Some houses are ready to move into. This one is ready to be transformed.
And when the starting point is a house with generous accommodation, a substantial rear garden and a position in the Hertfordshire village of Benington, there's an awful lot to work with.
44 Three Stiles needs significant renovation. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
But just imagine what it could become.
Look at the kitchen as it is today and then look at it again.
What would you do with it?
Walk into the living room and forget the stripped floors for a moment. Think about the finished room instead.
Then step outside and look down that substantial rear garden.
That's when this house gets really interesting.
Because there isn't one obvious answer to what 44 Three Stiles should become. There are dozens.
You might keep much of the existing layout and simply bring the house back to life. You might rethink how some of the spaces work. Or you might have bigger ideas altogether and explore what else could be possible, subject of course to the necessary consents.
That's why we've done something a little different with the photographs.
Amongst the genuine images of the property you'll find three concept visualisations — a kitchen, a living space and a garden.
They're not designs or specifications, and they're certainly not us telling you what you should do.
They're simply three ideas amongst almost infinite possibilities.
Perhaps your version looks nothing like ours.
Good.
Because the real opportunity here isn't to recreate our pictures. It's to walk around the house and start having your own ideas.
Standing in the kitchen and thinking, what if...?
Looking from one room to another and wondering whether it really needs to stay that way.
Walking into the garden and imagining what you could create out there.
The finished house doesn't exist yet.
You get to decide what it becomes.
And then there's Benington.
Because however ambitious your plans for the house might be, there's one thing you won't need to change: where it is.
Benington retains the feel of a small Hertfordshire village, with its own primary school, village pub, historic church, Benington Lordship and countryside around it, while Stevenage and its wider amenities and rail connections are only a few miles away.
You can transform the house. The village is already rather lovely.
So perhaps don't come to 44 Three Stiles expecting to see the finished article.
Come with some ideas.
And perhaps a few of your own "what ifs?"
Guide Price £370,000.
Some houses show you exactly what you're buying.
This one asks you to imagine what you're going to create.
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