Location

Colston Bassett is a delightful village, acknowledged to be one of Nottinghamshires’s most sought-after locations, pleasantly situated within open countryside but equally within easy commuting distance of Nottingham city centre.

It is close to the A46 (3 miles) giving excellent dual carriageway access north to Newark (17 miles) where there is a fast train service to London Kings Cross in just 74 minutes and south to Leicester (24 miles). Nottingham is just over 10 miles distant to the west and Grantham is around 17 miles to the east.

Colston Bassett offers an award winning village pub restaurant, a primary school, a world-famous dairy, producing prize-winning cheeses and a bakery, with more extensive amenities found in nearby Bingham (5 miles) and Radcliffe On Trent (6 miles).

Description

Description
Situated in a semi-rural position on the western edge of Colston Bassett, Cenote is tucked down a no-through road surrounded by undulating countryside in the Vale of Belvoir. The house presents a unique opportunity to own a brand new, beautifully presented home of an exceptionally high specification in such an idyllic, village setting. The substantial house was completed in early 2024 and has been finished to exacting standards, fitted with Porcelanosa bathrooms, a Hacker kitchen and incorporates desirable additions such as a Control4 fully integrated smart home system. There is underfloor heating across all three floors, whilst the swimming pool area is fitted with air conditioning.

Accommodation
The accommodation is arranged over three floors and offers more than 5700 sq ft of space, comprising vast living accommodation, a fantastic array of leisure facilities and four / five generously proportioned bedrooms. The rooms feel light and modern, with tall windows framing beautiful views over the surrounding countryside. No expense has been spared on the presentation of this home, which features sleek design elements such as the floating staircase, floor to ceiling glazing and glass balustrades to enhance the feeling of light and space. It’s the perfect home for entertaining, with its enticing reception areas and superb open plan kitchen, whilst also enjoying a number of places for a quiet retreat.

Fully Integrated Smart Home
The property features a state of the art Control 4 Smart Home system. This provides both internal tablet and remote smartphone control of all of the electrical systems. These include lighting scenes, music and AV system, Heating, Security Cameras and Alarm, Pedestrian and Vehicle Gate Controls. The combination settings and scenes are endless, enabling a co-ordinated series of welcome home functions, holiday security lighting and alarm settings, remote access and heating control personalised to your individual requirements.

Ground floor

Entrance hall
The stunning entrance hall ‘atrium’ makes a striking first impression with a vista through the property, accessing all three floors with a vaulted ceiling, prominent wood panelled walls and displays an instant view of the pool at lower ground floor level. The ‘floating’ style staircase is a mix of oak and steel, with a stylish glass balustrade.

Kitchen
A high specification matte black Häcker kitchen with an array of feature lighting, integrated NEFF appliances and stone work surfaces. There is ample storage and an integrated breakfast bar within the central island. Two sets of French doors access a balcony overlooking the courtyard and garden. The integral appliances include a coffee machine, microwave oven, two electric ovens, a full height wine cooler, an induction hob with downdraft extractor, a full height fridge, full height freezer and a dishwasher. There is an adjoining utility room, accessed via a hidden door within the kitchen which further leads onto a useful store room.

Dining room
The entrance hall is open plan to the beautiful dining room, which displays a backlit feature wall of wine storage and full height windows overlooking the courtyard to the east elevation.

Living room
A sliding pocket door from the dining room leads into the living room, with both rooms benefiting from the dual-sided gas jet fireplace. The pleasant living room is of generous proportions and holds bifold doors opening to the rear garden as well as full height glazing out to the east aspect.

Snug
Open plan to the living room is the adjoining snug, which could equally be used as a study or playroom. It has a full wall of bespoke, hand built storage and French doors opening onto the rear garden.

Office/bedroom five
There is a versatile room on the ground floor, accessible via a hidden door within the panelling from the entrance hall which would work equally well as a bedroom or an office; it has ‘jack and jill’ access to the en suite shower room.

Cloakroom/WC/Shower Room
Cloakroom and guest WC. Doubles as a Shower Room to Office/Bed 5 via connecting door

Lower Ground Floor
The oak staircase descends from the entrance hall to a bright, spacious lower lobby area leading onto the accommodation at this level, with glazed floor to ceiling partition walls dividing the lobby area from the leisure suite facilities.

Indoor swimming pool and bar
The heated indoor swimming pool is undoubtedly one of the highlights of Cenote, with a wall of bifold doors opening to the adjoining courtyard, a fully functioning bar, a seating area and a plant room off.

Cinema room
The purpose built, sound proofed cinema is fitted with feature lighting and has seating for six, with electrically controlled reclining chairs, facing onto a projector screen. A multimedia control room is accessible via the cinema room.

Gym
Facing out onto the courtyard via three sets of French doors, the gym is a fantastically light and airy room, laid with an oak floor and having a glazed partition wall to the lobby area. Whilst currently arranged as a gym, this is a versatile room which could be utilised for a variety of other uses such as a study, play room or hobby room.

Completing the accommodation at lower ground floor level is the generous sauna, a wine room and a three piece shower room.

First floor
The oak and glass curved staircase leads from the entrance hall and up to the galleried landing area, affording views out via the floor to ceiling frontage and leading to the extent of the first floor accommodation.

The principal bedroom is situated to the rear of the house, boasting far-reaching views over the garden and surrounding countryside. It enjoys an open dressing area, fitted with bespoke, hand built wardrobes, eaves storage and a stunning en suite bathroom with a freestanding bath, low level WC, a separate shower enclosure and twin vanity unit. Two doors from the principal bedroom area lead out to the recessed balcony which provides a delightful, covered seating area, offering lovely views across the open countryside to the rear elevation.

The second bedroom is accessed via a hidden door within the panelling and is situated to the west elevation with a view to the rear and holds a modern three piece en suite shower room. Bedroom three enjoys views over the garden and open countryside, positioned to the east end of the property and also benefits an en suite shower room. The fourth ensure bedroom overlooks the front of the house to the south elevation.

Outside
Cenote is set within a delightful plot of about 0.5 of an acre, surrounded by lawned gardens with mature trees set to the rear boundary and an orchard area to east section of garden. There is a gated gravel driveway to the front and a detached oak framed car port for two vehicles, which has a garden store to the side and an electric car charging point. Accessed from the lower ground floor and via an external staircase, there is a sunken courtyard which is wonderfully private, enclosed partly by a ‘living wall’, and from the main living spaces there is a decked platform, taking full advantage of the views on offer with steps up to the lawn.