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Oliver Street, Ampthill, MK45

Bedrooms
4
Bathrooms
2

Key Features

  • Town centre barn conversion
  • Large Plot
  • House and Annex
  • Further potential to extend or create further space
  • Secluded location
  • Totally unique
  • Full of character
  • Annex could be used as office space

Description

Old Burgess Lemonade Factory, 27a Oliver Street, Ampthill

A rare opportunity to purchase the Burgess Lemonade Factory, a substantial detached property occupying the former site of the James Burgess Mineral Water Works, once a thriving local business producing Ampthill’s famous lemonade. Discreetly positioned in the heart of the town centre, the property combines space, privacy, and history in an exceptionally quiet setting.

Accessed through a private coach house entrance directly off Oliver Street, the property sits well back from the road and benefits from extensive parking along with gardens to the side and rear.

The main house offers flexible and well-balanced accommodation. The ground floor features an entrance hall leading to a spacious kitchen/dining room with doors to the main garden and a pantry cupboard. Off the kitchen is a ground-floor bedroom with en-suite shower room — equally suitable as a family room or home office — and a utility room with side access to the garden. The sitting room enjoys a large rear window overlooking the garden, a feature fireplace, and potential for a window seat. From here, a lobby provides access to the side of the house, a large understairs cupboard, a study, and stairs to the first floor.

Upstairs there are three bedrooms and a large family bathroom with bath and separate shower. The dual-aspect main bedroom is generous in size, and with the bathroom adjacent there is clear potential to add an en-suite if desired.

The extensive outbuilding includes a car port, workshops, and an annex, offering scope for conversion into additional living space, a studio, office, or gym. Subject to planning, there is further potential to extend or to add an additional garden building.

This is a significant piece of Ampthill real estate — combining size, character, and flexibility in a quiet central position steeped in local history. Few properties in the town centre offer this much space or potential, making Old Burgess - The Lemonade Factory an exceptional and distinctive home.

Disclaimer

Note For Purchasers - In order that we meet legal obligations, should a purchaser have an offer accepted on any property marketed by us they will be required to under take a digital identification check. We use a specialist third party service to do this. There will be a non refundable charge of £30 (£25+VAT) per person, per purchase, for this service.

Buyers will also be asked to provide full proof of, and source of funds - full details of acceptable proof will be provided upon receipt of your offer.

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Property details

Tenure
Freehold
Council Tax Band
E
Date Posted
2026-01-29

Utilities & Restrictions

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Rights & Restrictions

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Listed status, conservation areas and planning constraints for this location are in the full report.

Property Features

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Parking
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Garden
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Beyond the particulars: planning activity, flood history, heritage and ground risks, checked for this exact spot.

Connectivity

Broadband

Fastest speed available at this postcode

1.8 Gbps

Superfast

Suitable for

  • 4K streaming on every screen
  • Full-time home working
  • Online gaming & big downloads

Mobile signal

CallsDataEE Good GoodO2 Good GoodThree Good GoodVodafone Good Good

Outdoor predictions; indoor signal depends on building materials.

Ofcom Connected Nations postcode-level predictions. Speeds and signal are modelled, not measured, and vary between addresses and providers.

Signal is the easy part. Planning activity, flood history and protected designations here are in the full report.

Nearest Schools

Primary

  • Russell Lower School155 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    5 to 9
    Pupils
    437
    Type
    Community school
  • The Firs Lower School342 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 9
    Pupils
    350
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Maulden Lower School1.5 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 9
    Pupils
    166
    Type
    Community school
  • Templefield Lower School1.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    2 to 9
    Pupils
    290
    Type
    Community school
  • Kingsmoor Lower School1.6 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    2 to 9
    Pupils
    167
    Type
    Community school

Secondary

  • Alameda Middle School430 metresNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    9 to 13
    Pupils
    720
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Redborne Upper School and Community College878 metresOfsted: Good
    Ages
    13 to 18
    Pupils
    1,657
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Woodland Middle School Academy1.6 milesNo Ofsted rating
    Ages
    9 to 13
    Pupils
    645
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Marston Vale Middle School3 milesOfsted: Good *
    Ages
    9 to 13
    Pupils
    563
    Type
    Academy converter
  • Harlington Upper School4.1 milesOfsted: Good
    Ages
    13 to 18
    Pupils
    1,156
    Type
    Academy converter

* Latest graded judgement covers quality of education only; no overall grade was issued under the 2024-25 inspection framework.

Distances are straight-line from the advertised location. Source: the national school registers (DfE, Welsh Government, Scottish Government) and Ofsted.

Schools are just the start: sold prices nearby, planning activity and any flood history are in the full report.

Amenities

Supermarket

Morrisons Daily Ampthill Church Street, Ampthill590 metres
Waitrose Ampthill, Ampthill712 metres
Little Waitrose Shell Flitwick, Ampthill0.8 miles

GP surgery

Greensand Surgery (Ampthill)89 metres

Pharmacy

W Cheeseman & Son Ltd535 metres

Hospital

Steppingley Hospital1.3 miles

Green space

Allotments Or Community Growing Spaces428 metres

Straight-line distances from the advertised location. Sources: NHS records, Geolytix supermarket locations, OS Open Greenspace and the national trails registers.

The area stacks up? Now check the location itself: planning nearby, protected designations and past flooding.

Getting Around

Nearest station

Flitwick Rail Station1.6 miles

Nearest bus stop

Arthur Street8 metres

Typical drive times

Woburn13 min · 7.9 miles
Ampthill1 min · 0.4 miles
Flitwick5 min · 1.9 miles
Shefford13 min · 8 miles
Milton Keynes (city)18 min · 14 miles

Straight-line distances from the advertised location; drive times are typical free-flow times over OpenStreetMap road data, so allow more at peak. Public transport locations from DfT NaPTAN.

Easy to reach matters. So do planning activity, flood history and ground risks: all in the full report.

Flood Risk

From Environment Agency flood map open data, checked around the advertised map pin and allowing for the listed acreage where known. This summary comes from LandSale, the advertising platform, not from the listing agent, and is not part of the agent's particulars. Risk can vary across a single holding, so verify anything critical through your own searches before committing.

Rivers and the sea

Flood Zone 1Lower risk

Surface water

Outside the mapped risk bandsVery low risk

The detail behind these bandings

The full report pinpoints where this location sits on the flood maps, and runs the deeper checks that usually only surface after an offer.

  • Exact flood zones & annual chances (included in the full report)
  • Any recorded past flooding (included in the full report)
  • Planning activity nearby (included in the full report)
  • Heritage & conservation (included in the full report)
  • Protected nature designations (included in the full report)
  • Ground risks (included in the full report)
  • Sold prices nearby (included in the full report)

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