Guys Head Cottage Guys Head Road | Sutton Bridge | Lincolnshire | PE12
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A Rural Period Former Farmstead in the South Lincolnshire Marshes
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KEY FEATURES
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Originally Two Estate Cottages Extended Considerably Over Time
Benefitting From Range of Large Period Brick Barns, Requiring Repair
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Approximately 1 Acre Plot of Garden and Small Pony Paddock with Shelter
Four Receptions Rooms, Kitchen, Pantry, Utility Room and WC
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Six Bedrooms, a Dressing Room and Three Bathrooms
Total Accommodation Extends to 2935 Sq.Ft.
In a romantic, historic Fenland landscape where huge, dramatic skies echoing with the cries of sea birds, meet highly fertile, arable farmland and the coastal waters of The Wash, Guy’s Head Cottage is close to the mouth of the River Nene, sheltered by surrounding mature hedging and trees and provides a greatly extended, light and airy home dating back to the 1700s. Potentially a seven bedroom property, the upstairs rooms might easily have other uses, although downstairs, the four reception rooms offer an enormous amount of space. On a plot of just over an acre, the encompassing garden is very private and old outbuildings give opportunities for expanding the property further (subject to planning).
Ideally situated for lovers of open countryside, nature and especially bird watching, the tranquil location is by no means isolated with neighbours either side and within a few minutes’ drive of the thriving village of Sutton Bridge. The community has an Ofsted rated Good primary school, two convenience stores, a medical practice, a pharmacy, a hardware store, a hairdressers’, a fish and chip shop, a pizzeria, The Anchor Inn - a very popular pub and restaurant - amongst other independent shops and services, as well as its own golf course. Only 3 miles up the road, the market town of Long Sutton provides even more, whilst Kings Lynn in Norfolk to the east, and Wisbech in Cambridgeshire to the south, are about a 20 minute drive. For secondary education, the property is in catchment for the highly sought after grammar schools in Spalding – the Grammar (for boys) rated Good by Ofsted and the High (for girls) rated Outstanding. School buses collect and drop off pupils in Sutton Bridge.
An attractive, brick-built house under Welsh slate roofs, Guy’s Head Cottage was originally two tiny, side by side, 18th century cottages, but has been extended gradually over time. The current owner has lived here for the last 26 years and says,
long reception rooms at the back - the sitting room and dining room - are also flooded with natural light with both enjoying French doors onto the garden to the southwest. The sitting room contains a Franklin log-burning stove with solid, concertina doors that stay open, rather like having an open fire, and the external chimney breast with its brick fireplace at the far end of the dining room, is set to take a log-burner if so desired.
Upstairs, reached via one of the two staircases, there are, effectively, seven bedrooms - four of these generous doubles - and three bathrooms. All the bedrooms are accessed from landings, although two interconnect making this perfect as a bedroom benefitting an adjoining dressing room. One of the smaller bedrooms at the back might also be considered a dressing room, or even a study, if only five bedrooms are required. Views upstairs from the whole of the back of the house are of the open farmland stretching into the distance with glorious sunsets a frequent sight.
With the feel of an old farmhouse, many features are reminders of the past, the kitchen and pantry retaining its old quarry-tiled floor and the utility with brick underfoot whilst a good deal of doors, particularly upstairs, are the old three or four plank doors. The house itself is presented in good order although a number of the timber-framed windows are in need of attention, some the original Yorkshire sliding sash, but the roofs and the electrics are all sound. The galley-style kitchen is fitted with bespoke, handmade, wooden units with timber worktops and the 13-amp electric Aga, installed around 2007, is 3-oven providing a chance for large-scale cooking
and entertaining. More units and worktop, with integrated fridge, freezer and space under counter for a dishwasher, are in the adjoining breakfast room, a lovely informal place to eat with windows on all four aspects and where a stable door leads to the
“The oldest parts, which were the two cottages, are at the front, either side of the entrance, that is, the kitchen and the pantry, both with extremely thick walls. We kept the adjoining utility room accessed from outside rather than spoiling the char acter and benefit of the built-in cold slab in the pantry. In 1800, the cottages became one, with the addition of the living room at the back; in 1900, more sections were added at either end, and in the early years of this century we created the breakfast room with bedroom and bathroom above, and the dining room with bedroom and bathroom above that with a replaced second staircase. It just grew and grew! It’s not really a cottage any more in terms of its size, with pretty high ceilings too, at least as high as those in modern houses, and it’s surprisingly light and bright for a cottage from having so many windows.”
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The property is approached through two entrances from the country lane, one on a downward slope making it most suitable as the way in of a through driveway, exiting from the other, with room to park around 3 cars on the drive. The garden is largely lawn or grass; at the back, a ‘paddock’ which has never been used as such by the current owners but contains the remains of a once-used stable block. Two little ponds are to one side of the house, behind which is a Victorian, single-storey, slate-roofed barn that forms a U-shape with the back of a neighbour’s barn creating a very sheltered, sunny courtyard, originally a crew yard, where the owners used to grow vegetables. “As well as the weeping willows, the poplar, and the flowering cherries at the back, we have a large silver birch and a holly tree amongst fruit trees – four apples, a pear and a plum - at the front. The old crew yard has a greengage, a plum, a gooseberry and two blackcurrant bushes, all providing good crops of fruit,” attests the owner. “We are in an exceptionally quiet spot, private and not overlooked at all, and there are wonderful walks from our door along the sea bank where you can go for miles.” One of two old lighthouses, now private dwellings, stands nearby on the west bank of the River Nene. The one on the far side was owned and lived in during the 1930s by the famous ornithologist, conservationist, and founder of the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Sir Peter Scott, with an 11 mile walk in his name runs along the sea defense bank to King’s Lynn.
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