A handsome 17th Century family home in a beautiful semi-rural setting with in excess of 5,000 square feet of accommodation. In all 1.7 acres. (Additional land available) 2.5 miles from Felsted School.
An additional 1.7 acre paddock available by separate negotiation.
With accommodation in excess of 5,200 square feet to include five reception rooms and seven bedrooms, combined with its accessibility to both Felsted and New Hall School, this is the perfect family home.
Dating from the 1600s, Leighs Lodge is a timber framed country house of plastered elevations with pargetting under a peg tiled roof. The house is listed Grade II as being of architectural and historical importance.
The bright and spacious accommodation radiates from a fine reception hall principally over two storeys with further accommodation on the second floor. The main reception rooms enjoy views across the front gardens whilst to the rear, the study, kitchen/breakfast room and office open on to the rear walled garden and swimming pool area. On the first floor the master bedroom occupies the western end of the house enjoying its own bathroom and dressing room with the remaining accommodation arranged off the landing. On the second floor is an excellent addition to the accommodation with a large central games room and bedrooms either end benefiting from their own en suite bathrooms.
The house stands in mature grounds extending to about 1.7 acres, although there is an additional 1.7 acres available by separate negotiation. The gardens are imaginatively landscaped and well-tended with sweeping open lawns; numerous mature specimen trees and a fine ornamental lake overhung with a magnificent weeping willow. The grounds provide a fine setting for this most attractive family house.
Within the grounds are a useful range of outbuildings together with a swimming pool and patio area.
Five fantastic reception rooms
Master Bedroom with bathroom and dressing room
Six further bedrooms
2 further en-suites
Family Bathroom
Outbuildings include 4 garages, stable and garden machinery store
Swimming pool with patio area
Mature secluded gardens