Location

Bartlow is a pretty hamlet close to the Cambridgeshire/Suffolk border with a parish church and an award winning pub, The Three Hills, whilst the neighbouring village of Linton (2.5 miles) has a wider range of amenities. Day to day shopping can be found in the attractive market town of Saffron Walden (6.5 miles), which also has an art gallery, cinema and leisure centre. The university city of Cambridge offers a comprehensive range of shops and services including a variety of shopping facilities, restaurants, and extensive cultural amenities as well as the university.

A wide range of independent schools are available in Cambridge, including the renowned King's College, St John's College, The Leys, The Stephen Perse and The Perse. Saffron Walden offers Dame Bradbury's (part of the Stephen Perse Foundation). There are local state schools at Linton and various other independent schools are also readily accessible such as Oundle, Uppingham and Felsted.

All distances and times are approximate.

Description

Formerly the Gardener's cottage to the nearby Dower House, this extended Victorian property is offered to the market for the first time in decades. Situated within a Conservation Area, the cottage has part brick and part pebble dash elevations beneath a tiled roof with barge boards and attractive ridge tiles, is slightly elevated from the road and has access over a neighbouring drive to the open bay garage and parking area. The architect, Peter Boston, designed the extensions to be in keeping externally with the original cottage but internally different. Now with a light and spacious sitting room with a bay window overlooking the garden and a large, vaulted principal bedroom above, and an extended and part vaulted kitchen, the cottage was transformed in the early 1990's.

The reception hall opens to an inner hall with an open tread turning staircase, an oak turned handrail and glazing to the rear. To the right is a light and spacious triple aspect sitting room with a window seat within a bay window, French doors to the rear and a Jetmaster (wood and coal) fire housed within a brick chimney breast (unused from many years). A double aspect dining room/snug is part of the original cottage with exposed brickwork and woodburner (unused) and a part glazed door from the hall leads to a kitchen/dining room. Fitted with a range of limed oak cupboards, drawers and a dresser within the vaulted dining area at the far end, there is an oil fired Aga, fitted fridge, dishwasher, hob, microwave, oven and sliding doors to the rear terrace. Beyond is the rear hall with back door and the utility room with quarry tiled floor with fitted cupboards, freezer and washing machine. A shower/cloakroom completes the accommodation on the ground floor. On the first floor there are three bedrooms. The principal suite of vaulted bedroom and fitted dressing area with an en suite bathroom is particularly impressive with its bay window and window seat overlooking the garden. There are two further bedrooms, one with a vanity area and a family bathroom.

Outside, the drive leads to a parking area and open fronted part brick and weatherboarded detached garage with separate rear access, a storeroom and stairs up to a super STUDIO/OFFICE, designed as an art studio with good light, lots of work surfaces and storage. Beyond is a second room with sink (NB water has been disconnected). The large, south facing gardens are a delightful feature of the property, set behind a brick and flint wall, they are mainly laid to lawn with a variety of mature trees (Cherry, Birch, Field Maple, Sycamore and Willows). There is a gate and path to the front door and rear terrace beside the house, and at the far end of the garden is a natural POND (which can dry out on the summer months). In all 1.06 acres.