Location

Leinsters Close is accessed off Westwood Park Road, in one Peterborough’s most favoured residential areas. It is close to Ferry Meadows Country Park and yet within just 1.1 mile’s walk to Peterborough Railway Station in the city's centre.   

The Cathedral City of Peterborough is a regional centre for commerce, industry, retail, recreation and leisure, with theatres, cinemas, ice skating, bowling, sports centres and varied sports clubs. Peterborough Railway Station offers commuter services to London Kings Cross (from about 50 minutes) and to Cambridge, whilst the city also has good north-south and east-west road links via the A1, A14, A47 and A15.      

The River Nene and the Ferry Meadows Country Park are within a mile of the property, with easy access to Peterborough’s Green Wheel network of cycle/jogging routes that provide over 20 miles of continuous sustainable routes around the city, riverside and green spaces for residents to enjoy.

Description

A detached family home with integral double garage and 0.25 acre garden plot, in an attractive cul-de-sac setting accessed from Westwood Park Road, conveniently placed for The Peterborough School, for Ferry Meadows Country Park and Peterborough’s city centre and mainline railway station.

The front door opens into a wide and inviting entrance stairwell hallway, from which you can access to the ground floor sitting room, dining room, office, cloakroom/WC and kitchen/breakfast room.

The 20’ sitting room occupies the entire width of the house, with windows overlooking the front garden to the mature sycamore tree that frames vistas to the house, and with French doors that open to the west facing rear garden. A wood burner is the focal point and a warm welcome on colder nights. Double doors open from the hallway to the central dining room, furnished to comfortably seat eight, whilst the office would double as a good play room for small children.

The kitchen/breakfast room has ample space for informal dining, with a fitted breakfast bar as well as space for table and chairs. Fitted with a modern suite with wall and base units under wood wooden worktops, with down light spots over the units, the suite incorporates a Belling cooker range. The adjoining utility room has plumbing for white goods and offers access to the integral double garage, as well as externally to the garden.

The first floor landing accesses the four double bedrooms and second study, which has also been a nursery bedroom in its past.   The principal bedroom is a particularly generous double, with two east facing windows, wall of fitted wardrobes and en suite bathroom and is fitted with air conditioning.   Bedroom two is also en suite, with a shower room. Double bedrooms three and four are well placed for the modern family bathroom, which has a shower over the bath.

Offered for sale for the first time in 27 years, the property has been well looked after and maintained. Some parts of the house were electrically rewired in 2012 and a new distribution box fitted, with new double glazed windows installed throughout in 2021.

Outside: The house is centrally positioned within its garden plot of about a quarter of an acre. The property is approached along a private driveway, which offer generous parking for a number of vehicles as well as access to the integral double garage. You can walk around both sides of the house, with a productive kitchen garden lying to the south of the house. The formal garden lies is to the west (rear), with The Peterborough School behind the garden. Largely lawned, with deep flowering and shrub beds, mixed species trees, including yew, and a high boundary hedge, the garden is private, with terraces from which to track the sun and dappled shade for relief from summer heat.