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" Whether you are looking for a good sized family home or for a home to share with granny, grown up children, this is it. London is 50 minutes away by train, a very comfortable commuting time and distance and the A1 and A14 are both close by. The cathedral city of Peterborough is 15 minutes away.

There are excellent schools in Oundle and Stamford, both historic towns and approx 15 minutes away. There are three pubs/restaurants, a village shop and post office, hairdressers, cake shop and Vivienne Westwood boutique a mile away in the famous village of Wansford. In the opposite direction are another two pubs/restaurants and a shop in the village of Elton. With this house, room dimensions are to a great extent either irrelevant or impossible to give due to the shape and layout of the rooms - see floor plans.
But to give you an idea, the master bedroom required 78 sq. meters of carpet and the sitting room and landing require 101 sq meters. The rest can be gathered from the photographs, but nothing beats the real thing.

The front door opens into a large open plan entrance/dining hall (1) which leads to the kitchen (2) and utility room

(one of two), planning has been passed for a fabulous glass walled, double height kitchen extension. The hall also leads to the bar/entertaining room (3) and then on through to a lobby (4) with stone spiral staircase (up to the sitting room) and a shower room

(5) (handy for the bar and guests using the Jacuzzi) and conservatory (6) which leads out at the front to a lovely enclosed courtyard and from the back into the large garden.

This whole area is perfect for entertaining whether it?+?s summer or winter. It truly is a house for all seasons. Also from the hallway is a door leading to a suite of rooms currently used as a granny annex. This consists of two double bedrooms ( 7 & 8) both en-suite (9 & 10), a large studio style sitting room with dining area and a fully equipped kitchen (11), utility room and entrance hall with private front door and access to the double garage.

This accommodation could be kept as two bedrooms, downsized to one bedroom by re-opening the second bedroom door (the opening has been kept but disguised) or even down to a large studio apartment, the combinations within this house are endless. The main staircase (there are three, great for the conga!) leads up to the sitting room, a ?+?Jack and Jill?+? shower room

(12), a double bedroom

(13) and a large master suite consisting of a dressing area leading to bedroom with large en-suite (14) which includes a double bath, large shower, bidet, toilet and vanity unit, lovely views across the garden and the fields beyond, no obscure glass needed here!

There is the potential to extend the master suite even further by using the next bedroom

(15) as a dressing room

(as it is now), and the next shower room

(16). That would mean the master suite had two dressing areas and two en-suites - his and hers. The bedroom now used as a dressing room would also make a wonderful room for a new baby.
This then leads to another shower room

(16) which has a large shower (17) with the facility for steam and then to another bedroom currently used as an office (18). These last three rooms can also be accessed using their own external staircase which makes them ideal for use again, as a separate annex for a teenager, relative or guests.

The stairs also make the use of the first room perfect for that of an office where business visitors would not be appropriate to the main house, or as a room for practicing any kind of therapy as it has the shower room and toilet next to it. There is also another toilet at the back of the garage for use by anyone working out in the garden who doesn?+?t want to trail into the house. The house has two oil boilers, one in each utility room, with two hot water tanks in the main house and one in the annex.

There are similarly two separate oil tanks. Very useful, depending on how you envisage using the accommodation. The bar/entertaining room, lobby, shower room, conservatory, sitting room, landing and ?+?Jack and Jill?+? shower room all have under floor heating. There are two night storage heaters in the hallway which are perfect for that first boost you need at the beginning of autumn or just for that extra lingering bit of heat in the late spring. They are always the first to go on and the last to be switched off.

The rest of the house is heated by radiators. The large expanses of glass mean that even in the depths of winter, just a few watery rays of sun will be enough to raise the temperature upstairs. The wood flooring throughout much of the ground floor is real Ash wood. The wood lining the cathedral ceilings (every room upstairs except one bedroom) is all red cedar, as are the Jacuzzi deck, the bridge over the pond. There is good storage within the eaves, all very easily accessed. The Jacuzzi has a plant room on the back of the conservatory which holds the over flow tank (deck level Jacuzzi), dosing system and full size swimming pool filter.

The wildlife is wonderful. For a family with children, nothing could be more perfect, from swallows nesting on the balcony outside the bedroom door, to fluffy ducklings bobbing up and down on the ponds. We?+?ve had a resident monk jack deer every winter since he found the sheltered spot between the greenhouse and the fence. After a fresh fall of snow it?+?s fascinating to see all the different tracks left behind by animals during the night. In the garden is a lovely summer house with a small veranda which gets the sun all day, a large unobtrusive greenhouse to the side of the garden, and four sheds, only one of which is visible from the house (this one is used as a close log store for the fires), but even that is obscured by ivy and shrubbery. Of the other three, the smaller one is used to dry wood, and the two larger ones are used as a workshop and a garden store for the lawnmower etc.

There is an electric supply to all of the above. There is a mature orchard which includes apples, plums, pears and cherries. There are also various ?+?utility?+? areas around the garden, perfect for hiding things like compost bins, fish and bird food stores and seasonal items which are in and out depending on the time of year.

1. Hall/Dining 4m x 7m not including coat cupboard
2. Kitchen 2.8m x 6.6m
3. Bar/Dining 6m x 6.2m into the bay window which has a 4.3m diameter
4. Lobby 2.7m x 3.3m
5. Shower room 1.9m x 3.3m
6. Because of the shape of the conservatory, simple measurements could be deceiving, but to give an idea, the back wall is 8m.
7. Annex bed 1 4.6m x 3.7m including fitted wardrobes
8. Annex bed 2 4.6m x 3.6m including fitted wardrobes
9. En suite 2.8m x 2.5m
10. En-suite 2.8m x 1.6m
11. Sitting/dining/kitchen approx 6.2m x 6.2m
12. Jack & Jill shower room 2.9m x 2.4m 13. Double bedroom 4.3m x 3.3 m fully fitted including 2 double wardrobes
14. Master en-suite 5m x 4.5m not including the window recess
15. Dressing/bedroom 3.7m x 2.3m not including fitted wardrobes
16. En suite 2.3m x 1.6m not including the shower, (17) which is 2m x 1.6m
18. Office/ bedroom 4.7m x 4.5m

Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.


Notice
Please note we have not tested any apparatus, fixtures, fittings, or services. Interested parties must undertake their own investigation into the working order of these items. All measurements are approximate and photographs provided for guidance only.

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