£500,000 /Sale price

If you're looking for village life with a vibrant community, excellent transport links and easy access to the capital, then this fabulous four bedroom period home, once the old shop and post office, with large garden and excellent outbuildings, fits the bill perfectly.Sitting on a generous plot and sympathetically converted, this wonderful period home built in the mid 19th century evokes times past whilst sitting firmly in the 21st century. Extended over time to increase the living space, the ground floor now comprises an entrance hall, large breakfast kitchen, dining room, cosy sitting room with feature log burner, recently reconfigured double guest bedroom with new ensuite and two more large, versatile reception rooms. A single glazed sun room overlooks the garden and there's a rear lobby with WC too. Upstairs are three further double bedrooms, two with fitted wardrobes, one with ensuite shower room and walk in wardrobe, plus a large family bathroom, providing approximately 1935 sq.ft (180sq.m) of living space. Sitting in just over 1/4 of an acre, this house has huge kerb appeal with generous gravelled parking and a superb magnolia tree taking centre stage. A number of brick built outbuildings, the old pig sty among them, offer garaging, workshop, storage and conversion potential subject to planning. To the rear is the sunny, quintessential English country garden laid mostly to lawn with vegetable patch, pond and well stocked borders.As befits a home of this age, the decor mirrors the period and includes features such as beamed ceilings and exposed timbers. The original post box still sits in the external wall, and most of the downstairs doors are half glazed, increasing the light. This home has oil fired central heating and is mostly uPVC double glazed.The village of Marston is located conveniently between the market towns of Sleaford, Grantham and Newark. This makes it an ideal base for those who wish to enjoy a more rural lifestyle but who need to retain easy access to the East Coast Main line to London which is a mere 70 minutes from Grantham to King's Cross, the excellent local Grammar schools and the A1 trunk road. Marston has a highly regarded primary school, community owned pub and village shop with post office plus an active village hall.