House For Sale £220,000
Gores Lane, Market Harborough, Leicestershire LE16

A superb opportunity to purchase a unique detached cottage occupying a generous corner plot position just to the east of Market Harborough town centre, offering fantastic potential to modernise and extend subject to obtaining the relevant permissions.

Originally built in 1907 as 'Waggon Cottage' the detached property formed a main focal point as you would have approached Market Harborough from the east, occupying a prominent position. It's original name suggests the cottage was used as a transport residency and office for the adjacent timber merchants with signs of this still showing throughout the property.

The current vendors parents acquired the property themselves in 1962 and it has not been brought to the market since then, over almost 60 years. They changed the name to simply 'The Cottage', as it still goes by today. In fact locally today, the cottage could perhaps be more commonly known as 'the property with the yellow boat in the garden'... Thanks to the old canal ferry which stands next to the garage, used as a store.

The plot sits on the corner of Gores Lane where it meets Rockingham Road, is of excellent size and is mainly lawned. There is a driveway providing off road parking for several vehicles before the property and detached garage. The lawn is surrounded by a mature hedgerow, and a pathway leads onto the two side entrance doors.

As you enter the property, you will feel a sense of stepping back those 60 years or so and into a home which has barely changed over that time! Stand out features from that era include felt wallpaper, 'swirly' carpets, original timber doors covered with boarding and extremely colourful woodwork! Moving with the more modern times though, the property benefits from UPVC double glazed windows and a gas fired central heating system has been installed. There is a living room to the front, sitting room in the middle with large store and to the rear is the kitchen and shower room. Completing the ground floor accommodation is a hallway, wc and lobby with staircase rising to the upper floor. As you rise upstairs you find a small landing off which there is access to three bedrooms of good size. Bedroom Three is accessed through Bedroom Two.

Rooms & Dimensions:

Hall - 7'7 x x3'3
Living Room - 9'11 x 13'0
Sitting Room - 10'11 x 13'0
Kitchen - 7'0 x 5'11
Shower Room - 7'1 x 2'6
WC - 2'10 x 3'7

Landing - 3'1 x 3'6
Bedroom One - 9'11 x 12'11
Bedroom Two - 12'11 x 9'3
Bedroom Three - 12'11 x 7'6
Garage

Directional Note:

The Cottage is located on the corner of Gores Lane where it meets Rockingham Road. Lying a short walk east from the train station.

Further Notable Points:

Tenure - Freehold
EPC - Commissioned And Awaiting Report

Council Tax Band - B
Local Authority - Harborough District Council
Year Built - 1907
Mains Services - Electricity, Gas, Water, Drainage, Telephone
Windows - UPVC Double Glazed
Heating - Gas Fired Central Heating
Boiler - Back Boiler Behind Fire In Sitting Room
The boat will be removed prior to a sale completing

Viewings:

Strictly by appointment through the selling agents - Hortons