House For Sale £695,000
2a High Street is an impressive detached house offering spacious and well balanced accommodation throughout, conveniently positioned just a few minutes walk to the village primary school whilst around a 20 minute cycle ride will get you to the city centre or the Addenbrooke's Hospital and Bio-Medical Campus.
The house has been through a comprehensive improvement programme by the sellers, some of the recent works include a newly fitted kitchen, refurbishment of the original teak parquet flooring, the addition of Kloeber triple-glazed windows to front of property along with one at the rear and a new front door and a "cleanburn" wood burning stove fitted in the sitting room.
The house also benefits from being redecorated and newly fitted carpets.
The entrance hall provides access to all the ground floor rooms, of note is the beautifully styled fitted kitchen with striking dark blue units and contrasting quartz work surfaces. Fitted Bosch appliances include an electric oven, second combi oven/microwave an induction hob with extractor over, there is also a built in dishwasher. The kitchen opens on to the dining area which has is incredibly light, featuring skylights and double glazed windows and door to the rear garden.The kitchen and dining area complimented by the engineered oak flooring.
The sitting room is generous in size, has double glazed French doors opening on to the rear garden, original parquet flooring and a wood burning stove.
On the first floor there are four bedrooms, three of which are comfortable double bedrooms, bedroom 1 has a three-piece shower room and there is a further family bathroom comprising a panelled bath with shower over, concealed cistern wc, wash basin with cupboards under, tiled walls and a heated towel rail.
Both the front and rear gardens have been landscaped with the front also benefitting from having a new porch, planting and gravelled parking area for 2-3 cars.
Attached to the house there is a double length garage/workshop with power and light and water connected, a Butler sink, plumbing for a washing machine and a door leading to the rear garden.
There is also side access allowing access to the garden, which has a decked terrace, generous lawn with surrounding shrub beds and pond, timber shed and designated trampoline area.
Harston is the first village coming south out of Cambridge on the A10 and has an excellent range of day-to-day facilities, plus exceptionally easy road links both into the city and south towards Royston and London.
A new purpose-built, road traffic free cycle route has recently opened that leads over the M11, into Trumpington and on to the city. There is also a regular bus service which is a most useful asset.
The village is the right side of town for the science parks at Melbourn, Abington and Great Chesterford and Foxton's mainline railway station to Cambridge (c. 13 minutes) and London King's Cross (less than 1 hour) is within 2 miles.
Within the parish there is an Ofsted 'Good' rated primary school, a restaurant, doctors' surgery with dispensary, an excellent local shop with Post Office counter, village hall, hairdresser, petrol filling station and a large recreation ground with a recently improved children's playground.
