Queens Close, Harston

A semi-detached home occupying a quiet position within a cul-de-sac in the popular village of Harston, offering well-proportioned accommodation, a detached single garage and enclosed gardens. Originally constructed as a three-bedroom property, the first-floor layout has since been altered to provide two double bedrooms and additional bathroom facilities. Requiring modernisation throughout, the house presents an opportunity for a purchaser to update the accommodation and consider how best to adapt the existing layout to their needs. The property is offered for sale with no onward chain.

The ground floor provides a practical arrangement, with an entrance hall leading to a generously proportioned sitting room measuring almost 16ft in length. A front-facing window provides natural light, while a stone fireplace creates a focal point. A glazed door connects the sitting room with the kitchen/dining room, creating a useful degree of connection between the principal living spaces.

The kitchen/dining room extends to over 18ft and provides ample space for both cooking and family dining. The kitchen is fitted with a range of wall and floor units, work surfaces, an integrated oven, dishwasher and hob, with the sink positioned beneath the window. Of particular practical value is the separate utility room, which provides additional space for appliances and has its own external door to the garden.

On the first floor are two well-proportioned double bedrooms. The principal bedroom benefits from fitted wardrobes with overhead storage, while the second bedroom also has built-in storage. The remaining accommodation comprises two separate bathroom facilities, currently arranged to provide additional bathing and showering provision in place of the original third bedroom.

Outside, a front garden with lawn and planted borders sits alongside a driveway providing off-street parking and access to the detached single garage. The garage has an up-and-over door, together with a separate pedestrian door and window. To the rear, the enclosed garden is predominantly paved, with raised brick planting beds and established shrubs, providing a manageable outdoor space with scope for further landscaping.

Harston is a well-established village south of Cambridge, offering a useful balance of village amenities and access to the city and surrounding road network. For buyers prepared to undertake a programme of modernisation, this property offers an opportunity to create a home around their own requirements, with the benefit of a practical existing footprint, parking and a detached garage.

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.