The Laurels 78 HIGH STREET • GREAT SHELFORD • CAMBRIDGE • CB22 5EH

The Laurels 78 HIGH STREET • GREAT SHELFORD CAMBRIDGE • CB22 5EH A high specification 3,998 sqft house with separate 6 car garage accessed via a secluded private drive in the heart of the village

Vaulted entrance hall • cloaks w.c • drawing room • dining room • kitchen/breakfast/living room family/tv room • utility • 2nd w.c.

Master bedroom suite with sitting & dressing areas • dressing room • ensuite shower room and balcony three further first floor bedrooms (2 en-suite) • 2 second floor bedrooms (1 en-suite) • family bathroom

Separate 1,664 sqft outbuilding providing garaging for up to 6 cars • first floor gym potential annexe and ensuite

Shower room • 2 bay oak cartlodge

Secluded mature south facing gardens • long private drive with remotely controlled electric gates • secondary access

In all 0.73 of an acre

Great Shelford station 0.5 miles (serving Cambridge and London Liverpool Street) Cambridge Station 4 miles (serving London’s King’s Cross and Liverpool Street stations) Access M11 (Junction 11) 3 miles • M25 35 miles • Central London 57 miles

Savills Cambridge Unex House, 132-134 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PA Contact: James Barnett MRICS [email protected] 01223 347 147 www.savills.co.uk Situation The Laurels is situated down a secluded private drive off the High Street close to the heart of the village. This sought-after popular village provides a good variety of local shops for everyday needs including a butcher, Co-op (close to the drive entrance) and Tesco stores, award-winning deli, grocer, chemist, restaurants and public houses. The village is just 4 miles to the south of the high tech University City of Cambridge. A direct cycle path runs alongside farmland and the railway to Addenbrookes Hospital and the newly established Medi-Park to the south of the City and on to Cambridge Station.

There is a primary school in the village and further schooling for all age groups in the area including notable independent schools in Cambridge such as St Faiths, The Perse CoEd, The Stephen Perse, King’s College and St John’s prep schools, The Leys and St Mary’s.

For the commuter, there are regular train services from Great Shelford station leading to both Cambridge and London Liverpool Street stations. Services to King’s Cross are also available from Cambridge station.

Cambridge is a beautiful city with immense cultural heritage and comprehensive shopping and recreational facilities including the Grand Arcade shopping mall. The M11 is just 3 miles away (Junction 11) which leads south to the M25 and London and north to the A14 which in turn connects with the A1/M1 and M6. Stansted Airport is 24 miles to the south situated off Junction 8 of the M11. Description The Laurels is a substantial detached house which was built to a high specification in 2007. The well proportioned accommodation which extends to 3,998 sqft is laid out over two principal floors with an addional two bedrooms, bathroom and an ensuite shower room on the second floor. The rear elevation faces due south and the ground floor provides superb space for a family which features a large open-plan kitchen/dining/living room with a fully fitted kitchen area and a range of integrated AEG appliances including steam and electric ovens, a coffee maker and microwave together with two fridges and freezers, a dishwasher and a four ring ceramic hob with twin gas burners to one side. A TV/family room interconnects with this space. The remaining reception rooms on the southern side of the house are all connected by wide glazed doors giving the reception space a great flow. Both the dining room and the drawing room, (which has an open fireplace) have French doors leading out onto a paved terrace and enjoy a delightful outlook over the private enclosed gardens on this side of the house. The imposing entrance hall features a superb oak “gone with the wind” staircase which splits at the top into two further flights approaching each side of the spacious galleried landing which has French windows and a Juliette balcony to the front of the house. At fi rst fl oor level the Master bedroom suite the drive runs around to the other side of the has a large bedroom with sitting and dressing house where a pair of wooden gates lead out areas together with French doors leading out onto the gated driveway serving three other onto an enclosed balcony overlooking the properties and Buristead Road. garden. A separate dressing room and an The whole site extends to approximately ensuite shower room complete the suite. Two 0.73 of an acre. further ensuite bedrooms and a fourth twin room complete the accommodation on this GENERAL REMARKS AND fl oor. A further fl ight of stairs from the main STIPULATIONS landing leads up to the second fl oor with 2 bedrooms (1 ensuite) and a family bathroom. Services The fi rst and second fl oor bedrooms are all All mains services are connected to the air conditioned. All of the accommodation property. Central heating, gas fired radiators within the main house is shown in the and separate individually controlled air attached dimensioned fl oor plans. conditioning to the first and second floor Outside bedrooms. A pair of brick piers stand either side of the Garage/Gym outbuilding – separate gas fired driveway where there is suffi cient space to pull central heating and air conditioning to first Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2016. All rights re- served. Licence number 100022432. Plotted Scale - 1:750. off the High Street before leading up to the floor. remotely controlled automatic entrance gate.

The drive winds through a delightful wooded Outgoings Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not Council Tax: Band H. Amount payable to Scale mapping with permission of the copse with mature yew trees underplanted Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Offi ce © Crown copyright (100041908) and winds around to the side of the house 2016/2017 £3,280.62. leading to a two bay oak cart lodge and separate detached garage building with three Local Authority South Cambridgeshire District Council up and over doors and space for parking up to six cars. A door at the rear of this Directions building provides access to a staircase leading From Cambridge take the Trumpington up to the fi rst fl oor which is open plan, air Road heading south and branch left to “The conditioned and currently used as a gym but THE LAURELS Shelfords”. Continue on this road and into offers potential for a number of alternative the village taking the High Street turning to uses including the creation of a self contained the right after the railway bridge. Proceed up annexe. There are built in storage cupboards the High Street and towards the end just and a large ensuite shower room. after the Co-Op, the driveway entrance piers The gardens are beautifully mature with a will be seen on the right hand side. lawned area to the southern side of the house, a further area of woodland with evergreen Viewing varieties and a woodland walk running Strictly by prior appointment with the sole through it. A block pavioured extension of agents Savills. Gross internal fl oor area 371.4 sq m / 3998 sq ft Garage = 154.6 sq m / 1664 sq ft

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