3 bedroom house

An exceptionally comfortable home in lovely gardens of approaching 1/5th of an acre(sts), in this popular rural Suffolk village, with farmland to the front and rear.

Entrance hall, sitting room, kitchen/dining room, bedroom/study, shower/cloakroom and a utility room to the rear of the garage.

First floor master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, two further bedrooms, family bath/shower room and a study/dressing room.

Gated driveway with parking area, gardens extending to about 0.18 of an acre (sts), attached single garage and workshop & potting sheds.

THE PROPERTY
This well-presented modern country cottage is superbly located on Freewood Street, fronting and backing onto farmland and affording excellent views, particularly to the rear, which is South facing. The property presents colour washed rendered elevations under a concrete pantile roof with dormer windows to the front and rear elevations. The property appears to have been very well maintained and improved by the current owners who are relocating to get closer to family. The excellent accommodation benefits from double glazed windows throughout, oil fired central heating, slate tiled floors to the ground floor and comprises an entrance hall, with cloaks store cupboard, and with access to all the ground floor rooms and stairs to the first floor. The spacious and very well-proportioned sitting room affords views to the front, side and rear with French doors to the rear garden that also benefit from louvred plantation shutters. The fireplace is no longer in use and has been converted to a media station for the wall mounted TV and a store cupboard. The kitchen/dining room is also a well-proportioned room with good views and French doors, again with shutters, to the rear. There are a comprehensive range of base and wall mounted kitchen units with polished granite worksurfaces and upstands, underset Carron Phoenix sink unit, built in Bosch dishwasher, American fridge/freezer with water dispenser and Rangemaster 5 ring gas hob, electric over cooker with extractor hood above. The potential ground floor bedroom is currently used by the owner as her art studio and is next door to the ground floor shower room which has tiled walls, a double shower cubicle, traditional high flush WC, radiator towel rail, wall mounted sink unit and window to the front. Upstairs the master bedroom has a superb large gable end window, with plantation shutters and a door opening to a ‘Juliet’ balcony, giving views across the fields towards Free Wood. The en-suite is well appointed with a dormer window in the sloping ceiling, free standing designer bath, wash basin, wc and radiator towel rail. The walls are limestone tiled and the floor is gloss tiled, with the owner having over tiled this with removable carpet tiles. There are two further bedrooms, a study/ dressing room and a family bathroom with panel enclosed bath, separate shower, wash basin and wc, tiled and mirrored walls and a radiator towel rail, window to the rear and airing cupboard housing the pressurized hot water tank.

OUTSIDE
To the front, the property is approached through a gated entrance over a gravelled driveway with parking and turning area giving access to the attached single garage, off the back of which there is a Utility Room with worksurface, plumbing for a washing machine and the oil-fired boiler.

GARDENS
The grounds, which extend to around 0.18 acres, are fence enclosed and are beautifully presented with lawns, shrub and flower borders, raised vegetable and fruit beds, a terraced sitting area and a good workshop shed with power and light, and a potting shed, both of which have windows overlooking the garden. There is also space for a summer house to the side.

LOCATION
The property is well positioned in this rural location, within this active and welcoming local community which is centred around the village hall, with neighbouring villages offering a good range of everyday facilities including a post office shop and primary school in Rougham, post office shops in Felsham and Sicklesmere and popular public houses in many of the adjoining villages. For more comprehensive facilities the historic town of Bury St Edmunds is approximately 5 miles to the north west which offers an excellent range of amenities with schooling in the private and public sectors, extensive shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs. The University City of Cambridge is approximately 28 miles away and offers unrivalled schooling opportunities and excellent 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.

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds head out on the A134 leaving the town and proceeding along Sicklesmere Road. Shortly after passing the Rushbrooke Arms public house on your left-hand side, turn left sign posted Bradfield St George and follow this road through Little Whelnetham and into Bradfield St George. Turn left just after the village sign into Church Lane and follow this road around past the village green and allotments. The road will turn into Freewood Street past the Rougham Road turn, so proceed to the right-hand bend where the house will be found on the right just before the footpath to the woods, on the left.



Marketed by: Jackson-Stops, Bury St Edmunds