House For Sale £400,000
Key Features:
• Characterful Cottage with over a Quarter of an Acre of Wonderful Gardens.
• Substantially Remodelled and Enhanced Accommodation.
• Two Comfortable Reception Rooms with Attractive Inglenook Fireplaces.
• Bespoke Kitchen with Hardwood Counters and Painted Cabinets.
• Delightful Garden Room Overlooking the Fine Plot and Countryside Beyond.
• Two Double Bedrooms with High Vaulted, Beamed Ceilings.
• Bathroom and Additional Separate WC.
• Large Pantiled Outbuilding Housing Utility Room and Versatile Home Office/Studio.
• Excellent Village Location Convenient for Major Road and Rail Links.
Accommodation in Brief:
The original oak panelled door opens into a comfortable lounge with brick inglenook fireplace housing a cast-iron range with oak bressummer over, fitted alcove cupboards and shelving and a wealth of exposed timbers. The sitting room features a larger stone inglenook fireplace housing a gas-fired stove, with quarry tiled hearth oak bressummer, and exposed wall timbers and ceiling beams. A latch door leads from the sitting room to an inner lobby, which provides access to the staircase and to the cloakroom with vanity unit and WC with high-level ‘Empire’ cistern.
Extending to around 15 ft. across the rear of the property is excellent bespoke kitchen with part-vaulted ceiling and an array of hand-built painted cabinets, hardwood counters incorporating breakfast bar, Butler sink with mixer tap and adjacent drainer, dishwasher, fridge and oven and hob with extractor hood over. The garden room is extensively glazed to take full advantage of the views over the extensive, mature and private plot.
The bathroom has been refitted with suite comprising bath with shower over, tiled surround and glazed screen, vanity unit with washbasin and fitted cupboards and WC with high-level ‘Empire’ cistern.2
The first floor offers two generous double bedrooms with high-vaulted ceilings and a wealth of exposed timbers.
Outside
The property is set back from the road with a shallow frontage of flowers and shrubs and pathway to the front door. The exceptional rear garden backs onto open fields and offers an extensive area of lawn interspersed with mature trees and shrubs and fringed by delightful flower borders, with brick pathway and seating area and timber store shed.
Brick and Pantiled Outbuilding Comprising:
Utility Room
8’ 10” x 7’ 5” (2.70m x 2.26m)
Insulated, with light and power, counter with inset sink, fitted cupboards and plumbing for washing machine.
Home Office/Studio
8’ 10” x 7’ 5” (2.70m x 2.26m)
Insulated, light and power.
The Village
Riseley is an extremely popular North Bedfordshire village with excellent access to both Bedford’s and Kimbolton’s amenities. There are lots of countryside walks and the village has its own Primary School and is within the catchment of Sharnbrook Upper School. There is a popular Public House/restaurant and a recently improved general store. Nearby Bedford and St Neots mainline railway stations offer fast and frequent services to London’s St Pancras International station. Bedford’s southern bypass (A421) links the A1 at the Black Cat roundabout with the M1 at Junction 13.
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