KEY FEATURES
• A Non-Listed Former Farmhouse, Built in 1885
• Now Requiring a Full Programme of Restoration
• Currently Four Reception Room and Five Bedrooms
• A Detached Two Bedroom Annex in the Former Crew Yard
• Situated in the Rural South Lincolnshire Marshes
• Carriage Driveway, Mature Front and Side Gardens
• Small Pony Paddock to the Left with Side Drive to the Yard
• Benefits From a Large Pond and Spiny, Total Plot is Circa 2.5 Acres
• Total Accommodation of Main House Extends to 3055 Sq.Ft.
• Annex Accommodation Extends to Approximately 1072 Sq. Ft.
In a secluded yet sunny spot surrounded by mature trees within farmland of the South Lincolnshire fens, a rather fine, substantial old farmhouse has been neglected for a good number of years and requires a complete refurbishment. For someone yearning for a rural lifestyle in a quiet and private position whilst wanting a restoration project, this handsome Victorian building that dates to the late 1880s, could be resurrected and turned into a beautiful family home once more. The whole plot is approximately 2.5 acres, partially wooded, partially grassland, and contains a separate, brick-built, 2 bedroom annex, another brick outbuilding, a very quaint, timber summerhouse under a clay-tiled roof, and a large pond within the grounds.
back stairs rising up from the kitchen to a landing in the rear wing of the house. There are 5 bedrooms in total with a large family bathroom, although there is scope to create en suite bathrooms. Huge potential is here, subject to planning, to restore and develop this house in its extensive grounds into a superb blend of a traditional, period home combined with modern day living.
in Spalding – the Grammar (for boys) rated Good and the High (for girls) rated Outstanding – and in Boston, the High (for girls) and Grammar (for boys) both rated Good. Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding is a well reputed independent prep school.
The former Crown Estate property currently offers over 3,000 square feet of accommodation over two floors with generously proportioned rooms with high ceilings, original sash windows and period fireplaces. Two of the three reception rooms are dual aspect, so too the kitchen, and across the hall, a large butler’s pantry with built-in storage - which could be used as a study - and a utility room with separate WC within it. The staircases remain in situ, the main one in the centre of the house, and the
The property’s location is just outside the village of Holbeach St. Mark’s, but not isolated with Trevethoe Farm next door, about 5 miles north of the market town of Holbeach and about 12 miles northeast of the pretty, Georgian town of Spalding. It lies just a few miles from Moulton Marsh Nature Reserve slightly upstream from where the River Welland flows into The Wash. Boston, to the north, is about a 20 minute drive.
The landscape is far reaching with rather beautiful and romantic marshland, a stone’s throw from the property, an ideal habitat for birds, which outstretches along the southern edge of The Wash under vast, dramatic skies where an abundance of footpaths and bridleways, some from the doorstep, provide a tranquil, endearing environment to explore for any lover of nature.
Although Holbeach St. Mark’s is a small village, it has an active village hall, a gym and its own primary school with an excellent, long standing reputation, rated Good by Ofsted. The property is in catchment for some superb state secondary schools with Holbeach Academy, rated Good in Holbeach, and the sought after grammar schools
For those needing to travel to London, it is about a 45 minute drive to Peterborough train station where fast trains to King’s Cross take around 45 minutes, and where you can pick up the A1 South. The glorious town of Stamford is a similar distance, so too Grantham along the A52, and for driving North, the A1 at Newark is just under an hour along the A17. In the opposite direction, the miles of stunning sandy beaches in North Norfolk begin less than an hour’s drive away.
