7 bedroom house for sale
Key information
Property description & features
- Tenure: Freehold
- A house of distinctive character
- Generous layout with lots of rooms, offering versatility for bedrooms or entertainment areas
- About 3500 sq ft of accommodation
- Late 18th Century origins with 19th Century additions
- Exposed beams and fireplaces
- South West facing garden
- Triple garage and gated parking
- An ideal home for those seeking a property with personality and comfort
Stetchworth lies amidst most attractive undulating countryside much of which is used for stud farming and is approximately 4 miles south of the horseracing town of Newmarket and about 13 miles east of the University City of Cambridge.
Together with the village of Dullingham there is a good range of local facilities including a highly regarded primary school, private day nursery, several public houses and the Ellesmere Centre where there is a morning shop and post office, range of sports facilities including squash and tennis courts. Secondary education is provided for in Bottisham.
There is also a railway station in Dullingham with connections to Newmarket and Cambridge which in turn links to London. There are also excellent road links via the A14 and A11 dual carriageways which inter-connect with many of the regions principal routes including the M11 to Stansted Airport and London.
This well-known village dwelling is believed to originate from the latter part of the 18th Century, having served as a public house named "The Live and Let Live" for an extended period. In the 1970s, it transitioned into a guest house before ultimately transforming into a distinctive and spacious family residence.
The house offers a fusion of modern accommodation retaining much of the character associated form a house of this period.
The welcoming entrance hall has a stripped pine floor, staircase to the fist floor and built in cupboard. To the right is a generous room ideal for us as a home office with wood burning stove. To the left of the hall you walk through a dining room displaying a feature fireplace. Follow through a hallway (with second front door) to a large sitting room with a beamed ceiling and brick fire place with wood burning stove. The impressive kitchen/breakfast room offers a range of built in cupboards, a Rayburn cooker (oil fired) and large informal dining area. Towards the dining room is an inner hall with a shower room to the rear and pantry with access to the basement. The basement has been fully tanked and converted into a media room but could have a variety of other uses.
A side lobby off the kitchen links the main house to a Snug with a fireplace, boot room with staircase to a games room or Bedroom 8. In addition off this lobby is a utility room with boiler cupboard (oil fired boiler and hot water cylinder) and a cloakroom.
On the first floor there are 7 bedrooms, 3 of which are en suite.
The master bedroom has a range of built in wardrobes, dressing room and en suite bathroom.
In addition there is a family bathroom and separate cloakroom.
Outside the house is approached to the side with a block paved driveway with five bar gate and provides access to the gardens and triple garage. to the side of the garage is a gate to the front, small store and covered oil tank storage area. The bus stop is also owned by this property.
The garden is south facing and is laid to lawn with shrub borders, a covered well, timber garden shed and green house. In addition there is a small courtyard approached via a door from the side lobby.
Tenure
The property is freehold.
Services
Mains water, drainage and electricity are connected. The property is heated via an oil fired boiler.
The property is not in an conservation area. The property is in a very low flood risk area.
Council Tax Band: F East Cambridgeshite District Council
Viewing: Strictly by prior arrangement with Pocock + Shaw. PBS
Property information from this agent
Places of interest
See more properties like this:
*DISCLAIMER
Property reference PNB-61649862. The information displayed about this property comprises a property advertisement. OnTheMarket.com makes no warranty as to the accuracy or completeness of the advertisement or any linked or associated information, and OnTheMarket.com has no control over the content provided by the agent or developer. This property advertisement does not constitute property particulars. The information is provided and maintained by Pocock & Shaw - Newmarket.
OnTheMarket may have applied supplementary data to this property listing, including:
Broadband availability and predicted speed: obtained from Ofcom on January 24, 2022
Broadband speed is measured in megabits per second, with the number returned showing how fast the connection is. Each reading is based on the highest predicted speed of any major broadband network for services that deliver the download speeds. The following are the different readings that we may display:
Basic: Up to 30 Mbit/s
Super-fast: Between 30 Mbit/s and 300 Mbit/s
Ultra-fast: Over 300 Mbit/s
The data is updated three times a year. The checker results are predictions and should not be regarded as guaranteed. For more information, see: https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/en-gb/about-checker#Answer_0_2
Mobile phone signal availability and predicted strength: obtained from Ofcom on February 1, 2022
Mobile signal predictions are provided by the four UK mobile network operators: EE, O2, Three and Vodafone. Predictions can vary significantly from the coverage you may actually experience as a result of local factors (especially terrain). Ofcom has tested the actual coverage provided in various locations around the UK to help ensure that these predictions are reasonable. The values shown against a property can be broken down as follows:
Clear: No bars, no signal predicted
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 June 27, 2013 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.
Any supplementary data should not be relied upon as forming part of any property particulars and OnTheMarket cannot be held responsible for any incorrectness in this data. See here for more information.