Detached house for sale in Thornton Road, Girton, Cambridge CB3

A detached family home with expansive accommodation over two floors in need of general updating, generous mature gardens with a plot in excess of 0.26 acre. Potential to extend and for a separate dwelling to the rear (STP). No chain.

The property is approached over a gravel driveway providing off-street parking and access to the garage, the front garden is planted with an array of mature plants, shrubs and trees, and secure gated access to the side.

Storm porch leading to the part-glazed front door, a spacious entrance hall with stairs rising to the first floor, cloakroom with two-piece suite, three reception rooms, a study to the front of the home and a sitting room enjoying a dual aspect with windows to the front and rear, dining room with French doors leading to the rear garden. The kitchen/breakfast room again enjoys views of the garden to the rear, the room is L-shaped and fitted with a range of wall and base level units, ample work surfaces, a range of integrated appliances and additional spaces, wall-mounted gas boiler. Deep under stairs storage cupboard, door to the side aspect.

First-floor landing, fitted storage cupboard, master bedroom with dressing room and en-suite bathroom, guest bedroom with en-suite shower room, two further bedrooms, family bathroom with a two-piece suite and separate WC.

The rear garden is of particular note, generous in size and fully enclosed ideal for family life, providing a high degree of privacy, a good-sized lawn and an array of mature plants, shrubs and trees. To the bottom of the garden, there is potential for a building plot with access off The Brambles (STP).

Girton is the only local village that is home to and shares a name with a Cambridge College. It’s at the west edge of the city, so super easy to access, but still looks and feels like a traditional village with its own identity.

You can hop on a bus or your bike and head straight into town, or enjoy the village’s many facilities of its own – including pubs and restaurants, a local shop, a primary school (that feeds into Impington vc, about 2.5 miles away), nursery, tennis club and golf club.

Choose Girton if you want to get into the city easily but don’t like the idea of urban or suburban living

There is a Sainsbury’s supermarket in the new suburb of Eddington (about a mile away) plus a further primary school and a small Co-op by Girton College, which is open 7 days a week until late. Many of the city's private schools are on the west side of the city, so are easily accessible and Eddington also has an award-winning performance and community space and various other facilities. Choose Girton if you want to get into the city easily but don’t like the idea of urban or suburban living, particularly if you want to get in without using the car.