House For Sale £695,000
Energy efficient family home in prime north bedfordshire village
A four-bedroom, modern, rural family home with great garden, near good schools, pubs, shop, and other facilities, is many a family’s dream. It doesn’t have to be just a dream. This super family home in the historic village of Carlton has all that and more – lovely kitchen, double garage, parking for two cars and, moreover, solar energy offsetting electricity bills and providing a welcome annual income from a generous feed-in tariff.
Carlton is one of the few villages far enough away from a busy main road to avoid noise from a constant rush of traffic, yet within easy reach of Cambridge, Milton Keynes and by car or good bus service to the County town, its fast trains to London and world-renowned Harpur Trust private schools.
Set in the heart of beautiful countryside, the village has its own outstanding primary school, whilst a sought-after secondary academy and sixth form is at nearby Sharnbrook. Carlton has one of the best small shops you’ll ever come across, post office, two great free house pubs each offering something different, C10th church, every sporting facility within walking distance and the friendliest community you can imagine. Harrold surgery is on the other side of the beautiful River Great Ouse, as is the lovely country park to which your dog will no doubt take you to see others of their kind in between long walks through fields and ancient woods. Is there anything else adults, children or pets could ask for?
About the property
Beautiful silver birch trees watch over the lane and front garden which, with its stone walls, Greenthumb-maintained lawn and lovingly stocked borders, is a joy to come home to. Walk around the side of the house and it’s more of the same, only larger, flower beds and vegetable patches the products of prize-winning gardeners. Survivors of an old orchard, under which lambs from the farm opposite once frolicked, two gnarled trees provide many months’ supply of lovely apples. Your new home even comes with greenhouse and Hayter mower which, having created lines on the lawns for many years, refuses to move elsewhere.
Opening through French doors onto the south-facing, garden terrace, with its rose climber and German black grape vine (the grapes are delicious), is the lovely sitting room, with its beautiful marble fireplace and low-silled window which bathes the room in natural light and adds to its lovely feel. Similarly, breakfast will never taste better than when gazing through the bay window over the delightful front garden.
The breakfast room, which you may often use too for evening meals instead of the dedicated dining room, links to the kitchen and slides open to the sitting room - ideal for parties. As is catering using top-of-the-range appliances built into the lovely, painted, handleless kitchen furniture topped with beautiful granite which you’ll never tire of looking at, and with every interior pulling out for ease of access.
Whilst you have two bathrooms upstairs and your fair share of bedrooms, all with lovely garden or far-reaching countryside views, it would be easy to turn the dining room into a bedroom too, with its own wet room created from the covered area outside (think carefully before you show this to your parents). There’s plenty of space at the back to add a conservatory too. You could even incorporate the garage into the home. All nice options to have for the future perhaps, but one thing’s for sure, although you will want to put your stamp on your new home, this is a super family home just as it is.
A four-bedroom, modern, rural family home with great garden, near good schools, pubs, shop, and other facilities, is many a family’s dream. It doesn’t have to be just a dream. This super family home in the historic village of Carlton has all that and more – lovely kitchen, double garage, parking for two cars and, moreover, solar energy offsetting electricity bills and providing a welcome annual income from a generous feed-in tariff.
Carlton is one of the few villages far enough away from a busy main road to avoid noise from a constant rush of traffic, yet within easy reach of Cambridge, Milton Keynes and by car or good bus service to the County town, its fast trains to London and world-renowned Harpur Trust private schools.
Set in the heart of beautiful countryside, the village has its own outstanding primary school, whilst a sought-after secondary academy and sixth form is at nearby Sharnbrook. Carlton has one of the best small shops you’ll ever come across, post office, two great free house pubs each offering something different, C10th church, every sporting facility within walking distance and the friendliest community you can imagine. Harrold surgery is on the other side of the beautiful River Great Ouse, as is the lovely country park to which your dog will no doubt take you to see others of their kind in between long walks through fields and ancient woods. Is there anything else adults, children or pets could ask for?
About the property
Beautiful silver birch trees watch over the lane and front garden which, with its stone walls, Greenthumb-maintained lawn and lovingly stocked borders, is a joy to come home to. Walk around the side of the house and it’s more of the same, only larger, flower beds and vegetable patches the products of prize-winning gardeners. Survivors of an old orchard, under which lambs from the farm opposite once frolicked, two gnarled trees provide many months’ supply of lovely apples. Your new home even comes with greenhouse and Hayter mower which, having created lines on the lawns for many years, refuses to move elsewhere.
Opening through French doors onto the south-facing, garden terrace, with its rose climber and German black grape vine (the grapes are delicious), is the lovely sitting room, with its beautiful marble fireplace and low-silled window which bathes the room in natural light and adds to its lovely feel. Similarly, breakfast will never taste better than when gazing through the bay window over the delightful front garden.
The breakfast room, which you may often use too for evening meals instead of the dedicated dining room, links to the kitchen and slides open to the sitting room - ideal for parties. As is catering using top-of-the-range appliances built into the lovely, painted, handleless kitchen furniture topped with beautiful granite which you’ll never tire of looking at, and with every interior pulling out for ease of access.
Whilst you have two bathrooms upstairs and your fair share of bedrooms, all with lovely garden or far-reaching countryside views, it would be easy to turn the dining room into a bedroom too, with its own wet room created from the covered area outside (think carefully before you show this to your parents). There’s plenty of space at the back to add a conservatory too. You could even incorporate the garage into the home. All nice options to have for the future perhaps, but one thing’s for sure, although you will want to put your stamp on your new home, this is a super family home just as it is.
