5 bedroom house
Longstowe, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB23 2UP
Guide Price
£1,450,000
Residential Tags: Farmhouse
Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian
Land Tags: Paddock
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Sep 2021
- Removed: Mar 2022
- Residential Tags: Farmhouse
- Property Tags: Development Potential, Equestrian
- Land Tags: Paddock
Renovated and extended former farmhouse.
Description
Lower Farm is a red brick former farmhouse situated down a no through road on the edge of the small village of Longstowe. Dating back to the nineteenth century, the property is constructed of red brick under a tiled roof and has a large self contained separate annexe and some useful outbuildings.
The current owners have recently carried out a comprehensive refurbishment programme which included altering the layout of the ground floor and adding a beautifully designed addition off the relocated kitchen to the rear of the house and refitting bathrooms. The newly created kitchen area, designed by Cowper Griffith, has a Scandinavian feel with limestone and engineered oak flooring combining the space with the adjacent sitting room. The kitchen features a large oak topped central island and a range of painted units with quartz work surfaces incorporating an integrated electric oven and refrigerator. The breakfast area has a vaulted ceiling and one wall has painted wooden panelling with lateral rebates creating the appearance of modern clapboarding. In the corner are wide glazed sliding doors which open out onto the garden. The sitting room has a wood burning stove and the space is flooded with light from front and rear aspects. To the other side of the entrance hallway is a further reception room which could function as a large ground floor bedroom adjacent to which is the downstairs cloakroom and a utility (which could be adapted into an en suite shower room). Part of the recent changes included permission to convert the attached single storey brick outbuilding to the main house via a new door in the kitchen. This implemented consent offers further potential to create an additional vaulted reception room and the layout is shown in the attached floor plans.
At first floor level there are four bedrooms and two refitted bathrooms, one of which is en suite. One of the bathrooms is situated through a dressing room which would also function as a small fifth bedroom or nursery.
In addition to the main house is a large separate annexe which contains a light and airy sitting room with kitchenette, a ground floor bedroom and en suite bathroom and at first floor, accessed via a spiral staircase, is an open plan studio space with glazed roof lights.
The accommodation overall extends to just over 2,750 sqft and is shown in greater detail in the attached dimensioned floor plans.
To the front of Lower Farm there is a concreted in-out driveway with lawns and a small orchard to one side. In this location to the right of the house the current owners have planning consent for the erection of a three bay cart lodge/ garage building. Behind the annexe and the consented position for the cart lodge is a turn out paddock with mature hedges lining its boundaries and some mature trees. At the rear of the plot an agricultural right of way over the neighbouring farm track provides access to the remaining outbuildings which comprise a two storey modern barn currently used for hay storage and a single storey range housing three loose boxes and a large store which could be put to many alternative uses such as workshop or gym etc.
The remaining gardens are delightfully mature, back onto farmland and are laid to lawn with two further areas laid out as paddocks.
In all 1.38 acres.
Location
• Longstowe is a small village with a parish church, village hall and sports club, approximately 12 miles from Cambridge.
• Nearby Bourn has a good range of local facilities including a post office/shop, church, hairdressers, cafe and two public houses/restaurants. Bourn primary school and Comberton Village College are both currently rated as outstanding by Ofsted (as of September 2021). Cambridge Country Club (formerly Bourn Golf and Country Club) has a luxurious new complex offering a wellness centre, gym, luxury spa, swimming pool and a new bar and restaurant with views over the very well-established 18 hole golf course.
• The University city of Cambridge is not only world renowned for its academic achievements, but has also become recognised as an important centre for the “high tech” and “bio-tech” industries with the University Research and Development Laboratories, Science Park, ARM, Microsoft, AstraZeneca and Addenbrooke’s Hospital/Biomedical Campus.
• The city offers extensive cultural and shopping facilities together with an outstanding choice of independent schools for all ages.
• London commuters are also well served with services to King’s Cross from St Neots (42 minutes) and Royston (37 minutes) lying 10 miles west and 11 miles south respectively.
(All distances and times are approximate)
Square Footage: 2,750 sq ft
Acreage: 1.38 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Cambridge
Description
Lower Farm is a red brick former farmhouse situated down a no through road on the edge of the small village of Longstowe. Dating back to the nineteenth century, the property is constructed of red brick under a tiled roof and has a large self contained separate annexe and some useful outbuildings.
The current owners have recently carried out a comprehensive refurbishment programme which included altering the layout of the ground floor and adding a beautifully designed addition off the relocated kitchen to the rear of the house and refitting bathrooms. The newly created kitchen area, designed by Cowper Griffith, has a Scandinavian feel with limestone and engineered oak flooring combining the space with the adjacent sitting room. The kitchen features a large oak topped central island and a range of painted units with quartz work surfaces incorporating an integrated electric oven and refrigerator. The breakfast area has a vaulted ceiling and one wall has painted wooden panelling with lateral rebates creating the appearance of modern clapboarding. In the corner are wide glazed sliding doors which open out onto the garden. The sitting room has a wood burning stove and the space is flooded with light from front and rear aspects. To the other side of the entrance hallway is a further reception room which could function as a large ground floor bedroom adjacent to which is the downstairs cloakroom and a utility (which could be adapted into an en suite shower room). Part of the recent changes included permission to convert the attached single storey brick outbuilding to the main house via a new door in the kitchen. This implemented consent offers further potential to create an additional vaulted reception room and the layout is shown in the attached floor plans.
At first floor level there are four bedrooms and two refitted bathrooms, one of which is en suite. One of the bathrooms is situated through a dressing room which would also function as a small fifth bedroom or nursery.
In addition to the main house is a large separate annexe which contains a light and airy sitting room with kitchenette, a ground floor bedroom and en suite bathroom and at first floor, accessed via a spiral staircase, is an open plan studio space with glazed roof lights.
The accommodation overall extends to just over 2,750 sqft and is shown in greater detail in the attached dimensioned floor plans.
To the front of Lower Farm there is a concreted in-out driveway with lawns and a small orchard to one side. In this location to the right of the house the current owners have planning consent for the erection of a three bay cart lodge/ garage building. Behind the annexe and the consented position for the cart lodge is a turn out paddock with mature hedges lining its boundaries and some mature trees. At the rear of the plot an agricultural right of way over the neighbouring farm track provides access to the remaining outbuildings which comprise a two storey modern barn currently used for hay storage and a single storey range housing three loose boxes and a large store which could be put to many alternative uses such as workshop or gym etc.
The remaining gardens are delightfully mature, back onto farmland and are laid to lawn with two further areas laid out as paddocks.
In all 1.38 acres.
Location
• Longstowe is a small village with a parish church, village hall and sports club, approximately 12 miles from Cambridge.
• Nearby Bourn has a good range of local facilities including a post office/shop, church, hairdressers, cafe and two public houses/restaurants. Bourn primary school and Comberton Village College are both currently rated as outstanding by Ofsted (as of September 2021). Cambridge Country Club (formerly Bourn Golf and Country Club) has a luxurious new complex offering a wellness centre, gym, luxury spa, swimming pool and a new bar and restaurant with views over the very well-established 18 hole golf course.
• The University city of Cambridge is not only world renowned for its academic achievements, but has also become recognised as an important centre for the “high tech” and “bio-tech” industries with the University Research and Development Laboratories, Science Park, ARM, Microsoft, AstraZeneca and Addenbrooke’s Hospital/Biomedical Campus.
• The city offers extensive cultural and shopping facilities together with an outstanding choice of independent schools for all ages.
• London commuters are also well served with services to King’s Cross from St Neots (42 minutes) and Royston (37 minutes) lying 10 miles west and 11 miles south respectively.
(All distances and times are approximate)
Square Footage: 2,750 sq ft
Acreage: 1.38 Acres
Marketed by: Savills, Cambridge
Land Registry Data
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