Spring House Hudnall Common • Little Gaddesden • • • HP4 1QJ Spring House Hudnall Common • Little Gaddesden Berkhamsted • Hertfordshire • HP4 1QJ

A substantial and elegant country home in a wonderful woodland setting

Lower Ground Floor games room, home office, laundry room, boiler/plant room, shower room, store rooms

Ground Floor entrance hall, drawing/dining room, playroom, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, 3 bedrooms (1 with en suite), bathroom, cloakroom

First Floor master bedroom with en suite, 3 further bedrooms, family bathroom

Outside Gardens, private parking, central rear courtyard, bicycle store, two sheds

Berkhamsted 5.5 miles (London Euston from 30 minutes) A41 Bypass 6.6 miles M1 (Junction 8) 7.5 miles M25 (Junction 20) 8 miles Harpenden 12.5 miles London Luton Airport 12.5 miles London Heathrow Airport 29.3 miles The Property A wide, elegant, handcrafted staircase with smooth walnut banister Situated down a private road, opposite a small wood leading onto curls through all three floors of the house adding to the feeling of a glorious open common, Spring House is yet just a half hour train airiness and gracious living. ride from the heart of London. Built in 2012, the house benefits from an array of environmental technologies to create an energy- In the lower ground floor, there is a spacious 23’9 x 17’3 games efficient modern family home. room and a large home office, each flooded with natural light from the glass floors above.T here is also a large shower room, second Understated and elegant from the front, the house opens out utility room, a plant room and three very useful storage rooms. ‘tardis-style’ into the quintessential family home. With rooms Location carefully arranged around an impressive central hallway, the myriad Spring House is situated on a no through private road in an needs of a growing family have been taken into consideration. enviable position within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Designed with renowned architect David Kirkland and built by the The adjoining National Trust Estate extends to over 4000 current owners, the house is a highly successful mix of country acres of woodland and common land and the nearby picturesque style with the luxuries of modern building techniques. and historic village centre of Little Gaddesden provides a village shop, post office and the BridgewaterA rms public house. The traditional front of the house is complemented by the entire There is an ‘Outstanding’ primary school within the village, as rated wall of glass at the rear with vast, fully retractable sliding doors. by Ofsted in 2014, whilst Berkhamsted offers excellent schooling The inside flows onto a large Indian sandstone courtyard patio, for children of all ages including the renowned Berkhamsted complemented by an oak pergola (invisibly wired to be lit at night), School for boys and girls. There are many other private schools covered in wisteria, roses and vines. Beyond, the large, south-west nearby, for example Lockers Park, and Westbrook facing level garden is mainly laid to lawn with fully established Hay. Comprehensive schools include popular flower beds and local variety fruit trees. and Ashlyns School in Berkhamsted. The main living area of the ground floor comprises a large Berkhamsted offers an excellent rail service to central London handmade and hand painted open plan kitchen/breakfast room (Euston), from 30 minutes. Road access to important centres is and a drawing/dining room with an elegant marble fireplace and excellent, with the A41 dual carriageway linking quickly to the M25 Jetmaster open fire. being just 6.6 miles away. A guest wing to one side has two bedrooms, a bathroom with exquisite quartz sinktop and a light, airy study overlooking the beautiful garden.

A mirror wing on the other side of the house holds a housekeeper’s suite, utility room, downstairs cloakroom and a large, airy playroom opening onto the garden. This wing is also served by a separate, side door and has a whole corridor of coat/ boot storage; perfect for a growing family.

Upstairs there is a master bedroom fitted with a wall of wardrobes, dressing room and an en suite marble bathroom. Three further generous family bedrooms are all served by another large, light bathroom. Berkhamsted town is less than a 6 mile drive away and provides Environmental performance LPG tank comprehensive facilities including an impressive choice of shops, The house is heated from an “open source” ground source heat There is a large (2500 litre) underground LPG tank under the front cafes, restaurants, leisure activities and an Art Deco cinema. system. This system provides all of the heating, hot water, cold lawn area. This form of gas supply feeds the cooker hobs, but was (potable) water for the house and the four external garden taps. originally installed as a provision in order to fuel a backup generator. There are 2 Championship golf courses which can be found in There is a full gas connection from the gas tank at the front running Ashridge and Berkhamsted, along with numerous sports clubs in Consequently, the only energy bill for the house is electricity, which all the way to the rear of the garden, as well as electrical connection Berkhamsted and surrounding villages. runs at about £4000 per annum, including all electrical appliances. provisioned. This could potentially be used for installation of Given the system, a rebate of approximately £4000 per annum swimming pool as electricity and water both run to the end of the Notes of interest from the owners: comes from the Government under the renewable heat incentive garden too. The house was designed by Kirkland Fraser Moor, specifically programme. This is a 7-year programme. by David Kirkland (16 years with globally renowned architect, Air conditioning Nicholas Grimshaw) and built by Pendale Construction. The build All of the heating throughout the house is delivered through The top floor was also provisioned for anA ir Conditioning was completed in August 2012. underfloor heating systems.T hese are all automatically controlled installation if ever required. through sensors in every room (and general open areas) that are Design Idea: constantly feeding back temperature information to the system’s Security Visually: To create a house that looks as unobtrusive and brain so that the heating is actively and predictively managed The house has a sophisticated, monitored, Red-Care alarm system traditional as possible from the outside, but then once inside it through 5 manifold arrays to keep the house at a constant and even throughout. There is also a network of 13 external cameras opens up into a large classically modern interior space. temperature profile throughout. protecting the whole perimeter of the house. These constantly record and overwrite so provide a backup going 30 days. Living: A family house with plenty of different rooms to cater for The build structure of the house is designed to be in line with this Additionally the cameras are monitored by a security monitoring all inhabitants (2 separate playrooms, 2 offices, separate guest heating system and environmental philosophy as well. The house has station (monitored as per owner instruction), with active speakers. wing, a children’s side, housekeeper’s suite. outstanding insulation properties, with an insulative shell enveloping Consequently the house can remain fully guarded whilst owners are a high thermal mass interior structure. This creates a great internal out / on-holiday / at night….whatever owner preference is. External Environmentally: To use intelligent design and forward thinking mass to act as a heat sync and keep the building warm in winter and floodlight system also comes on if the alarm is activated. technology to create an environmentally advanced home with cool in summer (same effect as a church). This construction method low energy consumption and running costs. is key to the even and constant temperature profile throughout The driveway 5-bar gate and pedestrian gate are both mag-locked, the house. although the pedestrian gate is programmed to remain unlocked Build Quality during the day and locked at night. The house is built to an extremely high quality. No expense has Heating Control been spared in terms of delivering a structure that is built to last. This is run off an ipad or laptop with preset programming. Fire safety Full heat and CO sensor-array through the house feeding back into a The house is a built with block and beam, with poured concrete Lighting central fire-panel system (regulatory requirement for any building of floors and a steel-frame super-structure around the house to This is a Siemens C-BUS system. Every single switch activates its own this size). support the weight of the concrete floors and staircases. preset lighting programme, so all switches can be programmed to perform any function, or combination of functions. Electric Car Charger A very high-grade acoustic performance finish has been used Located in front parking area. throughout the house to ensure minimal airborne noise is Most lights are LED lights, most of which are dimmable. transmitted from room to room. Garden Drainage: Water The lawn has full undersoil drainage to keep the lawn useable all The external basement walls have been constructed from poured The house gets its water from its own borehole system, but it is year round. “Caltite” water-proof concrete, a bitumen coating, a French drain, also plumbed into the mains in the basement, to ensure water is still a rigid plastic protective wall and then a plastic membrane to available in the event of a power cut. prevent silting up of the French drain over time. Floor Plans Total gross internal area = 5027 sq ft / 467 sq m

Study Playroom 4.07 x 4.06 4.57 x 4.05

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Guest Bedroom 3.89 x 2.89 12'9" x 9'6" Utility Room 2.50 x 2.38 8'3" x 7'9"

Bedroom 3.33 x 2.69 Drawing/ 11'0" x 8'9" Dining Room Housekeeper's 9.17 x 5.17 Bedroom Bedroom 30'0" x 17'0" Kitchen/ 3.15 x 2.50 4.26 x 4.07 Dn Up Dn Breakfast Room 10'3" x 8'3" 14'0" x 13'3" 9.17 x 5.17 30'0" x 17'0" Master Bedroom Bedroom Bedroom 5.20 x 4.15 4.00 x 2.85 3.79 x 2.85 17'0" x 13'6" 13'3" x 9'3" 12'6" x 9'3"

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Store Room Home Office 5.26 x 3.77 17'3" x 12'3" Games Room 7.21 x 5.26 Reception Rooms/General Circulation Areas 23'9" x 17'3" Boiler/ Server Kitchen/Workshop/Utility/Plant Plant Room Up 3.95 x 2.64 Outside Space 13'0" x 8'9" Approximate Gross Internal Floor Area Bedroom/Dressing Rooms House: 467sq.m. or 5027sq.ft. Laundry Room Store 3.35 x 2.62 © 2016 HOMEPLAN Store Room Bathrooms www.homeplanuk.co.uk Room 11'0" x 8'6" 5.26 x 1.95 Constructed in accordance with the RICS code of measuring 17'3" x 6'6" practice, this plan is for layout guidance only. It is not to scale, Storage unless specified. Please check all dimensions & shapes before making any decisions reliant upon them. Lower Ground Floor

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