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£1,150,000
6 Bedroom
Watling Lane, Thaxted, Dunmow
A spacious, detached home extending to approximately 5,015 sq ft, arranged across four floors and featuring a self-contained integral annexe. The property offers impressive eco-friendly credentials and enjoys a west-facing garden with stunning views
£495,000
4 Bedroom
Burns Way, Thaxted, Dunmow
A beautifully presented and attractive four bedroom home offering well-appointed stylish accommodation throughout together with a private garden with outdoor entertaining space, off-street parking and garage. Offered chain free.
Thaxted is one of the most picture-perfect medieval towns in Essex. Buyers searching for property here are paying for real history rather than convenience. Its skyline is defined by the timber-framed Guildhall, built around 1390, with the great church of St John the Baptist rising above it and John Webb's windmill of 1804 on the edge of town. The streets below are lined with thatched and jettied houses, many of them listed, and the town carries a strong cultural thread, from Gustav Holst, who lived here and gave the town's name to the hymn tune Thaxted, the Jupiter melody later set to "I Vow to Thee, My Country", to the Morris dancers revived in the town in 1911. Property is overwhelmingly period and tightly held, with a little modern housing on the edges, and prices reflect how sought-after this corner of north-west Essex is.
Thaxted sits about six miles south-east of Saffron Walden, which is the obvious next step for buyers who want more to look at. Saffron Walden offers the same period character with a wider choice of homes and the commuter link from Audley End, while Newport sits just beyond it towards the railway line to London. Cambridge opens up the fullest range of homes to the north, and Stansted is close enough to the south to matter for anyone who travels.
Why Cheffins?
Cheffins handles Thaxted from its Saffron Walden office, a few miles north-west, part of a firm that has worked north Essex for 200 years. Houses in the centre rarely come to market, and when they do they draw interest from well beyond the town, so the team's experience is in pricing and presenting one-off period homes that have no obvious comparison nearby. The firm's regular property auctions also give sellers of unusual or historic houses a route that a standard listing does not always suit.