantly laid-to-lawn with mature trees, shrubs and a patio entertainment area to soak up the far-reaching views in those summer evenings.

Sandon is a charming village surrounded by unspoilt farmland and countryside located 5.9 (approx.) miles from Buntingford town centre and 5 miles (approx.) from the thriving market town of Royston which has a mainline station and excellent range of amenities. The village is also well placed for access to Baldock Railway Station & Ashwell and Morden Railway Station which provides consistent Great Northern and Thameslink services into London King’s Cross, in under 45 minutes and Cambridge in under 30 minutes.

Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this generously proportioned three double bedroom family home set in the ever popular village of Newgate Street. This stylish and elegant property benefits from secure gated off street parking and a substantial ground floor extension incorporating an absolutely fabulous kitchen/dining/family room.

The front door opens directly onto a large, nicely shaped hallway which is well lit by a window to the front as well as multiple windows above the stairwell. From here doors lead into the utility/laundry room and the conveniently placed guest cloakroom. The living room is a good size, being over eighteen feet long, and a nice shape allowing creative furnishing and layout. Enjoying plenty of natural light from the large window to the front and benefiting from an elegant fireplace with a modern log burner providing an attractive focal point. The kitchen/dining/family room is truly impressive, architecturally, stylistically and through its sheer size. At nearly thirty five feet long and nearly twenty two feet deep, it stretches the full width of the house and occupies over half of the ground floor footprint. Absolutely drenched in natural light from the three sets of bi fold doors and the two substantial roof lights.

The staircase leads elegantly up to the large galleried landing on the first floor, again a light bright space thanks to the multiple windows to the front aspect. From here doors lead off into the three large double bedrooms and the well appointed family bathroom. All three of the bedrooms benefit from fitted wardrobes, with the main bedroom having a spacious walk in dressing area.

Secure gated access leads to a large driveway area with additional off street parking for multiple cars. The single garage provides various storage. A separate gated access opens into the rear garden, which is fully enclosed and provides non-slip decking spanning the full width of the rear, making this a fantastic space to host.

Summary:
Simply Homes are delighted to bring to the market this substantial country residence in a delightful woodland setting yet just a few minutes from the centre of the ever popular and pretty Hertfordshire village of Tewin. Boasting five bedrooms and three bathrooms, along with extensive yet perfectly proportioned ground floor living space, this substantial and elegant family home offers all of the modern amenities you would expect along with a wealth of character and charm surrounded by the stunning Hertfordshire countryside.

Accommodation:
The elegant front door, nicely set into a tile roofed porch, is beautifully decorated with stained glass, with additional stained glass panels either side, leading you into a spacious and impressive hallway at the centre of the house. From here doors lead into the gym, utility/laundry room and the conveniently situated guest cloakroom. Further part glazed double doors open into the dining room and the living room, with the kitchen accessible through an open archway. All of the rooms in this property are of intelligent proportions, making them large enough to be flexible and adaptable yet not too large, so that they remain warm, sociable and really usable, an unusual and welcome feature in a house of this size.

A superbly presented five-bedroom detached residence, offering spacious and versatile family accommodation across two floors. Enviably situated in the semi-rural village location of Letty Green, on the outskirts of Hertford.

Enter via the spacious entrance hallway with hardwood flooring and floods of light via the rear of the property. The ground floor consists of three substantial reception rooms, currently arranged as a formal dining room, living room and family room. The rear aspect family room is a real hub of the home, showcasing beautiful views of the garden with an abundance of glass and French doors out. The kitchen/breakfast room comprises of a range of base and eye level units with various integrated appliances, kitchen island, quartz worktops and a front aspect bay window. The kitchen is served by a separate utility, providing side access to the front and rear of the property. The ground floor also provides two generously sized guest bedrooms, with the rear aspect bedroom featuring French doors out to the garden and each with fitted wardrobes. The bedrooms are served by a nicely finished shower room.

To the first-floor landing, consisting of a fully-tiled family bathroom and three double bedrooms, including the large rear aspect principle bedroom with sizeable balcony and en-suite bathroom.

Externally, the rear garden measures over 200ft and has been thoughtfully landscaped with a range of mature beds, shrubs and trees. The garden is predominantly laid-to-lawn with an initial raised patio/decked entertainment space. Returning to the front of the property is a large, gated shingle driveway and detached double garage.

Letty Green offers access to various amenities such as the popular Hertingfordbury Cowper village school in Birch Green and the Cowper Arms village pub, both just a short walk away. Hertford town is a short drive away offering easy access to the ever-popular town centre, Hertford North train station and exceptional local schools.