The Green, Steeple Morden, Royston

Tucks Cottage is a picture-perfect home which combines characterful period features alongside contemporary interior design. The enhanced living environment offers light-filled reception areas and a versatile layout ideally suited to modern family lifestyles. Showcasing exposed beams and an inglenook fireplace, the triple aspect sitting room provides a relaxed setting, whilst the adjacent flexible-use family room offers the warming ambience of a wood-burning stove. The impressive open-plan kitchen and dining room is filled with natural light courtesy of a vast lantern skylight and a wall of bi-folds creating a seamless link to the garden. Fitted with modern, panelled cabinetry, topped with stone work surfaces, the kitchen features a Belfast sink and an island unit which forms a functional divide to the dining area. The bedroom accommodation is arranged over two separate, first floor settings, with a stairway rising directly into a guest bedroom with feature arched window and access to an en suite bathroom. A further staircase leads up to three well-proportioned bedrooms and a stylishly-appointed family bathroom, whilst a further deluxe bathroom on the ground floor level offers additional facilities.

Located on a quiet no–through road and set in 0.4 acres, the property has pretty picket fencing and a high-level garden wall that forms the boundaries to two sides, with the beautifully-maintained garden offering a tranquil outdoor sanctuary with immediate access to rural walks in the countryside beyond the plot. The grounds are laid to expanses of lawn, with low-brick walls enclosing paved terracing alongside two aspects of the home which offer opportunities for al fresco dining. Included on the rear south west facing patio is a large covered seating area perfect for entertaining with lighting and electricity, along side this is a summer house. Steps rise to a second setting with flower beds filled with attractive floral and colourful shrubs. To finish the garden there is the added bonus of two storage sheds along with a log store. A gravel drive offers the parking and leads to the garage, whilst a pedestrian gate opens onto a gravelled pathway which skirts the exterior of the house and gives access to the entrance porch.

Steeple Morden is a picturesque village situated to the south-west of the City of Cambridge and within easy reach of the popular town of Royston which offers a range of shopping, leisure and cultural facilities as well as regular train services into London and to Cambridge. For links to the major road networks, the A1M and M11 are easily accessible, and London Stansted and Luton Airports are within reach for travel further afield. Schooling in the area includes well-regarded independent options at St. Edmund’s College, Heath Mount, Haileybury College and in Cambridge, The Perse, The Leys and St Faiths.