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See how verdicts work5-bedroom detached house · SG8 5JR
Sold STCListed 264 days
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About
This spacious detached family home has undergone recent renovations, offering versatile accommodation plus a detached annex, making it suitable for extended family, guests, or potential use as a home office or rental opportunity.
Key Features: Accommodation: Large welcoming reception hall. With plenty of storage. Multiple bedrooms, including a large master bedroom, and flexible rooms such as a study or fifth bedroom.
Living Spaces: Bright first floor lounge with a feature fireplace with an inset multi-fuel burner and a Juliette balcony overlooking the delightful rear gardens.
Kitchen Diner: Recently improved and redesigned to offer a generous open plan kitchen diner featuring a range of fitted wall and base units with contrasting timber work surfaces over.
Island unit with breakfast bar. Utility Room : A useful laundry room and boot room with ample storage and sink. Water softener.
Conservatory: Delightful sun room Bathrooms: Main bathroom with full suite on the first floor and a second bathroom on the ground floor, both with modern fittings and tiles.
Annex: Detached, comprising an open plan kitchen, living room, Shower Room/Wet Room and bedroom. Loft for storage. Perfect for visitors, extended family, or as a private workspace.
External & Gardens: Gardens: A haven for flowers and wildlife. A good sized West facing rear garden. The home has a plot size just over 0.20 of an acre.
Mainly lawned with flower borders, patio with pergola, vegetable garden, Large daffodil bed, two compost heaps and dry store. Greenhouse, summerhouse and shed, plus a further home office/studio.
All enclosed by fencing and hedging with a gated side access to both sides. Parking: Gravel driveway with ample off road parking for several vehicles.
Location A delightful setting on the outskirts of Bassingbourn.
Bassingbourn is a popular South Cambridgeshire village with good facilities, including doctor's surgery, pharmacy, Post Office, coffee shop, The Hoops public house and The Belle restaurant.
In the village there is Bassingbourn village community Primary School and Bassingbourn Village College, Mainline rail services from Royston station into Cambridge in 10 minutes, to London's Kings Cross in 38 minutes and to London Bridge in 65 minutes.
The university city of Cambridge is only 14 miles away, boasting excellent independent schools for all ages and great cultural and recreational facilities.
Shopping in the nearby town of Royston includes a Tesco Superstore, M&S and Aldi. There is also a busy High Street and a good selection of pubs and restaurants.
There are good road connections with the A1/M at Baldock 13 miles to the west and the M11 12 miles to the east (approx). Luton and Stansted Airports are both within 30 to 40 minutes drive.
Value & comps
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