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£1,500,000

Wicken Road, Wicken Bonhunt, Saffron Walden, Essex, CB11

Land size
1.5 acres
Bedrooms
6
Bathrooms
3

Key Features

  • Significant Victorian house (unlisted)
  • Excellent location for schools, shopping and commuting from the mainline station at Audley End, Newport and Stansted Mountfitchet (45 mins)
  • Grand entrance hallway
  • Drawing room
  • Dining room
  • Study
  • Kitchen/breakfast room
  • Utility
  • Cloakrooms
  • Cellar

Description

Bonhunt House is a fine red brick early Victorian house dating to the late 1840’s and situated almost equal distance between the village of Newport (with mainline train station and amenities) and the smaller village of Wicken Bonhunt.

This significant and substantial dwelling is well proportioned with high ceiling height and well proportioned rooms as would be expected of a building of this age. The house retains its original front door and bell ring. The substantial front door leads to an impressive entrance hallway with cloakroom and a staircase to the first floor. There are two rooms at the front of the property, the sitting room and the dining room, and behind this a large study which links to a sympathetic extension to the property which was completed in 2013 to provide a generous drawing room which has a wood burning stove and glazed doors out to the garden. In addition, there is a kitchen and breakfast room, two further lobbies and a utility room.

There is an excellent cellar with good ceiling heights divided into four room, the cellar houses the pressurised water system and two large hot water cylinders.

On the first floor there is landing with three bedrooms (including the master bedroom suite) and a dressing room/single bedroom. From the landing there is a staircase to a study area and a fourth bedroom. There is also a staircase from the drawing room to two further bedrooms and a bathroom.

The driveway to the house leads to garaging. There is a double garage on one side of the house and a single on the other side, there is also a sizeable garden shed. The gardens are well established with herbaceous borders and watering system which is supplied from the house well, as well as a terrace, lawns and mature trees at the far end of the garden there is a hard tennis court. The grounds are about 1.5 acres.

AGENTS NOTE: For those with a question or interest, it may be possible to rent a further acreage of up to five acres adjoining the house.

The adjoining property is Bonhunt Lodge, a property around 2900 sq.ft (including a single garage) which is also available to purchase and provides some excellent accommodation with a guide price of £725,000.

WICKEN BONHUNT is a well regarded small North Essex village with its fine church and public house, and is situated midway between the villages of Newport and Clavering. Clavering offers an excellent local shop/post office, inns and restaurant, and Newport provides a further range of amenities, including schools and shops, and mainline station to London (Liverpool Street). The historic market town of Saffron Walden lies some six miles away and offers a more comprehensive range of social, recreational and educational facilities. To the north, Audley End mainline station is about 2.5 miles distant, running regular services to London's Liverpool Street (approx 55 minutes), and to the South, Stansted Mountifchet (in approx 45 mins). The M.11 motorway can be accessed at either Duxford or Bishops Stortford.

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
G
Date Posted
2026-04-03

Market Value Analysis

Compared with 1,172 Homes with Land listings in East Anglia (1+ acres).

This Property£1,000,000 / acre
Homes with Land Average (1+ acres) £378,771 / 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
64 D
80 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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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
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

61 Mbps

Superfast · available to 86% of premises

Suitable for

  • HD streaming
  • Video calls
  • Web & social

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; 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

  • Newport Primary School622 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    155
    Type
    Community school
  • Rickling Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School2.3 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    5 to 11
    Pupils
    98
    Type
    Voluntary aided school
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Clavering Primary School2.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    5 to 11
    Pupils
    179
    Type
    Community school
  • Debden Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary Academy2.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    4 to 11
    Pupils
    140
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
    Faith
    Church of England
  • Katherine Semar Junior School2.8 milesOfsted: Outstanding *
    Ages
    7 to 11
    Pupils
    256
    Type
    Academy converter

Secondary

  • Joyce Frankland Academy, Newport0.7 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    865
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Saffron Walden County High School2.9 milesOfsted: Outstanding
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    2,157
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Forest Hall School6 milesOfsted report card · Feb 2026
    Ages
    11 to 16
    Pupils
    506
    Type
    Academy sponsor led
  • Avanti Grange Secondary School6.9 milesOfsted: Outstanding *
    Ages
    11 to 18
    Pupils
    660
    Type
    Free schools
  • Birchwood High School7.3 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

Spar - Clavering Supermarket, Clavering2.7 miles
Tesco Saffron Walden Express, Saffron Walden2.8 miles
Aldi Saffron Walden, Saffron Walden3.3 miles

GP surgery

Newport Surgery712 metres

Pharmacy

Newport Pharmacy0.7 miles

Hospital

Saffron Walden Community Hospital3.9 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces518 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

Newport (Essex) Rail Station0.7 miles

Nearest bus stop

Frambury Lane686 metres

Typical drive times

Thaxted17 min · 8.5 miles
Buntingford19 min · 11 miles
Saffron Walden8 min · 4.1 miles
Cambridge (city)33 min · 19 miles
Stansted Mountfitchet13 min · 6.7 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

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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