Sherwood Lodge 243 Main Road | Parson Drove | | PE13 4LF PERSONAL PARADISE

• Spacious Family Home in a Well-Served Community • Village Location Close to Doctor’s Surgery, Primary School & Village Store • Easy Access to Grammar School and Local Amenities • Good Rail Links at March Train Station Just 10 miles Away • Kitchen/Breakfast Room, Reception Room, Dining Room, Conservatory, Office and Utility • Master Suite, Three Further Bedrooms, Family Bathroom & Downstairs WC • Large, Private Garden Mainly Laid to Lawn with an Extensive Paved Terrace • Single Garage & Ample Off-Road Parking for Several Cars • The Accommodation Approx. Extends to 2,712 sq. ft. It’s very peaceful and tranquil. The farmer has created a naturalistic pond and a charming place to walk. You can walk from your doorstep down a track for about two miles through open farmland” A light, airy and spacious house stands in an someone preferred that it would be possible to extremely convenient and yet quiet spot with far reinstate it, but the log-burner is very efficient,” reaching farmland views and spectacular sunsets, in says the owner. The room is painted in a calm and the fenland village of Parson Drove. It has been the restful grey, in fact the house has been very recently dearly beloved home of the current owners for the re-decorated throughout. The internet connection is last twenty seven years or so, who, in 1991, had the good too. house built for themselves as their home for the rest of their days. Generous Bedrooms Moving up the mahogany staircase you find a Very Spacious and Light spacious galleried landing, and four bedrooms and However, the pull of grandchildren has necessitated two bathrooms, all generous in size. The master suite a move, otherwise they would be happy to remain is particularly large with its own dressing room before here forever. “We bought the land off the local you enter the en suite, and even the fourth bedroom, farmer, in fact it was two plots, so the house could although currently with a single bed, would happily be very spacious and the surrounding garden really take a double bed. quite large,” declares the owner. “We lived on site in a caravan whilst it took a year to construct; we used Quiet and Private Garden an excellent local builder, and as we weren’t intending The large, private garden is mainly laid to lawn but to move, built it to a high standard with double with an extensive paved terrace to the back of the insulation.” house, and is enclosed by attractive golden privet hedging. “It’s completely secure if someone has dogs, One of the main features of the house is the feeling and being grass it has suited us perfectly with three of light and space. The rooms are big starting with the young children growing up here, and now having entrance hall, moving into a commodious living room the grandchildren to stay,” says the owner. “It’s a very at almost twenty-four feet long and fifteen feet wide, quiet spot – we have the farm on one side and a with glazed sliding doors into a huge, conservatory at bungalow on the other. The big tree in the garden the back with 180 degree views of the garden, plenty has a story behind it: one of our daughters, after we’d of space for a comfy seating area on one side, and collected apples from Sandringham, threw her apple a dining table on the other, with a new timber floor core into a pot outside her little summer house, and underfoot. This then leads through more glazed sliding amazingly it seemed to take, so we planted it in the doors into a carpeted dining room, back into the ground and now it is the big tree you see today, but it entrance hall and round into the kitchen. “The house doesn’t have any apples on it! Still, it’s Michaela’s apple is roughly south facing and windows are large so the tree with royal provenance, and it is full of birds – we sun pours in all day to the office at the front (once a see plenty and hear the birdsong all day long,” he playroom) and the lounge,” says the owner. The fitted enthuses. kitchen is dual aspect and has the owners’ dining table under an east facing window so provides sunshine for The house is set back from the road with a gravelled, breakfast. carriage drive and plenty of space for parking. “You can park at least four or five cars on here without Warm and Efficient anyone blocked in, but it would take probably ten Heating is run on electricity with very effective and or twelve cars if you needed to,” attests the owner. efficient, easy to control, storage heaters. The living Mature conifers and evergreen shrubs give year room features an exposed brick fireplace installed round interest at the front, and a separate, single with a log-burner which creates a cosy, focal point garage that has only ever been used for storage, is to to the room. “We used to have an open fire, so if one side. Prime Location naturalistic pond and a charming place to walk. You can walk from your doorstep down a track The location is superb. “We are opposite the doctor’s surgery so you can go in at 8.30 am and for about two miles through open farmland which is ideal if you have dogs. But what we might book an appointment for that day, before the phones start ringing! We also have a primary miss most of all is the views from the house of fantastic orange sunsets over the fields – we’d school, a post office within the village store, two churches, three pubs, and a new additional take them with us if only we could!” convenience store due to open any day now,” the owner informs us. “It’s also very peaceful and tranquil. The farmer, who’s a good friend and a bit of an environmentalist, has created a

What we might miss most of all is the views from the house of fantastic orange sunsets over the fields – we’d take them with us if only we could!”

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On The Doorstep... How Far Is It To... Directions The picturesque village of Parson Drove is situated approximately 5 Parson Drove lies 17.5 miles east of the popular city of , From King’s Lynn, take the A47 towards Peterborough. At the miles west of the nearest town of Wisbech. Wisbech is an historical offers a direct express rail service into London’s King’s Cross. The roundabout take the first exit onto Pullover Road, signposted to market town and inland port in of Cambridgeshire. The Hanseatic town of King’s Lynn with its excellent shopping and leisure Wisbech. Pass three roundabouts staying on A47, after approx. 17.4 town has a great deal to offer, from its Georgian architecture, to facilities located 20 miles north east. Following on from here, the miles at the fourth roundabout take the second exit onto Fen Road/ its Church, Museums and other points of interest. Wisbech has a popular North Norfolk coastline is less than an hour away and offers A47. After approx. 0.2 miles turn right onto Gull Road/B1187, turn range of primary schools and two secondary schools, the state- an abundance of pretty coastal villages to explore. Downham Market, left to stay on Gull Road for approx 3.8 miles, then turn right onto funded Thomas Clarkson Academy and the sought after Wisbech 21 miles to the east, has direct rail service into London’s King’s Main Road. Continue following this road for approx. 1 mile and No. Grammar School, one of the oldest schools in the , Cross, which can also be boarded in King’s Lynn. Norwich with its 243 will be found shortly on the left identified by our Fine & Country as well as the College of West Anglia. Sports enthusiasts can take the International Airport is approx 1 hours and 45 min drive away. ‘For Sale’ board. opportunity to enjoy a number of sporting clubs and facilities. There is truly something for everyone!

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