Friendly cottage community with room available!

We are a group of friends, most of whom met by living in our five adjacent cottages and we are looking for someone to join us in our lovely cottage. We have a small community of 13 people and two cats across the five cottages. Some details:

-- The Room --

• The room is north facing on the first floor with a double bed, fitted cupboard, desk, bookshelves and a beautiful dressing table. The room does face the road, so this is something to be aware of if you aren't a fan of traffic noise. It is also fairly warm in the Summer due to the age of the house and the single glazing.

• Rent is £416.66. Water, gas, internet, electricity, TV license and council tax bring the total we pay each month up to a total of £545.

-- The Property --

• The house is on the old side (built in the 1800s) and in a somewhat tumbledown condition. We all love its quirky character but it’s just something for you to be aware of. We mostly do our own DIY and have tools for pretty much everything!

• Each cottage has a living-dining area, ours is in the pictures, others have TVs, pianos, board games, and masses of comfy sofas.

• The kitchen is very small!. We've managed to feed 30 people out of them for our annual thanksgivingmas dinner, so it can be done. We tend to store food in the living with many staples (pasta, oats etc) on a fairly shared basis, but each person has a fridge shelf for their own fresh items.

• Our cottage also has a washer-dryer, a fridge freezer, gas hobs, oven, a microwave, and a bath/shower.

• There is a shared orchard where we can lounge in hammocks by day and sit around the fire-bowl by night. There are also patches where we grow veg and flowers.

• Off-road bike/car parking is available.

• The town centre is 15 minutes away at a leisurely cycle speed, the train station is even closer. We're just down the road from Addenbrooke's Hospital, the M11 is a 5-minute drive away and housemates commute all over the city every day. It’s a pretty convenient location.

-- The Household --

• Your potential housemates are a hospital administrator who likes singing and playing the guitar and a PhD student at the British Antarctic Survey who likes bouldering and crafting. (Disclaimer: we are not the tidiest people you'll ever meet but we're not terrible)

• You're ten almost-housemates (spread across the 4 adjacent but technically separate houses) would include PhD/Masters students, various scientists, an illustrator, a conservationist, a vet and Gateau & Willow, the two cats. We're quite international (past formations have included Bulgarian, Hungarian, Italian, Scottish, French, Polish, German, Greek, Spanish, and US housemates) and many of us are LGBTQ+.

• We have a fairly high proportion of vegetarians and your potential housemates are vegetarian and vegan. We often have potlucks so generally it's easier if people are happy cooking/eating veggie some of the time.

• We are a lot like a family; this means we really want to find someone who will be happy living here! We like to be quite social. People across the houses often eat together, play boardgames, play music/sing, have fires, watch films, do sports, go swimming in the river, share tea and treats (there's a lot of bakers!) and occasionally go on trips to places. It's not required to be social all the time, but we'd like to find someone who would find that aspect a positive thing and be keen to join in on social activities to keep the community alive.

-- What we are looking for --

• Someone who is nice, friendly, moderately tidy, and interested in joining in with things (not that it's mandatory, just some of the time).

If you've got this far and are still interested, send me a message with a bit about yourself and when you are free to see the property. As it's pretty short notice, we're hoping to have viewings and find a new member of the community by mid-June.