Bury Road, Brockley, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29
- PROPERTY TYPE
Detached
- BEDROOMS
7
- BATHROOMS
3
- SIZE
4,309 sq ft
400 sq m
- TENUREDescribes how you own a property. There are different types of tenure - freehold, leasehold, and commonhold.Read more about tenure in our glossary page.
Freehold
Key features
- A substantial and impressive family home
- Over 4,000 sq ft of accommodation
- Enjoying a beautiful setting with 2.5 acres (sts)
- 4-5 Reception rooms
- 7-8 Bedrooms
- Driveway, double garage & parking
- Gardens & grounds
- Established pond
- Only 5 miles to Bury St Edmunds
- No onward chain
Description
Entrance hall, living room, day room, dining room, family room, music room, kitchen/breakfast room, utility room, garden room, two cloakrooms and an office/bedroom.
First floor master bedroom with en-suite bath/shower room, guest bedroom with en-suite bathroom and dressing room, five further bedrooms and a family bath/shower room.
Driveway, double garage & parking, gardens & grounds, greenhouse, weather boarded potting shed and established pond. In all about 2.5 acres (sts).
THE PROPERTY
Saxonwood is a most impressive detached family house boasting over 4,000 sq ft of versatile accommodation and presents colour washed rendered elevations under a tiled roof. This comfortable and generously proportioned family house, which has been enjoyed by the same family for over 45 years, is coming to the market for the first time and although would now benefit from some updating, provides fabulous family and entertaining space, whilst enjoying a beautiful, mature setting.
The entrance hall features the stairs leading to the first floor and accesses the accommodation with a large triple aspect living room featuring an inglenook fireplace with bressummer beam housing a gas ‘wood burner’ effect stove and double doors lead into the dining room, which has a double aspect and rear doors leading to the garden. The family/entertaining room, has a triple aspect and double doors leading to a front terraced area and a door leading to a music room. The kitchen/breakfast room is fitted with a range of base units with worksurfaces, eye level display cupboards, Leisure Professional range cooker, two built-in shelved pantry cupboards, twin windows to the rear aspect and double doors leading to the rear garden. The utility room has a butler sink, plumbing for automatic appliances, is adjacent to a cloakroom and leads into a garden room, which has glazing to the front and rear aspects with doors leading to the garden, storage and boiler cupboard and doors lead to a side hall, which has stairs leading to an office/bedroom, door to an office/store room, which has a courtesy door to the garage. The first floor large office over the garage could equally be used as a further bedroom. Continuing on the ground floor there is another cloakroom and a storage cupboard to the side and under the stairs.
On the first floor there are 7/8 bedrooms with the master enjoying an en-suite and a further bedroom also has an en-suite and a dressing room, which could be returned to a bedroom if required. There is also a family bathroom.
OUTSIDE
Saxonwood is approached via a sweeping driveway leading to a large parking area, which in turn leads to a double garage. The gardens and grounds, which surround Saxonwood, are of particular note and are predominantly laid to lawns interspersed with an abundance of mature trees and many herbaceous beds, borders and a large established pond. There are entertaining terraced areas on the east and west sides, making ideal alfresco dining areas and there is also a reserved area as a vegetable garden with a large greenhouse and a large weather boarded potting shed. There are further sheds and a separate field gate accessing the land. In all around 2.47 acres (subject to survey).
LOCATION
Saxonwood enjoys a prominent location, beautifully set well back in its plot on the outskirts of the village. Brockley is a small village sitting between Whepstead and Hartest approximately 5 miles south of Bury St Edmunds.
To the south there is easy access to Long Melford and Sudbury and the cathedral market town of Bury St Edmunds to the north, 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.
There are numerous high-quality restaurants and cultural amenities including the impressive Georgian Theatre Royal and the Abbey Gardens. The university City of Cambridge is approximately 28 miles away and 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 link to mainline services to London Liverpool Street and Kings Cross. Alternatively, there is a regular train service from Stowmarket or Sudbury to London Liverpool Street and Stansted International airport is approximately 50 minutes by car.
There are excellent local schools in both the public and private sectors including South Lee, Old Buckenham Hall, Culford and Barnardiston.
PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water and electricity. Private drainage. Oil fired central heating.
Local Authority West Suffolk District Council
Council Tax Band G
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Average Speeds of 100 -150 Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
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- PARKINGDetails of how and where vehicles can be parked, and any associated costs.Read more about parking in our glossary page.
- Yes
- GARDENA property has access to an outdoor space, which could be private or shared.
- Yes
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Bury Road, Brockley, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP29
NEAREST STATIONS
Distances are straight line measurements from the centre of the postcode- Bury St. Edmunds Station5.6 miles
About the agent
The Bury St Edmunds office is one of five offices in East Anglia, which ensures a widespread and comprehensive coverage of this unique area. Our clients can deal with partners who have years of experience in the market, a strong local interest and this enables us to offer the degree of commitment, continuity and market expertise that lies at the heart of our service and success in East Anglia.
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