Location

The village of Warboys is located amidst attractive countryside, located 4 miles south of Ramsey and 8 miles north of both Huntingdon (with fast rail links to London Kings Cross from 50 mins) and St Ives (from which fast guided commuter bus services access Cambridge city centre).


The village has attractive architecture, with a landmark Clock Tower in its centre, built to commemorate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria. It supports a range of amenities, including a selection of shops and a Post Office, a pharmacy and GP and dental surgeries, along with a library, tea-rooms and public houses. It is a decent sized village.


The nearby market towns of Ramsey, Huntingdon and St Ives offer a wider selection of shopping with a mix of high street names and independent stores, restaurants and eateries as well as leisure centres offering a variety of facilities and activities.


Warboys has good road links to the A1(M) and the A14, as well as to the aforementioned rail and bus commuter links to London and Cambridge.


Warboys has its own primary school, Warboys Community Primary School, which is Ofsted rated “Good”, which feeds into secondary education at Abbey College in Ramsey, St Ivo Academy in St Ives and St Peter’s School in Huntingdon - all of which are Ofsted rated “Good”. In addition, the independent, Kimbolton School; King’s, Ely and The Peterborough School are each 19 miles equidistant from the village.

Description

This attractive mid-18th century house, with an early 19th century façade, is set back behind wrought iron railings, with a gravelled carriage driveway that provides a wonderful sense of arrival.   


The elegant house offers spacious and accommodation, with a sense of light and volume. It extends to the rear along the entire length of its south facing garden, where it adjoins the ancillary bakehouse, wood store and garage outbuildings, which frame two sides of of a courtyard, to which a secondary shared driveway to the north accesses.


The attractive family home blends graceful period features with modern and contemporary finishes, offering beautifully proportioned accommodation over three floors, within attractively landscaped gardens.


Accommodation:
The east facing front door, beneath fanlight, opens into an elegant clay tile floored reception hallway, whilst the principal reception rooms, which all offer symmetry and scale, largely line the southern face of the house, overlooking the garden.


The hardwood floored dining room has a period fireplace. The dual aspect living room, fitted bookcases and a fireplace framed by attractive arched sash windows. The sitting room, an almost full height bay and an oyster shell brushed steel fireplace. These are all elegant rooms, with impact.


The oak floored breakfast room and modern kitchen, fitted with a bespoke suite, offer a lovely and convivial family core to the home, with access to the garden, pantry and boot room.


Accessed through the dining room, a gym (within what was a Doctor's dispensary earlier in this building's history) and a laundry/utility complete the ground floor accommodation.


The first floor dual-aspect drawing room offers elevated roofscape views over the town. The impressive principal bedroom suite combines spacious bedroom, dressing room and en suite, and has its own secondary staircase that descends to the kitchen. Double bedrooms two and three are served by a full suite family bathroom, whilst there are three further double bedrooms, one of which is currently used as a large office, and a second family bathroom at second floor level.


There is also considerable additional storage space within the house, including an easily accessed attic space.


Outside
The Chestnuts is set back behind a high brick wall to the garden and attractive wrought iron fenced and gated in and out main driveway to the front door. A secondary driveway to the north, which serves two other houses to the rear, provides access to The Chestnut's rear courtyard, with additional parking and its three garage outbuildings.


The garden is principally laid to lawn, with mature trees, shrubs and flowering borders, which ensure a good degree of privacy, with terraces for entertaining to the south of the house. It is ideal for entertaining, with access to and from the house into the breakfast room and kitchen.


To the front, the carriage driveway connects with gravelled and cobbled terraces around the north side of the house, to BBQ areas and extensive parking, with access to the garages.