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Guide Price£1,250,000

Thorley Street, Thorley, Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, CM23

Land size
1 acres
Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
2

Key Features

  • Detached family home
  • Four double bedrooms
  • Large sitting room
  • Dining room
  • Home office/games room
  • Conservatory
  • Fitted kitchen/breakfast room
  • Ground floor shower room with sauna
  • En suite shower room
  • Family bathroom

Description

SAXONS is a fantastic sized, detached family home situated on the edge of Bishop's Stortford with a plot approaching one acre. The property offers good size living arrangements over the two floors with useful outbuildings and there is scope to extend (STPP).

The accommodation comprises of an entrance door into the reception hallway with storage cupboards, ground floor shower room with a sauna and door through to a large sitting room with dual aspect to the front and rear, two fireplaces, access through to a large home office/games room providing access to the double garage. There is a separate dining room with a conservatory and a fully fitted kitchen/breakfast with a central island unit and integrated appliances.

The first floor landing leads off to the four double bedrooms, the three-piece family bathroom and bedroom one benefits from a two-piece en suite shower room. Bedroom 4 has a very pleasant south facing balcony overlooking the gardens.

Externally, the property is approached via twin gates leading through to the extensive block-paved driveway providing off-street parking for numerous vehicles, access to the double garage with twin doors. The gardens are south-facing and landscaped, mainly laid to lawn with an abundance of flower and shrub areas, large pond with bridge over, sun terraces, a circular garden room, a detached brick-built garden store and a unique raised garden room with stairs rising to a large timber decked area. This room has power and light connected. There is a further outbuilding with a gymnasium with power and lighting connected.

The property is ideally placed for excellent local schools and the town centre and mainline station are a short drive away, as is the main town of Bishop's Stortford.

Bishop’s Stortford is an historic market town lying beside the River Stort, offering a range of shopping, educational, recreational facilities and amenities including The Bishop’s Stortford College, golf club, swimming pool, hospital, arts centre, health and fitness club, theatre groups, restaurants, garages etc. In addition, there is a mainline station providing regular services to London's Liverpool Street, and the M11 is on the eastern outskirts of the town giving access to London, M25, Cambridge and the Midlands. Stansted Airport is about 4 miles from the town and provides an ever-increasing number of destinations.

Map Location

Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
F
Date Posted
2026-08-11

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 1,142 Homes with Land listings in East Anglia (1+ acres).

This Property£1,250,000 / acre
Homes with Land Average (1+ acres) £381,053 / acre
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Energy Performance Certificate

Energy Efficiency Rating

Very energy efficient - lower running costs
CurrentPotential
(92+)A
(81-91)B
(69-80)C
(55-68)D
(39-54)E
(21-38)F
(1-20)G
61 D
73 C

Based on UK Energy Performance Certificate standards (EU Directive 2002/91/EC)

Running costs are one side. Planning activity, flood history and ground risks for this location are in the full report.

Utilities & Restrictions

Utilities

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Broadband
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Sewerage
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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

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Parking
Parking Available
Garden
Garden

Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1 Gbps

Gigabit full fibre · available to 50% of premises

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

OutdoorsIndoorsEE Good LimitedO2 Good LimitedThree Good LimitedVodafone Good Limited

Predicted 4G and 5G signal; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Thorley Hill Primary School827 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    228
    Type
    Community school
  • Richard Whittington Primary School923 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    273
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Spellbrook CofE Primary School1.1 milesOfsted report card · Feb 2026
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    105
    Type
    Voluntary controlled school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Manor Fields Primary School1.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    449
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Thorn Grove Primary School1.2 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    3 to 11
    Pupils
    223
    Type
    Community school

Secondary

  • The Bishop's Stortford High School463 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,279
    Type
    Foundation school
    Gender
    Boys
  • The Hertfordshire & Essex High School and Science College1.3 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,508
    Type
    Academy converter
    Gender
    Girls
  • St Mary's Catholic School1.5 milesOfsted: Outstanding *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,106
    Type
    Academy converter
    Faith
    Roman Catholic
  • Hockerill Anglo-European College1.6 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    903
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Birchwood High School2 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    1,417
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Little Waitrose Shell Thorley, Bishop's Stortford0.8 miles
Tesco Havers Ln Express, Bishop's Stortford0.9 miles
Sainsburys Thorley, Bishop's Stortford0.9 miles

GP surgery

South Street Surgery1.2 miles

Pharmacy

Allied Pharmacy Thorley0.9 miles

Hospital

Herts And Essex Hospital1.3 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces47 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

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Getting Around

Nearest station

Bishops Stortford Rail Station1.2 miles

Nearest bus stop

The Coach and Horses PH103 metres

Typical drive times

Harlow15 min · 7.4 miles
Sawbridgeworth6 min · 2.8 miles
Chelmsford (city)32 min · 18 miles
Bishop's Stortford4 min · 1.6 miles
Stansted Mountfitchet10 min · 4.2 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

Environment Agency open data, checked around the advertised map pin for the listed acreage. Long-term risk counts flood defences; the planning map's flood zones do not. Provided by LandSale, not the listing agent, and not part of the agent's particulars. Risk varies across a holding, so verify before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Very low risk

Planning map: Flood Zone 1.

Surface water

Very low risk

These bandings are the summary. Where this location sits on the flood maps, plus planning activity, heritage and ground risks, is in the full report.

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