Location

Chesham House is located within the increasingly popular and unspoilt village of Brisley, renowned for its common of over 200 acres, complete with cricket ground. Overlooking the cricket ground is the excellent and award winning public house, The Brisley Bell, a destination pub in the area. Elsewhere on the common are a childrens play area, Jubilee woodland, and footpaths and bridleways. It is a common for all seasons. The village has a primary school and an active village hall. To the west of the village is a farm shop and café, with a village shop in the neighbouring village of North Elmham.

The market towns of Dereham and Fakenham are similar distance away with supermarkets, a range of shopping and amenities with the Georgian town of Holt approximately 15 miles with independent shopping and Greshams school. The North Norfolk coast at Wells-next-the-Sea is 15 miles.

Description

Chesham House is a rare blend of a classic Georgian façade, with clever contemporary additions, recently fully renovated with stylish and fresh interiors incorporating open plan and formal living. When combined with landscaped gardens and wider land of 12 acres, a converted coach house which is a major asset, and all within a well-served village with excellent pub, this is a brilliant lifestyle opportunity that can be enjoyed immediately.

The house has been completed to exacting standards. From Corston light fittings, to bespoke kitchen new bathrooms and solar panels,the additions have lifted the house to provide for modern day living with sustainability in mind, yet without losing the charm and elegance of the Georgian front and older origins. The current custodians have thought about the practicality of family life whilst creating a stylish and comfortable interior. The everyday comings and goings are at the rear of the house, which has been remodelled to provide an appealing juxtaposition of wood clad exterior with aluminium windows. The internal rearrangement has created a functional living space, with the initial boot room, hall and utility, all essential given the extent of the grounds to enjoy. A seamless run of herringbone tiled floor leads through to the kitchen, and through to the dining room, giving a spacious light and airy feel to what is so often the hub of the house. The bespoke kitchen is a pleasingly mellow design, with plenty of work surface, storage and Neff and Miele appliances, and the convenience of the spacious dining room adjoining, with bi-fold doors allowing in plenty of light, and further cabinetry. The Georgian front of the house hosts two fine rooms, with high ceilings, shuttered sash windows and fireplaces. The drawing room is complete with alcove shelving and clearview woodburner, whilst the living room, also with woodburner, has French doors out to the gardens.

An elegant staircase leads up to the well arranged first floor, where all bedrooms could vie for the title of principal bedroom. Much like the ground floor, the front of the house hosts two impressive double bedrooms, one with a lovely double aspect, the other with a dressing room. Two further double bedrooms, off the central landing linking all rooms, are light and airy, and both enjoy en suite bathrooms in particular the east bedroom with roll top bath, walk in shower and his and hers sinks. A family bathroom completes the first floor, giving a good balance of bathrooms and bedrooms.

Outside
If is not often that a village house enjoys 12 acres of space to enjoy. This provides tremendous opportunity to either enjoy the lifestyle already created, or to craft your own depending on your interests.

The every day coming and going is to the side of the house, where a drive leads to plenty of parking and turning for cars, boats and other vehicles. The original drive is to the north, with the original carriage driveway, now mostly unused but creating a formal setting with wrought iron gates and railings. Next to the parking area is the coach house, converted to now become an asset to the lifestyle of Chesham House. The building comprises a large room of 5.9m x 5.3m, ideal as a gym or studio with natural light from two big windows and vaulted ceilings, a store room, and a garage of 7.4m x 5.5m so further space to work with.

The gardens are a delight, and have been thoughtfully laid out. Initial lawns frame the house, with clipped yew hedging and topiary, further hedging and flowerbeds providing a division to other areas of the garden. These include a wonderful kitchen garden, with brick weave and gravel paths between raised beds, and a large greenhouse fulfilling all green fingered needs, with an iron arch between new yew hedging leading out an expansive wild flower meadow. Beside the kitchen garden is a partly walled garden, of mellow brick and flint, enclosing a vibrant parterre, with ornamental pond, box hedging and well stocked borders. Lawns stretch away from the house to a paved terrace to the south of the coach house, perfect for outside dining and entertaining, with a further area of garden within a hedged area.

The wider land is then divided into paddocks, almost park like in appearance with maintained grassland between established hedging. Dotted with trees, to break up the landscape, and with one paddock now entirely wild flower, and a further wildlife area with pond, the land is a wonderful backdrop.