Well Cottage

A superbly presented and characterful period property, with substantial accommodation of over 2,500 sq ft, outbuilding studio and 1.2 acres (sts) of grounds, well located in this rural Suffolk village, just south of Bury St Edmunds.

Entrance hall, sitting room, snug, kitchen/dining room with larder, garden room, utility & boiler/boot room, cloakroom and front and back stairs.

First floor front landing: 3 double bedrooms (one with dressing room) and a family bathroom, connected rear landing: 2 further double bedrooms and 2 en-suite shower rooms.

Gated front to rear gravel drive with parking, double garage, studio/home office, attached gym/yoga studio and store, gardens, pony/goat stable and feed store with fenced paddock. In all about 1.22 acres (sts).

THE PROPERTY
Well Cottage is a superbly presented and spacious period village home with origins believed to date back to the late 1600’s. This charming property, with colour washed, rendered elevations under clay tiled roofs, was altered and extended to the rear with well-proportioned rooms and now boasts generous accommodation of over 2,500 sq ft. This comfortable family home has been modernised and updated over the years and although there is a lot of retained period character features the property is not listed and hence benefits from double glazed windows throughout. The three oak plank front door leads to a long side reception hall which features a vaulted timber clad ceiling and slate tiled flooring and gives open access to the kitchen/ dining room and through doors to the cloakroom, utility room, sitting room and the main stairs leading to the first floor; The sitting room benefits from a central back to back fireplace with two way log burning stove , exposed ceiling timbers and a two casement windows to the front (the ceiling heights throughout the house are manageable for those circa 6 ft tall). A door leads through to the snug which also features an exposed ceiling beam and benefits from windows to the side and front and a door to the kitchen. The kitchen, which is open to the breakfast/dining room with beautiful brick and sandstone tiled flooring throughout, open studwork to the side and windows and doors to the rear, is well presented with an oil-fired Aga range cooker with electric ‘Agamate’ cooker to the side framed within a fireplace style alcove. A Corian worktop island unit, with upstand splashbacks, is set over a range of base kitchen units and is open to the dining area. To the side there is a ceramic butlers sink with side drainer and woodblock worktop over the cupboard affording the space and plumbing for a dishwasher. The kitchen also benefits from excellent traditional storage to the side, in the Larder/Pantry, which along with shelving to the wall, there is another butler sink and slate tiled flooring. The hallway extends via the side passage by the kitchen, which is divided by the half walled open studwork through to the Boiler boot room, which houses the oil-fired boiler and pressurised hot water tank, and the Garden Room which opens via double doors and windows to the rear decked terrace. There are two landings that are connected by a door in the middle. The main stairs, leading up from the hallway, access the front landing which has three double bedrooms to the front of the house, one of which also benefits from a spacious dressing room that because it already benefits from a basin could be converted to an ensuite bath/shower room if necessary. The family bathroom also opens off the front landing affording a spacious room with freestanding bath, oversized shower cubicle, pedestal wash basin, traditional high flush wc and radiator towel rail. Off the rear landing, with stairs leading back down to the kitchen, there are two spacious double bedrooms, each with an ensuite shower room and views to the rear over the grounds to the fields beyond.

OUTSIDE
The property is approached across a short, shared drive from the village street to the front, to the private gated entrance. The long private driveway affords parking and turning space to the front of the house and continues down the side to the rear to the double garage and attached studio/home office. The drive continues past this building to further hardstanding parking and turning area. The grounds are very well presented with an original well (ideal for summer time watering requirements) and which gives the house its name, still operational to the front of the garden in the small orchard area. To the rear the decked terrace leads out from the house to the principally lawned garden, with an excellent home gym/studio, which has a party wall to its rear with the neighbour’s property, also opening onto the terrace along with a garden store. The Studio/ Home office, attached to the properties double garage, is superbly appointed with tiled underfloor heating, doors opening to the front and velux roof light windows to the rear, power and phone point. To the rear of this building there are a couple of small paddocks with a pony/goat stable and feed store with block paved floors.

LOCATION
The house is set back from the road and backs onto open fields with a footpath beyond the side field boundary affording easy access to countryside walks. Brockley is a small established village sitting between Whepstead and Hartest approximately 8 miles south of Bury St Edmunds. From here there is easy access to Long Melford and Sudbury to the south or to the cathedral market town of Bury St Edmunds to the north. Bury St Edmunds offers excellent shopping and amenity facilities including the recently opened Arc shopping centre, a diverse range of restaurants and the acclaimed Georgian Theatre Royal. There is excellent schooling in both the private and public sectors and a range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. There is easy access to the A14 leading west to the A11 (M11) and east to the mainline station at Stowmarket, which offers a fast and regular service to London’s Liverpool Street station taking approximately 80 minutes

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services: Mains water, electricity & drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority: West Suffolk District Council
Council Tax: Band E



Marketed by: Jackson-Stops, Bury St Edmunds