Abbeyfields home is a 'dream come true'

For not only did it allow them to be closer to their two grown-up sons Rob and Alan, it meant they could offer a place to stay for friends and family when they visit.

“We absolutely love our new home,” says Graham, 72. “We’ve never had an en-suite and now we have a master bedroom with an en-suite and a dressing room. It’s what we really fell in love with when we saw the house.”

Graham, a retired insurance broker, and Val, 72, a former pensions’ administrator, chose an Oxford Lifestyle home at the Middlewich Road development. A three-bedroom home built on the footprint of what would normally be a four-bedroom property, it offered everything they were looking for, including some much-welcomed luxury.

While downstairs is similar to its four-bedroom counterpart, with a spacious kitchen and dining area at the rear of the property, a cloakroom and utility and a separate lounge; upstairs is totally transformed. There are three double bedrooms, the

master resembling a beautiful hotel suite; and both further bedrooms each have their own en-suite.

Graham continues: “We didn’t need four bedrooms, so the Oxford Lifestyle was perfect for us.”

But the decision to move was based on being closer to family: “Our eldest son moved to Cheshire about 20 years ago and our youngest son in 2018, so it made sense to move here to be near them.

“We had a three-bedroomed 60s’ semi in Buckinghamshire that was showing its age and needed constant maintenance. It was going to need re-wiring which would have been a big job, in terms of cost and the disruption it would cause, and so that was a big influence too.

“A new home is virtually maintenance-free which is ideal at our age; the garden is smaller than our old one, which we wanted; and by moving here we got a beautiful home that, if we’d bought it where we used to live, would have cost upwards of £200,000 more!”

Graham, a grandfather of four, adds: “We loved Abbeyfields because the quality of the Redrow homes was so much better than other new homes we’d seen, and Sandbach itself is pretty market town that we can walk into easily. There’s a decent supermarket, a doctor’s surgery and some really nice restaurants within easy reach on foot.”

Buying their home has even enabled them to give one of their granddaughters a helping hand after she recommended our homes to them after she bought a home at Colindale Gardens in North West London and got a £500 thank you from the builder under their ‘recommend a friend’ initiative.

Only three properties are left at Abbeyfields, including the Oxford Lifestyle show home and two Oxford style four-bedroom detached houses, with prices starting from £340,995.

Redrow also has other developments close by with an even greater selection of homes: Cranberry Gardens in Congleton offers two, three and four-bedroom homes from £239,995, and Kingsbourne in Nantwich has three and four-bedroom homes from £282,995. The Oxford Lifestyle that Graham and Val love so much features at both of those developments too.

The Oxford Lifestyle show home and the Abbeyfields sales centre are open Thursday to Monday usually from 10am to 5.30pm. Alternatively, for more information, call 01270 748692 or go to www.redrow.co.uk/abbeyfields.