Lodge Barn

A spacious link-detached barn style home, offering good scope for improvement, with excellent river frontage and grounds of about 3 acres.

Reception hallway, sitting room, dining room, playroom/snug, office/study, kitchen/breakfast room, utility/boiler room and a cloakroom.

First floor master bedroom with en-suite bathroom, guest bedroom with en-suite shower room, two further double bedrooms, a family bathroom and a box room/loft.

Shared gravel driveway and private parking area, double garage, dilapidated outbuilding/store room, dilapidated tennis court, gardens with river frontage, meadow and dismantled railway embankment. In all about 3 acres (sts).

THE PROPERTY
Lodge Barn is a dated but well-presented and very comfortably proportioned home with accommodation extending to around 3,300 sq ft (307.4 sq m) that was believed to have been built in 1985 and retains much of its original 1980’s character. The property benefits from double glazed windows in the main and oil fired radiator central heating. A storm porch entrance gives access through a glazed panelled front door with side screen window to the open plan central reception hall which has stairs leading upto the first floor and doors opening to the side and rear to the main and courtyard gardens. The large sitting room benefits from windows to three elevations and sliding patio doors to the rear, an open fireplace with exposed brick chimney breast and pamment tiled hearth. There is also a brick built corner bar to the back of this room. The dining room is again well proportioned with windows to the side and rear and there is a useful store cupboard set below the stairs, just to the side of the dining room door, ideal as a drinks cupboard/crockery and dinner service store. There are two further versatile reception rooms currently classified as an office/study and playroom/snug but could easily be remodelled as ground floor bedroom/ possible annexe accommodation with the cloakroom being just across the hall. The spacious kitchen/breakfast room has two windows to the garden and a door leading through to the utility/boiler room. The kitchen is fitted with oak edged laminated worktops with tiled splashbacks, stainless steel double bowl and drainer sink unit, a good range of base and wall mounted kitchen units, inset Baumatic electric hob, built in Neff double oven, Samsung microwave and integrated Baumatic fridge. The first floor rooms open off the split galleried landing. There are two possible main bedrooms, each of which benefits from en-suite facilities and built in wardrobes and furniture. There are two further double bedrooms which are served by the family bathroom and there is a box/loft store room opening off one.

OUTSIDE
Set back from Bury Road and screened by a house to the front, which is link attached by the garages and the pedestrian access passage, the property enjoys a superb rural setting backing onto the river (the house has never flooded) and farmland beyond. The vehicular access is across the 4 way shared gravel drive, to the private parking area in front and to the side of the house, which also gives access to the double garage and down the side to the garden. Lodge Barn is understated from the front, with its true scale only evident from the rear garden and is discretely positioned in the corner of this courtyard development.
The grounds are an appealing and significant feature of the property, extending in all to an excellent 3 acres(sts) and benefiting from charming river frontage, a dilapidated hard surface tennis court (which could be resurfaced), lawns, shrub and tree borders, a meadow and the two sections of the disused, wooded railway embankment that can be seen on the plan attached. There is also a large but dilapidated modern storage barn/workshop with concrete base but requiring renovation to the roof and walls. The main gardens, overlooked by two terraces opening from the house, are principally lawned with shrub and tree borders, a greenhouse and there is also a courtyard garden to the side of the house with a gate to the shared pedestrian access, leading back to the front.

LOCATION
Sicklesmere, which almost merges with Whelnetham, is an attractive and popular small village lying just south of Bury St Edmunds. The village features a well-regarded public house ‘The Rushbrooke Arms’ and a well-used village store and post office. There is also a well-regarded primary school in Great Whelnetham. A wider range of facilities can be found in the historic cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds, which offers an excellent range of amenities with schooling in the public and private 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 30 miles away and offers unrivalled education 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 Liverpool Street and Kings Cross. Alternatively, the market town of Sudbury lies just 14 miles south and has a linkline railway station offering a regular service into London Liverpool Street via Marks Tey, taking approximately 80 minutes. Stowmarket is 14 miles to the east and is on the mainline to Liverpool Street taking approx. 85 minutes.

Services: Mains water, electricity and drainage (shared pump to the mains). Oil-fired radiator central heating.
Local Authority: West Suffolk (St Edmundsbury)
Council Tax: Band G
Tenure: Freehold



Marketed by: Jackson-Stops, Bury St Edmunds