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5 bedroom detached house
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- Beautiful, unlisted, detached family home
- Peaceful setting, no through road
- Stunning countryside views
- Double garage and ample driveway parking
- Utility room and home office
- Double glazed windows
- Access to local amenities, including pubs and post office
- Fast trains from Bedford to London: 39 mins
SUPERB STONE FAMILY HOME IN HISTORIC RIVERSIDE VILLAGE - WITH WONDERFUL VIEWS
Overlooking the beautiful gardens of Turvey Abbey, Parkside is a lovely, detached, five-bedroom stone home on a no-through lane in a delightfully quiet spot. Built in the late ‘80s with its own peaceful garden, a huge, attached garage which could perhaps be incorporated into the house, and driveway parking for several cars, Parkside has been a much-loved home ever since for the family that designed and built it.
There can be few nicer approaches to any home than the tree-lined Jacks Lane, where every house you pass is beautiful, none more so than the Benedictine Abbey, once the beloved country home of John Longuet Higgins, to whom Turvey owes so much. Beyond Parkside lies only the parkland surrounding Abbey Farm and miles of wonderful walks.
At the top of the lane, wander along the High Street towards the magnificent Saxon church, and the beautiful River Great Ouse, and enjoy a history lesson like no other - fascinating old houses, post office and butcher’s, two shops and two pubs, all with their own tales to tell.
The friendly village community is fortunate to have so much on their doorstep, with a busy hall, playing fields, and lovely little primary school. Sharnbrook Academy & 6th Form is close by and the county town, with its world-renowned private schools and fast trains to London, is just a short bus or car journey away. When your home is in one of the best spots of such a village, it’s little wonder that you’ll be only its second owner in over four decades.
ABOUT THE PROPERTY
Seamlessly fitting in with the rural environment and the historic houses of the conservation area, Parkside is set off the lane behind magnificent, bird-filled trees and built beautifully of stone, with an inner brick skin, helping to make it warmer in winter, cooler in summer. A wooden pedestrian gate is set into the low stone wall at the front, as well as a five-bar gate which cleverly swings open for your cars and fences off the garden so that your dog doesn’t disappear on one of the many lovely countryside walks without you.
The south-facing garden wraps around the house, with out of sight areas for bin storage, wooded and lawned areas for young children to play, an old apple tree from which to pick their own fruit, and with borders stocked full of bee-friendly flowers and shrubs. With playing fields a short stroll away and woods and countryside on the doorstep, this is a garden designed not to be a burden but a peaceful haven, one in which you can relax on the terrace and enjoy not only your own lovely, private outside space but, beyond a low stone wall, the gorgeous Abbey gardens.
To see the ‘secret garden’ on the other side of the high, rose-clad, stone wall, not to mention the beautiful Abbey buildings, climb to the top floor of the house. Imagine this as your main bedroom suite, with bathroom and dressing room, and awaking each morning to such glorious views. Yet all the bedrooms have a lovely outlook, and the main bedroom is currently the one with its own shower room on the first floor.
Parkside is nothing if not flexible (the super study has even been a bedroom for an elderly parent) and is ready for you to put your stamp on your new home. Will you decide to update various rooms for instance, perhaps even extend the kitchen into the dining room? Indeed, will you decide to extend the house into all or part of the garage? Will you be able to resist installing a woodburner in the lovely, natural oak-beamed sitting room, a delightful, light-filled room that opens, through glazed double doors, to both the dining room and the garden terrace - ideal for entertaining. One thing’s for sure, after over 40 years, Parkside’s second family will be a fortunate one.
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