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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this fabulous five bedroom, two bathroom family home set in the glorious Hertfordshire countryside close to Knebworth House. Located between the vibrant villages of Codicote and Knebworth, this attractive country house has substantial gardens and a superb rural location, yet is just a few minutes from the county’s A road network and is an easy commute by fast mainline train into central London. The ground floor living space is very large indeed, yet has nicely balanced proportions and abundant charm, warmth and character throughout.

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This is a particularly pretty house, and that starts at your very first view of the frontage which has a wonderful country cottage appeal to it, with diagonal leaded windows and a half timbered upper floor. The traditional front door is found at the top of two curved steps, set beneath a fabulous tiled roof porch, and welcomes you into a generous, entrance hall that extends the full depth of the house, nicely lit by windows to the front and rear, as well as two large windows on the upper landing overlooking the galleried stairwell. From the entrance hall doors lead into the front facing kitchen, a well placed guest cloakroom and the living room at the rear, whilst double doors open into the sitting room at the front.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely four bedroom, two bathroom family home set in a quiet residential cul de sac in the extremely popular village of Tewin. This modern detached property enjoys a generous plot with a double garage and plenty of off street parking to the front and a charming garden of considerable length to the rear, adjoined by a full width conservatory/garden room. With a downstairs cloakroom, office and spacious, flexible living space, this house represents a fantastic opportunity to acquire your forever home in one of Hertfordshire’s most sought after village locations.

**CHAIN FREE**

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this superb detached four bedroom, three bathroom family home, overlooking paddocks, in the vibrant and popular village of Walkern. Substantially yet sympathetically extended, this impressive property is presented in immaculate decorative order inside and out and offers generous and flexible family accommodation arranged over three floors, including a separate utility/laundry room, a useful ground floor shower room, a fabulous conservatory and a stunning top floor bedroom suite. Two separate driveways provide ample off street parking and the rear garden has been skillfully landscaped to provide ample seating and dining areas, both in the sun and the shade, along with a large garden room/workshop.

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This property enjoys a great layout, which has clearly been carefully considered in the planning process to really meet your family’s needs, yet also displays plenty of style and character in the design. This is immediately evident from the first impressions of the frontage, which combines a pleasing and balanced visual impact with plenty of off street parking whilst still retaining a lovely natural area of planting between the attractive low level brick walls and the smart paved access to the front door. The door itself is modern and stylish, set within a useful fully glazed entrance porch with a pitched tiled roof and wood panelled gable end in perfect harmony with the design of the house behind it. Neat details like this underline the quality of the building and design work that have been lavished on this immaculate home.

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CHAIN FREE – Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this outstanding three bedroom, two bathroom family home set at the end of a quiet residential cul-de-sac in the ever popular Welwyn Garden City. This fabulous semi-detached house has been dramatically extended and remodelled on both floors, now presenting exceptional ground floor living space and three large double bedrooms within an unusually spacious corner plot. This property ticks all the boxes for modern family life and is a rare opportunity not to be missed.

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The pretty front door, with inset decorative leaded light glass panels, welcomes you into a spacious, bright entrance hall that stretches back through the house into an inner hallway towards the rear, offering a great extended view through the part glazed double doors at the far end of the inner hallway, through the kitchen/dining/family room and out into the garden beyond. The inner hallway, as well as having double doors opening into the kitchen/dining/family room, also has doors leading into the living room, a perfectly placed guest cloakroom, and a further door providing useful direct access into the kitchen area. There is a great flow to this property, with all of the ground floor rooms linking together through multiple access points, making it really work as a busy family space.

The front facing living room typifies this arrangement, with access from the inner hallway and double doors opening through into the family room area. It is a room bathed in natural light thanks to the extended height windows to the front and the aforementioned part glazed doors to the rear, and is comfortably large enough for multiple generously sized sofas and chairs. Offering a charming visual focal point, as well as cosy winter warmth, is a stone fireplace housing a traditional wood burner, sitting beneath a solid oak mantelpiece.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this stunning four bedroom, two bathroom, detached family home set at the end of a quiet residential cul de sac in the ever popular Oaklands area of Welwyn. The generously proportioned accommodation is arranged on a single floor and boasts a huge living/dining room with a glorious open pitched ceiling, basking in the abundant daylight flooding in through the many full-height windows. Outside is a very generous plot allowing substantial space to the front and rear of the bungalow, which presents an imposing and stylish picture celebrating its bold asymmetric, Scandinavian inspired, design.

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Light and space are the recurring themes throughout this wonderful property, both internally and externally, and that is immediately apparent as you approach the front door, which is set into a neat covered porch. The door itself is adorned with two decorative glass panels and flanked by full height opaque windows either side. Inside is a spacious entrance hall with a door into the kitchen and double doors into the living/dining room. Intelligent design enables the main living areas to be readily accessed from the entrance hall, whilst a further hallway then extends through the remainder of the house giving access to the more private areas, being the four bedrooms and family bathroom.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this absolutely stunning Grade-I listed manor house set in around six and a half acres of beautiful grounds, including formal gardens, extensive lawns, natural woodland, paddocks and a ménage. Dating back to the late 14th century, this very special residence retains an absolute wealth of original features which have been painstakingly preserved and represents an incredibly rare opportunity to own a piece of living history surrounded by your own estate. The house itself boasts ten bedrooms and four bathrooms on the first floor as well as a huge second floor loft space, along with substantial and flexible ground floor accommodation and a generous cellar. The size and layout of the building endows the house with enormous flexibility, making it easily configurable to cope with multi generational or even multi family living, as well as providing staff quarters if required. On top of that there is an idyllic Grade-II listed dovecot within the grounds, just recently restored, that has planning permission granted to convert it into a one bedroom annexe. The house is offered chain free to ensure a smooth passage to completion.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this enchanting four bedroom, three bathroom property, with a separate one bedroom annexe with its own shower room, within the vibrant and popular village of Codicote. This characterful home is a fabulous conversion of what was originally various outbuildings of the farm that served Codicote House, arranged on a single level to maximise the beautiful setting which stretches around a large private courtyard garden. The architect has retained numerous period features which imbue the property with abundant authentic charm, which means that virtually every room has a glazed panel door as well as generous windows that look out onto the garden. There is a main doorway that logically allows full access to all parts of the main house, but the extra doors do provide an accentuated flexibility in case there was a need to partition the property in some way, or to leave it all connected but provide distinct, separate entrances.

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Intelligent design, with two wings to the L shaped building, enables the main door to be positioned in the centre of the house, giving easy visitor access to the primary living spaces located either side of the entrance hall. The door itself is a substantial farmhouse door of a two-part stable door design, with windows above and to the side keeping the nicely shaped hallway well lit.

Fully glazed double doors lead off to the right from the hallway into the large living room. This is a generously sized room by any measure, at over twenty-four feet long, and is bathed in natural light from the windows set into opposite walls, as well as the doorway opening out onto the inner courtyard. The solid wood floor and a feature wood burning stove, bring a real charm and warmth to the room, along with the braced wooden door that leads to the inner hallway.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this wonderful four bedroom, four bathroom family home ideally positioned between the villages of Welwyn and Codicote. This fabulous house offers spacious and flexible accommodation which includes a downstairs bedroom with an en suite shower room, as well as a stunning kitchen/dining room opening through full width folding doors onto the huge rear garden, within which is a large workshop, a really useful garden WC and a lovely detached garden room. The carriage driveway provides abundant off-street parking, which is further enhanced by an additional substantial parking area to the rear of the property, ideally situated in front of the double garage.

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An attractive entrance to the house with stone mullions to the windows and door frame, welcomes you into an entrance lobby that leads on into a generous central hallway that enjoys plenty of natural daylight through the large side facing window, along with multiple storage cupboards. From the hallway doors lead into the ground floor bedroom, a nice reception room/lounge, the office/study and a well placed guest cloakroom. To the rear of the entrance hall double doors open into the substantial living room beyond.

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Bryan Bishop & Partners are delighted to bring to the market this fabulous four bedroom, two bathroom detached family home in the ever popular Oaklands area of Welwyn. The property enjoys a wonderfully secluded plot at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac with a long block paved driveway opening into a huge area for family and guest parking in front of the generous double garage/workshop. Presented in immaculate decorative order inside and out the house exhibits well designed and nicely proportioned living space with plenty of opportunity to extend on both floors if so desired, subject to the usual consents, and benefits from a convenient urban setting yet is surrounded by tranquil unspoiled woodland.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this absolutely stunning residence boasting four bedrooms and three en suite bathrooms. Arranged over two floors within one wing of a wonderful Grade II listed country house, originally built in 1798 by Lord Cowper, the property is in immaculate condition inside and out and exhibits all the grandeur and opulence of the period, with wonderful high ceilings, large sash windows, solid oak doors and a wonderfully ornate carved fireplace that have all been lovingly restored and preserved to timelessly celebrate the peerless quality of the materials and skilled artisans who created the original mansion. This substantial home has all the modern conveniences one would expect, surrounded by enchanting architectural splendour, within a stone’s throw of some of the most popular villages Hertfordshire has to offer yet with an easy commute of central London. With the house and grounds fully maintained, this really is the epitome of zero hassle countryside living at its very finest.

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Everything in this wonderful home is on a grand scale, and yet still possesses superbly balanced proportions, and that begins in the entrance hall which has two separate entrances and is perfectly lit by glazed double doors with additional glass panels above. Accessed from the hallway there is a useful cloaks cupboard and a perfectly placed guest cloakroom, whilst double doors set within an elegant portico styled surround welcome you into the stylish living room.

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Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this exceptional five bedroom, six bathroom family home set beyond a sweeping carriage driveway within four acres of secure gated private grounds. Built to the very highest specification around fifteen years ago, this substantial property offers spacious and well proportioned accommodation arranged over two floors as well as a detached triple garage with a self contained annexe above. The ultra high specification includes remotely controlled security gates on both main entrances, a Redcare monitored intruder and fire alarm system, double glazed windows throughout, sound deadening concrete flooring to both floors with underfloor heating, a fully integrated multi-room sound system, a fabulous cinema room and an indoor sauna with shower/changing room. The grounds outside are open to the boundary and completely flat, making this an ideal property for equestrian use. Enjoying a peaceful countryside location on the outskirts of a lovely Hertfordshire village, this house offers the best of both worlds, tranquil rural living yet within an easy commute of central London if required.

A sympathetically and extensively restored family residence, dating back to 1485 (battle of Bosworth and start of the Tudors) and providing extensive and flexible accommodation of substantial proportions. The home has been thoughtfully displayed, combining a high specification with the numerous character features of the original house.

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Set at the head of a private tree-lined drive and courtyard the property benefits from being in this quiet semi-rural setting yet has the peace of mind of having nearby neighbours and in no way feels isolated.

Enter via the spacious entrance hallway where you are met by an abundance of natural light and period features. The hugely impressive front aspect living/drawing room comprises of various exposed timbers, a red brick inglenook fireplace with wood burning stove and a secondary gas living flame effect wood burning stove. The west wing of the home also features a cloakroom/WC. An inner hallway leads through to the home’s office, dining room and family room. The family room is a charming and cosy space with large red brick arched fireplace, wood burning stove and exposed timbers. The kitchen consists of an extensive range of base/eye level units, granite worktops, slate flooring, kitchen island and various integrated appliances. Adjacent to the kitchen, through a set of French doors is the orangery, where one can sit and enjoy the lovely gardens. An oak staircase leads to the first-floor landing, with doors to both bedrooms five and six each with their own en-suite. The kitchen is served by a separate utility room, pantry, and secondary cloakroom/WC. The ground floor of the home features primarily underfloor heating.