Huntingdon Road, Girton, Cambridge

Thorpe is a handsome double-fronted, part tile-hung period family home offering almost 3,000 sq ft of light-filled, flexible accommodation arranged predominantly over two floors.

Configured to provide a practical and cohesive living and entertaining space, with wooden flooring throughout much of the ground floor, the layout flows from a welcoming entrance hall with a useful cloaks cupboard and cloakroom. It comprises a large drawing room with a fireplace and a door to the rear terrace, and a generous sitting room with exposed beams, an exposed brick open fireplace, fitted storage, and a rear-aspect bay incorporating French doors. Adjacent is a spacious dining room with fitted storage and a walk-in pantry, which in turn opens into a vaulted conservatory with French doors to the terrace. Also on the ground floor is a dual-aspect kitchen with a range of wall and base units, modern integrated appliances, and a door to the front aspect.

Stairs rise from the entrance hall to the first floor, which offers a principal bedroom with fitted eaves storage and Jack and Jill access to an en suite bathroom, also accessible from the landing. There are three additional double bedrooms on this floor, each with a useful sink, along with a modern family bathroom featuring a bath, separate shower, and a door leading to an attic room, suitable for a variety of uses. A separate staircase from the landing leads to the property's remaining vaulted double bedroom on the second floor, which also benefits from fitted eaves storage.

Screened by mature hedging and having plenty of kerb appeal, the property is approached through low-level gates over a gravelled driveway with large lawned turning circle, providing private parking and giving access to a single garage and two external stores and a gardener’s WC attached to the house, double wooden side gates giving access to further parking and a detached double garage. The well-maintained garden surrounding the property on three sides is laid mainly to level lawn bordered by well-stocked shrub beds and features numerous seating areas, a garden store, a rectangular pond and a generous block-paved rear terrace, ideal for entertaining and al fresco dining. The whole is screened by mature hedging and trees.

Located to the north-west of the city and home to the University’s eponymous college, Girton village has amenities including a church, community centre, GP surgery, osteopath, florist, garden centres, pubs, restaurants, nursery and primary schools, a recreation ground and golf club. Cambridge offers an excellent range of independent and high street stores, bars, cafés and restaurants together with cultural amenities. Communications links are excellent: the village benefits from bus routes into the city, the M11 and A14 give access to major regional centres and the motorway network and Cambridge mainline station (3.7 miles) offers excellent rail links to central London (London Kings Cross 53 minutes, London Liverpool Street 1 hour 8 minutes) in less than an hour.