Description
A Grade II listed 18th century recently re-thatched and part tiled three double bedroom detached cottage situated within established gardens on the edge of the village. The cottage has been restored and refurbished but retains period features including exposed beams and timbers, stripped ledge and brace doors and inglenook fireplaces. The accommodation includes four reception rooms, including a sitting room with a former bread oven and a family room with glazed doors to the rear terrace. There is also a kitchen/breakfast room on the ground floor. On the first floor there are three double bedrooms, the master bedroom having a dressing room and an en suite bathroom with a double ended ball and claw foot bath with a shower over. There is also a family bathroom with a Jacuzzi spa bath.
The property is entered via a timber five bar gate which opens into a courtyard/driveway which is shared with the neighbouring property and provides parking for two cars. At the side is a timber storage shed. The rear garden is fully enclosed and is principally lawned with several fruit trees and broad leaf trees interspersed. There is a flagstone terrace.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room The kitchen/breakfast room, which has the original brick floor, is fitted with a bespoke range of hand built reclaimed pine units with granite work surfaces. There is space for a range style cooker with an extractor over, as well as space and plumbing for a dishwasher, washing machine and an American style fridge/freezer.
Thurleigh Thurleigh is a North Bedfordshire village with a church, a village hall and a sports and social club. It has its own primary school and is in the Sharnbrook Academy catchment area. The A6 at Milton Ernest is 3 miles away and Bedford (8 miles) has a railway station with services to St. Pancras. The Harpur Trust schools are in Bedford, and Kimbolton School is 11 miles away. The property is 5 miles from The College Equestrian Centre at Keysoe and 2 miles from the Thurleigh Equestrian Centre.
