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See how verdicts work3-bedroom bungalow · CB23 8BT
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About
The entrance porch provides space for coats and shoes, with a quarry tile floor and access to the immaculate and well-planned interior.
The spacious and comfortable sitting room includes a large picture window to the front aspect, with views over the front garden.
Leading to the impressive rear extension, which is well planned to create a popular open plan kitchen/living/dining space with a vaulted ceiling and French doors which lead nicely to the wonderful garden.
The kitchen is fitted with a comprehensive range of modern and stylish wall and base units with quartz work surface over and integrated appliances.
There is space for a sofa and a dining table, with glazed double doors leading back onto the sitting room.
The inner hall includes a double airing cupboard with shelving and hanging space, doors lead to the two ground-floor bedrooms and a modern fitted ground floor bathroom.
The first floor comprises a generous, multi-purpose space which is currently used as a second sitting room/office, with built-in storage to the eaves, this could also become a generous first-floor bedroom if required.
The second part of the loft conversion features a good-sized double bedroom with an adjoining WC and hand basin.
Outside and parking Approaching from the high street, the property is situated within a quiet lane in the village and sits prominently on a generous plot with gardens to all sides.
The driveway provides off-road parking for multiple vehicles and leads to the single brick garage, with power and light connected.
The side garden includes a greenhouse, and a gated access leads to the beautifully maintained and established garden.
Laid mainly to lawn, with well-stocked borders and mature planting offering colour through the season and privacy, with a south-west facing aspect.
Location Dry Drayton is a pleasant, primarily residential village within enjoyable cycling distance of Cambridge city centre via Madingley or by Oakington and the cycle/busway to the Cambridge Science Park and the new Cambridge North Railway Station.
The local road provides another route just 3.2 miles to Girton College.
The village has a thriving social life () with a local primary school, church and pub - The Black Horse, which serves real ales, food and has a beer garden.
There are further facilities available in the nearby village of Bar Hill including a post office, library, superstore, service station and golf club.
Hackers Fruit and Vegetable farm shop is not far from the village. Impington and Comberton Village Colleges provide well-regarded Secondary State Education nearby.
There is excellent access to the M11, A14 and A428, without any of them imposing on the village. Cambridge Cavendish Laboratory - 4 miles via Madingley City Centre 5 miles.
Cambridge Science Park via Oakington - 6.3 miles EPC Rating: C
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