4 Bed Detached House For Sale The Cross, Northampton, NN4

** Open House Saturday 11th May - Booking Essential ** Available for the first time in 27 years in an enviable plot with a large private garden in the heart of ever popular Great Houghton overlooking the Village Green this four-bedroom family home is well worth a look, offering much potential to improve and extend (subject to planning).

Offset from the High Street the property has a gravel drive leading to the double garage and house and has room for multiple vehicles, as the current owner says ‘great for when having parties’. There are gardens mainly laid to lawn front, side and back and the house is situated next to open Green with woods behind offering a large degree of seclusion and a low-lying brook running at this end, fed from a nearby spring.

This well-proportioned home has a kitchen, dining room, triple aspect lounge, large study area, ground floor toilet and a double garage on the ground floor with four bedrooms (three doubles) above, one with an en-suite and a family bathroom. The property benefits from a newly installed Worcester Bosch gas boiler.

Outside there is a good sized lawned area to the front with mature shrubbery, hedging and a wall shielding the property from the road. This leads through a gate or hedging to the side garden which has a patio and the rear is an expansive mainly lawned area surrounded by mature hedging to the side with the woods behind where the small brook divides the garden with the woods. In the corner is a wooden summer house.

White uPVC windows and doors throughout apart from hardwood front and back doors. Although in good clean condition the house offers great scope to make it a home to your specification with the possibility of extending to the side and/or back.

Great Houghton Village

Great Houghton is a very popular and well located village to the south of Northampton. Within the village there are two Public Houses, a Church of England Church (opposite this property), Village Hall with Play School, WI, a popular Children’s Dance School and Recreation Ground with tennis courts. Primary education is available at close by Little Houghton CE Primary School -with Playgroup (Ofsted ‘Good’) with Secondary education at Wollaston Co-Educational County School (Good).

Local amenities.

There is a bus services to Northampton town centre. The A43 is 3 minutes drive, the M1 motorway 10 minutes, Northampton Town Centre is a 10 minute drive, Northampton Hospital 5 minutes drive and the nearest supermarket is Waitrose which is 8 minutes drive away and the Shopping Centre and Tesco Extra at Weston Favell 9 minutes drive away. Riverside out of town shopping area 6 minutes drive away. Mainline rail access from Northampton to London Euston and Birmingham New Street from Northampton Station 15 minutes away by car.

Council Tax Band: E – Northampton Local Authority\r
Council tax band: E