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Guide price£419,500
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3 bedroom detached house for sale

Swaffham Prior
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Detached house
3 bed
1 bath
EPC rating: D*
1,022 sq ft / 95 sq m

Key information

Tenure: Freehold
Council tax: Band D
Broadband: Super-fast 79Mbps *
Mobile signal: 
EE O2 Three Vodafone
Water: Ask agent
Heating: Ask agent
Electricity: Ask agent
Sewerage: Ask agent
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Property description & features

  • Tenure: Freehold
  • Fascinatingly unique
  • Timeless design
  • Highly sought after village
  • Attractive period style features
  • Delightful garden
  • Detached home office/studio
  • Environmentally friendly heating system
A fascinatingly unique, inspirational and captivating detached house, built in 1984, yet seamlessly weaves together the charm and character associated with much older cottages, resulting in a property that feels both timeless and contemporary. This house enjoys a lovely tucked away position in the sought after village of Swaffham Prior and is set in delightful gardens with a useful home office/studio.

As you step across the threshold a warm and inviting interior greets you. The reception hall has an attractive exposed brickwork floor, staircase leading to a galleried landing and period style internal doors leading to both the largest bedroom and bathroom.

Interestingly the main living accommodation occupies the first floor with a stunning almost open plan sitting room with impressive fireplace and wood burning stove. The kitchen/dining room, though equipped with the latest culinary conveniences, maintains an air of rustic simplicity. There are two further bedrooms on the first floor. Outside the house offers car parking to the front, a delightful garden and a very useful detached outbuilding, currently used as a home office/studio.

The village of Swaffham Prior recently invested in a village wide, ground source heat pump network providing villagers with a reliable, renewable heating system. It is one of the first villages in the UK to set up such a scheme. This house has adopted the service and now benefits from an environmentally friendly source of heating and hot water.

Swaffham Prior is situated approximately 8 miles north east of the University City of Cambridge and some 6 miles west of the horseracing town of Newmarket and is famous for it’s twin churches and range of interesting and mainly period homes. The village has it’s own primary school with secondary education being offered at Bottisham. There is relatively good access to the A14 dual carriageway with many of the regions principle traffic routes including the M11 Stansted to London and A11 to Stansted.

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    Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on June 7, 2022

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    Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on June 7, 2022

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    Red: One bar, reliable signal unlikely
    Amber: Two bars, may experience problems with connectivity
    Green: Three bars, likely to have good coverage and receive a data rate to support basic web services
    Enhanced: Full bars, likely to have good coverage indoors and to receive an enhanced data rate to support multimedia services

    Energy Performance data and Internal floor area: obtained on September 19, 2023 from The Energy Performance of Buildings (Certificates and Inspections) (England and Wales) Regulations 2007 or the Home Report if in relation to a residential property in Scotland.

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    *Call rate information

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