7 bedroom house

Substantial early Victorian house incorporating a delightful cottage, established walled gardens, outbuildings and paddock.


Description

Mells Lodge is a detached family house believed to be early
Victorian with later additions. The property has rendered elevations under a hipped pantiled roof and slate roof additions with more recent front facing brick elevations. Internal features that are associated with the period include well-proportioned and light-filled rooms, bay and sash windows, open fireplaces and an elegantly curved staircase. There is a fine reception hall, a well-fitted Aga kitchen/breakfast room which leads through to a utility and a connecting door through to the adjoining cottage. The reception rooms are all very well proportioned and are further enhanced by large bay windows
overlooking the gardens. To the side of the house is a study and an excellent conservatory which opens out to the terrace and walled gardens. The staircase leads onto a large landing and 5 impressive bedrooms, a dressing room off the main bedroom, 2 bathrooms and a shower room.

The adjoining cottage has its own private entrance which leads to a hall, bathroom, the main living room and also the open plan
kitchen/dining room. There is a ground floor bedroom off the
living room and a staircase to a further bedroom.

OUTSIDE
The house is approached via a shingled driveway with established hedging and with 2 garages to the side. The
established gardens lie predominantly to the south and
east of the house and include a superb walled kitchen garden
and terrace areas to the side of the conservatory. There is a further vehicular drive which continues to the paddock
and fronts a further garage, car port, stable, workshop and
stores. To the far end of the paddock is a mature orchard.
To the back of the house is a lawned garden with hard tennis
court, greenhouse with lowered brick floor and beds. To the north of the house is a walled side garden with garden potting shed, stores and paths back to the utility room of the
house. Rear steps lead down to the cellar with oil fired boiler.

SERVICES
Mains electricity, private water and private drainage. Oil fired
central heating.

Location

Mells Lodge is a substantial period house positioned in the small hamlet of Mells. The neighbouring village of Bramfield has a pub, church and primary school. The village is ideally situated between Southwold and Halesworth which both offer a wide range of everyday shopping, recreational and educational facilities. Norwich is 27 miles to the north; the county town of Ipswich via the A12 is 28 miles to the south. Snape Maltings concert hall and the RSPB reserve at Minsmere are some 10 miles to the east as well as other areas of natural beauty, which form part of the heritage coastal belt, and only eight miles to the superb sandy beaches of Walberswick.

Square Footage: 4,218 sq ft




Acreage: 2 Acres

Directions

From Ipswich proceed north along the A12 and continue
through Yoxford and turn left onto the A144 to Halesworth.
After crossing the railway line, proceed for just over a mile and
Mells Lodge will be seen immediately on the right-hand
side after turning first right.

Marketed by: Savills, Ipswich