This beautifully updated city home offers spacious living with charming original features, including period internal doors and fireplaces. The current owners have made extensive improvements, including a complete rewiring, a new eco-friendly boiler, central heating system with new radiators and pipes, solar panels, and a new roof.
Approached via a driveway with off-street parking for two cars and an electric car charger, the property also boasts a classic 1930s entrance porch with leaded windows, framed by a stunning wisteria. Inside, the reception hall leads to stairs to the first floor and a handy understairs cupboard. The sitting room is generously sized, with a bay window that fills the space with natural light, while a newly installed wood burner serves as a cosy focal point. The dining room, located at the rear, features French doors that open onto the garden. An open fireplace, tiled in the original style, is complemented by fitted shelves and cupboards. The kitchen, which completes the ground floor, is fitted with a range of wall and base units, offering plenty of work surfaces and space for appliances.
The first-floor landing provides access to the loft, which has a pull-down ladder and is partially boarded, with extensive insulation and a 25-year warranty (from 2019). The three double bedrooms are comfortably sized, with bedrooms one and three featuring built-in wardrobes. The family bathroom has been updated with a modern three-piece suite, including a shower over the bath.
The well-maintained rear garden includes a patio area perfect for entertaining and alfresco dining, while a separate seating area at the back provides a peaceful spot to relax. The remainder of the garden is mainly laid to lawn, bordered by shrubs, and includes a timber shed for additional storage. A path between numbers 297 and 299, with gated access to each garden, leads to Cherry Hinton Road.
An updated and improved 1930's bay fronted terrace home with three double bedrooms and beautiful, well maintained mature gardens, with the benefit of off road parking and solar panels. The property is within easy walking distance of Addenbrookes Hospital and the Cambridge Railway Station.
Cherry Hinton Road is an established residential area that links the main thoroughfares of Hills Road and Perne Road. There are local shops on Cherry Hinton Road including doctors and dentist surgeries, restaurants, pubs and takeaways. Free parking is available on nearby Lichfield Road.
Coleridge Park is just moments away with a range of sports facilities, children's play area and splash pool.
Mill Road with its independent shops, delis and restaurants is a minute or two cycle ride away. Cambridge Train Station is around five minutes and the Addenbrooke's Campus less than 10 minutes on a bike.
The Cambridge Leisure Complex, which provides restaurants, a gym, a cinema and The Junction is less than a 10 minutes walk from the property. Cherry Hinton Hall Gardens are a short walk away, which has a new play area and 2 paddling pools proving to be a great family destination.
Schooling is available at Morley, a good Primary and Junior school with secondary provision at The Netherhall, which is Ofsted rated as good. Hills Road and Long Road Sixth Form Colleges are also within easy reach of the property. Many of the city's private schools are within easy reach, as are Hills and Long Road Sixth Form colleges.
