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4 bedroom detached house

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Detached house
4 bed
2 bath
2.60 acre(s)

Key information

Tenure: Freehold
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Broadband: Super-fast 75Mbps *
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Character Original Victorian Built Four Bedroomed Detached Residence
  • Energy Rating E
  • Council Tax Band F
  • Tenure Freehold
  • Secluded Formal Gardens Extending to 0.91 Acres
  • Additional Paddock Land to rear of 1.68 Acres
  • Abutting Nottingham-Grantham Canal with Open Countryside Views
  • Gas Central Heating
  • L-shaped Hallway-Garden Room
  • Lounge, Sitting Room, Dining Room
An early Victorian character residence with formal gardens extending to 0.91 acres with additional paddock land extending to 1.68 acres. Lying in this highly sought after village between the Nottingham-Grantham canal and St. Lukes Church, retaining many original character features and being skillfully extended. Offering well balanced family accommodation, the property has gas central heating and comprises entrance into L-shaped hallway-garden room, lounge, sitting room, dining room, farmhouse style kitchen, with range cooker, rear hall with cloakroom and utility room. On the first floor are four double bedrooms, family bathroom and separate shower room. Outside is an extensive gravelled driveway, double garage, stable block with three stables (one converted into single garage), kitchen garden, general store and coal store, garden room/potting shed. Formal gardens are laid to lawn with beautiful stocked perennial borders and mature trees. There is access to the paddock land from the property and also from Pinfold Close offering a variety of further uses.

Rooms

Hallway-Garden Room 25' 9" x 17' 5"
Accessed via open front original porch into L-shaped hallway and garden room with oak French doors to the garden and two double radiators.

Lounge
4.8m into bay x 4.67m - With multi-pane bow window overlooking the garden and a further window to the front. Having a Minster style fireplace with inset open fire, high ceilings, wall lights and radiator.

Sitting Room 15' 0" x 11' 10"
With high ceilings and coving, original storage cupboards, brick feature fireplace with open fire on quarry tiled hearth and brick surround and multi-pane window to front elevation.

Dining Room
4.37m into bay x 3.89m - A multi-pane bow window to the garden and double radiator.

Cloaks Storage 4' 7" x 4' 0"
With quarry tiled flooring, recess storage under the stairwell and French door giving access through to:

Dining Kitchen 14' 2" x 11' 9"
A farmhouse style kitchen with a comprehensive series of oak fronted cupboards and drawers and matching eye level units over, concealed lighting under, solid granite work surfaces and two bowl stainless steel sink with swan chrome mixer taps. Having a built-in larder fridge, Britannia built-in electric range cooker with five burner hob, ovens under and extractor hood over and recessed useful pantry store (6'9" x 2'4") which has built-in shelving and electric light, spotlighting to the walls, tiled flooring and multi-pane window to side and rear elevations.

Rear Hall
2.87m approximately x 2.8m - The rear hall is L-shaped with quarry tiled flooring, double radiator, two multi-pane windows and oak back door.

Cloakroom 5' 10" x 4' 3"
Fitted with a low flush WC, pedestal wash hand basin with chrome taps, quarry tiled flooring, extractor fan, light and radiator.

Utility Room 10' 5" x 8' 4"
With quarry tiled flooring, single drainer stainless steel sink unit, worktops to the side, double cupboard under, exposed brickwork to the walls, space and plumbing for washing machine, upright fridge/freezer appliance space, useful loft space storage over and wall mounted gas fired boiler.

Landing
With airing cupboard housing the water cylinder and with pine slat storage, radiator and double glazed roof window.

Bedroom One 15' 0" x 12' 9"
With multi-paned windows with superb views to the gardens and surrounding countryside and canal, original fireplace and double radiator.

Bedroom Two 14' 2" x 11' 7"
With multi-pane window to the front, double radiator and original fireplace.

Bedroom Three 12' 0" x 11' 10"
Fitted with double fronted cupboard with built in shelving, original linen storage cupboard, sash window enjoying views across the gardens and paddock land.

Bedroom Four 10' 4" x 10' 9"
With multi-paned windows enjoying views to the gardens and canal, exposed tongue and groove floor boarding, double fronted wardrobe with double cupboard over, double radiator, access to loft space.

Bathroom 8' 3" x 6' 6"
Having an obscure multi-pane window to the front, panelled bath, low level WC, pedestal wash hand basin, part panelling to the walls and heated combined radiator and towel rail.

Shower Room 6' 9" x 6' 5"
With a white suite comprising shower with hand held chrome shower with folding glass doors, pedestal wash hand basin with chrome taps, tiled splashbacks, low level WC, extractor fan and light, exposed tongue and groove floor boarding, radiator, dado rail, sealed double glazed roof window and wall light.

Driveway
There is a sweeping gravelled main driveway with five bar gated access with hedgerows to the churchyard side and borders on the other side. Having conifers to the front and a gravelled pathway to the front of the house.

Garage 19' 9" x 19' 1"
With two independent up and over doors, power and lighting, shelving, multi-pane windows to the side and back door to the kitchen garden.

Outside
The secluded formal gardens envelop the property with the house and garden having 0.91 acres with beautifully stocked perennial borders and hedgerows. There is a main flagstone rear patio. The property has the Nottingham-Grantham canal to one side and St. Lukes Church to the other. There is also a wooded area and apple trees. The gardens continue to the back of the house where there are continuous lawns, again interspersed with stocked borders. There is a lean-to log store, cherry and plum trees and vegetable garden.

Original Cow Shed 21' 2" x 14' 0"
Which is useful for general storage throughout with a side door.

Summer House/Potting Shed 14' 4" x 8' 2"
With slabbed flooring and windows to three sides.

Stable Block
With concrete open pathway to the side.

Stable/Garage Store 11' 6" x 8' 8"
With up and over door, rear window, pitched roof.

Stable Two 11' 8" x 11' 6"
Useful for storage with window to the front and stable door with a concrete base.

Stable Three 11' 3" x 9' 5"
Useful for storage with window to the front and stable door with a concrete base.

Garden Tool Shed 14' 6" x 8' 8"
With side door and brick block base.

Paddock
There is a paddock to the rear which extends to 1.68 acres having access from the garden and also separate access via gate to Pinfold Close. There is a right of access from Pinfold Close which leads to the rear boundary. The paddock is flanked by a wooded area along its boundary with the church and Pinfold Close and by hawthorn hedges to the canalside.

Coal Shed 10' 4" x 3' 6"

Driveway
The gravel driveway has further independent gated access to:

Uplift Clause
It should be noted that there is an Uplift Clause on the paddock land retained by the family and Trust based on a current value of £50,000 for 25 years at 25% on any additional dwelling with planning permission granted.

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