West Stockwell Street, COLCHESTER

A perfect space for entertaining.

With city centre living on your doorstep as well as being within easy walking distance to the mainline station, the property is a peaceful haven only a stone’s throw from the high street and Castle park, located in the Colchester’s quaint Dutch Quarter. With much of what the city centre has to offer you may well be forgiven for wanting to just stay at home. Having been the Stockwell Arms pub, the property still showcases cosy inglenook fireplaces, snugs and recesses with impressive moulded ceiling beams and exposed brickwork but juxtaposed with voluminous modern open plan living at the rear. With a vaulted ceiling and full height and length sliding windows that open out onto the contemporary stepped rear garden, the open plan living room / bar and kitchen is light and inviting and perfect for entertaining large gatherings. The capacious room is perfectly zoned for seamless transitional use of the kitchen to the lounge and bar so that even when alone, each area can be as intimate as required.

The kitchen itself is bespoke, made with oak and finished with quartz worktops with NEFF appliances and a Fisher & Paykel fridge freezer. The utility room, office/ fourth bedroom and cloak room are all finished to the high spec.

The upstairs accommodation is in two wings of the house. The two guest bedrooms, one with an en-suite, is accessed via stairs to the left of the impressive vaulted entrance hall with the principle suite to the right. The sizable principle suite showcases a renovated vaulted ceiling for a bright and spacious room, this is accompanied by a galleried dressing room with bespoke cabinetry and a striking en-suite with a walk-in dual shower for added luxury.

The rear garden has been landscaped to provide a contemporary split level design combining a raised seating and integrated outdoor kitchen / dining area alongside an artificial lawn perfect for all year round use. The property also offers off-street parking for two cars behind a sliding electric wooden gate, which is quite a rarity for the Dutch Quarter. Handy storage areas including a covered wood store sits alongside the property passed a side door with which you can access the house with after closing the front gates.

This area of Colchester has a rich architectural history. in Medieval times, Colchester was a prosperous wool town and large numbers of weavers and cloth makers from Flanders emigrated to Colchester to produce Bays and Says cloth within their own cottages. This neighbourhood is still known as The Dutch Quarter.

Many of the medieval properties within the Dutch quarter followed the lines of old Roman street frontages. The old Roman wall still runs along Northgate Street in the Dutch Quarter and many properties have Roman structural remains within their walls and cellars.
There were also a number of springs in the area including a well at the bottom of the street where live-stock was brought to drink, it is this origin that “Stock Well” street gets its name.