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See how verdicts work4-bedroom house · MK43 9BA
Listing removedReduced £25k (−4.5%) on 21 JunListed 213 days
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About
Grade II Listed Cottage | Driveway Parking For Multiple Vehicles | Generous Well Maintained Garden | Detached | Garage | Family Bathroom And Ground Floor Shower Room | Recent Updates By Current Owners | Sought After Village Property Entrance is via a convenient porch, with room for shoes and coats, and a door to a welcoming entrance hallway, with window to the front aspect, and doors to the lounge, kitchen and study.
The lounge is a generous room with brick built feature fireplace, and triple aspect windows. There is also a staircase rising to the first floor.
The kitchen is a good size, with ample wall and base level storage with ample worksurface space.
The versatile study could host a variety of different uses, and benefits from a window to the front aspect.
To the rear of the property, a hallway connects the kitchen to the current dining room and the shower room.
There is a storage cupboard housing the central heating boiler, and a door providing access to the pretty rear garden.
The shower room has been recently refitted by the current owners, and has a modern white suite.
The spacious dining room completes the ground floor, with triple aspect glazing flooding the room with natural light, and double doors opening onto the rear garden.
On the first floor a landing space provides access to three of the four bedrooms, and the stylish family bathroom.
Bedrooms three and four both boast built in storage, and the second bedroom is a generous space that is being used as a dressing room by the current owners.
There is a door from the second bedroom into the last of the internal rooms, a bright and airy master bedroom.
Outside, a neat pathway leads to the front door, with a lawned area to the side which is sheltered by mature hedging.
There is a gravelled parking area for multiple vehicles which leads to the single garage.
There is gated access to the attractive cottage garden, which boasts a generous lawn, pond, and planted borders with mature plants and trees.
Location Wootton is a quiet village located to the West of Bedford Town Centre.
It benefits from offering easy access to the A421 southern bypass which provides excellent road links between Bedford and City of Milton Keynes. The area is renowned for its schooling at all levels.
Wootton is only 5 miles from Bedford Town centre and there are accessible transport links to J13, M1 which is only a 5 minute drive from the property, trains from the Bedford platform are direct in to London St Pancras.
The village amenities include 3 local convenience stores, 3 pub/eateries as well as a doctors and chemist.
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Value & comps
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