Thornton-le-Fen, Lincoln, LN4 4YN

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 White Cottage - Idyllic Equestrian Smallholding in the Lincolnshire Countryside

Guide Price: £445,000

3 Bedrooms : 2 Bathrooms : 3 Receptions : Over 1 Acre plus additional 2 acres rented : Equestrian Facilities : No Near Neighbours

Escape to the country and embrace a slower pace of life at White Cottage — a beautifully renovated, character-filled detached home set in tranquil open countryside. With no immediate neighbours, panoramic field views, and charming equestrian facilities, this rare smallholding offers the perfect blend of rural seclusion and modern convenience.

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Key Highlights

• Beautifully presented 3-bedroom detached cottage with heritage features and tasteful modern updates

• Full equestrian setup with 4 stables, tack room, paddock and goat/chicken pens

• Spacious gardens, private copse, vegetable beds, and room for a polytunnel and pond

• Private setting with no immediate neighbours and panoramic views of farmland and the Lincolnshire Wolds

• Double glazing, oil-fired heating, multi-fuel burner and high insulation for year-round comfort

• Fast access to Grantham, Lincoln, and London, just 45 minutes to mainline trains

• Excellent lifestyle features: dark skies for stargazing, abundant wildlife, and direct access to scenic walks

• Ample parking, garage, and flexible outbuildings for further development

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 A Home With Heart and Heritage

Originally two late 1800s farm cottages, this home has been sympathetically extended and renovated to create a warm, welcoming interior. With solid wood finishes, a stone hearth and charming quirks throughout, every room tells a story.

• A bright boot room and welcoming reception hall

• A generous lounge with a slate-hearth multi-fuel stove and countryside views

• Stylish kitchen/breakfast room with double doors to the garden and plenty of space for entertaining in the separate Dining Room

• Flexible study/hallway space, ideal for remote working

• Two modern bathrooms including a luxurious rainfall power shower upstairs and a corner bath downstairs

• Upstairs, three well-sized bedrooms — the principal bedroom enjoys sweeping rural views and built-in alcove lighting

• A large sun-trap balcony overlooking the paddock and gardens — ideal for morning coffee, evening sunsets or stargazing

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 The Great Outdoors

Set within approximately 1 acre of private grounds, this home celebrates outdoor living. It includes:

• A thriving private copse with fir, walnut, eucalyptus, willow, birch, and fruit trees

• Multiple vegetable patches, grapevines, and bee-friendly planting areas

• A fully enclosed stable yard with four stables, tack area, and a gated paddock

• Six large chicken pens, a goat paddock, plus a shed, caravan for storage, and foundations for more outbuildings

• Sunlit lawns, sheltered patios, and tranquil corners to sit and enjoy the birdsong

• Panoramic views across farmland populated by pheasants, deer, kites, owls and hares

• Further 2-acre paddock rented from a local farmer, available by separate agreement

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 Location & Lifestyle

White Cottage is ideally placed between the historic market town of Boston and the village of Coningsby, offering excellent access to:

• Shops, doctors, schools, and local pubs all within a 10-minute radius

• Mainline train to London from Grantham (45 mins drive to station, 1h direct to London)

• Lincoln, Peterborough, and Skegness all under an hour away

• Supermarket deliveries, bus stop nearby, and reliable 4G coverage with fibre broadband available

If you're seeking peaceful rural living with practical connections and versatile land, this is an exceptionally rare opportunity.

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 Viewings & Enquiries

Offered chain-free by motivated sellers now looking to downsize after a decade of loving ownership. You'll deal directly with the current owners for viewings and questions — providing fast, friendly, and honest insights into this unique home and lifestyle.

“From owls and kites soaring above the fields, to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight overhead, this home offers an unrepeatable slice of countryside magic.”

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Council Tax Band D – East Lindsey District Council

Tenure: Freehold

Broadband: Fibre to exchange, 8–15 Mbps typical

Mobile: 4G available (WiFi calling recommended indoors)

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A country escape with charm, character and complete tranquillity — perfect for families, animal-lovers or anyone seeking space, nature, and lifestyle freedom.

Ready to Escape the Ordinary?

Contact us today to arrange a private viewing of White Cottage — a countryside gem that truly needs to be experienced in person.

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IN DETAIL

Description

Ground Floor :

Boot Room

3.3m x 2.25m (10.8’ x 7.4’) via multi-point locking entrance door with three glazed windows, 2 opening.

Reception Hall

4m x 2.5m (13.1’ x 8.2’) via additional multi-point locking door with glazed panel, window and central heating radiator.

Kitchen / Breakfast Room

5.8m x 2.5m (19’ x 8.2’) via internal wooden door from the Reception Hall. A modern kitchen with fan oven and induction hob, with light beige painted cabinets and a dark grey/blue work surface, stainless steel drainer sink, spot lights to ceiling, space for American fridge/freezer, tiled splashback. Tiled floor. Double central rail locking door to the rear garden. Radiator.

Utility Room

2.5m x 1.5m (8.2’ x 4.9’) via internal wooden door from the Kitchen, plumbing for automatic washing machine and dishwasher, continuation of kitchen work surface, exhaust for tumble dryer. Tiled floor, radiator.

Bathroom

2.5m x 1.65m (8.2’ x 5.4’) via internal wooden door from the Utility Room, has a modern three-piece beige suite comprising of a corner oval bath with seating shelf, wash hand basin and w.c. Radiator, part tiled walls and extractor fan. Tiled floor.

Dining Room

4m x 3.8m (13.1’ x 12.5’) via internal wooden double doors from the Reception Hall. Chimney breast (currently unused but could be opened up), large double-glazed window with Radiator. Central lighting fixture.

Hallway / Study

5.25m x 2.5m (x 8.2’) accessed via internal wooden door from the Reception Hall, there is an understairs cupboard, a double-glazed window that opens to the side of the house, with room for a large desk and cabinets with the broadband connection and several plug sockets. One radiator and one central lighting fixture.

Character Lounge / Sitting Room

5.25m x 3.8m (17.2’ x 12.5’) accessed via the Hallway Study via internal wooden double doors, this is the heart of the home with a large double-glazed window overlooking the front garden and with views across the fields, multi-fuel burner on a slate hearth, shelves to stock logs (and also hold entertainment systems such as satellite box), a central heating radiator, a central lighting fixture and more than enough room for a large corner sofa and coffee table.

First Floor :

Stairs and Landing

Landing 2.8m x 2.8m (9.2’ x 9.2’) with laminate wooden floor, two wall lighting fixtures, banister, room for a sideboard and internal wooden doors off to Bedrooms 1,2 and 3, with a double-glazed double patio door out onto the external balcony. Painted stairs with central carpeted strip,

Bedroom 1

5.25m x 3.8m (17.2’ x 12.5’) a good King-sized bedroom with room for wardrobes on two sides and other units such as a dresser on side 3, with a large double-glazed window with opening window overlooking fields towards Boston and the coast. Alcoves either side of the chimney breast containing spot lights. In addition, a central lighting fixture, radiator, multiple sockets, carpeted.

Bedroom 2

4m x 3.8m (13.1’ x 12.5’) a good sixed double with large double-glazed window with opening window overlooking fields towards Boston and the coast. Space for wardrobes along two sides, multiple sockets, loft access hatch, central lighting fixture, radiator, multiple sockets, carpeted.

Bedroom 3

4.3m x 2.5m (14.1’ x 8.2’) useful 3rd bedroom with a fitted double bed (with storage underneath), storage over the stairwell, space for drawers and a wardrobe. Double-glazed window overlooking side aspect of the house. Central lighting fixture, radiator, carpeted.

Bathroom 2

2.5m x 2.3m (8.2’ x 7.5’) with modern white two-piece suite comprising a wash hand basin and a w.c. Large shower tray with cubicle and sliding door, rainfall shower head with new power shower pump, large dark brown tiles floor to ceiling around the shower and on the floor. Door to airing cupboard and central heating controls. Large double-glazed window with opening window overlooking rear garden, paddock and stables. Central lighting fixture, radiator.

Balcony

5m x 3m (16.4’ x 9.8’) accessed via the double patio doors on the landing, this is an added bonus as a perfect quiet place to watch the animals in the garden, sunbathe as a great sun trap in the afternoons, have a small fire in a fire pit or chiminea, or watch the ISS fly over whilst gazing at the bright Milky Way. Fully decked with banister rail.

Loft

9.25m x 3.8m (30.3’ x 12.5’), half-boarded for storage, fully insulated, contains cold water and central heating top-up tanks and runs the length of the house under an angled tiled roof.

Every radiator has an individual thermostatic valve; hard wooden floors throughout(unless stated), and tall natural wooden skirting boards throughout. All windows have operational locks. Measurements are approximate.

To the Front

The property is accessed from the adjoining lane that serves one other property with three individual driveways holding parking spaces for up to 6 vehicles, a central fir tree with lights for Christmas, plus a lawned area surrounded by a hedge. There is a covered porch area by the front door with a locked gate leading to the rear garden. To the left further up the lane is a metal gate leading to the paddock for deliveries.

Garage

5.1m x 3.2m (16.7’ x 10.5’ ) with concrete floor, tin roof and access front and rear.

To the Side

There is also vehicular access into the paved area at the side of the house which can provide extra parking spaces plus a shed, motorbike and wood storage.

To the Rear

A most delightful rear garden partially laid to lawn with many mature trees, shrubs and hedgerows creating a lovely private space that begs to be explored. Patio directly outside the kitchen with 2 maturing grape vines over wires, one red grape, one white. Eucalyptus, Willow, several types of fir, silver birch, sycamore, hawthorn, English walnut, elderberry, rosehip, blackberry, damson, apple. Bee friendly areas, vegetable patches, 6 chicken pens all fenced, a goat pen with two shelters, covered Stable Yard with Four Integral Boxes and a tack area with room for several food bins, cleared areas within the trees for a large polytunnel and also a large pond/small lake, one existing wooden shed, one small metal shed, one watertight caravan used as further storage, hardcore base for a large shed. Plastic Oil tank and brick septic tank. Complimenting the stables is a large paddock for the horses.

Entire plot approx. One acre (About 0.4 Hectares). Further 2 acre paddock rented from local farmer.

Local area information

Doctors : New Coningsby Surgery : 5.9 miles

Stations : Hubbert’s Bridge (6.4m); Boston (7.3m); Grantham (East Coast Main Line : 32.6m)

Schools : Gipsey Bridge Academy : 2 miles, ages 5-11, OFSTED GOOD

Tattershall Barnes Wallace Academy : 6.1 miles, ages 11-16, OFSTED GOOD

Horncastle Bannovallum School : 11.8 miles, ages 11-16, OFSTED GOOD

Supermarkets : Co-Op Coningsby (6m); Asda Boston (7.3m); Tesco Boston (9.3m)

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