Lodge Road, Woodham Mortimer, Maldon, Essex, CM9

A 2014-built agricultural barn in a rural setting around eight miles from Chelmsford, offered with approximately 2.82 acres including adjacent grassland. The steel portal-frame building has weatherboard cladding, a red-brick plinth, tiled roof and large barn doors. It is currently arranged with an open ground-floor area, a north-side lobby, a southern stables and isolation area, and a hay loft above. Two alternative Class Q prior approvals permit conversion to one dwelling. The four-bedroom scheme provides open-plan living, dining and kitchen space, two ground-floor en suite bedrooms, a utility and boot room, and two further bedrooms upstairs, each with a bathroom and dressing area, plus a study area. The alternative three-bedroom scheme is arranged mainly on the ground floor, with part of the building retained for agricultural use. Both approved schemes include parking and hardstanding for three cars. The purchaser will need to implement one of the approved schemes, discharge the relevant conditions and complete the change of use within the applicable three-year period. Conditions include approval of details for drainage, ecological measures, lighting and cycle parking. The land around the barn may provide access and amenity space, but a separate planning permission is required to use agricultural land as residential garden. The listing also describes possible extension and cart-lodge schemes, both subject to planning permission. Maldon is about two miles away, Danbury 2.6 miles, and Chelmsford eight miles.