4 bedroom detached house for sale

An immaculately presented, very generously proportioned, modern home provides versatile accommodation with 4 double bedrooms, 2 en suite and with walk-in wardrobes, a family bathroom, 2 living rooms, a spacious kitchen dining room, a study, a conservatory, well appointed utility rooms and a good connection to the south and west facing garden. A separate double garage completes this light, airy and spacious family home.

Heckington is just south of the A17, an attractive and popular place to live with all its amenities including a train station with services connecting to Grantham and on to Central London where fast trains to King’s Cross take around an hour. Excellent schools are in the locality.

• A beautifully presented, light, airy and spacious modern family home
• 20 solar panels on a 7.2 Kw system with 8.5Kw storage battery
• Master bedroom: en suite, dressing room, walk-in wardrobe, Juliette balcony
• 3 further bedrooms, 1 with en suite and walk-in wardrobe
• Front porch into spacious entrance hall with downstairs WC
• Dual aspect main reception room with log-burner and French doors to patio
• Second, spacious reception room / formal dining room
• Sizeable study overlooking garden
• Large kitchen dining room with French doors into conservatory
• Fitted kitchen with wealth of units and island incorporating breakfast bar
• Integrated eye-level double oven, gas hob, dishwasher and fridge freezer
• UPvc framed conservatory with French doors onto patio
• Double-glazed UPvc windows throughout
• Boot room and well-appointed utility including built-in water softener
• Large landing; loft storage, part-boarded with extra insulation
• Large airing cupboard with built-in shelving
• Fully fitted family bathroom
• Fully active alarm system, serviced annually
• Separate double garage with new remotely-controlled vehicle door
• South and west facing, enclosed rear garden with lawn and borders
• Generous paved areas along back and down sides of house
• Metal gazebo installed on rear patio
• Timber garden shed
• Tarmac and gravelled drive with space to park up to 4 cars

Location

The property stands in a residential area of the large village of Heckington about 5 miles east of Sleaford, and a 25 minute drive east of Grantham and the A1. With lots of fine buildings, visitor attractions, a community swimming pool and even its own railway station, not to mention its easy access to the major A17 road network, Heckington is a popular place to live, work and visit. Heckington Station on the Nottingham to Skegness, East Midlands line has links to Peterborough and Lincoln.

Village amenities include a Co-op, a butcher’s, a greengrocer’s, a doctors’ surgery, a pharmacy, a dentists’, a barber, a fish and chip shop, Indian and Chinese takeaways, two pubs - The Royal Oak serving excellent food - a Sports Club with Pavilion and Bar with cricket and football pitches, a swimming pool, and the parish Church of St. Andrew dating to the 14th century.

The nearly 1,000 year old village is best known for its windmill, formerly known as Pocklington's Mill, the only working 8-sailed example of its type still standing in the world. In 1986 the windmill underwent restoration and is now open to the public with an award-winning visitor centre, tea room, brewery, bakehouse and museum. The Heckington Show, an important local event, has been held annually in the village over July’s last weekend since 1864 and the village's 1859-built railway station is a museum.

Schools

Around a 5 minute walk from the property is the village primary school, St Andrew's Church of England School which is a feeder school for three secondary schools in Sleaford, each of which has a sixth form and has been rated Good by Ofsted: Carre's Grammar School (for boys), Kesteven and Sleaford High School Selective Academy (for girls) and St George's Academy, a mixed non-selective secondary school.

Seller Insights

“We were very taken with the size and space in the house – all the bedrooms are good-sized doubles and the rooms downstairs are also exceptionally large, even the study. The kitchen is ample big enough for a sizeable dining table so we have used what would have originally been a formal dining room as a games room and gym and for watching TV. The use of rooms is very flexible.”

“The house has been perfect for hosting large family gatherings in the summer and the winter due to the size of the garden and the property with adults, grandchildren and grandparents never feeling as if they are all on top of each other.”

“The main reception room is perfect the way it opens onto the rear patio along with the French doors from the conservatory which creates a seamless flow between spaces in summer. This is also the perfect room for curling up in front of the log-burner during the winter. The orientation is ideal as it faces south and west so captures the sun all afternoon and evening. We recently installed the metal gazebo which forms a good spot in the shade when relaxing or eating outside.”

“The house is extremely warm and very economical to run. We fitted the 20 solar panels plus an 8.5 Kilowatt battery for storage which gives us a saving of around £2,000 per annum. Our gas and electricity bills have never been over £100 so the solar panels have been a fantastic investment for the property. We also put in the log-burner in the living room which generates a lot of heat that seems to permeate throughout the whole house. The loft has an enormous amount of extra insulation which also helps keep the place really warm.”

“The rear garden is fenced all round so secure for children and dogs. It’s peaceful and quiet and home to lots of garden birds.”

“Heckington has so much to offer in the way of shops and amenities with pretty much all you need. There’s a primary school within walking distance and school buses to very good secondary schools in Sleaford collect from outside the doctors’ surgery only a 5 minute walk from here. There are a few take-aways and two pubs, one serving excellent food, lots of sports facilities with a bar in the pavilion. And an added bonus is the train station which connects to Grantham, Peterborough, Nottingham, Lincoln and cities elsewhere meaning commuting to London, for instance, is perfectly feasible. Road links are good too being so near the A17, the A52 and the A15. Grantham and the A1 are reached in about 25 minutes by car.”

Services: Mains gas, electricity, water and drainage; mains gas central heating; 20 solar panels with storage battery
Local Authority: North Kesteven District Council
EPBC Rating C
Council Tax Band: F
Tenure: Freehold