New build homes for sale in Sacriston

Your new home has everything you need day to day, including a small supermarket and convenience stores. There's also a Post Office, chemist, choice of takeaways and a medical centre with both a GP and dentist. For high street shopping, Durham is just a short drive or bus journey away from your new property. Durham has all the retail parks, shopping centres and independent shops, as well as cafés and restaurants.

It has the Castle Kindergarten and Little Stars Nursery for pre-schoolers and the Academy and St Bede’s Catholic Primary School for children aged 4-11. For secondary school education, there are three schools just two miles down the road, including Durham Trinity School & Sports College - a through school - as well as Framwellgate School Durham and New College Durham.

For Independent school options, Durham can oblige with Durham High School for Girls, Durham Cathedral Schools Foundation and The Independent Grammar School.

You can be in Durham (4 miles) in just eight minutes so that’s a real bonus for work and pleasure. Chester-le-Street (5 miles) is a large town to the North on the A167. If you need to travel further afield, you are not far from the A1(M) which takes you into Gateshead (12 miles) and Newcastle-upon-Tyne (15 miles) to the North, or Darlington (25 miles) to the South.

It’s great to be able to get into the countryside of the Durham Dales (20 miles), or into the main towns so easily from your new house. It is just four miles from Durham Railway Station, and there are direct buses serving the area to make onward travel from your new property, easy.

Durham is great for grown-ups, whether it’s shopping, café culture, regatta-time, restaurants or night life. Children won’t miss out though, with Diggerland Durham, Adventure Valley and Wharton Park all within very easy reach.