4 bed detached house for sale

Gill Lane, Longton, Preston PR4

If You've Ever Wanted Land Enough For Chickens, An Orchard Or A Kitchen Garden - Without Moving To The Middle Of Nowhere - This Is It. A large detached family home on a Longton country lane, with a 25ft lantern-roof family room and almost an acre, including a separate field of over 29,000 sq ft.

Most properties that come with land make you choose. Either the house is an afterthought - a tired farmhouse that needs everything doing to it - or the land turns out to be a narrow strip at the back of an ordinary garden.

Chapel House on Gill Lane is neither. It’s a substantial, well-kept double-fronted detached sitting behind electric gates on a quiet country lane.

And the land - over 29,000 sq ft of it, hedged and separate from the gardens - is genuinely usable. Chickens, goats, a serious kitchen garden, an orchard or simply the peace of mind from knowing that what lies beyond your back gate belongs to you and not a developer…

The house itself holds up its end of the arrangement. At its heart is a family room that has to be seen in person to be truly appreciated. Measuring 25ft by nearly 17ft, it’s flooded with light from a large lantern roof, with a tiled floor, rear bay opening directly to the garden and an easy flow through to the fitted kitchen with its granite worktops and floating glass breakfast bar.

This is the room where the family actually lives day-to-day, and it has been designed accordingly. For more formal occasions, the bay-fronted lounge with its stone fireplace and the separate dining room offer a different pace of life entirely.

Upstairs, the main bedroom has a vaulted ceiling, fitted wardrobes, an ensuite shower room, and a rear bay that frames a view over the garden to the open countryside beyond.

Two further double bedrooms both have fitted wardrobes, a fourth bedroom works equally well as a study, and the recently updated bathroom - fully tiled, with a walk-in wet area, double-end bath and wall-mounted vanity - is something special.

Outside, the cobbled-effect driveway behind the electric gates will take more cars than even the most popular party hosts can hope to attract, and leads to a detached double garage with a rear workshop.

The current owners had it built to a standard that makes future conversion to an annex, studio or additional accommodation a realistic prospect, subject to the usual permissions.

The gardens are beautifully kept - mature lawns, established planting, a sandstone terrace - and beyond them, the field opens up.

And that is where your vision and imagination can take over - from a “Good Life” self-sufficient smallholding to the other extreme - the potential to build something separate (STPP).

You may expect a property and land combination like this to be somewhere remote but you’re actually only a minute from the A59 Longton Bypass, with Walmer Bridge village nearby for everything you need day-to-day.

You’ve got a choice of good local schools - Walmer Bridge Primary School is closest, less than a 5 minute drive away.

When you’re heading further afield it’s less than 20 minutes to the M65 and M6 at Bamber Bridge, with the centre of Preston less than 15 minutes away.

Chapel House is a rare thing: A spacious family home that is 100% ready to live in today and yet ready to become something more, in whatever direction you choose to take it.

I’m expecting plenty of interest - properties with this combination of house, land and location don’t stay available for long. No chain. Ref; GB0615

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