5 bedroom detached house for sale
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Features and description
- Tenure: Freehold
- Detached house
- 2266 sqft / 210 sqm
- 768 sqm / 0.19 acre
- 5 bed, 5 recep, 4 bath
- 2 garages, driveway & forecourt parking
- Gas-fired heating to radiators
- 1950’s
- Fibre broadband
- Epc – c / 74
- Council tax band – F
This substantial, detached house has been meticulously improved and extended to create a first-class family home close to Addenbrooke’s Hospital and Biomedical Campus. Impressive accommodation arranged over two floors has been thoughtfully designed to increase living space, light and balance, resulting in a practical, modern layout, which offers excellent versatility for day-to-day living and home working requirements.
The property is situated on the corner of Queen Edith's Way and Beaumont Road and offers vehicular access and off-street parking from both access points. Broad, mature grounds provide a high degree of privacy and separate outdoor entertaining areas.
The ground floor layout comprises an enclosed porch, a spacious central entrance hall, which leads to a private study room and three connecting reception rooms including a front sitting room with original fireplace, a formal dining room enjoying views to the rear garden and an impressive triple aspect garden/sunroom with floor-to-ceiling bi-folding doors to a west-facing aspect and glazed double doors to a secret garden area. A broad breakfast room connects to a modern and well-equipped kitchen, which provides an extensive range of stylish cabinetry and drawers, solid wood countertops with tiled upstands and a range of built-in appliances. An inner lobby leads to a large utility room, shower room and integral garage.
Upstairs, a spacious landing area leads to three double bedrooms, which include a principal bedroom suite and guest suite. A wide inner hallway links to the landing and provides access to an impressive family bathroom suite with a separate shower cubicle and two further double bedrooms.
Outside, the grounds extend to 0.19 acres in total. There is a block-paved driveway accessed from Queen Edith's Way, which leads to the integral garage and pedestrian access to both sides. The south-facing rear garden has a variety of mature trees and hedging, a lawn and wildflower garden and a large, paved terrace, which wraps around to the garden/sunroom. A separate west-facing garden area offers a high degree of privacy and leads to a secret garden and second driveway and detached garage.
Location - Queen Edith's Way enjoys a convenient position, close to Addenbrooke's Hospital, about 1.5 miles south of the railway station and 2 miles from the city centre. The area is widely acknowledged as one of Cambridge's most popular and prestigious residential areas south of the city. There are an excellent range of local facilities including day-to-day shops on Wulfstan Way.
Schooling is available at the 'Outstanding' Spinney Primary School and Queen Edith's Primary School with secondary provision at Netherhall, Ofsted rated 'good'. Hills Road (1.3 miles) and Long Road (1 mile) Sixth Form Colleges. There are also excellent private schools such as The Perse, Leys and others are also within easy reach of the property.
Queen Edith's Way is very popular with people who work at the Addenbrooke's site and those who appreciate its balance of giving ease of access into the city without feeling too urban, plus its strong sense of community.
Tenure - Freehold
Services - Main services connected include: water, electricity, gas and mains drainage.
Statutory Authorities - Cambridge City Council.
Council Tax Band - F
Fixtures And Fittings - Unless specifically mentioned in these particulars, all fixtures and fittings are expressly excluded from the sale of the freehold interest.
Viewing - Strictly by appointment through the vendor’s sole agents, Redmayne Arnold and Harris.
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