High Street, Harston

A handsome period property combining a family home with business amenities, the whole brimming with period features including sash and casement glazing and exposed beams. It is located at the heart of a sought-after South Cambridgeshire village, near to local and city centre amenities, the road network and the station.

Dating from the early 19th century and originally a pub known variously as the Waggon and Horses and the Coach & Horses, The Old Coach House is a handsome detached double-fronted property offering more than 2,100 sq ft of light-filled flexible accommodation arranged predominantly over two floors.

Offering the potential to continue its part-commercial use, the property is configured to provide an elegant and practical living, entertaining, and working environment, sensitively combining neutral décor and modern amenities with a wealth of period features, including sash and casement glazing and exposed wall and ceiling beams. The accommodation includes both drawing and sitting rooms with front-aspect bay windows and exposed brick chimney breasts with open fireplaces, a bay-windowed front-aspect family room, and a generous front-aspect study—converted from a garage—with a door to the remaining integral garage. To the rear is a kitchen with engineered wooden flooring, a range of contemporary wall and base units including a breakfast bar, complementary work surfaces and splashbacks, and modern integrated appliances. A concealed staircase leads down to a lower ground floor room with engineered wooden flooring and feature exposed brick walls, offering flexible use. A useful interconnecting fitted utility room with an en suite cloakroom adds further practicality. The ground floor is completed by a rear-aspect mezzanine-level double bedroom with fitted storage, accessed from the sitting room.

Stairs rise from the rear reception hall to the vaulted principal bedroom which benefits from a contemporary en suite shower room with twin sinks. A separate staircase rises from the inner hall to the property’s two remaining part-vaulted bedrooms and a modern family bathroom.

Set behind low-level walling and a paved and part-lawned forecourt and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached over a tarmac side driveway providing generous private parking and giving access to a single garage to the rear, the driveway opening to a further private block-paved parking area forming part of the part-walled rear garden which also features an area of level lawn and a small paved seating area. The whole offers the prospective purchaser the opportunity to create a stunning space for entertaining and al fresco dining.

Harston is a popular village with a wide range of amenities including a church, village hall, village store, Post Office, café, pub, GP surgery and primary school, all surrounded by beautiful open countryside with numerous walking paths. Further amenities are available in nearby Great Shelford, which has a library, dentist, health centre and stores including a newsagent, hairdresser, beauty salon, baker, butcher, grocer and delicatessen. Cambridge, described as one of the “most beautiful cities in the world” by Forbes in 2010, offers comprehensive high street and independent shopping, cafés, bars, restaurants and leisure facilities. Communications links are excellent: Foxton station (1.9 miles) provides regular services to central London and Harston sits on the A10, giving access to major regional centres and linking to the M11, A1(M) and motorway network.