2 bedroom detached house for sale
Key information
Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- Detached Grade II Listed cottage
- Two double bedrooms and first floor bathroom
- Three reception rooms with log burning stoves
- Ground floor shower room and utility room
- Redecorated internally and externally
- Gas central heating with combination boiler
- Period features throughout
- Driveway parking for four cars
The rear garden is enclosed by timber fencing and has a paved seating and entertaining area, which leads to a lawn and a rear driveway with parking for four cars.
Robin Hood Cottage as it is now called, was built in around 1810 by James Spriggins of Walkern, and later purchased in 1877 by Fordham brewers of Ashwell. It is now a family home and has been sympathetically refurbished and updated over the years.
Rooms
Accommodation
The family room has French doors opening to the garden, oak beams and a log burning stove with a stone hearth. The kitchen/breakfast room, with French windows to a paved terrace, offers tiled flooring with a range of Shaker style cabinets and wooden counter tops. Both first floor double bedrooms have exposed beams and sash windows to the front aspect; the principal bedroom also has a walk-in closet. The family bathroom, with a sash window at the front, has a panelled bath, a low-level WC and a wash basin.
Situation and Schooling
Walkern is a village about 2 miles from Stevenage and has St Mary's Church, a convenience store, a pub, a salon, craft shop and tea shops, a petrol station, and a garage. There is a recreation ground and cricket, football and other clubs based in the Walkern Sports and Community Centre. The primary school in the village has a Good Ofsted rating and the nearest secondary school is The Nobel School 2.5 miles, also rated Good.
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