Renhold Road, Wilden, Bedfordshire, MK44

A PROPERTY THAT PROMISES TO BE YOUR DREAM FAMILY HOME IN A SUPER SPOT OVERLOOKING FIELDS

An exciting opportunity to create your ideal, detached, family ‘forever’ home in the country, less than six miles from the county town of Bedford. With over 3500 sq. ft. and currently four double bedrooms, three being on the ground floor, your new home not only has a double garage, gravelled parking for numerous cars and delightful gardens surrounding the house, but it’s set well back from a quiet country lane in the lovely village of Wilden. Individually designed and built in the late-60s, it’s now ready to welcome only its second-ever family, with scope for transforming the interior to suit your needs and wishes exactly.

This is a home that enjoys the best of all worlds. Peacefully rural, with wonderful countryside walks to choose from, and some super facilities in and around the village, yet close to all that Bedford has to offer, including its world-renowned Harpur Trust private schools, its outstanding Free School, and its fast trains that reach London in 40 minutes.

The village pub is waiting for a buyer, but one of the finest dining free houses in the county, The Plough at Bolnhurst, is only about 3 miles away. Colmworth Golf and Country Club is a similar distance, while Ravensden is just a couple of miles, with its village pub and shop. The popular Polhill Arms in Renhold is only about 1.5 miles away.

Wander down the lane or across the fields, past the village hall to the local primary school and to Sunday service at Wilden’s Grade I-listed Church of St Nicholas, with its beautiful font and stained-glass window that survived the Reformation. A 20-minute stroll in the other direction takes you to Pell’s farm shop and nursery, recently described as providing “the best fresh fruit and veg around Bedford and the very best pork pies.”

The peaceful position, proximity to the county town and exciting possibilities are a powerful combination for a superb family home. All you need now is to make it your own.

MORE ABOUT THE PROPERTY 

Aubrieta spills over the little stone wall bordering the drive, which winds beneath the variegated maple and unusual Rocky Mountain Juniper towards the beautiful lilac. Spring flowers pop up in the rockery, mingling with roses, hydrangea and geraniums. Goldfinches, sparrows and blue tits chatter away as if joining in with the excitement at the plans you have for your dream home.

For though this has been a much-loved home since the sixties, there’s been little change inside since, apart from in the kitchen, perhaps, where relatively new appliances, including a hide & slide Neff oven, have been installed.

Over half a century later, you might wish to open the kitchen to the dining room, for instance, as well as the chimney in the sitting room for that cosy, winter log fire. Both main living spaces would then extend through French doors to the garden terrace come summertime.

One thing’s for sure; you have plenty of rooms, some of which are hidden. Climb down the stairs from the hall and find not only the garage, which has been used as a teenage hang-out and music area in the past, but also a super workshop and loads of storage space.

To add to the three bedrooms on the ground floor, all of which have built-in or fitted wardrobes, you have a top floor that, by opening up the huge, boarded and lit, walk-in loft space, could become a fabulous main suite, with a dressing room, as well as a larger bedroom and bathroom – with super views of the gardens and countryside to wake up to. Though any children might try and persuade you that you’re better off downstairs.

Anyone, of whatever age, will love the gardens. Bins out of sight one side, caravan or motorhome hidden on the other. Not one but two sheds and an aviary to boot. A greenhouse and veg. bed for the committed gardener and a lawn for the budding footballer. And all totally private, unusually not overlooked by anyone other than the birds that fill the air with their beautiful song. Pick your own delicious plums and apples. Peonies, irises and red roses bloom beneath the crab apple and cherry blossom. Beech hedging separating garden from countryside has grown over the gap through which the family once wandered to school across the fields. A wonderful environment in which to raise a family.