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Offers in excess of £600,000

A rare opportunity to purchase a range of traditional barns with the benefit of detailed planning permission to create two residential units.

Braintree - 12.9 km (8 miles)
Great Dunmow - 10.3 km (6.5 miles)
Stansted Airport - 21.9 km (13 miles)
Bishops Stortford - 27.5 km (17 miles)
(Distances are approximate)

Site area approximately 0.463 ha (1.14 acre)

Situation
Boarded Barns are set in an attractive rural setting in the mid Essex countryside just outside the hamlet of Bardfield Saling. The barns are equidistant from the towns of Braintree and Great Dunmow, both of which provide a wide range of facilities and transport links and between the picturesque villages of Great Saling and Great Bardfield. The barns are in proximity to the A120 which provides dual carriageway links between Braintree to the east and the M11 motorway to the west. The renowned Felsted School is approximately 7 miles to the south.

Description
The Boarded Barns are Grade II Listed and date back to the eighteenth century and represent a fine example of traditional Essex barns, which together with the attached cart lodge, stables and former granary building formed a courtyard complex adjacent to the original former farmhouse.

The barns together with the adjoining paddock represent an opportunity to create two substantial individual family homes in an attractive yet easily accessible rural location.

Unit 1 - Main Barn
Planning Permission and Listed Building Consent has been granted for the conversion of the main barn and attached cart lodge and stable building, creating approximately 443 sq m (4,768 sq ft) with accommodation comprising:

Ground Floor – living room, kitchen/dining hall, utility room, four bedrooms, two ensuites, bathroom, study, WC, with the benefit of a self-contained annexe comprising kitchen/living room, bedroom and ensuite and external store.

First Floor – master bedroom with ensuite and dressing room, further bedroom and ensuite.

Unit 2 - The Granary
The permission also allows for a new build dwelling in the style of the former granary building creating approximately 242 sq m (2,605 sq ft) of accommodation comprising:

Ground Floor – open plan kitchen, living room, entrance hall, WC, utility room, bedroom with ensuite.

First Floor – master bedroom with ensuite; two further bedrooms, one ensuite and one with separate bathroom; externally a store and a four bay open cart lodge.

Immediately adjoining the barns is a fenced paddock providing opportunities for equestrian and amenity use, which extends to approximately 0.63 acres.

Town and Country Planning
Planning Permission reference 06/02119/FUL for "alterations of redundant agricultural buildings to form two residential units" and Listed Building Consent reference 06/02128/LBC were granted by Braintree District Council on 20 December 2006. Copies of the Planning Permission, Listed Building Consent and approved plans are available in the Information Pack.

Boundaries
The Vendors and the Vendor's agents will do their best to specify ownership of all boundaries but will not be bound to determine these. Interested parties will have to satisfy themselves as to the ownership of all boundaries.

Services
The Purchaser will be responsible for installing a new water supply for which an easement is in place. Full details of this are available within the Information Pack.

The Purchaser will be responsible for providing an electricity connection, please note that there is an electricity junction box within the site.

The Purchaser will be responsible for installing a private drainage system.

Information Pack
Sales Packs can be requested free of charge by e-mail. Alternatively hard copies are available on receipt of a cheque on for the sum of £15.00 including VAT, made payable to Cheffins.

The Information Pack contains copies of the following:

1. Planning Permission
2. Listed Building Consent
3. Approved plans
4. Appeal Decision
5. Water easement
6. New Homes report

All offers received will be deemed to have been submitted with the full knowledge of the details within the Information Pack.

Statutory Authorities and Service Providers
Planning: Braintree District Council, Causeway House, Bocking End, Braintree, Essex, CM7 9HB, Tel: 01376 552525
Electricity: EDF Energy, Metropolitan House, Darkes Lane, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire, EN6 1AG, Tel: 0845 2340040
Water: Anglian Water, Developer Services, PO Box 495, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE29 6YY, Tel: 01480 323808
Telephone: BT, Adastral Park, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP5 3RE, Tel: 0800 9173993.

Wayleaves, Easements, Covenants and Rights of Way
The property will be sold subject to and with the benefit of all wayleaves, easements, covenants and rights of way whether or not disclosed. The property benefits from rights of access across the yard to the north of the barns.

Tenure and Method of Sale
The freehold of the property is offered for sale by private treaty with vacant possession upon completion.

Viewings
All viewings may be carried out at any reasonable time with a copy of the sales details to hand, and by prior notification to the joint agents.

VAT
VAT will not be charged on the sale.

Agent's Note
For clarification we wish to inform prospective purchasers that we have prepared these particulars as a general guide.

If communications, condition of the property, situation or other such factors are of particular importance to you, please discuss these priorities with us before arranging an appointment to view. This should avoid a wasted journey.

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Disclaimer: These particulars are intended to give a fair description of the property but their strict accuracy is not guaranteed neither do they constitute part or an offer/contract. Applicants must satisfy themselves as to the correctness of the information contained herein before entering into a binding contract. All prices and rentals quoted are exclusive of VAT (if chargeable). The services, fixtures, fittings, appliances and other items of equipment referred to herein have not been tested by this firm. Therefore no warranty can be given as to their condition and applicants must satisfy themselves in this respect.