Ferns Cottage
Great Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire, HP16 9RG
£625,000
Property Highlights
- Grade II listed, detached cottage in need of renovation
- Three bedrooms, one bathroom, ground floor W/C
- Two reception rooms, kitchen, garden store
- Garage and connected store/workshop with power
- New thatch 2023, upgraded oil tank and boiler
- Wrap around lawned gardens, in all 0.36 acres
- Facing woodland and backing onto fields
- Rural village in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Property description
A Grade II listed, three bedroom detached, thatched cottage in need of significant renovation, located in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Ferns Cottage sits is set back from the lane and is positioned centrally within its 0.36 acre plot of mostly wrap around gardens and hedged boundaries. The period, timber framed cottage with brick infill and casement windows, requires a comprehensive degree of modernisation and renovation work, but was completely re-thatched in 2023 and has a modern oil fire boiler and oil tank. The accommodation includes, an entrance porch, two reception rooms, plumbing for a kitchen, a cloakroom and a store accessed from the garden. Upstairs there are two connected double bedrooms as well as a single bedroom and plumbing for a bathroom. There is a garage with power connected and services include mains water and electricity, oil central heating and private drainage. The cottage is in a rural village location facing woodland and backing onto farmland, with views over open fields.
Outside
The gardens are a notable feature of the property, boarded at the front by mature hedging with a timber pedestrian gate opening to beds planted with flowers and ferns. The gardens wrap around both sides of the cottage and are laid predominantly to lawn and back onto open countryside with views of established woodland. The garage is detached and positioned on one side of the cottage with parking space in front.
Situation and Schooling
The Hampden estate is the original home of the Earls of Buckinghamshire and straddles 1,000 acres of parkland and woodland in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Great Hampden village has a church, a public house, a community hall, and a cricket ground. More extensive amenties are available in the neighbouring Prestwood (3.6 miles), Princes Risborough (3.8 miles) and Great Missenden (4.4 miles). The property is in catchment for Speen C of E School (Ofsted rated Good) and a variety of grammar schools in nearby towns.
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