Main Street, Newbold Verdon, LE9

The purple front door says everything before you've even stepped inside. Set within Newbold Verdon's Conservation Area - announced quietly by the green plaque on the Victorian lamp post outside - Plum Cottage wears its age with considerable confidence. Warm red brick, a slate roof, arched window lintels, and cobbled edging at the threshold: this is a street that time has been kind to.

Inside, the original fabric of the cottage is very much intact. Exposed timber ceiling beams run the length of both the lounge and kitchen - the kind you can hang copper pans from, as the current owner already has. The internal doors retain their original black iron ring latches and strap hinges, the sort of detail that would cost to replicate and can't quite be replicated at all. Terracotta floor tiles run through the kitchen, grounding the whole ground floor.

The lounge is the heart - with full beamed ceiling and a fireplace alcove flanked by fitted shelving. A proper room for an evening in. Through a characterful low doorway, the kitchen has its own beamed ceiling and a stable-style back door that opens directly to the garden - practical, charming, and exactly right for a cottage of this age.

Upstairs, the bedroom sits under a vaulted ceiling with a good run of fitted wardrobes along one wall - more storage than you'd expect for the footprint. The bathroom is a genuine surprise: a freestanding soaking tub takes centre stage alongside a separate curved shower enclosure, set under the sloping eaves with marble-effect tiling and a window that floods the room with light. For a cottage bathroom, it punches well above its weight.

The rear garden is a long plot - lawned, fenced, and well-established, with planted borders coming into their own. A timber deck sits outside the back door, ideal for morning coffee, and at the far end a painted garden cabin with its own window and fairy lights does double duty as storage, studio, or somewhere to disappear to. The garden is enclosed and private.

ROOM DIMENSIONS:

Lounge: 12'0 x 11'04

Kitchen: 8'03 x 7'09

Bedroom: 12'0 x 11'07

Bathroom: 8'10 x 7'04

LOCATION:

Highly sought after the beautiful parish of Newbold Verdon first mentioned in the Doomsday book having been a farming village for a whole millennium! Nowadays it's the perfect rural retreat with easy access to Leicester and offers many local conveniences close at hand from eateries to groceries and delightful country pubs.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

COUNCIL TAX BAND: A

LOCAL AUTHORITY: Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council

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