5 bedroom house

A fine timber framed period farmhouse wonderfully set in delightful grounds of about 2.44 acres with a meadow, dilapidated tennis court, gardens, garaging and a stable, all well located in rolling Suffolk countryside.

Entrance hall, sitting room, dining room, kitchen, snug, study, utility room and cloakroom. Four first floor bedrooms, an en-suite bathroom and a family bathroom. Second floor double bedroom and two restricted access lattic rooms.

Driveway and parking, double garage, stable / workshop store, gardens, meadow with dilapidated tennis court and a natural pond. In all about 2.44 acres.

THE PROPERTY
Pratts Farm is a well-presented characterful timber framed home of significant charm which is grade II listed and believed to date back to 15th century with 17th century remodeling and extension, with 3 storeys under the clay peg tiled front roof and pantile rear roof. Much of the original traditional character has been retained with delightful features such as bressummer beamed fireplaces, exposed ceiling timbers, wall studwork and timber mullioned and multi paned windows enhancing the property’s charm and appeal. The owners have over the past few years very tastefully and sympathetically renovated and improved the structure and accommodation to a high standard with the house having had much of the oak base plate replaced (there is a small area still requiring attention), making it a very comfortable home for modern day living. The accommodation, which does not suffer the low ceilings of many traditional timber framed properties, benefits from oil fired central heating, fitted log burning stoves in two of the inglenook fireplaces, many chestnut latch doors and affords a typically Suffolk main front door whilst also having a more regularly used back door leading to the main entrance hall. The principal rooms and cloakroom of the house lead off the rear entrance hallway, which also features the stairs leading to the first floor with an open studwork galleried landing above. The sitting room, with windows to the views across The Green to the front and the garden and drive to the side, presents a bressummer beamed fireplace log burning stove and exposed brick hearth, parquet style woodblock flooring and is a well-proportioned room with a central supporting timber. A door leads off this room to a study with window to the drive at the side. To the rear the dining room benefits from a wealth of exposed original and replaced timbers and windows to two elevations, a former bressummer beamed fireplace, a pantry cupboard and large crockery/drinks cupboard. There is a well-proportioned kitchen with vaulted ceiling and exposed feature beams, an exposed pamment style terracotta tiled floor runs through from the Dining Room and a range of ‘Shaker’ style units with solid timber work surfaces, underset ceramic butlers sink unit, inset electric AEG induction hob, 2 fitted Bosch fan ovens and space for an American style fridge/freezer and plumbing for a dish washer. In the next-door Utility Room there is further space and plumbing for a washing machine & tumble dryer with a separate wall mounted ceramic butlers sink, a very useful floor drain in the quarry tiled floor and a further back door to the garden. On the first floor there is a master bedroom with a dated en-suite bathroom and there are three further spacious double bedrooms to this floor and a family bathroom. On the second floor there is a fifth double bedroom and door access to the roof void and through restricted access to the two attic rooms, which with consent might be further enhanced to bring them into the accommodation as they look to have been habitable in the past and each has a window to the side.

OUTSIDE
This notable property is approached across The Green to the graveled drive and parking area, which leads to the rear of the property and gives access to the detached Double Garage and Stable/Workshop Store
The house sits in gardens of approx. 0.6 acres that, with a selection of flower beds, is mainly laid to lawn. To the side, the remaining land (approx. 1.84 acres) consists of an unfenced Meadow, with a natural pond to the front and a dis-used and dilapidated tennis court to the far corner. In all the grounds extend to around 2.44 acres and benefit from open views to the rear and across The Green to the front.

LOCATION
Pratts Farmhouse, believed to be the first house built on The Green in Depden, occupies an appealing position on the outskirts of this well-regarded village, just 7 miles south of Bury St Edmunds. The village features a pleasing mix of period properties particularly around The Green and a fine village church. More comprehensive facilities can be found in the historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds, which offers a full range of schooling both in the public and private sectors and excellent recreational and shopping facilities, numerous high-quality restaurants and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. Cultural amenities include the beautiful Georgian Theatre Royal and The Abbey gardens both of which are home to the annual festival. The university city of Cambridge is approximately 22 miles away and offers unrivalled schooling opportunities and excellent further shopping and amenity facilities. There is good access to the A14, A11 (M11) and the railway station at Bury St Edmunds offers a link to mainline services to London’s Liverpool Street and Kings Cross. The A14 and the A11 also provide easy access to Audley End and Whittlesford stations which are on the Cambridge to London line. Alternatively, there is a regular train service from Stowmarket to London Liverpool Street taking approximately 80 minutes. Stansted International Airport is approximately 55 minutes by car.



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