Location

The property is well located for access to Addenbrooke's and the biomedical campus (1.5 miles), the city centre (1.8 miles) and to the M11 at Junction 11(1.5 miles).

The excellent private and state schooling within the city is also easily accessible, along with the Botanic Gardens.

Cambridge mainline railway station (1.8 miles) offers trains to both London Liverpool Street (70 minutes) and London Kings Cross (43 minutes). Waitrose superstore 0.9 miles, Stansted Airport 28 miles.

Description

No 2 Nightingale Cottages presents a rare opportunity to purchase a beautiful Victorian cottage, dating back to the 1860's with all the convenience of a modern insulated, low maintenance home.

It has been sympathetically extended together with a complete restoration and refurbishment programme, and now features high quality fixtures and fittings throughout, including a handmade kitchen with stone worktops, built in appliances, ground floor cloakroom, two double bedrooms and a family bathroom.

With gardens to the front and rear the property also offers a private driveway with parking for 2/3 vehicles and secure lockable cycle storage.

A notable feature is located in the enclosed rear garden, being a self- contained 121 Sqft new build fully insulated garden studio which offers versatile extra day room accommodation complete with Cat 6 cabling and sliding doors on a paved terrace.


Specification

Kitchen
- Bespoke, hand-made kitchen with flat-fronted units
- Quartz worktops and matching upstands in neutral 'White Storm' colour
- Bosch Hob with Elica extractor
- Under-mounted chrome sink
- Integrated Bosch appliances: Oven, Dishwasher and full height, built-in Fridge/Freezer unit
- Aquabion Water Conditioner
- LED strip lighting to underside of wall unit

Heating and water system
- New gas-fired, efficient low emission combi boiler (Ideal Vogue Max Combi 26)
- Underfloor heating in part ground floor and radiators elsewhere
- Outside tap for garden studio

Flooring
- Engineered oak flooring to ground floor
- Porcelanosa tiled flooring to ground floor WC and washing machine cupboard
- Karndean laminate in bathroom
- Wool loop pile carpet to bedrooms, stairs and landing

Electrical
- Category 6 Data wiring throughout, including to the garden studio
- Aerial sockets to reception room and bedrooms with digital aerial
- Data points to reception room and in left bedroom
- LED down lighters throughout, with dimming switches
- External lights to front and rear
- External waterproof power socket
- Wired smoke alarms

Construction and electrical finishes
- Rear extension and garden studio designed by RIBA Award winning architects, Haysom Ward Miller (RIBA House of the Year Winners 2018, RIBA National Award 2022)
- High quality Sunflex 55 aluminium bi-fold doors in the kitchens from ID Systems
- New double glazed sash windows at front
- Bike and bin stores to the front of the properties, built with steel frames, green roofs and attractive cedar clad doors
- Attractive original Victorian fireplace retained on ground floor and front bedroom

Bathrooms, ensuites and cloakroom
- Contemporary white sanitaryware, including concealed cistern WC
- Chrome mixer taps, shower and bath fittings
- Bath with shower over and screen
- Vanity units with resin worktop and basin
- Electric chrome towel rail
- Electric underfloor heating

Garden studio
- Creative space with vaulted ceiling suitable for a wide variety of uses - home office, gym, games room etc
- High quality facing brickwork and slate tiled roof
- Aluminium Velfac RIBO sliding door to front elevation
- Access onto Porcelanosa paved terrace
- Category 6 wiring back to house to enable Wi-Fi coverage

Landscaping
- Permeable block paving driveway with gravel parking area for 2-3 cars
- Porcelain front paths and rear patios from Porcelanosa
- Turfed front garden
- Horizontal Venetian style fencing from Jacksons Fencing