Impressive period barn conversion • Heavy timber frame of stunning quality • Spacious & versatile family accommodation • Stands in a plot of 0.34 acre with gardens front and rear • Off-street parking and garage • EV charging point • Delightful rural setting on a peaceful country lane

The Property - The Grade II listed barn which forms the heart of this stunning property dates from the late 17th/early 18th Century and, together with its adjoining stables, has been converted into an exceptional L-shaped family home. The heavy timber frame, extensively exposed internally, is of remarkable quality and lends the home great character and charm.

You enter via a full height entrance hall with galleried landing/study above in the original central aisle of the barn with the aisles to right and left now providing the drawing and sitting rooms, the former with an attractive brick fireplace; the dining room occupies the rear of the central aisle with a cloakroom/WC in the corner of the entrance hall. An L-shaped hallway provides access to the remaining ground floor accommodation which includes an impressive kitchen/breakfast room with oil-fired AGA, utility room, bedroom with en suite shower room, two further bedrooms, family bathroom and dressing room.

A staircase from the dressing room leads to the first of the first floor areas which provides a spacious bedroom with en suite cloakroom/WC and located above the integral garage and store. The principal first floor area is approached via an impressive staircase from the entrance hall, leading to the galleried landing with study area. To either side of the study is the play room or sixth bedroom and the large fifth bedroom.

The house benefits from central heating provided by a boiler, which like the AGA, is oil fired.

The Outside - The house is set in a plot measuring approximately 243' by 83' (74.2m x 25.3m) overall and extending to just over a third of an acre. It forms part of a group of four dwellings created from the house and outbuildings of the former Smith End Farm. Entry is via the shared central farmyard with a five-bar gate opening to the walled private front garden. The centrepiece is a large ornamental pond surrounded by paving, brick paths and attractive planting. The shingle driveway provides good off-road parking and leads to the integral garage with adjoining EV charging point.

The rear garden is some 159' (48.4m) in length with paved patio from which steps lead up to extensive lawns, herbaceous beds and borders, fruit trees and ornamental shrubs and trees. Large timber garden shed 12' x 8' (3.63m x 2.4m).

The Location - The property enjoys a delightful rural setting on a quiet country lane just half a mile to the south of the village High Street and surrounded by open farmland. Barley provides good local facilities including primary school, village store. two pubs, doctors' surgery and an active village hall. A wider range of facilities is available 4 miles away in the nearby market town of Royston on the Hertfordshire/Cambridgeshire border.