Call a cab: Cambridgeshire eco home in former taxi factory with tropical indoor pool and separate office for sale

The three-bedroom house is brimming with green credentials and has a fascinating history, too.
Faye Greenslade27 June 2018

It’s amazing what can come out of a former industrial building, especially one used to build the first 17 London taxis until 1907, in the village of Bassingbourn, Cambridgeshire.

On the market for £750,000, it was bought in 1997 by a local architect who transformed it into a sleek, three-bedroom eco home.

Green credentials include recycling irrigation water tanks, lime render to walls, underfloor heating and cedar doors, while wow factor comes from an impressive atrium filled with tropical plants set around an indoor pool, plus high vaulted ceilings in a fab living/kitchen/dining room leading out to landscaped gardens.

A separate office, ripe for conversion, could make the perfect Airbnb and is available for an extra £150,000.

Call Carter Jonas on 01223 787088 for more details.

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