3 bedroom detached house for sale

Tenure: Freehold

A detached Grade II listed thatched cottage full of character, retaining many of its original features and exposed beams. The property sits on a plot of approximately 0.72 acres and is situated within the conservation area of the old part of the town. This charming home offers three reception rooms and three bedrooms and is entered through the front door into the entrance hall with a door into the first of the reception rooms which has a fireplace with inset wood burner and stairs to the first floor. The lounge has a most impressive feature inglenook fireplace with inset wood burner, windows to three aspects making this a wonderfully light and airy room and a door to the rear garden. The dining room gives access to the kitchen which is fitted with a range of base and high level light oak wooden units, white Butler sink, built-in oven and hob and a stable door through to the rear lobby. On the first floor there are three bedrooms, a study/nursery room and a separate w.c. The property also benefits from gas to radiator central heating and a detached double garage. The property is ideally located for Bletchley railway station which offers a regular mainline service to London (Euston) and the North.

The front garden is mainly to lawn with mature flower and shrub borders with a long driveway providing ample off road parking for numerous vehicles and leads to a double garage being divided into two sections by a wall. The rear garden is mainly lawn with mature apple, plum and pear trees, having a patio area, wooden decking area and a greenhouse. There is a separate outside office/play room within the rear garden which would be an ideal area to work from home or an excellent area for children to play.

Bletchley is a constituent town of Milton Keynes and it is situated in the south-west of Milton Keynes, and is split between the civil parishes of Bletchley and Fenny Stratford and West Bletchley.

Bletchley is best known for Bletchley Park, the headquarters of Britain's World War II code breaking organisation, now a museum. The German Enigma code was cracked here by, amongst others, Alan Turing. Another cipher machine was solved with the aid of early computing devices, known as Colossus.

The town name is Anglo-Saxon and means Blæcca's clearing. It was first recorded in manorial rolls in the 12th century as Bicchelai, then later as Blechelegh (xiii cent.) and Blecheley (xiv–xvi cent.).