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There are houses where you buy the rooms.

And then there are houses where you buy the way of life.

This is very much the second kind.
Set on approximately 0.2 acre in the Lincolnshire village of Billingborough, this individual four-bedroom detached home offers far more than you might expect at first glance.

Yes, technically it has bungalow-style living.

But calling it simply a bungalow does not really tell the story.

The accommodation stretches to around 1,476 sq ft, with three good-sized bedrooms, a bathroom and the main living accommodation all available on the ground floor, while upstairs you have an additional bedroom and second full bathroom.

That makes it incredibly flexible.

For a growing family, there is room to spread out.

For somebody wanting largely single-storey living, most of what you need is already downstairs.

For anyone wanting to work from home, accommodate guests or simply have space that changes with life, the layout gives you options without forcing you into one way of living.

And there may be more potential still.

The existing first-floor accommodation sits alongside substantial loft space, giving future owners the possibility of exploring further expansion upstairs, subject of course to the usual permissions and professional advice.

Inside, the overriding feeling is space.

There are two reception rooms, allowing you to have one room for everyday family life and another for quieter evenings, entertaining, reading or simply disappearing when everyone else has taken over the television.

Two open fireplaces add proper character too.

Not decorative fireplaces pretending to be fireplaces.

Actual fires.

The kitchen is a good, sociable space and connects naturally with the rest of the home, while the bedrooms are genuinely useful sizes rather than rooms where you spend twenty minutes deciding whether a wardrobe physically fits.

The bathrooms are another useful part of the layout, with one serving the ground floor and a second upstairs.

But the real scale of the property becomes obvious outside.

The frontage is broad, the driveway is substantial and the garage is frankly enormous reaching around 576 sq ft.

This is not the sort of garage where you carefully park the car and then climb out through the boot.

There is proper room here.

Two electric garage doors, excellent storage, workshop potential, bikes, tools, hobby equipment, classic cars, gym kit or simply all the things that somehow accumulate when you own a home.

It also houses another very modern benefit.

The property has 16 solar panels, with the ability to export generated electricity back to the grid depending on the owner’s tariff arrangements, together with an EV charging point already installed.

So while parts of the home have traditional character, there is some very useful modern thinking already happening behind the scenes.

Outside, the plot is approximately 0.2 acre and feels private.

The garden is fully enclosed, making it particularly appealing for families and dog owners, with generous lawn, established planting and mature fruit trees.

And you are not staring straight into another row of windows.

The property benefits from green outlooks to the front and both sides, with open land directly opposite creating a genuinely pleasant sense of space.

That view is something the photographs communicate particularly well.

You can stand at the front of the house, look out across greenery and feel properly separated from the rush of everyday life.

But this is where Billingborough becomes an important part of the story.

Because peaceful village living is lovely.

Peaceful village living where you still have to drive fifteen minutes because somebody forgot the milk is slightly less lovely.

Billingborough is different.

It is a proper working village rather than simply a collection of houses.

The High Street has a Co-op open daily, while the village also has local shopping and post office facilities. There is a GP surgery at