3 bedroom house

A semi-detached period property, superbly set overlooking this quintessential village Green, requiring renovation and updating with excellent scope for improvement.

Hallway, sitting room, kitchen/breakfast/dining room, ground floor shower room, boiler room/pantry and period lean-to store room. Four first floor bedrooms (one being walk through) and scope for a family shower room.

Gated driveways, dilapidated timber and brick-built period barn and gardens with possible further scope for development. In all around 0.21 of an acre(sts).

THE PROPERTY
This spacious home is believed to date back to the mid-18th century displaying, as it does, some impressive heavy timber framing and is understood to have been an old Inn, as can be seen in the historic photo of the house on the back page of this brochure, taken from the Farringdon Series of Barrow Green. The property has been in the same family for several decades and was split by the previous generation, into what it is now, the principal side of this semi-detached property. The division can be further seen on the full-page plan in these particulars with the portion hatched out that is in other ownership. The flat roofed porch to the front of the property is clearly a relatively modern addition and whilst giving access to the front door of number 9 also affords access for the neighbour to their front door. The front door leads into a high ceilinged hallway with exposed beam, stairs leading up to the first floor, and spacious understairs cupboard store with window to the rear and through to the inner hall and the sitting room. The sitting room has a double-glazed window to the front, exposed ceiling timbers, a fireplace and laminated wood floor. The inner hallway has a back door out to the rear courtyard, which leads to the garden and the barn outbuilding, double glazed window to the side, the ground floor shower room/wet room and the dining room. The dining room benefits from an impressive fireplace with ornate iron surround, a high ceilinged exposed beam and a tiled floor which extends through to the kitchen area which in turn also benefits from a fireplace with exposed brick chimney breast and inset log burning stove. There are a range of base and wall mounted kitchen units and a 1½ bowl, single drainer sink unit. The part tiled pantry to the rear also houses the oil-fired boiler and there is other than the double-glazed French doors to the garden, a door to the front to rear, lean to original store room which again affords good scope for improvement, but with further retained character, a door to the garden and window to the front. Upstairs there are two bedrooms to the front off the front landing and a part converted storeroom that was planned to be used as a shower room. The 3rd bedroom is a walk-through room giving access to the 4th room to the very rear, which has windows over looking the garden. In early photos it has been noticed that there are windows to the attic so there is potentially further scope for accommodation in this area especially as the property is not restricted by a heritage listing.

OUTSIDE
The property is approached across The Green with double gated access to the front, concrete hardstanding to the one side with gravelled area to the other and access around to the detached dilapidated timber and brick built two roomed barn to the rear. The garden opens beyond the pedestrian gated access at the back of the house and is mainly laid to lawn with concrete path access down the garden to a small outbuilding/potting shed, green house and with flowerbeds and orchard area to total extends to around 0.21 acres in all (sts). Access must be given to the neighbours to their square of lawn and sheds – as can be seen on the plan.

LOCATION
The property is well located fronting onto the Green of this popular Suffolk village. Barrow offers good local amenities including shops, pubs (one being the stylish highly regarded Weeping Willow pub/restaurant – a very short walk), ‘outstanding’ OFSTED rated primary school, post office, village store and fish & chip shop. For more comprehensive facilities the historic town of Bury St Edmunds is approximately 6 miles to the east 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 23 miles away to the west, 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 Stowmarket, Ipswich and Cambridge link to mainline services to London’s Liverpool Street and Kings Cross.



Marketed by: Jackson-Stops, Bury St. Edmunds