Church Farm 56 High Street • Oakington • Cambridge • CB24 3AG

Church Farm 56 High Street • Oakington Cambridge • CB24 3AG

Grade II listed detached former farmhouse with south east facing garden and outbuildings with potential

Entrance lobby • Sitting room • Kitchen/dining room Study/snug • Utility/shower room

Master bedroom with en suite dressing room/bedroom 4 and jack-and-jill bathroom Bedroom 2 • Bedroom 3 on 2nd floor

Delightful gardens Range of outbuildings part of which have planning permission for conversion to studio

Savills Cambridge Unex House, 132-134 Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PA Contact: James Barnett [email protected] 01223 347 147 www.savills.co.uk Situation Church Farm is centrally located in the popular and conveniently situated village of Oakington, some 5 miles from Cambridge City Centre. There are good facilities within the village including a public house, vibrant parish church, village shop and post office, garden centre and business park. Oakington also benefits from a pleasant recreational area with recently constructed sports pavilion, hard courts and playground. Cambridge can be accessed either via Girton, directly from the centre of the village, or via the A14 trunk road which leads south to the M11, M25 and London together with the A1, M1 & M6 to the north. The village has a Guided Busway station which connects St Ives to the north-west with the Cambridge Science Park, station and Addenbrookes hospital to the south. Fast and regular train services are available from Cambridge station into London’s Liverpool Street and Kings Cross stations from 45 minutes. There is a well regarded primary school in the village which feeds into Impington & Swavesey Village Colleges, Hills & Long Road Sixth Form Colleges or one of the many well-regarded independent schools in Cambridge. Local shopping includes Histon (2 miles), Bar Hill (3 miles) where there is a large Tesco superstore and Cambridge which has comprehensive shopping, recreational and cultural facilities including the Grand Arcade shopping mall. Description There is a lobby beside the vast chimney breast from the front The first floor landing leads to a vaulted master bedroom with Church Farm is a fascinating timber-framed former Hall House door leading to both the sitting room and kitchen/dining room. exposed chimney breast and window seat, adjacent dressing which is thought to date from the 15th Century. Listed Grade The latter is a spacious room with Inglenook incorporating room/bedroom 4 and a Jack and Jill bathroom and also to II as being of historical and architectural interest, it has many niches, two former bread ovens, a multi-fuel burner and brick bedroom 2 – a high ceilinged room with an exposed area of hearth. This is a triple aspect room with part glazed door to the notable features including 17th Century painted panels between early lath and plaster. A second staircase with balustrade copied garden, and is fitted with a range of base units incorporating a the studwork in the sitting room, exposed timbers, two Inglenook from the floor below leads to the second landing incorporating Bosch fridge and dishwasher, Franke sink unit, Neff oven and fireplaces, evidence of former mullioned windows and a wide a gallery space, and the third bedroom with vaulted ceiling and induction hob, and Elica extractor. The hob is set into a honed staircase with 16th Century balustrade of flat section balusters and dormer window to the rear. granite worktop. A walk-in shelved larder with quarry tiled a faceted ball finial to the first floor. With lime rendered elevations flooring and screened window provides further substantial storage. To the front there is a small area of garden with stone path to beneath a part long straw/part reed thatched roof, it is thought The dual aspect sitting room is a good sized room with another the front door. The property enjoys a right of way over the to have had just 6 owners in its long history. The present vendor Inglenook fireplace with herringbone brick hearth housing a neighbouring drive to a gravelled parking area and a range of has undertaken various works to the property including re-fitting Xeoos Twinfire German wood burning stove. Here there are the outbuildings (part of which has planning permission and listed the kitchen/dining room and utility/shower room together with naive early wall-paintings designed to imitate square moulded building consent to convert to a studio/home office and utility, re-rendering the exterior walls in lime and re-painting them in panelling of the early 17th Century. A timbered double aspect Planning Ref: S/1696/15/FL). Gardens are either side of the traditional lime wash mixed with earth pigments. The house is study from this room and a utility/shower room complete the drive, and provide a sunny spot with terracing to the rear of the now a delightful, charming and comfortable home. ground floor accommodation. house, and further part walled garden beyond with mature shrubs. Gross internal floor area (approx): Main House = 2,073 sq ft / 193 sq m Outbuilding = 256 sq ft / 24 sq m Proposed Studio = 410 sq ft / 38 sq m

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Second Floor

First Floor

Outbuilding Proposed Conversion

Ground Floor Services Mains electricity, gas, water and drainage are connected to the property. Gas fired central heating – the boiler room is at the rear, adjacent to the kitchen.

Outgoings Council Tax: Band F. Payment 2015/2016 £2,273.94

Local Authority South Cambridgeshire District Council

Directions From the A14 take the Dry Drayton exit and turn left signposted to Oakington. Continue back over the A14 and continue into the Important Notice: Savills and their client give notice that: 1. They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these village. Go through the cross roads and take the second left turn particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or into High Street and the house will be found on the right hand distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all side just after Manor Farm Court. necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills has not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. Photographs taken October 2015 by Justin Paget Photography Ltd. Details prepared October 2015. Kingfisher Print. 15/10/07 VP.