5 bed detached house for sale

Pasture Lane, Formby L37

Meadow House is a substantial **3,516 sq ft, five-bedroom detached home on Pasture Lane in Formby**, with the space of a genuinely big family house, a semi-rural feel and Formby Village, the coast and everything people move here for still within easy reach.

And when we say five bedrooms, we mean **five actual bedrooms**.

Not four good ones and a fifth that requires a single bed and some creative photography. Every bedroom at Meadow House is a proper double, and several of them are bigger than principal bedrooms we've seen elsewhere.

That probably tells you quite a lot about this house.

It was individually designed and built with space in the right places, rather than trying to squeeze the biggest possible room count into the square footage. At over 3,500 sq ft across two floors, there's room for a family to properly spread out here.

You feel it as soon as you walk through the door.

The entrance hall is huge, with a bespoke polished ash staircase rising through the middle of it, and there's enough room around you for the house to feel substantial before you've even reached the best bit.

Because across the back of Meadow House is over **41 feet of open-plan kitchen, dining and family space**.

And this is where life here will happen.

The bespoke Robert Samuel kitchen sits at the heart of it, with a large central island and breakfast seating, extensive storage, integrated appliances and a dedicated illuminated bar with twin wine and drinks coolers.

But listing what's fitted into the kitchen rather misses the point.

It's the amount of life you can fit around it that makes this room.

There's a full dining area, a completely separate lounging space and two huge sets of glazed doors opening everything onto the garden.

Saturday night starts around the island while you're supposedly cooking. Dinner moves to the table. Someone opens another bottle at the bar. Eventually everybody ends up on the sofas. In summer, throw the doors open and the patio becomes another part of the room.

It's a house that's very easy to imagine full.

And crucially, creating such a big open-plan space hasn't swallowed the rest of the ground floor.

There's a separate living room at the front when you want somewhere quieter, plus another genuinely useful room alongside it. Currently used as an office, at 16 feet long it's equally convincing as a snug or playroom depending on what your family actually needs.

There's also a separate utility room, downstairs WC, underfloor heating throughout the ground floor and internal access into the integral double garage.

Basically, all the practical family stuff is here. It just hasn't been allowed to take over the house.

Upstairs, the scale continues.

The principal bedroom measures over 16 feet in both directions and has a **proper separate Robert Samuel walk-in dressing room**, rather than a couple of fitted wardrobes being optimistically renamed. Its en-suite bathroom has a freestanding bath, separate rainfall shower and plenty of space to get ready without negotiating around somebody else.

Then come another four double bedrooms.

Bedroom Two is around 16'6" x 15'2". Bedroom Four is approximately 15'5" square. Bedroom Three is almost **24 feet long**.

Even Bedroom Five stretches to nearly 18 feet.

Two Jack & Jill shower rooms serve the additional bedrooms, giving Meadow House the sort of bathroom-to-bedroom ratio that becomes increasingly important once children become teenagers, guests stay over or everybody needs to leave the house at exactly the same time.

Outside, there's a generous brick-paved driveway to the front, an integral double garage and an enclosed rear garden with lawn and a substantial paved terrace, already comfortably accommodating separate outdoor dining and lounging areas.

And the garden is worth talking about for what it **isn't**, too.

This isn't a 3,500 sq ft house that comes with an acre of land and an accidental second job maintaining it. There's enough outside space to barbecue, entertain, sit in the sun and let children or dogs out, without writing off every weekend between April and October to garden maintenance.

For plenty of buyers, that's going to be exactly the point.

Then there's **Pasture Lane and Formby** itself.

Meadow House has a semi-rural feel that gives you a bit of breathing room, while still keeping you connected to Formby Village, local schools, Formby and Freshfield rail connections and routes towards Liverpool and Southport.

And Formby has always offered something that's difficult to replicate elsewhere around Liverpool and the Sefton Coast.

You can have the practical stuff during the week – shops, schools, restaurants and transport connections – and then disappear into the pinewoods, dunes and Formby Beach when you want the world to feel considerably further away than it actually is.

That's why the location works, and Meadow House fits into it particularly well.

It's substantial without being ridiculous. Impressive without feeling like you're living in a show home. Big enough for everyone to have their own space, but with a kitchen and family room good enough that they'll probably all end up together anyway.

So if you're searching for a **large five-bedroom detached house in Formby** and keep finding compromises – the fifth bedroom isn't really a bedroom, the kitchen isn't quite big enough, or the downstairs layout doesn't work for how your family actually lives – Meadow House is one you need to walk through.

**The floorplan tells you it's 3,516 sq ft. Walking through it tells you why that matters.**

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