Street Farmhouse

AN EXCEPTIONAL GRADE II LISTED VILLAGE HOUSE IN SUPERB ORDER WITH SEPARATE OFFICE/ANNEXE, GAMES ROOM AND LOVELY GARDENS EXTENDING TO APPROXIMATELY 0.62 ACRES (STS)

THE PROPERTY
Street Farmhouse is an exceptional and substantial Grade II Listed property of enormous character in a sought after village. The property dates back to the 16th Century and is constructed of timber framed and plastered elevations with pargetting detail under a peg tiled roof. Street Farmhouse is a comfortable family home but retains a wealth of magnificent period features, including moulded and exposed ceiling and wall beams, inglenook fireplaces and a panelled dining room. Central heating is oil fired via radiators. Street Farmhouse has inviting gardens and grounds with well maintained box hedged flowerbeds, a fish pond and a variety of fruit and mature trees. The garden is predominantly laid to lawn with a brick and flint wall to most boundaries. The approach is through a five bar gate to a gravel driveway providing parking for several cars and access to the triple garage, office/annexe bedroom, games room, workshop and gardens.

LOCATION
Street Farmhouse is situated in the delightful village of Lidgate. This small rural village is located less than seven miles from Newmarket and benefits from a renowned public house/restaurant ‘The Star’ and a church. Newmarket is set in attractive countryside on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border and is world famous as the headquarters of British horseracing. The town is home to many racing institutions including the National Stud, the National Horseracing Museum, Tattersalls and The Jockey Club. Some of the finest racing in the world is seen on Newmarket’s two racecourses: The Rowley Mile and The July Course. Newmarket itself provides a good range of amenities including schools, shopping facilities, hotels, restaurants and leisure facilities including a golf club: Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds offer further amenities. There is excellent access to the A14 and A11 (M11). There is a branch line connection from Newmarket to Cambridge and Ipswich. Cambridge, Cambridge North, Audley End and Whittlesford Parkway offer direct rail lines into London, with the fastest trains taking under one hour. Stansted International Airport is approximately forty minutes’ drive.

OUTSIDE
Street Farmhouse is approached through a five bar gate to a gravel driveway providing parking for several vehicles and access to the triple garage, office/annexe bedroom, games room, workshop and gardens. The gardens at Street Farmhouse are largely to the side and rear of the property and predominantly laid to lawn, with formal and informal areas. There are York stone steps to the front door with small well stocked flower and shrub boxed hedged borders to the sides. The gardens to the rear are laid to lawn and lead down to a large fish pond with charming views over grass paddocks and the village church beyond.

In all about 0.62 acres (sts) with potential to continue the rental of an extra 5 acre paddock



Marketed by: Jackson-Stops, Newmarket