Location

Emmanuel Road is situated right in the heart of the historic city centre of Cambridge, overlooking Christ's Pieces. It is just 0.2 of a mile away the Grand Arcade shopping centre, half a mile from the Grafton Centre and just 100 yards from the central bus station with services to Cambridge train station and beyond.

The station is 1.1 miles away and provides regular services to London Liverpool Street and London Kings Cross, with the fastest journeys taking from 50 minutes, as well as to Stansted Airport.

The city offers a wide variety of cultural and recreational amenities, including the Fitzwilliam museum, punting rentals along the river Cam, and the University colleges, 31 in all.

For schooling, Emmanuel Road is in catchment for St Matthews Primary School and Parkside Community College, with further independent schooling for all ages available including The Perse, The Leys, St Mary's and the Stephen Perse Foundation. There are also Hills Road and Long Road Sixth Form colleges (1.5 miles and 3 miles distant respectively).

All distances and times are approximate.

Description

9 Emmanuel Road is a Grade II listed tall, central townhouse constructed of grey gault brick elevations with original small pane sash windows beneath a slate roof. Constructed around 1850 the property has accommodation extending to just over 2,500 sq ft laid out over four floors. Accessed via a painted panelled entrance door, the hall has wide stripped pine floorboards and a wide archway. The study is situated to the front of the property and has tall ceilings and original moulded ceiling cornicing. The sellers use the room behind as a bedroom which has an en-suite WC and wash basin. The kitchen/breakfast room, which has a two oven 'burnt orange' Aga, was refitted in recent times with a good range of white cabinetry and stainless steel working surfaces. For the warmer months there is an integrated stainless steel oven and four burner gas hob along with ample space for a breakfast table and American style fridge/freezer. A wide arch 'extends' into the glazed garden/dining room and has a glazed vaulted roof with sun blinds and three pairs of glazed double doors to the walled courtyard. The lower ground floor has a front bedroom extending the full width of the property , a sitting area and kitchenette along with a bath/wet room to the rear, this could also be used as guest annexe or those looking to derive an additional income from renting out and has more recently been used as an AirBNB.

The first floor drawing room extends the full width of the property and has two tall sash windows overlooking Christs Pieces, there are high ceilings and moulded ceiling cornicing. Tall folding doors gives access to the sitting room which has an attractive cast iron fireplace, sash window to the rear and both rooms have wide stripped pine floors. To the rear is a further double bedroom with built in wardrobe and has dual aspect, a shower room is adjacent which has a slate tiled floor, space saving corner basin and oversized shower cubicle.

At second floor are two further bedrooms, the main bedroom to the front, again with two tall sashes has a vaulted ceiling with painted roof timbers and floorboards, cast iron fireplace and two large double wardrobes, there is a further shower similarly styled to the shower room below.

The walled courtyard has been recently landscaped in 2024 with raised wooden planters, and is a real sun trap. There is ample space for eating out and entertaining along with a shared side pedestrian passage from Emmanuel Road. The property which has a gas fired central heating system retains many period features and has a residents/visitors permit parking scheme in operation, can be seen in greater detail on the attached floorplans.