Pierce Lane, Fulbourn CB21
East of England
£475,000
Listed on 10/10/2026
Listed on 10/10/2026
The listing
Property details
Bedrooms
3Type
DetachedArea
997 sqftFeatures
- Garage
- Garden
- Parking
Description
This three-bedroom detached house has a spacious lounge and dining area, a separate kitchen and a ground-floor WC. A garden room at the rear, with double doors to the garden, provides an additional reception space that could also be used as a home office or seating area.
Upstairs are two double bedrooms, a third bedroom and a family bathroom. Outside, the property has a driveway, garage and enclosed rear garden, mainly laid to lawn.
The house is described as requiring modernisation throughout, offering scope to update the accommodation. Fulbourn has local shops, pubs, schools and recreational facilities, with road and cycle connections towards Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and the A11. The EPC rating is D.
WHOTS analysis
Our WHOTS verdict
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39out of 100
Grade ELow opportunity
Confidence: MEDIUM
This is a light modernisation project with a useful mix of space: a lounge/dining room, a glazed garden room, driveway and garage, plus a sizeable established garden. The dated finishes across the photographed rooms give scope to refresh the decoration and flooring and make the home your own, while the visible exterior appears broadly intact.
The main drawback is the price: at £475,000, it is around 18.6% above the local average per square foot. The asking price plus the £7,000–£15,000 refurbishment range also leaves the likely outlay stretched against local benchmarks for a home of this size; that comparison is with current local average value, not a forecast of the value after works. The village location and practical layout have appeal, but the numbers make this a low-opportunity buy at the current asking price.
Key opportunities
- Refresh the dated decoration and flooring across the photographed living spaces and bedrooms.
- Update the older kitchen finishes as part of a light modernisation.
- Make the most of the glazed garden room and established rear garden, with scope to improve the uneven, dry lawn.
Key risks
- At the current asking price, adding the likely refurbishment spend leaves the total outlay high relative to local benchmarks for this floor area.
- Purchase plus works may take you to around £486,000 when purchase and the £11,000 refurb range are added together — roughly 18% above what comparable floor area achieves locally in current condition; post-works value sits outside our data.
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