Location

Whittlesford has a number of good day to day facilities including a village shop, renowned restaurant, a large recreation ground with cricket pitch and tennis courts and a mainline railway station, Whittlesford Parkway, on the southern side with trains to London Liverpool Street taking from 60 minutes.   

The high tech university city of Cambridge is approximately 8.5 miles to the north with its extensive range of cultural, recreational and shopping facilities including the Grand Arcade shopping centre in the historic core.

There is excellent schooling for all age groups in the area with a Church of England Primary school in the village, secondary schooling at Sawston Village College and renowned independent schools in Cambridge including St John's & King's College Schools and St Faiths prep schools, together with The Perse, Stephen Perse Foundation and The Leys senior schools.   

For the commuter, there is ready access from the village onto the M11 Junction 10 (2 miles) via the A505 (1 mile to the south) and this in turn leads north to the A14, A1, M1 and M6 and south to the M25 and London. Stansted International Airport is found some 3 miles beyond Junction 8 of the M11 (18.5 miles from the property) providing domestic and international air services and a mainline express rail link into London Liverpool Street.

All distances and times are approximate.

Description

The Grove is a beautiful Grade II listed, late 16th Century house (with later additions) set within mature grounds in this ever popular village. Timber-framed and plastered with a painted brick plinth, the property has a 16th century red brick end stack to right hand and rear stack each with three octagonal shafts. There are a variety of period features throughout the house including fireplaces, deep sash (some sliding) windows, panelling and exposed timbers.

The property is entered from stone steps through a glazed panelled front door. The exceptional, yet welcoming, reception hall, with its tall ceiling and timber panelling has a staircase in one corner and leads to the principal reception rooms, both with high ceilings. To the left is the sumptuous double aspect drawing room with a bay window to one end and a large Inglenook fireplace. To the right of the hall, a stripped wooden door leads into the dual aspect dining room with picture rails, cornicing and a fireplace with carved stone panel above, to quote the listing description "…C16 strapwork frieze over four-centred arched clunch fire place recently exposed…" To the rear is a snug/sitting room with a woodburner and door to the wine cellar. A further extensive cellar houses the boiler.

The kitchen/breakfast room has an oil fired four door Aga, Neff hob and oven and wonderful views over, and access to the side garden. The room is complimented by a large pantry with brick flooring and shelving. Beyond is a large boot room with brick flooring and access to the utility/laundry room and log store at the rear. There is a further conservatory/garden room with views over the garden.

Upstairs there are five bedrooms, the principal bedroom with a dressing room, a guest bedroom having a "Jack and Jill" shower room with access to the rear landing and a large family bathroom. On the second floor, there is a sitting area together with two further bedrooms each with fireplaces (unused) and an extra bathroom.

The property is tucked away behind a long brick wall and mature copse with electric gates leading to a circular gravelled drive. To the right of the drive is an unused tennis court, swimming pool, with pool house and several outbuildings which are all in need of considerable repair.

The mature gardens and grounds with a variety of mature trees surround the property and beyond the larger barn is a large pond. To the left is a meadow/paddock area.

In all 5.484 acres