3 bedroom house

A three bedroom bungalow with good development potential, well positioned and set in extensive 4.3 acre grounds(sts) with a driveway, gardens and paddocks, close to Bury St Edmunds.

Reception hall, sitting room, garden room, dining room, kitchen and utility/boot room. Three double bedrooms, family bathroom and a shower/cloakroom.

Long part shared driveway, attached garage, detached former garage/garden store, dilapidated barn/stable store and gardens and grounds of about 4.33 acres.

THE PROPERTY
Crossways Bungalow is a detached three-bedroom bungalow with a footprint of around 2,000 sq ft, including the attached garage, which positioned as it is, affords excellent scope for extension and improvement or replacement (subject to planning and the relevant consents). The property is currently presented in a clean and tidy order internally and benefits from oil fired radiator central heating and double-glazed windows throughout. The rooms, although dated, are well proportioned and the accommodation, in brief, comprises a hall, with external glazed doors to the front and to the rear. A kitchen, with a range of fitted base and wall mounted units and a rolled top worksurface with inset 1½ bowl single drainer sink unit, electric hob cooker and fitted double oven. There is space and plumbing for a dishwasher and a useful pantry store cupboard. The sitting room affords an open fireplace, views across the neighbouring paddocks and glazed double doors out to the garden room, which is glazed to three elevations with a solid roof and French doors out to the terrace patio. The dining room also benefits from an open fireplace and French doors to the terrace and is a through room, giving access to the main bedroom wing passage. Two well-proportioned bedrooms open off this passage along with the dated but clean family bathroom. The third bedroom opens off the central hall and has easy access to the cloaks/shower room which also opens off the hall and presents a tiled cubicle shower, wc and pedestal wash basin. The utility/boot room provides further kitchen unit storage and work surface and there is a floor mounted Boulter oil fired boiler.

OUTSIDE
The property is approached across a long, shared (with Brand House, its private stables and its annexe bungalow, Parklands) drive which it owns and which leads to the properties private drive and the field access to one of the paddocks. There is parking and a turning area to the front of the bungalow and access to the attached garage, via an up and over door to the front, with the personal door to the side; and the former detached garage which has double doors opening to the front and to the rear and which is currently used as a garden store shed. The garden wraps around the bungalow with further lawn, shrub and flower borders and a terrace patio to the rear. A previous occupant established a very productive and well-tended kitchen garden in the area between the orchard and the immediate garden, although this now has been neglected and is now in an overgrown state. There is a 2nd field gated entrance from Brand Road, which can give access across the paddock to the Barn/Stable store which is in a dilapidated state of repair but offers further scope for improvement and versatility of use.

LOCATION
Great Barton is a sought-after small village situated approximately 3 miles north east of the historic Cathedral and market town of Bury St Edmunds located in the heart of East Anglia. The village itself is served by a post office, petrol station and convenience store, public house, two churches and well-regarded village primary school. More extensive facilities can be found in Bury St Edmunds. The town offers an excellent range of amenities, with schooling in the public and private sector’s, extensive well regarded shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. There is easy access to the A14, A11 (M11) trunk roads and the railway station at Bury St Edmunds offers a link to mainline services via Cambridge, to London’s Liverpool Street or King’s Cross. Or alternatively, the mainline station, which the Bury st Edmunds and Thurston line also links with, at Stowmarket, offers a regular service into London’s Liverpool Street taking approximately 80 minutes.



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