9 Bed Detached House, Motivated Seller, Newmarket, CB8 7LZ £2,500,000

There is a guest bedroom with adjacent bathroom together with two further bedrooms from the secondary staircase, a family bathroom and a shower room.

The second floor offers exceptional versatility with five additional rooms from two separate access points– three (including an en suite bathroom) are approached from the /dressing room of the principal suite and two more from a second staircase with cloakroom and small kitchenette.

These five rooms have been used as either bedrooms or a hobbies room but provide potential office spaces or further guest accommodation as required.

Attached to one side of the main house is an independently accessed three storey cottage which provides potential for secondary accommodation with a kitchen/breakfast room, sitting/dining room, up to four bedrooms and two bathrooms over the upper two floors. In addition, there is a converted “coach house” cottage with independent calor gas central heating and a kitchen, cloakroom, sitting/dining room, two bedrooms, and a bathroom.

The property also features a wonderful variety of useful outbuildings including three garages which are attached to the Coach House cottage, a barn/machine store, stables, a tack room, feed store, kennels, an aviary and a Grade II listed 18th-century dovecote.

The mature gardens are an absolute delight with a terrace beside the house (part sunken beside the kitchen and garden rooms) leading to formal lawns to the south and southeast with a meadow and paddocks beyond the ha-ha. A secluded walled vegetable garden and adjacent formal garden with clipped hedging add further appeal, creating a pleasing variety of spaces to relax.

Location

Snailwell is a small village located approximately 4km from Newmarket, the home of British horse racing and 15.5 miles from the historic city of Cambridge.

For schooling, Snailwell comes under the catchment for Fordham CofE Primary School and Soham Village College, with further independent schooling available in Cambridge including The Perse, St Faiths and The Leys to name a few.

For the commuter, Newmarket train station is 3.3 miles away with regular services into Cambridge which in turn provides services into London Kings Cross and Liverpool Street and beyond. Snailwell is well placed for the A14 which grants access to the east towards Bury St Edmunds (17.4 miles) and to the west to the A1 and the A11/M11 towards London and Stansted Airport.

The village is home to St Peter's Church and The George and Dragon Pub, with further recreational and cultural amenities available in Newmarket including the July Course and Rowley Mile Course and a variety of everyday shopping facilities. Cambridge also provides a wide array of activities including punting on the river Cam and the Fitzwilliam Museum.

All distances and times are approximate.

Square Footage: 8,190 sq ft