

Bourn, Cambridge · CB23
Alms Hill
Guide Price
An excellent opportunity to acquire this detached family residence, which has undergone a degree of sympathetic improvement and updating, including the installation of a particularly attractive and recently fitted kitchen with adjoining breakfast room. The property offers versatile and well-proportioned accommodation, whilst retaining significant potential for further extension and improvement, subject to the necessary consents and sits in its own generous plot. Ideally situated in a central position within the village and offered for sale with the benefit of no onward chain.
The home, in the agent’s words
- Generous Four-Bedroom Detached Property
- Two Well-Proportioned Reception Rooms
- Recently Fitted Traditional-Style Kitchen/Breakfast Room
- Principal Bedroom With En-Suite Shower Room
- Separate Family Bathroom And Ground Floor Cloakroom
- Extensive And Established Rear Garden
- Large Paved Patio Area For Outdoor Entertaining
- Driveway Providing Parking For Multiple Vehicles
- Garage With Power, Lighting And Up-And-Over Door
- Generous 0.19 Acre Plot Providing Excellent Extension/Development Potential
Read the full agent description
An excellent opportunity to acquire this detached family residence, which has undergone a degree of sympathetic improvement and updating, including the installation of a particularly attractive and recently fitted kitchen with adjoining breakfast room. The property offers versatile and well-proportioned accommodation, whilst retaining significant potential for further extension and improvement, subject to the necessary consents and sits in its own generous plot. Ideally situated in a central position within the village and offered for sale with the benefit of no onward chain.
Entrance Hall - Panelled entrance door with double glazed side panels either side, tiled flooring, coved ceiling, radiator and open staircase rising to the first floor. Panelled glazed doors provide access to the principal reception rooms and cloakroom.
Cloakroom - Comprising a two-piece suite with low level WC with concealed cistern and concealed hand flush, wash hand basin with hot and cold mixer tap and tiled splashback. Stone-effect upstand and useful shelving either side of the WC, tiled flooring, radiator and double glazed window with privacy glass overlooking the front aspect.
Sitting Room - Accessed via a panelled glazed door, natural stone flooring, coved ceiling and radiator. Double glazed windows overlook the front aspect, with a double glazed sliding door providing access onto the rear garden.
Dining Room - With continuation of the natural stone flooring from the entrance hall, coved ceiling, radiator and double glazed window overlooking the front aspect.
Kitchen/Breakfast Room - The kitchen area is fitted with a recently installed range of traditional-style wall and base-mounted storage cupboards and drawers, incorporating soft-close fittings. There is a stone-effect work surface with inset one-and-a-quarter bowl porcelain sink, hot and cold mixer tap and drainer. Integrated AEG appliances include an induction hob with extractor, double oven, concealed dishwasher and washing machine, together with space for an American-style fridge/freezer. Useful large storage cupboard, natural stone flooring, LED downlighting and double glazed window overlooking the garden.
The kitchen opens through to the breakfast area, providing a pleasant additional informal living space and benefiting from a radiator, LED lighting, double glazed window and panelled glazed door leading directly onto the garden.
First Floor -
Landing - With loft access, cupboard housing the hot water cylinder, radiator, double glazed window with privacy glass overlooking the front aspect and panelled doors providing access to the respective rooms.
Principal Bedroom - With coved ceiling, radiator and double glazed window overlooking the rear garden. Panelled door leading to:
En-Suite Shower Room - Comprising a four-piece suite including shower cubicle with electric power shower and glazed door, low level WC with concealed cistern and concealed hand flush, bidet and wash hand basin with separate hot and cold taps. Tiled walls, wall-mounted mirrored cupboard with shelving, radiator, tiled flooring, LED downlighting and double glazed window with privacy glass overlooking the front aspect.
Family Bathroom - Comprising a three-piece suite including panelled bath with wall-mounted shower head, electric power shower and hot and cold mixer tap, together with folding shower partition, low level WC with concealed cistern and concealed hand flush, and wash hand basin with separate hot and cold taps. Tiled walls, wall-mounted mirrored cupboard, radiator, tiled flooring, LED downlighting and double glazed window with privacy glass overlooking the front aspect.
Bedroom Two - With radiator, coved ceiling and double glazed window overlooking the front aspect.
Bedroom Three - With radiator and double glazed window overlooking the front aspect.
Bedroom Four - With radiator and double glazed window overlooking the front aspect.
Outside - The property is approached from Alms Hill via a dropped kerb leading onto a gravel driveway providing parking for multiple vehicles. The front garden is enclosed by a mature hedge and further benefits from established borders with well-stocked planting and bedding. There is also an up-and-over door providing access to the garage, with pedestrian access to either side of the property.
Garage - With up-and-over door, power and lighting.
To the rear, the property benefits from an extensive garden, principally laid to lawn, with a large paved patio area adjoining the rear of the house and providing an excellent area for outdoor seating and entertaining. The remainder of the garden is enclosed and offers a good degree of space and privacy.
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6.8 milesto Shepreth Rail Station
Approximate straight-line distance · DfT NaPTAN · 13 Sept 2026Background air quality
- Fine particles · PM₂.₅
- 6.8 µg/m³ · Above the WHO guideline · well within the UK legal limit
- Nitrogen dioxide · NO₂
- 5.1 µg/m³ · Meets the WHO guideline
Annual background levels. For scale: the WHO 2021 guideline is 5 µg/m³ for PM₂.₅ and 10 for NO₂; the UK legal limit is 20 and 40. Lower is better; this is a 1 km model, not a reading at the door.
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