● Delightful Eco/Off-Grid Country Home (A-Rated EPC)
● Detached Four/Five Bedroom Accommodation
● Detached Double Garage and Ample Parking
● Various Outbuildings
● Attractive Mature Gardens
● Approx. 0.5 Acres In All
● Popular Rural Village Location
● Good Access to Local Amenities
● No Upward Chain
An interesting and rare opportunity to purchase a delightful detached four/five bedroom family home with excellent eco credentials and offering off-grid living, set in approx. 0.5 acres of mature gardens, with double garage and outbuildings, in an accessible village location.
The Homestead is a delightful country home offering an enviable eco lifestyle. The property is entirely self-sufficient with no mains services. There are solar panels and a wind turbine suppling power, and a water harvesting/treatment system. This is the perfect opportunity for those wishing to live an off-grid existence in a modern and comfortable home.
The property is situated in the popular village of Saracens Head. Holbeach is just a short drive away and offers a good range of facilities and amenities including schooling, doctors' surgery, shopping etc. For commuters the A17 is within easy reach.
The property is now offered for sale due to a downsize, with no upward chain.
Price Guide £490,000 Ref: AR8300
THE RESIDENCE
An attractive detached four/five bedroom cottage with double glazing and dual-fuel heating with underfloor heating to the ground and first floors. The accommodation in brief is as follows, please refer to the floor plan for approximate room sizes.
To the rear of the house a stable style door leads into an L-shaped Kitchen/Dining/Reception Room which is a bright and comfortable family/entertaining space with wooden flooring and stairs rising to the First Floor and a front door. A woodburner with a back boiler is set in a brick fireplace on a quarry tile hearth. Sliding doors lead through to a Sun Room which has a continuation of the wooden flooring, windows to three sides and an external door out to the Patio Area.
The Kitchen Area comprises a range of wall and base units with worksurfaces, 1½ bowl sink with mixer tap, gas hob (LPG), electric range cooker, plumbing for a dishwasher and integral fridge freezer. A door leads off to a Utility Room with tiled flooring, plumbing for washing machine and space for further white goods. There are two cupboards housing the equipment for the power/batteries for power storage and water supply provision.
Off the Utility there is a Downstairs Shower Room with shower cubicle, wash hand basin, WC and tiled walls and flooring.
To the First Floor there are Four Bedrooms and a Family Bathroom with a freestanding bath, wash hand basin, walk-in shower, WC heated towel rail, tiled flooring and part tiled walls.
To the Second Floor the Main Bedroom has generous eaves storage and an Ensuite with a WC and wash hand basin. A Store Room in the eaves contains the rainwater collection tank.
Price Guide £490,000Ref: AR8300
OUTSIDE, OUTBUILDINGS & LAND
From the road a double entrance driveway with electric gates, leads onto a generous parking area and a Detached Double Garage with up and over door and two personnel doors. The garage has Twenty Solar Panels (each 400W) located on the roof with invertors, and a diesel generator and diesel storage tank.
Adjoining the garage there is a Store utilised for logs, and a well water storage tank that supplies the gardens.
There are Two Storage Areas for rainwater - an overground brick tank near the garage which collects off of the large garage roof and holds approx. 12,000 litres, and an underground tank on the north side of the house that collects off of the house roof and holds approx. 7,000 litres.
Adjoining the house there is an Outbuilding with power and light, and a loft space housing the heat exchange system, as well as a Brick Outhouse where the bottled LPG gas tanks are stored.
A Patio Area to the rear of the house with a brick Pizza Oven provides a lovely Outside Entertaining Space.
The beautiful, mature gardens are located to the side and rear of the house and are mainly laid to lawn with a wide variety of ornamental trees and shrubs, a selection of fruit trees and soft fruit bushes, and a Stunning Sunken Patio.
Overlooking the Ornamental Pond there is a Container Building with power and light which has a good standard of finish with wooden panelling to the interior, a kitchen area with fitted units, a bedroom and a dry toilet. This has been used by the current owners for guest accommodation. A Decking Area to the front is a peaceful spot to sit, looking out over the pond and gardens.
Behind the Garage there is a fenced Vegetable Garden with a Wind Turbine and a Brick Barn used for storage.
Within the gardens there is a further bank of Fifteen Free-Standing Solar Panels (each 400w), and also a Compost Heap, Polytunnel, Timber Shed, a Raised Timber Summerhouse with dry toilet and a small Swimming/Plunge Pool.
A separate five bar gate access leads from the garden back out to the road.
IN ALL APPROX. 0.5 ACRES
(About 0.2 Hectares)
Price Guide £490,000Ref: AR8300
