Pockthorpe Cottage
Denton, Harleston, Norfolk, IP20 0AS
Guide Price
£950,000
Residential Tags: Georgian, Grade II
Property Tags: N/A
Land Tags: Arable Land, Pasture Land
Summary Details
- First Marketed: Feb 2023
- Removed: Date Not Available
- Residential Tags: Georgian, Grade II
- Property Tags: N/A
- Land Tags: Arable Land, Pasture Land
A Summary of a Country House
Set on a quiet lane, on the outskirts of Denton village in the Waveney Valley, overlooking rewilded fields, this charming four-bedroom Grade ll listed cottage in Norfolk is a wonderful example of how 16th-century architecture can be tastefully updated for modern living. Extended in the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the beautiful house now unfolds across some 2000 sq ft with a sweeping reception room, a music room and a large country kitchen and dining area with bay window.
The house and its acre of land is divided between garden, orchard and meadow. Tucked away in the undulating land, with immediate access to East Anglia country footpaths, food can be foraged throughout the year. From pear, apple and quince trees in the orchard, to wild bullace plums, damson, blackberries and elderflower, in the meadow and beyond.
Crucially, the current owners have made a number of sustainable improvements that are rarely found in historical rural properties, including a combined wood-based and electric heating system and Rayburn cooker, double glazing with argon gas, and plenty of insulation. This means that the owners are able to live towards a net zero carbon footprint.
A House for One, Some or All
This 16C cottage has been gradually extended for a growing family, with modern timber framed additions, around the central kitchen and living space to make a fresh and connected house. Each iteration has it own character and features, and each is well connected to the other to make a complete but versatile family home.
16th Century Cottage
The original 16C cottage has kept its integrity, with exposed timber beams, open brick fireplaces and charming secret rooms through low doors.
With a separate kitchen pantry, the current owners have been able to, at times, live independently from the rest of the house, as they have bnb-ed areas of the extension. This highlights the potential for the house to be easily divided should the need arise; for inter-generational living, additional income, or a writer's paradise.
Complementary Modern Extension
The newer timber framed extensions reference the older parts of the house, giving a sense of continuity and flow throughout. They were conceived and designed with the architect to be very much in conversation with the immediate natural environment; the sloping kitchen sedum roof flowers in the summer and appears to meet the upward sloping meadow beyond.
Most recently renovated in 2012, the extension is accessed off the central kitchen and living space. With a series of rooms with tall ceilings and mezzanines, they provide both sleeping accommodation and flexible spaces below, by being unrestricted by a bed. Each room has a set of double doors to provide direct access to the garden or patio, and skylights give continual natural light throughout the day.
The cottage and extension are connected and united in the middle, with a large kitchen, dining and living space, that has a bay window to give both double aspect views between the garden and meadow, and morning and evening sun.
An Acre for Foraging
The house is located on the southern border of its acre of land.
A tended south facing garden includes a small vegetable patch with raised beds and a long table is suitably located for al-fresco summer occasions. Behind, occupying the vast majority of the acre sits the ancient meadow and orchard.
Remarkably this hasn't been cultivated for over 100 years, allowing a vast and colourful collection of flowers to grow tall in the summer, including pyramid orchids, meadow buttercups and many others. Foraging has become an exciting pastime and opportunities are plentiful. With wild bullace plums, damson, blackberries, crab apples, elderflower, hazelnut and blackthorn for sloes.
Views are undisturbed in all directions and notably the adjacent rewilded farmland brings an array of birds such as starlings, finches of all kinds, and many other song birds, pheasants, barn owls, tawny owls, buzzards and kites.
Whilst nature is abundant, the acre also holds an exciting collection of objects and outbuildings. From timber to corrugated sheds and a treehouse to a homemade stage, there lies exciting opportunities for play, explorations and various past-times.
A House for Living Responsibly
The house is a wonderfully sustainable and environmentally friendly place to live. Unusually for a historical and rural home, there is no gas or oil tank, and instead there is a heating system which runs on wood and other eco-friendly fuels, such as locally sourced coffee logs.
The home has been fitted with a modern Rayburn wood burning range cooker, which supplies both hot water and heating, as well as being a cooking appliance. The secondary option of using electricity is however there, with a new electric immersion and heating system.
The current owners have been very mindful to insulate the house, in order to reduce their energy consumption, through an effort that is not always straightforward for historical homes. Further effort has been made to keep the heat in, with some windows being argon gas-filled and nearly all with heritage double glazing.
The house further surprises for an historical home, with the amount of natural light that the interior spaces receive. Skylights have been added to the extension, and this all continues to reduce energy needs.
A Landscape of Local Culture & Produce
Norwich is just a 30 minute drive north of the home, with trains from Norwich to London Liverpool Street in 1 hour 45 minutes. The town of Diss is a 25 minute drive, with trains to London Liverpool Street in 1 hour 30 minutes.
The surrounding local area is vibrant and full of culture and activity, and provides a number of highly regarded schools such as Alburgh with Denton Primary.
The Denton village hall, a 5 minute walk away, becomes a pub on a Friday night, and there is a big gathering and village meal each month.
A 10 minute drive away is the beautiful Georgian town of Bungay, with it's quaint high street and notable establishments, including the Front Room for bread and coffee, The Chocolate Box for local sweet treats and the fishmonger selling fresh fish daily.
It's rare to find such an indigenous spot in East Anglia, where the farming is old-school and less industrial. There are many nearby welcoming farms where award winning cheeses, home grown beef, and local award winning wines can be sampled and bought along with freshly grown fruit and vegetables.
Slightly further afield is Snape Maltings concert hall, where with just a 45 minute drive you can see Britten Sinfonia play, as well as other recent highlights such as Víkingur Ólafsson and Martha Wainwright.
The River Waveney meanders south of the A413 and holds many wild swimming spots where one can enjoy the local wildlife and freedom. The River Waveney forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk for much of its length within The Broads.
Marketed by: Bonnington Square, Peckham
Set on a quiet lane, on the outskirts of Denton village in the Waveney Valley, overlooking rewilded fields, this charming four-bedroom Grade ll listed cottage in Norfolk is a wonderful example of how 16th-century architecture can be tastefully updated for modern living. Extended in the latter half of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the beautiful house now unfolds across some 2000 sq ft with a sweeping reception room, a music room and a large country kitchen and dining area with bay window.
The house and its acre of land is divided between garden, orchard and meadow. Tucked away in the undulating land, with immediate access to East Anglia country footpaths, food can be foraged throughout the year. From pear, apple and quince trees in the orchard, to wild bullace plums, damson, blackberries and elderflower, in the meadow and beyond.
Crucially, the current owners have made a number of sustainable improvements that are rarely found in historical rural properties, including a combined wood-based and electric heating system and Rayburn cooker, double glazing with argon gas, and plenty of insulation. This means that the owners are able to live towards a net zero carbon footprint.
A House for One, Some or All
This 16C cottage has been gradually extended for a growing family, with modern timber framed additions, around the central kitchen and living space to make a fresh and connected house. Each iteration has it own character and features, and each is well connected to the other to make a complete but versatile family home.
16th Century Cottage
The original 16C cottage has kept its integrity, with exposed timber beams, open brick fireplaces and charming secret rooms through low doors.
With a separate kitchen pantry, the current owners have been able to, at times, live independently from the rest of the house, as they have bnb-ed areas of the extension. This highlights the potential for the house to be easily divided should the need arise; for inter-generational living, additional income, or a writer's paradise.
Complementary Modern Extension
The newer timber framed extensions reference the older parts of the house, giving a sense of continuity and flow throughout. They were conceived and designed with the architect to be very much in conversation with the immediate natural environment; the sloping kitchen sedum roof flowers in the summer and appears to meet the upward sloping meadow beyond.
Most recently renovated in 2012, the extension is accessed off the central kitchen and living space. With a series of rooms with tall ceilings and mezzanines, they provide both sleeping accommodation and flexible spaces below, by being unrestricted by a bed. Each room has a set of double doors to provide direct access to the garden or patio, and skylights give continual natural light throughout the day.
The cottage and extension are connected and united in the middle, with a large kitchen, dining and living space, that has a bay window to give both double aspect views between the garden and meadow, and morning and evening sun.
An Acre for Foraging
The house is located on the southern border of its acre of land.
A tended south facing garden includes a small vegetable patch with raised beds and a long table is suitably located for al-fresco summer occasions. Behind, occupying the vast majority of the acre sits the ancient meadow and orchard.
Remarkably this hasn't been cultivated for over 100 years, allowing a vast and colourful collection of flowers to grow tall in the summer, including pyramid orchids, meadow buttercups and many others. Foraging has become an exciting pastime and opportunities are plentiful. With wild bullace plums, damson, blackberries, crab apples, elderflower, hazelnut and blackthorn for sloes.
Views are undisturbed in all directions and notably the adjacent rewilded farmland brings an array of birds such as starlings, finches of all kinds, and many other song birds, pheasants, barn owls, tawny owls, buzzards and kites.
Whilst nature is abundant, the acre also holds an exciting collection of objects and outbuildings. From timber to corrugated sheds and a treehouse to a homemade stage, there lies exciting opportunities for play, explorations and various past-times.
A House for Living Responsibly
The house is a wonderfully sustainable and environmentally friendly place to live. Unusually for a historical and rural home, there is no gas or oil tank, and instead there is a heating system which runs on wood and other eco-friendly fuels, such as locally sourced coffee logs.
The home has been fitted with a modern Rayburn wood burning range cooker, which supplies both hot water and heating, as well as being a cooking appliance. The secondary option of using electricity is however there, with a new electric immersion and heating system.
The current owners have been very mindful to insulate the house, in order to reduce their energy consumption, through an effort that is not always straightforward for historical homes. Further effort has been made to keep the heat in, with some windows being argon gas-filled and nearly all with heritage double glazing.
The house further surprises for an historical home, with the amount of natural light that the interior spaces receive. Skylights have been added to the extension, and this all continues to reduce energy needs.
A Landscape of Local Culture & Produce
Norwich is just a 30 minute drive north of the home, with trains from Norwich to London Liverpool Street in 1 hour 45 minutes. The town of Diss is a 25 minute drive, with trains to London Liverpool Street in 1 hour 30 minutes.
The surrounding local area is vibrant and full of culture and activity, and provides a number of highly regarded schools such as Alburgh with Denton Primary.
The Denton village hall, a 5 minute walk away, becomes a pub on a Friday night, and there is a big gathering and village meal each month.
A 10 minute drive away is the beautiful Georgian town of Bungay, with it's quaint high street and notable establishments, including the Front Room for bread and coffee, The Chocolate Box for local sweet treats and the fishmonger selling fresh fish daily.
It's rare to find such an indigenous spot in East Anglia, where the farming is old-school and less industrial. There are many nearby welcoming farms where award winning cheeses, home grown beef, and local award winning wines can be sampled and bought along with freshly grown fruit and vegetables.
Slightly further afield is Snape Maltings concert hall, where with just a 45 minute drive you can see Britten Sinfonia play, as well as other recent highlights such as Víkingur Ólafsson and Martha Wainwright.
The River Waveney meanders south of the A413 and holds many wild swimming spots where one can enjoy the local wildlife and freedom. The River Waveney forms the boundary between Suffolk and Norfolk for much of its length within The Broads.
Marketed by: Bonnington Square, Peckham
Land Registry Data
- No historical data found.