Tinkers Lane, Kingston, Cambridge, CB23

Grade II Listed detached village home with mature gardens & outbuildings

Description

The Old Farmhouse is a charming and substantial detached former farmhouse arranged over three floors, set amidst beautifully mature gardens and approached via a sweeping private drive. A collection of useful outbuildings and a wealth of period features further enhance the property's unique appeal.

Listed Grade II for its architectural and historical significance, the house boasts an elegant Georgian façade with earlier origins evident to the rear. Sympathetically restored in the 1970s and further refurbished in recent years, the property offers a warm and characterful home blending heritage elements with comfortable modern living. Original features include Inglenook fireplaces, exposed timber beams, tiled floors, and a traditional bread oven.

Constructed with brick and rendered elevations under a peg-tiled roof, The Old Farmhouse is far more generous in scale than first impressions suggest. The accommodation is both spacious and versatile, retaining many fine period details: original doors and locks, large timber-framed windows, Georgian entablature to the front entrance, and a range of open fireplaces throughout, including two wood-burning stoves.

The ground floor features three principal reception rooms to the front, a sitting room with good ceiling height and a fireplace, a formal dining room with a Georgian fire surround, and a flexible study or studio space. To the rear lies a large kitchen/breakfast room, full of rustic charm with its bread oven, walk-in larder, Swedish radiators, and views over courtyards. Adjoining this is a utility room and rear lobby with traditional brick flooring.

The first floor offers three spacious double bedrooms to the front. A rear landing leads to a fourth bedroom, served by a Jack and Jill family bathroom and an additional guest bathroom. A characterful spiral staircase rises to the top floor, where two vaulted and interconnected bedrooms offer flexible living or guest accommodation. A hatch and pull-down ladder provide access to an additional loft studio space and a separate storeroom.

The property further benefits from recently granted planning and listed building consent (Ref: 24/03621/HFUL & 24/03622/LBC), permitting the addition of three new bathrooms, three additional windows, a new internal staircase to the second attic and another to the cellar, and the repositioning of the driveway—offering exciting scope to enhance the home even further.

The delightful mature gardens surround the house and incorporate a variety of fruit trees (apple, greengage, plum, pear, cherry quince and mulberry) and there are also some nut trees, cob nut, almond and walnut. The drive sweeps through the grounds to a range of outbuildings at the rear providing cart lodge parking, storage and a fully equipped wood-workshop in an old smithy with a large and fully functional fire-place. In all 1.23 acres

Location

Kingston is a small village situated approximately 10 miles to the west of the historic city of Cambridge. The village itself has a village hall and church, with further facilities and amenities available in Bourn (1.5 miles) and Comberton (3.4 miles). In Bourn, there is a café, public house, and post office as well as Cambridge Country Club which offers a luxury spa, gym, swimming pool and an 18-hole golf course.

For schooling, Kingston is in catchment for Bourn CofE Primary School (1.8 miles) and Comberton Village College (3 miles), with further independent schooling available in Cambridge for all ages including The Perse, The Leys, Stephen Perse Foundation and Hills and Long Road sixth form colleges.

Cambridge offers a wide array of cultural and recreational amenities, including the Fitzwilliam museum, punting along the river Cam and shopping centres the Grand Arcade and Grafton Centre.

For the commuter, the closest stations are Foxton (7.9 miles) or Shepreth (8.3 miles) on the Great Northern Rail line into London Kings Cross, and into Cambridge. The M11 (junction 12) is 7 miles away giving access to the north to the A14 and A1, and to the south towards Stansted Airport (34.1 miles) and London (67.1 miles).

All distances and times are approximate.

Square Footage: 4,091 sq ft


Acreage: 1.23 Acres

Additional Info

Oil fired central heating
Mains drainage