High Street

Kimbolton
Cambs

Selling Price: £540,000 Freehold

Oliver Russell Property Consultants are delighted to bring to the market, a 3 bedroom Grade II Listed cottage situated in the heart of the historic small market town of Kimbolton , the property has the added benefit of providing a self contained one bedroom cottage, where the current owners run a highly successful Bed & Breakfast business from. It is understood that the property was substantially refurbished in the late 1990's with a new roof, new electrics, new heating system and has been sympathetically upgraded over recent years to provide a period home with modern practical living space. The house is within walking distance of Kimbolton School and has the amenities of the High Street on its door step.

Entrance & Walled Garden:
Accessed from a door directly onto the High Street, an enclosed passageway leads to the garden gate of 1 Carters Yard. The delightful walled garden has well stocked borders with many traditional cottage garden plants and a number of climbing fruit trees, to the rear of the garden is a lawn area and an enclosed dining and seating area. The oil tank is behind wooden screens to the rear.

Kimbolton:
Kimbolton provides an eclectic mixture of homes and businesses with numerous independent retail operators, a Grade I Listed Church, two Public Houses with restaurants, a dentist, butchers, hardware store and chemist. The retail coverage has been improved with a small Budgens Supermarket opening on Thrapston Road, the village also has its own Doctors surgery and Medical Centre.

At one end of the village is Kimbolton Castle an imposing building of national historic importance with links to King Harrold, Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. The former seat of the Dukes of Manchester the Castle since 1951 has been a school.

Education:
Kimbolton hosts the leading independent Kimbolton School, providing pre prep, prep and senior schooling. The town also provides the Kimbolton Primary School State primary school.

Alternative independent schools are available at Bedford (14 miles) including Bedford School, Bedford Girls School, Bedford Modern School, Rushmoor and St Andrews Schools. Oundle School is approximately 18 miles to the North West. State secondary schools, Longsands and Hinchingbrook are situated in St Neots ( 9 miles) and Huntingdon (7 miles) respectively.

Location:
The property is situated off the High Street in the centre of the small market town of Kimbolton and is approximately 8 miles to the larger market town of St Neots, where extensive retail and leisure facilities are available with the addition of a mainline railway station, providing regular direct access services to London Kings Cross in approximately 45 minutes.

Kitchen-Diner: 3.99m (13ft 1in) x 3.94m (12ft 11in)
Door to fitted hand built kitchen with a range of base level units with oak work tops and a butler sink. Space for washing machine ,dishwasher, and fridge -freezer there is a Rangemaster with double oven and 5 ring electric hob, with Fired Earth tiles splash backs. There are windows to the front and rear, Jim Lawrence ceiling mounted spotlights, a central ceiling beam and period floor brick floor coverings.

The kitchen provides space for informal dining for 6 diners, and houses a large pantry with wooden shelving.

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Front door to



Annex Hall:
Period floor bricks, window to side elevation, radiator

Annex Kitchen:
Bijou kitchen, with tiled floor, radiator, tongue and groove paneling, butler sink, oak work top, eye level mounted storage, space for fridge.



Annex Snug: 3.91m (12ft 10in) x 3.18m (10ft 5in)
Sliding sash windows to front aspect, period floor bricks and brick built fire place, Jim Lawrence wall lights, and original brick built “copper” washer still in place, storage cupboard.



Annex Dining Room: 4.5m (14ft 9in) x 2.16m (7ft 1in)
Informal dining room, with period reclaimed floor bricks, windows to side elevations, radiator.

Stairs to first floor



Annex Bedroom: 5.99m (19ft 8in) x 3.91m (12ft 10in)
Large double bedroom with sliding sash windows to front elevation, carpets, radiators, feature beam.



Annex Dressing Room:
Dressing room-walk in wardrobe, sliding sash window to front aspect, cloak storage, radiator.

Annex En-Suite Shower Room:
Recently re-fitted generous en-suite shower room, oversized curved shower enclosure with double large rose head chrome shower unit. WC, wash hand basin, Fired Earth tiling and splash backs. Obscured glazed window to side aspect.