Cottage has big potential; Homeseeker: DoItUp.

Byline: Kate Wolfe

THIS detached doublefronted cottage is as pretty as a picture - the kind of ideal home every child loves to draw. Inside, it is classically simple, waiting to be updated to the next occupant's taste.

Not that the character cottage in Woodcock Lane, Northfield, is old fashioned now.

On sale, by Paul Winwood, at pounds 179,950, it has double-glazing, central heating, a spacious fitted breakfast kitchen, lowmaintenance mature gardens, a garage and driveway space for off-road parking.

With some sensitive updating, its future value-boosting potential is obvious..

The cottage has been extended to increase its original floor space. It now has a central entrance hall, a generously proportioned 17ft 10in long tripleaspect lounge with front and side windows and French doors to the rear garden.

There are also French doors to the garden from the second/ dining room, which opens onto the 19ft breakfast kitchen.

The kitchen window overlooks the rear garden and there is also a door opening onto the paved patio.

In the kitchen, lit by down lighters, there is a range of wall and base units and worktops, with a built-in oven, grill and gas hob, a fan and stainless steel sink and plumbing for a dishwasher.

Upstairs, the landing has a hatch to the loft and doors to a front-facing main bedroom and second bedroom, both with built-in wardrobes, a rear facing bedroom with fitted wardrobes, dressing table and chest of drawers, and a bathroom fitted with an extractor fan.

In the neatly landscaped rear garden, mature shrub and flower beds are set into the split-level paved area and there is a greenhouse and garden shed..

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Spacious inside and out, this character cottage is ready to be tailored to the buyer's taste. This naturally beautiful cottage in Northfield has bags of character.