by Bidwells
Harston, Cambridgeshire, CB22 7NR
3, 4 & 5 bedroom houses
£595,000 - £1,600,000
Beech Gardens is a new-build development of just nine three, four and five-bedroom homes off Church Street in Harston, a South Cambridgeshire village five miles south of Cambridge. The homes are arranged around a private courtyard and back onto open countryside, and each is heated by an air source heat pump with solar PV panels and an EV charger. The homes are complete and ready to move into, and each of them are EPC A rated.
Key features
- Private development of nine new-build homes off Church Street, Harston
- Three, four and five-bedroom houses
- Ready to move into now
- Backing onto open countryside
- EPC rating A
- Air source heat pump, with underfloor heating on the ground floor and radiators on the first floor
- Solar PV roof panels and an EV charger
- Quartz kitchen worktops and integrated appliances
- Flooring included throughout
- Freehold, with a 10-year LABC new-home warranty
- Cambridge South Station around 2 miles away and Foxton railway station about 1.6 miles away, with easy access to the M11, A10 and Addenbrooke’s Hospital/Biomedical campus
THE DEVELOPMENT
Beech Gardens is a small, private development set around a quiet courtyard just off Church Street. With only nine homes, it has the feel of a village close rather than a housing estate, and the homes look directly out over open countryside.
The homes range from three-bedroom houses of around 1,200 square feet to five-bedroom detached homes of over 3,000 square feet. Each is set on a generous plot, with landscaped front gardens, paved patios and seeded rear gardens.
Layouts are designed around family living. Ground floors centre on a kitchen, family and dining room opening onto the rear garden, with a separate living room and a downstairs cloakroom. The larger homes add a separate dining room, utility room and pantry, and a sitting room with a wood-burning stove. Upstairs, principal bedrooms have en suite shower rooms and built-in wardrobes, with a walk-through dressing area in the five-bedroom homes. Family bathrooms have both a bath and a separate shower.
The homes are traditionally built, with insulated brick and block cavity walls and beam and block ground floors. Running costs are kept down by an air source heat pump, solar PV panels and an EPC A rating, and every home has an EV charger.
SPECIFICATION
Kitchen: quartz worktops with matching upstands; integrated appliances; larger homes feature kitchens supplied and fitted by PearceSeven, with Siemens ovens including a steam oven, a combination microwave, dishwasher and wine cooler, a Bora externally vented hob, a Fisher & Paykel fridge freezer and Blanco sink
Heating and energy: air source heat pump, underfloor heating to the ground floor and radiators to the first floor, solar PV panels, EPC A
Flooring: luxury vinyl tiles to the hall, cloakroom, kitchen, dining room and utility areas; carpet to living rooms, stairs, landings and bedrooms
Living room (five-bedroom homes): Stovax wood-burning stove with a black granite hearth
Bedrooms: en suite to the principal bedroom, with some homes having built in wa
Outside: landscaped front gardens with paved patios, seeded rear gardens, EV charger; double garage to the five-bedroom homes
Warranty: 10-year LABC
WHY HARSTON?
Harston is the first village south of Cambridge on the A10, surrounded by open countryside with footpaths and walks along the River Rhee. It has a good range of everyday amenities for its size: a village store with a Post Office, a doctors’ surgery with dispensary on Church Street, a village hall, a pub, a restaurant, a petrol station and a large recreation ground with a children’s playground.
Harston & Newton Community Primary School is in the village, and the village falls within the catchment for Melbourn Village College. Cambridge’s independent schools, including The Perse, The Leys and St Faith’s, are within easy reach.
WHAT IS HARSTON CLOSE TO?
Cambridge city centre is about five miles north. Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Cambridge Biomedical Campus are a short drive away, as are the science parks at Melbourn, Granta Park and Great Chesterford. Royston is around nine miles to the south.
Foxton Station is around 1.6 miles away and connects into the new Cambridge South Station, taking around 6 to 8 minutes journey time - an ideal connection for those working at Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Biomedical Campus. The onward journey takes you to Cambridge Central and Cambridge North - for the science park. In addition, from Foxton the service is into London King’s Cross. For road travel, the M11 and A10 give road links to Cambridge, London and Stansted Airport, and there is a regular bus service into Cambridge.
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