Little Bowden Manor, Kettering Road, Market Harborough

A truly unique home offering superb and spacious accommodation over three floors, with fantastic west-facing rear gardens and a double garage, located in the heart of Little Bowden, within walking distance of shopping facilities and the railway station offering mainline access to London St Pancras in under one hour.

This stunning Grade II Listed property offers flexible and versatile accommodation boasting a wealth of original features including leaded windows, flagstone flooring and high ceilings. Planning permission is granted to replace the conservatory with an oak framed garden room.

Location - Little Bowden is an attractive and highly sought after village which forms part of Market Harborough, a thriving market town situated within some of the County’s most attractive countryside and receiving regular national accolade in the press in various quality of life surveys. The town offers a mainline railway station and a wide range of niche shopping, restaurants, leisure and sporting amenities.

Accommodation - The property is entered via a glazed and wooden front door into an entrance hall with beautiful, original flagstone flooring housing useful shoe and cloaks cupboards and the staircase to the first floor. The elegant sitting room has a leaded bay window to the rear overlooking the garden, a feature stone fireplace with a cast iron log burner, Karndean flooring and an original door with glazed full height panels to the side.

The dining kitchen has a window to the side and boasts an excellent range of painted, solid wood eye and base level units and drawers, carousel unit and bin drawer, oak preparation surfaces and a double Belfast sink. A movable, matching island unit provides further storage and oak worktop. Integrated appliances include a dishwasher and a Rangemaster oven with a five-ring hob set into a chimneybreast with a wooden extractor unit above. There is plumbing for an automatic washing machine and tumble dryer. Karndean flooring, a contemporary floor-to-ceiling radiator and inset ceiling spotlights complete the finish. French doors lead into the solid wood and brick conservatory, having Karndean flooring and French doors onto the patio.

A beautiful, original return staircase with a leaded window overlooking the garden, leads to the first floor landing. Bedroom three has inset ceiling spotlights and a window to the rear. The beautifully presented family bathroom has a window to the side, boasting heritage bathroom furniture comprising a high flush WC, a pedestal wash hand basin and a freestanding ball and claw foot bath, a radiator and heated towel rail, inset ceiling spotlights, part tiled walls and black and white Minton tiled flooring. An inner lobby housing the airing cupboard and a further linen cupboard gives access to a shower room with stripped floorboards, providing a pedestal wash hand basin and a double cubicle with rainforest and personal shower heads. Bedroom two has a beautiful, leaded bay window with window seat overlooking the rear garden, inset ceiling spotlights, two original built-in floor to ceiling storage cabinets and built-in wardrobes with cupboards over.

A return staircase with a leaded window overlooking the garden gives access to the second floor landing and bedroom four, with a Velux window to the side. A further inner lobby leads to a shower room providing a shower cubicle with rainforest and personal heads, a pedestal wash hand basin and a low flush WC, built-in shelving, part tiled walls and stripped floorboards. The master bedroom has a leaded window to the rear elevation overlooking the garden, exposed ceiling beams and inset spotlights, original built-in storage cupboards and painted floorboards.

Outside - The property is approached via a private, shared driveway into Little Bowden Manor where visitor’s parking can be found, along with the double garage, with an electric up and over door, power and lights and stairs to a storage area above (thought suitable for conversion to a home office/ hobbies room). To the rear of the property are private, fantastic-sized west-facing gardens with large patio entertaining areas set within miniature brick walled boundaries and mature flowerbeds, a garden shed, an array of mature trees and fully fenced boundaries (thought suitable for a home office or workshop).

Satnav Information : - The property’s postcode is LE16 8AW, and house number 2.

Other Information - Tenure: Freehold with residents’ estate management company, LSH Group.
Management charges: including maintenance of parking areas and group water charges.
Listed Status: Grade II, Listed Building Number. LT231434.
Conservation Area: None
Local Authority: Harborough District Council, Tax Band: F
TPO : Trees on the property are subject to a TPO and the terms of this have been complied with
Services: Offered to the market with all mains services and gas-fired central heating.
Broadband delivered to the property: Fibre (FTTP) broadband, speed unknown.
Non-standard construction: Believed to be of standard construction
Wayleaves/Rights of Way/Covenants: Right of way across the rear of the garden (rarely used).
Flooding issues in the last 5 years: None our Clients are aware of.
Accessibility: Two-storey dwelling. No accessibility modifications
Planning: Permission granted for a single-storey rear Oak room extension.
Application Number 24/00508/LBC