● Detached Three/Four Bedroom Farmhouse
● Potential One Bedroom Annexe
● Just Over 11 Acres In All
● Excellent Equestrian Facilities
● Nine Stables, Barn / Workshop, Manège & Paddock Grazing
● Ample Vehicle Parking with Space for Horsebox and Trailer
● Rural Location Within Easy Access of Peterborough
A detached four bedroom farmhouse with potential for an integral one bedroom annexe and excellent equestrian facilities including nine stables, barn, manège and paddock grazing, set in just over 11 acres in an accessible rural location.
The farmhouse is currently undergoing a variety of refurbishments and redecoration, and the integral annexe has been amalgamated into the main property but could easily be re-instated.
The property is currently utilised for the vendors own horses, though it has been utilised as a livery yard in the past. The excellent equestrian facilities comprise a total of nine stables, some timber and some brick built, with a tack room, rug room, feed room, barn/workshop, manège and grazing paddocks.
Gedney Hill offers a range of facilities and amenities including a general store, Post Office, primary school, golf course and fishing lake. The market towns of Holbeach, Wisbech and Spalding are all easily accessible by car, whilst the city of Peterborough offers a wide range of shopping and leisure facilities and has a Fastrack rail service to London’s Kings Cross station.
Price Guide £795,000 Ref: AR7947
THE RESIDENCE
A four bedroom detached house with many character features including exposed ceiling beams, benefitting from double-glazing and oil-fired central heating. The accommodation in brief is as follows, please refer to the floor plan for approximate room sizes.
The Main Entrance leads into an Entrance Hallway with tiled flooring with a Cloakroom off, with WC and wash hand basin. To the right there is an open-plan Office with tiled flooring, stairs rising to the first floor and a stable door to outside. Off this is a Conservatory with double doors to the Garden. To the first floor of this part of the house, there is a Bedroom with a dressing area, fitted wardrobes and an Ensuite with shower, wash hand basin, WC and tiled flooring. This area has previously been utilised as an Annexe and could easily be reinstated as such. Nb there are some sloping ceilings to the first floor.
To the left of the Entrance Hall there is an Inner Hallway that opens out to the main house. There is a Boot Room and a Storage Cupboard housing the two boilers that serve the house and the annexe.
A step-up leads into the spacious, open-plan Kitchen Breakfast Room which is currently undergoing renovation and has parquet flooring, large rooflights and sliding patio doors to the Garden. The Kitchen Area has a range of fitted wall and base units with worksurfaces, 1½ bowl sink with mixer tap tiled flooring and integrated appliances comprising 5 ring gas hob, electric oven and grill, dishwasher. A door leads through to a Utility Room with space for an American fridge freezer, fitted units, plumbing for washing machine, space for tumble dryer and sink.
A Further Inner Hallway with wooden flooring and coat cupboard, gives access to a downstairs Shower Room with large shower cubicle, wash hand basin, WC, heated towel rail and tiled flooring. A door from the hall leads to the Snug which has wooden flooring, a multi-fuel burner set in an exposed brick fireplace (which can also heats the hot water and heating system), fitted storage and stairs rising to the First Floor. A door leads to the comfortable Main Reception Room which has a feature fireplace (currently not in use)
To the First Floor there are Three Bedrooms the larger of which has fitted wardrobes and an Ensuite Bathroom with shower, bath, wash hand basin and WC. The second bedroom has fitted wardrobes and eaves storage. Completing the first floor there is a Cloakroom with WC and wash hand basin.
Price Guide £795,000Ref: AR7947
OUTSIDE, OUTBUILDINGS & LAND
A gated driveway from the road opens out to a generous parking area with space for horsebox, trailer etc. There are low maintenance formal gardens to the rear of the house.
EQUESTRIAN FACILITIES
A concrete yard area has two blocks of stabling, one set brick and the other of timber construction, benefiting from power and light which comprise the following:
Outbuilding One (see floorplan) brick built with power and light, comprising:
Rug Room
Two IAE Stables (former Double Garage) with rubber matting
Tack Room with fitted base units and alarm
Three Further Stables with rubber matting
Timber Barn with power and light with Feed Room to one end and Workshop to the other end with double doors and a pedestrian door.
Outbuilding Two of timber construction with overhang comprising:
Four Timber Stables with dividing grills
Further Barn utilised as a Hay and Log Store
Muck Heap Recess
Manège c. 40m x 20m with post and rail surround, resurfaced 2007.
Small Winter Turnout Paddock/ Quarantine/ Isolation Paddock
The Land is accessed via a hard track from the stable yard and is mainly level pasture with post and rail fencing with electric tape, and mature hedging. There are Seven Fields in all, with Two Field Shelters, all the paddocks have mains fed field troughs. There is also a second access into the lower fields from the road. The far paddock has direct access to excellent off-road outriding on Mole Drove.
IN ALL APPROX. 11.25 ACRES
(About 4.5 Hectares)
Price Guide £795,000Ref: AR7947
