HORSESHOE LODGE Birds Drove | Sutton St. James | Lincolnshire | PE12 0LA AN OPEN OUTLOOK A fantastic light-filled home has endless windows and, so too, space, In a peaceful rural spot, it is an extensive, unique place; With a barn at the back, menage and grazing, For horse lovers – this, you may be craving! Here, marvelling at wildlife and dramatic skies Should happily come as no great surprise. • A Large Detached Executive Property Originally Built in the 1980s • Thoroughly Modernised in a Contemporary Style • Six Bedrooms; Four Bathrooms • Four Reception Rooms, Large Family Entertainment Room • Kitchen / Breakfast Room, Separate Utility • Fantastic Equestrian Facilities Including Five Stables and all Weather Manege Area • Sitting on a Generous Plot of 3 Acres (stms) • The Accommodation Extends to 5,877 sq. ft. We couldn’t believe the size of the breakfast bar when we came to view the house – it measures getting on for five feet deep; I absolutely love this kitchen” Anyone wishing to live in expansive space hallway is light, airy and spacious, like the rest both inside and out, to enjoy peace and quiet of the property, and underfoot, beautiful oak in a rural fenland location, perhaps an older flooring stretches from here into the kitchen generation living there too, and maybe with and through into the dining room. some horses out the back, then this property must be the answer. “We fell for the place Swish Modern Kitchen because of its space, and it is private and quiet The kitchen is a magnificent world of sleek with no immediate neighbours, yet it is only white units, a mix of wall-mounted and base- a mile to the village, and just a few more to level fitted with gleaming black granite tops, towns,” say the owners. “It’s close enough to equipped to a high standard and suitable for everything we need.” any serious cook. The all electric Neff appliances comprise a row of eye-level ovens: two ovens, Very Flexible Living a microwave and a warming drawer, a fridge, a It is indeed an incredibly extensive home, like freezer and a dishwasher all integrated, and a two spacious houses linked together, on a three- hob with extractor hood above. The one and a acre plot with a barn, menage and paddocks half bowl stainless steel sink with contemporary behind. The living space is extremely flexible, mixer tap is positioned under an exceptionally for instance, the previous owners had a sitting wide window with far reaching views across room where the dining room is, and horses the garden and paddocks. The breakfast bar is where the current owners’ gym is. There are extremely deep: “We couldn’t believe the size two kitchens (one with open plan dining space), of the breakfast bar when we came to view four bathrooms (if you include the en suite), and the house – it measures getting on for five seven reception rooms in total from a breakfast feet deep,” laugh the owners. “I absolutely love room to a vast family cum games room. this kitchen,” she continues. At the far end of This spectacularly spacious fully-carpeted family the room there is a big window to the side of room, almost sixteen metres long and twelve the property and access to the back garden metres wide, is flooded with light from many and terrace through French doors, with plenty We fell for the place because of its space, and it is private windows to the front, side and rear, and benefits of space for a large dining table and chairs. and quiet with no immediate neighbours, yet it is only a mile to two sets of French doors flanked by further However, at present the owners have chosen the village, and just a few more to towns. It’s close enough to glazing, opening onto a south-facing block- to position their dining table at the bottom of paved terrace. “The family or games room really an adjoining reception room with views to the everything we need” comes into its own when entertaining,” enthuses front and side of the house, whilst a log-burner the owner. There is scope here for not just is set into the wall. The owners enjoy use of large-scale entertaining, but it is easy to imagine their hot tub located on the terrace at the a yoga class taking place here for those with back from the kitchen’s French doors, which is peace and serenity in mind! Or a class of any available under separate negotiation. sort with this kind of light and space. Exceptionally Large Utility Although there are three entrances at the front, Moving back into the entrance hall you find a the current main one is to the left, approached door opening into a good-sized carpeted study, up the gravel carriage driveway, into the and further on, more lead into a downstairs presumably original dwelling on this site. The shower room and lavatory, a huge utility room, and the sitting room. The utility houses a row of units incorporating a sink under the wide window to the rear garden with worktop, all matching those in the kitchen, with space and plumbing underneath for a washing machine and dryer. Horseshoe Lodge has two oil tanks and two boilers. The boiler for the main house is in this room and has the hot water under a pressurized system and serves the three bathrooms and kitchen at this end of the property; the far end, or annex, boiler is in a garage on a separate system and supplies hot water on demand. Flooring is grey ceramic tiles, a door at the other end connects into the library which links to the rest of the property, and another gives access to the outside. Next door to the utility, and also linking into the library, is yet another spacious reception room, the current owners’ sitting room. Fully carpeted and measuring over nineteen feet by almost eighteen feet, and with two big windows to the front and another to the side, this is a comfortable, light and spacious place to sit and relax, or, as the previous owners chose, to dine in style. Up the carpeted stairs from the main hallway, you find four bedrooms off a light and spacious landing, including the master with a window to the rear enjoying fabulous sunsets over the arable open fenland, and its bath and separate quadrant shower in its contemporary fully-tiled en suite. The family bathroom is similarly set out in style and fittings, providing clean lines and neutral colour scheme. A Linking Library The carpeted library is currently lined with bookshelves and has the property’s central entrance door opening into this space. The room acts as a link from the original part of the house into the rest of the slightly newer build, opening as it does into the big games or family room. At the far end of this space, is a way in to the right, means there is no shortage of carpeted stairway illuminated from stupendous parking. This leads up to the pitched-roof double double-height glazing overlooking the garden garage, and the large, single-storey, solid, timber- and paddocks at the back. At the top you find a clad barn behind. With eight rooflights, there are galleried sitting room, through which you reach a divisions for five stables (the previous owner kept squarish bedroom with a big window to the front. five horses here) two of which are currently used for the owners’ gym equipment. With a concrete Endless Possibilities floor, and electrics, it is mainly used for storage at Back downstairs, the rest of the property, which present. could be named the annex, comprises another bedroom with French doors opening onto a Next to the barn, a vegetable plot stands amidst sheltered patio at the back and a wall of built-in the gravel, beds contained by sleepers, and behind wardrobes, a bathroom containing a bath, separate this is a 20 x 40 metre menage of sand and rubber, shower, lavatory and washbasin, and a fully fitted all properly drained. Not only the menage, but modern kitchen through which you access a the entire paddock area is enclosed by post and breakfast room. An entrance door opens into this rail and stock fencing. The grazing is split into two room from the front, and another door opens into paddocks at the moment although the area closest the adjoining double garage. This area would be to the house has become a generous lawn area ideal for either elderly relatives or older children punctuated with a few young trees at the back, and to live, or for a lodger’s quarters as with very little is graced by a willow to the side of the menage. effort it could be completely separate. With a southwest aspect to the back of the house, the terrace and lawn is a great spot for basking Wonderful Windows in the sun and it’s nicely sheltered. Security and “All the bedrooms in the property are double and practicalities are well covered here: “There are each has a television point. There are more in each thirteen CCTV cameras which can be monitored reception room and several in the games room; from four rooms in the house. There are loads of there is a Freeview option from the loft and Sky to outside water taps, and we have outside lights on The family or games room really comes into its own four rooms,” state the owners. “The internal doors sensors and floodlights,” declare the owners.