4 bedroom detached house for sale

This picturesque 18th century detached stone cottage is full of traditional character and charm, set in a superb plot of circa two acres of family gardens and paddock land with stables perfect for an equestrian family with excellent local hacking on the doorstep.


Located within the conservation area of the popular village of Hemswell, a quiet Lincolnshire village around eight miles from the town of Gainsborough and only thirteen miles from the Cathedral City of Lincoln.

Step Inside

A centrally located entrance door opens into the hall with a spindled staircase to the first floor, the hall is flanked by the two forward facing reception rooms. The first is a spacious home study and music room, which offers potential for a ground floor bedroom, with an exposed brick fireplace incorporating wood burning stove. To the rear of the hall is a modern shower room with three-piece suite.

The sitting room has a brick fireplace with an open grate and would be ideal to be used as a formal dining room if required, being located from the kitchen. A squared arch provides an open flow into the forward-facing comfortable lounge set around a tiled fireplace with an open grate.

To the rear of the property is a spacious kitchen diner, fitted with a shaker kitchen with maple doors, to include a range of integrated appliances, with an informal entrance door. To the dining side of the room are French doors opening out to the patio.

Step Upstairs

The front landing is flanked by two double bedrooms. To the rear of the landing is the principal double bedroom, with a direct access to a fourth double bedroom, currently utilised as a large dressing room. The family bathroom has a modern three-piece suite with a shower over bath.

Step Outside

The cottage is fronted by a low stone wall boundary with lawned garden with planted border. A gated entrance opens into a gravel drive.

To the side of the drive is the property’s informal entrance into the kitchen which is fronted by a spacious paved patio which also is accessed from the dining area of the kitchen. Attached to the kitchen is a brick outbuilding housing the biomass boiler. Adjacent is an impressive outside covered entertaining area with barbecue and pizza oven.

The drive opens to an ample parking area which accesses the single garage, with up and over door. The attached outbuilding, accessible via double uPVC doors, opening into a home office, which would be perfect as a teenage retreat. The office is equipped with separate telephone and broadband connection. To the side of the garage is a storage outbuilding.

A large lawned family garden, including a large timber summer house with power, light, wifi and electric heating, arranged over two areas currently used to provide a home gym and a guest bedroom with double doors opening to the garden.

Equestrian

The equestrian facilities include an all-weather menage with a sand and fibre base with floodlighting, there is a gated access from the family garden directly to the stable block. The stable block has power, water and briefly consists of a timber stable with attached hay barn, tack storage shed and a detached stone stable with pantile roof fronted by hardstanding. The paddock is currently split into two which is fully post and railed fenced surrounded by mature trees and shrubs.

Note

To the side of the initial entrance drive is a stone wall with a gate opening into the vegetable garden with greenhouse a fence divides an area currently housing a chicken coup which has a separate gated entrance this land is NOT included in the sale and does not belong to our vendor there is a possibility of aquiring this by seperate sale with the owner