2 bedroom detached house for sale

Rooms

Kitchen/Breakfast Room
A dual-aspect space with views of saint Mary's church and fitted with a range of solid timber cottage style base and wall units with melamine faced work surfaces and a double stainless-steel sink and drainer with Chrome mixer tap. There is space for a free-standing oven and fridge freezer. Floors are finished with tile effect sheet vinyl. Ceilings have original exposed chamfered solid oak beams and floor joists and there is a wonderful pippy oak quarter-winder staircase with panelling. To the rear of the kitchen there is space for a small table and chairs and beneath the stairwell space for storage. A stripped pine door with brass ironmongery opens to the sitting room.

Sitting Room
This dual-aspect room offers stunning views of St Mary’s Church to the front and features French doors with a matching side casement window to the rear, providing natural south-facing sunlight and access to the garden. The highlight of the room is a large feature inglenook fireplace with a chamfered oak lintel and quarry tile hearth, housing an open fire with a fire grate and hood. The inglenook also retains an original bread oven with a hinged iron door and segmental brick arch. The floors are finished with quarry tiles, and a timber ledged, framed, and braced door opens to the front aspect.

Conservatory
The timber-framed conservatory features perimeter casement windows and a part-glazed door opening to the patio area. Built off brick walls, the conservatory has a mono-pitched glazed roof and a solid quarry-tiled floor. This charming space is perfect for enjoying Sunday morning breakfast and reading the newspaper while surveying the beautiful south-facing rear garden. A part-glazed timber door and step lead up to the kitchen breakfast area.

Bedroom One
The pippy oak staircase leads to an open landing and bedroom one, a dual-aspect double bedroom. The casement window to the front elevation offers beautiful views of the Church of St. Mary, while the rear casement window provides pleasant views of the well-tended rear garden and Badby Woods on the horizon. The floors feature original wide pippy oak floorboards. A step leads up to the rear landing area, where stripped pine doors open to the bathroom, bedroom two, and a useful laundry cupboard with slatted pine shelves housing the hot water cylinder. A stained timber ceiling hatch provides access to the roof void.

Bedroom Two
Located to the front right-hand side of the property bedroom 2 is a further double bedroom again with lovely views of Saint Mary's church to the front aspect. Floors have matching wide pippy oak boards and walls are neutrally decorated. There is a feature open fireplace with decorative cast iron surround and hearth.

Bathroom
Fitted with a three-piece suite comprising a bath with shower over, close-coupled WC, and wash hand basin with pedestal and chrome mixer taps. A two-unit casement window to the rear elevation provides pleasant views of the south-facing rear garden and onward views towards Badby Woods. A high-level electric bar heater and a low-level towel rail have been installed. The floors are finished with sheet vinyl, and the walls have lining paper and emulsion, with full-height ceramic tiling around the bath and splashback tiles for the wash hand basin.

Front Aspect
North View Cottage is set back from Church Street, with a dropped curb providing access to a shallow driveway leading to the attached garage/workshop. The front of the cottage features raised, well-tended lawns and planted borders, with shaped privet and laurel bushes flanking the main entrance. Engineering brick steps lead up to the front door. The cottage offers splendid front aspect views of the Church of Saint Mary and is just a stone’s throw from many glorious countryside walks.

Rear Garden
The deceptively large, split-level south-facing garden enjoys a perfect balance of well-tended shrubs, plants, trees, ponds, vegetable areas, and wild spaces, making it every gardener's dream. It also offers beautiful views of St Mary's Church. The garden benefits from good sunlight throughout most of the day, and there are several raised vegetable beds and allotment plots, perfect for sustainable living. A central stone-lined pond provides a lovely natural habitat, and there is a large timber shed currently used as a hen house with an additional aviary to the side.

Rear Garden
A pleasant central lawned area provides space for relaxing, and a pathway extends along the rear elevation of the property to a patio area behind the sitting room, with further space for a table and chairs for alfresco dining. Access to the rear garden is also available the conservatory door. At the rear left-hand side of the garden, there is a timber potting shed and an aluminium glasshouse to kick-start the vegetable growing season. The boundaries comprise well-tended mixed-species hedgerows and ironstone walls with tiled copings on the right-hand side. A brick retaining wall has been formed between the patio area and the upper tier lawned area, with terracotta steps leading up to a pathway that extends to the rear of the garden.

Garage
The attached garage/workshop has vehicular access via stained timber ledged, framed, and braced double swing doors, as well as a separate part-glazed pedestrian door to the front elevation. This good-sized space features high ceilings and ridge heights, providing loft storage areas and ample room for a workshop area at the rear, complete with power and lighting. A part-glazed timber door with matching side light offers natural lighting and opens to the delightful south-facing rear garden. A further part-glazed door provides access to the conservatory.

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