Main Street, Newbold Verdon, LE9

Property Details: - Type: Terraced house - Bedrooms: 1 - Bathrooms: 1

Agent: Hortons - Leicester Phone: 0116 448 1963

<em>Plum Cottage</em><p>The purple front door says everything before you've even stepped inside. Set within <strong>Newbold Verdon's Conservation Area</strong> - announced quietly by the green plaque on the Victorian lamp post outside - Plum Cottage wears its age with considerable confidence. Warm red brick, a slate roof, arched window lintels, and cobbled edging at the threshold: this is a street that time has been kind to.</p><p>Inside, the original fabric of the cottage is very much intact. <strong>Exposed timber ceiling beams</strong> run the length of both the lounge and kitchen - the kind you can hang copper pans from, as the current owner already has. The internal doors retain their <strong>original black iron ring latches and strap hinges</strong>, the sort of detail that would cost to replicate and can't quite be replicated at all. Terracotta floor tiles run through the kitchen, grounding the whole ground floor.</p><p>The lounge is the heart - <strong>with full beamed ceiling</strong> and a fireplace alcove flanked by fitted shelving. A proper room for an evening in. Through a characterful low doorway, the <strong>kitchen has its own beamed ceiling</strong> and a stable-style back door that opens directly to the garden - practical, charming, and exactly right for a cottage of this age. </p><p>Upstairs, the <strong>bedroom sits under a vaulted ceiling</strong> with a good run of fitted wardrobes along one wall - more storage than you'd expect for the footprint. The bathroom is a genuine surprise: <strong>a freestanding soaking tub</strong> takes centre stage alongside a separate curved shower enclosure, set under the sloping eaves with marble-effect tiling and a window that floods the room with light. For a cottage bathroom, it punches well above its weight.</p><p>The rear garden is <strong>a long plot</strong> - lawned, fenced, and well-established, with planted borders coming into their own. A <strong>timber deck sits outside the back door</strong>, ideal for morning coffee, and at the far end a <strong>painted garden cabin</strong> with its own window and fairy lights does double duty as storage, studio, or somewhere to disappear to. The garden is enclosed and private.</p><p>ROOM DIMENSIONS:</p><p>Lounge: 12'0 x 11'04</p><p>Kitchen: 8'03 x 7'09</p><p>Bedroom: 12'0 x 11'07</p><p>Bathroom: 8'10 x 7'04</p><p>LOCATION:</p><p>Highly sought after the beautiful parish of Newbold Verdon first mentioned in the Doomsday book having been a farming village for a whole millennium! Nowadays it's the perfect rural retreat with easy access to Leicester and offers many local conveniences close at hand from eateries to groceries and delightful country pubs.</p><p>FURTHER INFORMATION:</p><p>COUNCIL TAX BAND: A</p><p>LOCAL AUTHORITY: Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council</p>