Lordship House WEST WRATTING • CAMBRIDGE

Introduction Lordship House is a contemporary design on, unusually, a single level with interesting architectural features. This 5,342 sq ft home is absolutely ideal for a growing family. The home is designed for flexibility, including scope for home offices or granny annexe. There is privacy in abundance and every modern convenience you could want including underfloor heating, full CAT5 cabling to all rooms for the fastest internet access and even a tiled steam room. Lordship House has been built to a high specification and maintained with care in all respects. It features space and light in abundance – the main living spaces are vaulted and fully double height to give magnificent rooms in which to relax and entertain. Running north to south, the home features extensive glazing to make the most of the uninterrupted sun and offers a verdant and peaceful setting. All rooms have south or west facing windows. Based on a traditional courtyard design, although only built this century, Lordship House flows peacefully from bedrooms at one end of the home through a central living hub, and on to the other side designed for receiving guests, for home working and for owners’ private rest and relaxation. Lordship House offers the ideal space for a family looking to enjoy the full delights of rural England both inside the home and in the village community.

Lifestyle Lordship House offers an ideal family lifestyle, whether for small children looking to explore their world or teenagers with more adventurous lives. A vaulted entrance hall with glass walls from floor to ceiling are designed to give the wow factor and visitors will not fail to admire the architecture. Although a new-build home, designed and constructed in just 2006, the past has been gracefully incorporated with a floor of reclaimed limestone flags taken from the orangery of the mansion across the lane from Lordship House. Life in Lordship House is centered on a vast 40 ft space or ‘hub’, where a kitchen complete with Rangemaster flows through into a dining area and then into the sitting area. The whole space is double height to the extent it even boasts a fun swing hung high from the rafters. Pride of place in the sitting room goes to a wood burning stove, the flames of which can still be seen when working across the hall in the kitchen. The stove is set into an elegantly simple stone hearth and creates the warm atmosphere ideal for parties – particularly at Christmas when a 15ft tree can be suspended from the ceiling in all its splendour. Opening double doors on either side of the main entry hall between the main living space and the drawing room creates an unencumbered 80 feet run. In the south wing, a large study and library leads onwards to a master bedroom complete with its own fireplace and sitting area, and its en suite bathroom is equipped with the luxury of a steam room complete with marble bench. A beauty spot Lordship House is nestled into the attractive and unspoilt Cambridgeshire village of West Wratting, lying equi-distant (12 miles) from the academic eminence of Cambridge, the delights of the home of British horseracing in Newmarket, and historic Saffron Walden. The home is built on part of the former Lordship estate, neighboured by a namesake farm and cottage. It is situated near the heart of the village but enjoys privacy by being sited on a quiet road and surrounded with mature trees. The existing owners have enjoyed listening to owls hunting at night and watching deer grazing in the nearby paddock as well as gathering fruit from an orchard planted with quince, pears and apricots.

Outdoor life The entire home is surrounded by garden, mainly set to lawn giving a vast amount of open and sunny space. Children have enjoyed camping in the paddock, playing cricket and football, and as well as the orchard, the kitchen is boosted by the harvest of two raised beds of asparagus, rhubarb and herbs. The home is surrounded by many trees including cedar and horse chestnut. Lordship House is based on a traditional courtyard and guests enter the property under a flying canopy to enjoy the outside views of the property, which is clad in weatherboard to blend in with the countryside vernacular. The courtyard itself is the scene of many barbecues with friends and is the perfect outdoor entertaining space – the current owners particular enjoy playing boules there, surrounded by beds of lavender and topiary cones of hornbeam.

Village life vaulted kitchen/living room, utility room, vaulted sitting room, Directions West Wratting is a pretty rural haven in the East Anglian study/library, vaulted master bedroom with en suite bathroom From London, proceed north up the M11, taking the Saffron countryside. It features many delightful homes with beautiful and tiled steam shower room, 4 further bedrooms including Walden exit (J9), continue on the A11 and exit for Balsham/ gardens and has a very active community life. guest suite with dressing room and en suite bathroom, family Fulbourn, turning right. Proceed to Balsham and continue bathroom. It is quintessentially English and totally unspoilt, and features a through the village and on to West Wratting. On entering the sportsground with children’s playpark. The village church hosts Central gravelled courtyard, integral double garage, storage village, turn right onto the High Street and continue to the a well-attended summer fete and a tennis club offers further shed, potting shed, attractive gardens and paddock/meadow. In public house on the right hand side. Turn right into Mill Road recreation. all 2.01 acres. and the property will be found on the right hand side. Set in the rolling landscape of South Cambridgeshire, there are many walking and horseriding opportunities including Fleam General remarks and stipulations Viewing Dyke and the Icknield Way. Local Authority: South Cambridgeshire District Council - Strictly by appointment with the joint sole agents. Nearby Linton has a variety of shops for everyday needs and Council Tax Band G: amount payable 2014/15 £2,563 an Ofsted ‘Outstanding’ secondary school in Linton Village Postcode: CB21 5LT James Barnett BA (Hons) MRICS Jock Lloyd-Jones FNAEA College. Services: LPG underfloor hot water central heating throughout Savills Cambridge Jackson-Stops & Staff Cambridge 12 miles, Newmarket 12 miles, A11 4 miles, M11 12 with programmable thermostats in every room. Instant hot water Unex House, 132-134 Hills Road, 168 High Street miles, Whittlesford Station 11 miles (London Liverpool Street in kitchen and all bathrooms. Cat 5 Cabling, telephone and Cambridge from 60 minutes, easy parking), Stansted airport 27 miles. TV throughout the property. Very good internet speed (nearby Newmarket Distance and times are approximate. exchange). CB2 8PA CB8 9AJ Description Tenure: freehold. 01223 347 147 01638 662231 A spacious 5,342 sq ft architect-designed single storey house Notes: a public footpath crosses the southern extremity of the www.savills.co.uk www.jackson-stops.co.uk with just over 2 acres. paddock, and is fenced off; Premier Guarantee for Completed Vaulted stone flagged entrance hall, boot room, cloak room, Housing Valid until 2016.

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LORDSHIP HOUSE Approximate Gross Internal Area Total = 530 sq m (5707 sq ft) Main House = 496 sq m (5342 sq ft) Garage = 34 sq m (365 sq ft)

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