Detached house for sale in Silver Street, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex CM24

The Old Manse is situated just to the south of the centre of the historic village of Stansted Mountfitchet, and is believed to date from around 1810. The property is Grade II Listed believed to be of architectural and historical merit and was built in conjunction with a Methodist Chapel which lies to the north of the house.

The accommodation is arranged over two floors with rendered elevations under a slate roof. The current owners have lived in the house for some time and during that time have made many improvements, carefully modernising the interior and setting out a very fine garden. Adjacent to the house, there is a recently built very generous single or small double garage with an external staircase leading to a useful store room. With limited expenditure, this could be an office or recreation room.

The front door lies to the side of the house and leads to an entrance lobby and into a generous entrance hall with oak flooring and staircase to the first floor. The sitting room is well-proportioned with a large bay window and a small wood burning stove, to the front of the house there is a family room with a fireplace (currently not in use) and dining room also with a fireplace. The kitchen/breakfast room is well equipped with a Neff five ring gas hob and two ovens, integrated dishwasher and space for an American style fridge/freezer. A snug has a staircase to a study and a rear lobby leads to a ground floor cloakroom and a utility room. On the first floor, the main bedroom has an en suite bath/shower room, there are three further bedrooms and a family shower room.

Outside, there is an area of hardstanding in front of the house and also in front of the garage, providing a parking and turning area. A gated pedestrian access to the side of the property leads to the first class rear garden where there is a terrace at the back of the house. The garden is on two levels and is full of colour with interesting trees and shrubs, a summer house, an area of decking, vegetable plot and greenhouse. The grounds face west and in total amount to about 0.3 of an acre.