Monellan Crescent, Caldecotte Lake, Milton Keynes, MK7

LUXURY LAKESIDE LIVING, MINUTES FROM MILTON KEYNES STATION AND SHOPPING CENTRE

A superb, 4-storey, 5-bedroom home within a terrace of houses built in 1998 in a striking arc around Caldecotte Lake. Inspired by Bath’s renowned, Georgian ‘Royal Crescent’, the design takes full advantage of wonderful views across the water, with both a terrace and balcony from which to enjoy them. With a peaceful, private, walled relaxation space at the front curated by an award-winning garden designer, together with a double garage and gated driveway parking, it’s little surprise that this is the first opportunity for any other family to live here.

Within an area named in the Sunday Times Best Places to Live Guide, your new home is less than 5 miles from Milton Keynes Railway Station, from where fast trains reach London in 32 minutes. Bletchley Station is even closer. Luton Airport is only 20 miles. Moreover, the M1 is just 5 miles away, making travelling by car a breeze.

Every family facility is within walking distance in nearby Walton, from schools, all rated ‘Good’ or ‘Outstanding’ in all areas, to a surgery and supermarket. Moreover, a super, little day nursery is just a few hundred yards along the crescent. There’s a choice of private schools a little further away, including the Webber Independent School, rated ‘Excellent’ Children can also take a train from Bow Brickhill Station, less than half a mile away, to Bedford’s world-renowned Harpur Trust private schools.

Less than 5 miles away is Central Milton Keynes, with its shopping centre, theatre, cinema and all manner of other leisure and fitness centres. Other local shopping centres, pubs and restaurants are in nearby Oakgrove and Bletchley. Yet just 1000 yards around the lake is Hickory’s hotel, pub and restaurant, with its iconic ‘windmill’ landmark, a popular venue for locals, not least the Red Bull Racing team.

It's one thing to have all this within a decent stroll or cycle ride. It’s quite another to have the parklands, children’s play areas, nature reserves, woodlands and waters, together with fishing, rowing and sailing clubs, that the Caldecotte Lake development provides you. Not to mention the history, with everything from stone-age artefacts, a medieval village and a 150-million-year-old ichthyosaurus being unearthed. An inspirational as well as beautiful environment in which to live.

MORE ABOUT THE PROPERTY 

Minutes from the city centre yet the tree-lined crescent seems a world away, with its immaculately maintained planting, extensive greenery and sunlight glistening at the lakeside edge.

Pull in front of your garage – which has scope for other uses – through a driveway gate that slides open at the touch of a button. If the beautiful neighbouring Acer were not enough to welcome you home, your front garden has been professionally designed to create a calming, easy-to-maintain, serene space in which to catch the morning sun - timber, slate and stone beneath your feet.

Relax with coffee and croissants. Pluck grapes from the vine. Lilies and tulips, jasmine and mock orange contrast prettily with striking structural plants. Perch on low painted walls and contemplate alpines growing between the old rocks. And as the leaves fall from sweet-scented honeysuckle and variegated Virginia creeper, steel sculptures emerge to add interest.

Take a moment to appreciate the look of your new home, with its beautiful, handmade bricks, contrasting stone, slate roof, striking porthole window and a balcony that echoes the wrought ironwork of the electric gate.

Step onto the Juncker’s solid hardwood floor of the hall and it’s soon clear that little expense has been spared inside, too. From the granite-topped, German furniture of the kitchen (repeated in the utility, with quartz surfaces), built around the heavy-duty Falcon range of the AGA stable and high-end, integrated Miele appliances; to the fitted furniture of the floors above, not least the beautiful birdseye maple wardrobes of your main bedroom suite, with their ebony inserts. Stylish bathrooms variously incorporate an unusual Villeroy and Boch, twin-bowl vanity, hydromassage shower and bold but beautiful quartz and coloured glass. And you have plenty of options, as well.

The reading room could revert to a bedroom, linked to the adjacent shower room. One of the two top-floor bedrooms is currently a study. The dining room could be a snug. Space is as versatile as it is extensive. Fling open French doors to the balcony from the lovely sitting room, or to the lavender-lined terrace below, wrens and robins warbling from the willows, cormorants returning to nest on the island, swans gliding gracefully by, spectacular sunsets dancing across the water. Watch in awe, with an evening glass of wine, and toast your good fortune.