Church Lane, Abington Pigotts, Royston, Cambridgeshire, SG8

Light-filled & versatile home, set within beautifully established gardens.

Description

Positioned discreetly within a mature and leafy setting, this detached family house offers generous and flexible accommodation with private and well-maintained gardens offering a picturesque backdrop of paddocks beyond. Arranged over two floors, the house is well-presented throughout and enjoys an abundance of natural light, with several rooms enjoying dual or triple aspects. You enter the home into a spacious hall that provides access to the ground floor accommodation and contains a row of understairs storage cupboards. The ground floor is centred around a spacious kitchen/dining room with vaulted ceilings and skylights, offering ample storage and preparation space, a breakfast bar which adjoins a central island, and access to a generous utility room that offers further storage and plumbing for laundry facilities. Directly off the utility room is a shower room which incorporates a walk in shower, wash basin and low level WC. From the opposite side of the kitchen is access to the study which enjoys open views over the gardens and the paddocks beyond. A delightful morning room, also enjoying views over the garden, flows seamlessly into the bright principal reception room – with French doors to the terrace and a feature woodburning stove. From the ground floor there is convenient internal access to the integral double garage.

Leading upstairs to the first floor accommodation, there are four well-proportioned bedrooms, including a generous principal bedroom with fitted wardrobes and dual aspect views The family bathroom is particularly spacious, featuring a panelled bath, pedestal wash basin, low level WC and bidet. An additional shower room with WC and wash basin serves as a great addition.

Outside, the property is approached via a sweeping block-paved driveway with parking for a number of vehicles and leads up to the double garage, which has two individual electric doors. The rear garden is a particular feature of the property and has been beautifully landscaped with a sizeable central lawn and well-stocked herbaceous borders that bring a wealth of colour and life. A broad, paved terrace with small inset water feature runs across the back of the home and leads onto a generous composite deck which is ideal for outdoor dining, whilst enjoying the open views over the neighbouring paddocks. To the rear of the garden is an enclosed vegetable garden, which provides a number of raised beds and potting shed, and mature fruit trees including plum, apple and pear. Passing the garden shed, the side access leads to the front of the property. A fantastic addition to the property is the recent installation of twelve solar panels on the rear aspect of the roof supported by battery storage in the garage, which adds greatly to the efficiency and reduced running costs.

Location

Abington Pigotts is a small village located on the South Cambridgeshire/Hertfordshire border, surrounded by beautiful open countryside. In the heart of the village is a village hall, church and well regarded pub and restaurant ‘The Pig and Abbott’. There is a great sense of community in the village and a village fete that takes place once a year.

For schooling, the village of Steeple Morden C of E Primary School is 2.9 miles away and Bassingbourn Primary School and Village College are 2.5 miles away. There is also further independent schooling available for all ages in the historic city of Cambridge (14.8 miles) including The Perse, The Leys, Stephen Perse Foundation to name a few.

Royston, 5.4 miles away, offers a wide range of high street shops and cafes as well as supermarkets including Tesco, Marks & Spencers and Aldi. There are also plenty of sporting and recreational facilities available including Therfield Heath and the Heath Sports Club, Royston Town Football Club and Royston Leisure centre which offers a state of the art fitness gym, workout classes and a swimming pool. Royston also has a mainline train station with regular direct links into London Kings Cross (journeys from 38 minutes).

For the commuter, Abington Pigotts is well placed for the A1 and M11, as well as the A10, which in turn grant access south towards London and Stansted and Luton airports.

All distances and times are approximate.

Square Footage: 2,311 sq ft