Archives: House - Semi-Detached

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this absolutely enchanting country cottage in an idyllic location, surrounded by open countryside and just metres away from the ruins of the original 12th century Norman church in the lovely and sought after village of Ayot St. Lawrence. Built in 1850 as one of a pair, this delightful house has been sympathetically extended over time but cleverly retains all of the original features, and now offers four bedrooms and four bathrooms spread across the main cottage and two absolutely stunning annexe buildings within the grounds. The grounds themselves are a woodland wonder, sitting harmoniously within the natural topography of the land, with an ornamental pond, stone colonnade, a shady pergola and multiple patios, paths and lawns interspersed with a huge variety of mature shrubs and trees, topped off by a quite superb elevated decking terrace overlooking the whole area. It is as though you have hiked through the woods and just happened upon this place in a clearing – simply joyous!

Accommodation:
True to the period the wide front door, sheltered by a decorative porch, opens directly into the living room. Nicely square in shape, this room absolutely overflows with authentic charm from the exposed structural beams in the walls and ceiling, which is boosted further by the brick central chimney which is double sided through to the dining room and boasts a glorious and unusual twin fronted wood burner. There is a nice easy flow around this whole property and that is readily apparent in the living room, which links around both sides of the central fireplace into the adjacent dining room, as well as having a door into the kitchen.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely semi-detached four bedroom, three bathroom family home in a delightful rural location, on the outskirts of the popular Hertfordshire village of Langley. This is a modern house benefiting from all of the advances made in building materials and techniques, so providing excellent thermal performance within the spacious and intelligently designed accommodation, which is arranged over three floors. Forming part of just four houses placed within substantial grounds ensures plenty of off street parking. In addition, being set on a corner plot endows this lovely family home with a wonderfully large garden and spectacular countryside views, as well as being completely unoverlooked. The property is presented in immaculate condition inside and out, and is ready for you to move in and enjoy!

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to market this beautiful family home that has been tastefully updated by its current owner. The accommodation comprises an entrance hall, guest cloakroom, a lounge/dining room with a feature fireplace and patio doors out to the rear garden. The kitchen is situated to the rear of the property with a door to the rear garden.
Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a stylish re-fitted bathroom.
Externally, the property boasts a tiered, landscaped rear garden with two separate patio areas and a large driveway to the front, providing off road parking for multiple cars.
There is a garage adjoining the property and the rear portion has been partially converted and is used as work from home space/playroom with a door to the rear accessed via the garden.

The Brambles is a small private cul-de-sac located in the popular hamlet of Oaklands. The area itself offers local shops, a renowned primary school and access to fabulous open countryside. More extensive shopping and leisure facilities can be found a short drive away in Welwyn Garden City. There are excellent rail links in the nearby villages of Knebworth & Digswell (Welwyn North) which are approximately 5 minutes by car, while the A1(M) junction 6 is also close by.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this charming three bedroom semi-detached family home in the centre of the ever popular village of Tewin. The property is in outstanding decorative condition inside and out, has been substantially extended to now offer a spacious kitchen/dining room, utility room and playroom, and has even more valuable space added via a large garden room. Set in a quiet residential area, with an attractive block paved driveway allowing plenty of off-street parking, this wonderful property boasts an intelligent layout ideally configured to meet your family’s needs, and is ready to move in and enjoy without having to lift a finger on improvements or decoration.

Accommodation:
The pretty front door, softly framed by mature trailing shrubs trained over the porch, welcomes you into a generous rectangular entrance hall, with two useful cupboards built into the space under the stairwell. From here doors lead into the large living room, fabulous kitchen/dining room and the conveniently placed guest cloakroom, which is nicely lit by a side facing opaque window. A charming circular window, set part way up the staircase, keeps the hallway light and bright as well as being an unusual and attractive feature inside and outside the house.

The living room is a large room by any measure, at nearly eighteen feet long, and offers plenty of flexibility as to how you lay it out and furnish it to best suit your lifestyle needs. It runs the full depth of the house and so is bathed in natural light all along its length from the large window to the front as well as the glazed double doors to the rear. The accommodation in this property is spacious and well proportioned, giving enormous flexibility to adapt each room to your preferred purpose. The living room is just one example of this strength, being comfortably large enough to multi-task as a living room and dining room if you so wish.

Summary:

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this attractive three bedroom, semi detached family home in the heart of Welwyn Garden City. Set in a residential road with off street parking, a detached garage, large rear garden and a semi-open plan ground floor with a nice easy flow around it, this house is ready to be made into a home with some light refurbishment and simple decoration, and also presents a great opportunity for extension if required, subject to the usual consents.

Accommodation:

The pretty front door opens into a hallway with a decorative circular window that leads into the kitchen/breakfast room, and across the centrally located stairwell into the large living/dining room.

The kitchen/breakfast room is arranged in a practical L shape, giving plenty of room for a comprehensive range of wall and floor mounted fitted cupboards, providing ample storage and plenty of food preparation worktop areas, as well as space for integrated and free standing kitchen appliances. A neat breakfast bar provides partial separation of the fitted area from the remainder of the room, which is left as open floor space and is ideal for a family kitchen table. The room is well lit by a window to the rear and links nicely through the house with doors into both the living/dining room and the hallway, as well as an external door out into the rear garden.

Running the full depth of the house front to back is the extensive living/dining room. This is a large room by any standards, at nineteen feet long, and gives this property enormous flexibility as to how the extensive space is best used. Certainly easily large enough to be a lounge and dining room, both generously furnished, the room is bright and light from the large front facing window and the glazed double doors opening out onto the rear patio.

Upstairs are three bedrooms, with two of them being good sized doubles, along with the family bathroom and a useful separate toilet.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely end of terrace three bedroom family home on the ever popular west side of Welwyn Garden City. Enjoying a larger than average plot with plenty of off street parking, a detached timber garage and a large south facing rear garden, this property makes fabulous use of the living space available with a generous kitchen/dining room and a large living room bathed in light from the extensive bay window to the front.

Accommodation:
The main door opens onto a neat inner lobby which leads across the bottom of the staircase into the living room. This is a large room at over sixteen feet in length, and really benefits from the wonderful bay window, both in terms of lighting up the room and by giving it lots of character and floor space. Nice proportions make this a flexible and very usable room, particularly with the kitchen/dining room beyond it comfortably accepting a family dining table, keeping the room free for sofas and lounge chairs.

The kitchen/dining room occupies the rear of the house, and so benefits from a window to the side as well as a set of glazed double doors to the rear, a really valuable bonus of this house being at the end of the terrace. The kitchen has a large area fully fitted with a comprehensive range of wall and floor mounted cupboards, giving ample storage space and plenty of food preparation worktop area, whilst incorporating a full complement of integrated appliances at the same time. A neat ergonomic design enables the fitted kitchen to occupy one end of this generously proportioned room and still leave plenty of open floor space for a family dining table to enjoy the lovely setting between the patio doors and side window, also leaving plenty of room for easy access in and out of the dining area into the garden.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market ‘Mrytle Cottage’, an attractive red brick village house, in a wonderful open rural setting in the popular Hertfordshire village of Datchworth. Enjoying three double bedrooms and a large detached garage/workshop, this property also boasts views over open countryside and a glorious garden. This pretty family home benefits from well proportioned rooms in a free flowing layout, but also presents a fantastic opportunity for substantial development, both alteration and extension, subject to the usual planning consents.

Accommodation:
The attractive glazed panel front door, set into a welcoming covered porch, leads you into a large square entrance hall. From here, doors lead into the dining room, study, conveniently placed guest cloakroom and past the centrally positioned stairway into the living room. Glazed doors are cleverly used throughout the ground floor, doubles where possible, to enhance the natural light and preserve the homely yet open feel of the house. The living room is a fabulous room, full of character and bathed in natural light from the large window to the front and the glazed double doors opening directly out onto the garden at the rear. A fascinating open fireplace takes centre stage, resting on a decorative brick hearth and with an exposed brick surround, topped by a wonderful shaped canopy of tiles. This room is large at nearly eighteen feet long and gives an added flexibility to the property, as it would easily take a dining suite as well as lounge seating.

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely semi-detached cottage, measuring just shy of 1750 square feet, offering four double bedrooms, three bathrooms, and exceptional countryside views whilst simultaneously being located just a short walk from Welwyn North Station on a sought-after road, Harmer Green Lane.

As you step inside, an inviting entrance hall greets you, setting the tone for this quaint cottage. The ground floor offers a seamless flow, featuring an open-plan conservatory dining area and kitchen, ideal for both everyday living and entertaining; whilst the kitchen is served by plenty of base and eye level units and a range of integrated appliances. The ground floor also offers a well-proportioned study, and a spacious living room, adorned with a working fireplace. Completing this level is a convenient and well sized downstairs shower room and a generously sized utility room with excellent storage, and a small lobby providing access to the rear of the property.

Ascending to the first floor, you’ll discover four generously proportioned double bedrooms, each exuding ample space. The principal bedroom boasts an en-suite, while another bedroom is complemented by fitted floor-to-ceiling wardrobe units, offering plenty of storage. There are a further two large bedrooms, one with beautiful views of the rear garden. A well-appointed three-piece family suite caters to the household’s needs. Additionally, a large, boarded loft space caters for any extra storage needs.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this stylish and spacious five bedroom, three bathroom executive family home in the highly desirable Wilshere Park area of Welwyn. This elegant home, set over three generous floors, is in immaculate decorative order, has all the space any modern family might need, and is blessed with a perfect layout to enhance your lifestyle now and in the future.

Accommodation:
The attractive front door, with glazed panels surrounding, welcomes you into a light, bright hallway, nicely lit by a window to the side and with a great view through the house to the garden beyond. From the hallway, double doors lead into the kitchen/dining room, with single doors opening into a well placed guest cloakroom and the pretty living room.

The living room is a great size and shape, stretching to nearly nineteen feet in length and enjoys a lovely triple bay window to the front. The kitchen/ding room is quite fabulous. This is a large room by any measure, cleverly designed and styled, which would easily cope with a large family. The full width infinity doors give uninterrupted views out into the garden whilst also flooding the room with natural daylight. The kitchen area is very well proportioned, endowing the space with substantial storage and worktop space as well as incorporating all of the modern integrated appliances one would expect from a house of this size and quality. A useful island enhances the already plentiful cupboard space and food preparation area whilst also doing great service as a large breakfast bar. Elsewhere, the room still provides ample floor space for a large dining table and casual seating. This terrific room ticks all the boxes needed to function perfectly as the hub of a busy home and links perfectly out into the garden, great for entertaining as well as casual family living.

Summary

Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this delightful, Grade II listed, 3 double bedroom, semi-detached cottage. The property dates from the 1830s and is located in the delightful rural hamlet of Nup End, just outside the picturesque village of Old Knebworth. The property benefits from uninterrupted countryside views and has been previously restored with consideration for the original features. Farm Cottage boasts charm and character, with exposed beams, a brick open fireplace, wrought iron furniture to stripped pine doors, Victorian style bathroom and an antique pine ‘Smallbone’ kitchen.

Accomodation

Upon entering the property, you are welcomed by a bright, spacious dining area with double-aspect windows. This room provides versatile living space; the area is currently being used as a formal dining room, but also lends itself towards being an office space, playroom or tv room. Further along the main entrance hallway is a door to the living room, kitchen and a bathroom. The living room benefits from double windows and an impressive brick and beam fireplace, which stands in the centre of the room providing a delightful main feature. Across the hall from the living room is the kitchen, there is a range of wall and base units and even a fully fitted dresser unit. The kitchen exudes charm whilst providing everything needed for practical meal preparation. There is space within the room for a small table and chairs and a door leading to a useful utility room. Back to the main hallway and a there is a pine staircase leading up to a galleried landing on the first floor. Here you can find three good sized, bright double bedrooms. Two of the rooms feature built-in wardrobes and all boast countryside views.

Summary:
Bryan Bishop and Partners are delighted to bring to the market this lovely, traditional three bedroom family home in the centre of Welwyn Garden City. Benefiting from a downstairs wc, a driveway providing off street parking for two cars and a long back garden, this attractive and conveniently situated property is ready for you to move in and make it yours.

Accommodation:
The main doorway is located on the side of the house, thereby maximising room size inside, and opens onto a good sized hallway, well lit by a window in the stairwell. As well as useful under stairs storage the hallway leads to the dining room and up two steps to the conveniently placed guest cloakroom.

Accessed from the dining room, the living room occupies the front part of the house. This is a large room, being nearly seventeen feet wide, and is blessed with an abundance of natural light from the three windows, each to a different aspect. A lovely exposed brick fireplace provides an attractive focal point as well as glorious warmth through those long winter evenings.

The dining room links the living room perfectly with the kitchen and is comfortably large enough for a large dining suite, as well as, other occasional furniture. An unusual and wonderful feature of this room is the glazed double doors that open directly onto the rear garden, flooding the room with natural light, as well as, giving a terrific free flow into the garden as a family or when entertaining guests.

To the rear of the house, a lovely kitchen also opens directly onto the rear patio. Well lit by windows to the side and the rear, this room has a clever ergonomic layout, enabling easy access to the abundant worktop areas, as well as, the plentiful storage provided by the wall and floor mounted cupboards. A comprehensive range of integrated appliances complete this light, bright, modern room.