Location

The house is accessed over a long gravel driveway leading to a parking area and giving access to the garage.

Hill Top is located on Hempstead Road about 0.5 miles from the pretty village of Bovingdon with its local amenities for everyday needs. Larger towns such as Chesham (about 4.5 miles), Berkhamsted (about 4.5 miles) and Hemel Hempstead (about 3 miles) all providing multiple shopping facilities and amenities.

Boxmoor with its Euston Line station providing a frequent London commuter service is about 2 miles away. The Metropolitan Line is also available from Chesham (about 6 miles). The nearby A41 leads to the M25 and access to the general motorway network.

The area offers excellent schooling, including popular Berkhamsted and Westbrook Hay independent schools for boys and girls along with Tring Park School for the Performing Arts.

Description

A handsome Edwardian family home providing substantial and well-presented accommodation and which offers potential for further improvement and alteration if required. The property boasts many original features within generous, traditional room proportions and benefits from an attached two storey annexe. The property sits within a mature sylvan plot, within gardens and grounds approaching two acres.

The extended and adaptable living accommodation is accessed by a traditional hallway with original staircase and comprises a superb twin bay dual aspect formal living room with original fireplace which in turn gives access to a lovely triple aspect library/home office with bay window and bench seating. Adjoining the living room is a superb formal dining room with large box bay window and wonderful original fireplace with panelled surround. To the rear of the house is a large comprehensively fitted kitchen/breakfast room with separate utility room and an adjacent family room with double doors opening out on to the gardens. There is also a ground floor WC accessed from the hallway.

On the first floor there are five generous double bedrooms along with a further dressing room/bedroom all of which enjoy views over the gardens and are served by three bath/shower rooms (two en-suite).

Adjoining the main house and accessed via an internal walkway there is further accommodation comprising a conservatory and ground floor shower room along with a further reception/bedroom located over the attached double garage. Currently used as a study with extensive views over the gardens, this separate living space is ideal as ancillary accommodation to the main house.

A feature of the property is the exceptional sylvan plot approaching two acres. The house is set well back within its plot and is wrapped within glorious formal gardens. The gardens themselves have extensive lawns interspersed and bordered by mature trees providing both seclusion & privacy. Within the gardens are a small stable block, three additional store rooms and a summer house with patio area from which to enjoy views over the gardens.