London Road, Harston

An attractive semi-detached home which has been extended and refurbished by the current owners, creating a particularly well-presented three-bedroom property with generous living space and substantial established gardens to both the front and rear.

The house is set well back from London Road, screened by mature planting and approached over a long driveway providing ample off-street parking. Since purchasing the property, the owners have comprehensively improved the accommodation, including a substantial ground-floor extension which has transformed the living space and created a much larger kitchen and flexible reception areas.

The front door opens into the original entrance hall with stairs rising to the first floor and a cloakroom. To the front is a comfortable sitting room with a wide bay window flooding the room with natural light, overlooking the established front garden. Beautiful shutters dress the bay window, with bespoke shelving and cupboards to the chimney recesses. This opens through into the dining room, creating a sociable arrangement which works particularly well for everyday family life and entertaining. Engineered Oak flooring throughout the living space of the ground floor.

The principal addition to the house is the impressive kitchen to the rear. Generously proportioned and considerably larger than the original kitchen, it has been designed for modern living with an additional island and provides an excellent amount of preparation, storage and entertaining space. The kitchen connects naturally with the dining area and enjoys a pleasant outlook over the rear garden, with direct access outside. The overall ground-floor arrangement gives the house a particularly good balance between open, sociable living and clearly defined individual areas.

On the first floor, the landing leads to three bedrooms. Bedrooms one and two are both comfortable double rooms, while the third bedroom provides a good single bedroom, nursery or home office. The family bathroom completes the first-floor accommodation and incorporates a three-piece suite with a shower over the bath.

The outside space is a significant feature of the property. The house sits well back from the road behind a large, established front garden, predominantly laid to lawn with mature boundaries, while the driveway provides generous off-street parking.

The substantial rear garden, measuring approximately 80m in length, has been thoughtfully arranged to provide both entertaining and recreational space. Immediately behind the house is a generous patio and gravelled seating area, providing an excellent setting for outdoor dining and entertaining; alongside are raised beds. Beyond this, the garden opens onto an extensive lawn with enclosed boundaries and timber fencing, giving a particularly attractive outlook from the rear of the house and plenty of space for children, gardening and outdoor living. A garden shed provides useful additional storage.

Overall, the extension and refurbishment have substantially changed the character of the original house, creating a spacious and beautifully presented semi-detached home with excellent entertaining space, generous parking and unusually large gardens to both the front and rear.

Harston is the first village south of Cambridge on the A10 and offers an excellent range of day-to-day facilities, together with particularly convenient road and cycle links into the city and south towards Royston.

A purpose-built, traffic-free cycle route provides a direct connection over the M11 into Trumpington and onwards towards Cambridge, while regular bus services offer a useful alternative for journeys into the city.

The village is particularly well placed for the Addenbrooke’s and Cambridge Biomedical Campus, as well as the employment and science parks at Melbourn, Abington and Great Chesterford. Foxton’s mainline railway station is approximately 2 miles away, with services to Cambridge and London King’s Cross.

Harston itself has a good range of amenities including a primary school, doctor’s surgery with dispensary, village shop and Post Office, restaurant, hairdresser, petrol filling station and village hall. There are also two popular coffee shops, Fitzbillies and Nadia’s Café, adding to the village’s growing choice of places to eat and meet locally.

For recreation, the village has a large recreation ground with children’s play facilities and sports provision, while the surrounding South Cambridgeshire countryside provides a good network of footpaths and routes for walking and cycling. The combination of local amenities, excellent connections and proximity to Cambridge makes Harston a particularly convenient village for day-to-day living.