A well presented, detached house in a rural location with outstanding grazing land and good riding right on the doorstep, six miles from Diss.

Well proportioned accommodation includes: lounge, dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, outside utility room and cloakroom, 3 double bedrooms, dressing room/4th bedroom and a family bathroom.

Planning permission for a separate entrance from the road to provide access to the side paddocks, also for a floodlit manege.

Outside there are front, side and rear gardens, timber built stable block with five stables and a tack room, large workshop/storage barn, orchard, 6 acre hay field, manege and six paddocks.

In all just over 11 acres (Subject to measured survey)

3.55m x 2.23m (11’7 x 7’3)

Stairs rising to first floor with understairs cupboard, radiator, open plan into Small Study with window to rear, shelves and boiler. Doors to dining room and to:-

5.08m x 4.81m (16’8 x 15’9)

Windows to front and side, three radiators, open fireplace with York stone chimney breast, ornamental shelf at high level.

5.4m x 4.79m (17’8 x 15’8)

Windows to front and rear, two radiators, fireplace with slate hearth and LPG gas coal effect fire in cast iron arch surround. Half glazed door to:-

4.77m x 4.57m (15’7 x 14’11)

Triple aspect room with windows to front, side and rear, range of pine wall and base units providing cupboards and drawers, integrated dishwasher, fridge and freezer, one and a half bowl stainless steel sink and drainer set in dark stone style worksurface, Leisure Range Master LPG gas cooker with double oven and matching extractor hood, two radiators, half glazed external door to rear garden and parking area, exposed beams and terracotta tiled floor.

Two windows to the rear and one to the front, two radiators, access to loft and airing cupboard housing hot water cylinder. The landing is spacious and part of it would easily convert into a fourth bedroom incorporating the dressing room, a radiator and one window. Doors to all first floor rooms.

5.06m x 4.92m (16’7 x 16’1)

Windows to front and side, two radiators.

Currently fitted with floor to ceiling shelves on two walls.

3.94m x 3.87m (12’11 x 12’8)

Window to front and radiator.

4.58m x 2.83m (15’ x 9’3)

Window to front and radiator. Currently used as an office.

Window to rear, modern white suite comprising paneled spa bath with shower over, pedestal wash hand basin and low level WC, radiator.

Attached to the rear of the property just by the kitchen door is an externally accessed utility room and separate WC. The utility room has wall mounted cupboards, a stainless steel sink and drainer set in a laminate work surface and space and plumbing for washing machine and tumble dryer. Both rooms have windows.

The house is approached from the road by a gravel driveway that forks to the left to the paddocks and stableyard and right to an area suitable for parking several cars, past the barn on the right and dog run on the left up to another area for two or three cars to the side of the house. The barn is a timber frame construction, clad with featheredge board, measures 42’6" x 21’ and has doors to three sides. Currently the barn is split into two internally with a workshop (20’ x 20’) and a large store (22’ x 20’), both with electricity connected. The barn previously had planning permission for conversion to a one and two bedroom holiday accommodation units, this permission has now expired.
The gardens around the house are mainly laid to lawn, with established deciduous and evergreen trees, hedges including privet and laurel and some well established formal flower beds. The main rear garden leads through to a vegetable area adjacent to an established orchard with apples, pears and plums, together with two timber potting sheds. Also off the main garden is a sun terrace with a summer house and hot tub. Screened from the gardens is an area for ancillary accommodation such as a mobile home, which has mains electricity, water and drainage available. This accommodation has its own immediate garden area and is well screened by hedges and shrubs.
From the main entrance the drive passes around the gardens along a tree lined gravel track with the paddocks to the left up to the stableyard, manege, further paddocks and the hay field.

There is a recently built L-shaped timber stable block with a large concrete forecourt, providing five stables and a tack room. Four of the stables are 11’6 x 11’, and the fifth is a foaling box (16’ x 11’). Electricity and water are connected.

There are four large paddocks to the left of the drive and a further two paddocks at the end. To the rear is a 5-6 acre hay field. The paddocks are fenced with a combination of post and rail and post and tape. All the grazing is very well maintained. To the side of the stableyard is a well drained 40m x 20m grass manege, which has planning permission for a surface and floodlights. Water is available.

NOTE: There are several planning permissions granted on the property. The current owners have been given permission to make a separate entrance from the road to provide access to the side paddocks. It is understood that there is also permission to site a mobile home on the concrete pad to the rear of the house, where there is provision for mains water, electricity and drainage.

In addition there is current permission for a floodlit manege and a workshop to be erected. Research from the Mid Suffolk District Council website (www.midsuffolk.gov.uk) identifies two recent planning permissions, 0546/04, for the erection of a stable block and a flood lit manege.

There was previously planning permission (2357/05) for the conversion of the barn to two holiday units, the accommodation was to provide two units each with kitchen, bedroom, living room, bathroom on the ground floor, with the Northern most unit having an additional first floor bedroom, also for the erection of a workshop to be of timber frame design, with double doors. However, this planning permission has now expired.
GENERAL INFORMATION

General – The property is positioned approximately mid way between the villages of Finningham and Bacton, which between them have a post office, schools, pubs and doctors surgery. It is also approximately mid way between the towns of Diss (c6 miles) and Stowmarket (c7 miles) and the A14 is about 8 or 9 miles away. Both have a good selection of shops and supermarkets, together with schools, a mainline station to London and Norwich and a variety of leisure facilities.

Equestrian – The outriding is excellent, directly from the land with a bridleway leading to a network of quiet lanes and farm tracks.

Office Hours: -
Monday to Friday: - 9:00 to 5:00, Saturday: - 9:00 to 11:30,
Sunday: - Closed, Public Holidays: - Closed.