Location

A vibrant market town 18 miles north of Peterborough, Spalding combines national high street names and independent shops and restaurants with a full range of banking, leisure, commercial, educational and medical facilities along with bus and railway stations.


Spalding railway station serves Peterborough from 20 minutes, linking to commuter services to Cambridge and London Kings Cross from 50 minutes.


To the east of the town centre, close to Springfields Shopping Centre and Festival Gardens, this property sits adjacent to St Paul's Church, itself alongside the Coronation Channel for countryside walks and the water taxi to the town centre, close by. 


The property is also within 1.5 miles of Spalding's High School, its Grammar School and Ayscoughee Hall School (independent primary).

Description

A handsome and elegant south facing red brick property, officially named 65 Holbeach Road, the property has been subject to an extensive restoration and combines period grace and proportions with modern kitchen and bathrooms.


The house, together with the neighbouring church, was built around 1880 to one of the final designs of Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the traditional East Anglian vernacular with elaborate gables and tall chimneys. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott was amongst the most famous architects of the Victorian era and leader of the Gothic Revival. His buildings featured pointed arches, ornate chimneys and grand staircases amongst other features. Among his works are the Albert Memorial, the Foreign Office and the most famous of all, the iconic Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras Station. He also designed the red public phone box.


This property retains period features and offers generously proportioned accommodation throughout its three floors. It sits centrally within a generous gardens of 0.59 acres, or thereabouts, which surround the house, with St Paul's as a striking backdrop. There is ample parking, with the driveway leading to a turning sweep at the house, with garaging, outbuildings and mature lawned garden surrounds.


Accommodation
The inviting reception hall, which has an original Minton tiled floor and an imposing staircase, is accessed via an open brick porch and heavy oak front door. The hall leads to the three principal reception rooms which overlook the south and east of the property. They comprise a dual-aspect drawing room with tiled fireplace and window bay; a sitting that also has a tiled fireplace and a door to the garden; and an elegant oak floored dining room. The beautifully appointed kitchen has integrated appliances and corian worktops, with a range cooker featuring a five-burner gas hob, grill, double oven and warming drawer.


The galleried first floor landing is accessed by an attractive staircase, with a tactile mahogany handrail. It accesses four of the six double bedrooms and a family bathroom. On the second floor there are a further two bedrooms and a second family bathroom, as well as access to the vast loft space which is partially boarded for storage. The bedrooms all offer attractive views of the gardens and, or, church.


Outside: The gardens are extensive and delightful. Lawned with established flowering and shrub borders, and enclosed by a variety of mature trees and hedging, they total 0.59 acres, or thereabouts.


A long gravel driveway leads through the manicured lawned front garden, past the house to a generous turning circle and parking area for many vehicles, with access to a single garage and an inset gate through to the walled garden.


The walled garden has a large terrace, ideal for entertaining nd a brick-built outbuilding for garden storage, whilst a vintage red phone box is one of Sir Gilbert Scott's designs.