Detached house for sale in Swallow Hill, Thurlby, Bourne, Lincolnshire PE10

A fabulously appointed south facing house with 1930s origins, within extensive and private gardens, with tennis court and farmland views, of just over an acre

Description
Dating from 1932 and is offered for sale for the first time in almost 40 years, this extended, reconfigured and spacious modern house has a lovely flow and feel, with wonderful views of, and over, the gardens and village to farmland.

The entrance porch and hallway access the two formal reception rooms and the full-width family dining kitchen, which line the south face of the entire house, with French doors from the drawing room and kitchen to the garden terrace. A utility, cloakroom and fitted office suite are also accessed from the kitchen.

The first floor bedrooms are all large, well-proportioned doubles, accessed from a generous study/landing corridor. The principal bedroom suite incorporates a dressing room and full suite en suite bathroom. A modern wet room is conveniently placed for bedrooms three, four and five, whilst the full-suite family bathroom is alongside bedroom two. Bedrooms two and three both have fitted wardrobes.

The gardens are a delight and extend to about 1.1 acres. With sweeping lawns that lead past mature trees to the tennis court and orchard at the southern end of the garden, a woodland spinney and kitchen gardens adjoin the house to east and west. Perfectly oriented for tracking sunshine, with a high degree of privacy, the gardens incorporate a summer house/workroom, with electricity, as well as a wwii air raid shelter, beneath a large rockery bed.

Location
The serviced village of Thurlby offers a wide range of amenities, including a primary school, veterinary surgery, Post Office, park and playing fields, whilst there is also a well-thought of public house restaurant, 'The Horseshoe'.

Thurlby is under three miles from the vibrant market town of Bourne, with its well-thought of Academy and Grammar School, whilst Stamford, with its popular shops, boutiques and schools, together with Burghley House and its Great Park, is 10 miles south-west.

Closer at hand, there are fabulous rural walks from the village through the ancient and wider woodlands of Dale and Thurlby Woods, whilst Tallington Lakes offers water sports, seven miles south. The cathedral city of Peterborough, with its commuter rail services to London Kings Cross and Cambridge, from 50 minutes, is 14 miles south.

Square Footage: 3,280 sq ft

Acreage:
1.01 Acres



Additional Info
Local Authority: South Kesteven District Council

Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage. Oil fired heating, with mains gas also connected. Fibre optic broadband.