Bury Road, Lavenham, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10

A superbly characterful detached period property (not Listed), wonderfully enhanced, enlarged and modernised, to a high specification and stylish modern standards, with parking, garaging & gardens.

Reception hall, panelled sitting room, living/dining room, kitchen/breakfast room, original hall, utility room and shower room/cloakroom. Three first floor double bedrooms, office/bedroom 4 & storeroom, three en-suite bath/shower rooms and a home office landing area.

Driveway, parking, garage, garden store & garden house, gardens and grounds. In all around 0.25 of an acre (sts)

THE PROPERTY
Fiddler Simpson’s Cottage is a stylishly presented detached village house, which was extended and modernised about 12 years ago by the current owners to enhance the space, comfort, convenience and efficiency of this charming 1600’s period property. This excellent home is most unusually not listed, as it was relocated, having as a thatched cottage fallen into disrepair, from Washmere Green, 2 miles to its current location, by an excentric harpsichord maker by the name of Mr Hodsdon in around 1930. It enjoys many superb original features and is wonderfully enhanced by the high-quality oak framed double-glazed windows throughout.

Presenting colour washed rendered elevations under a tiled roof, the accommodation in brief leads in through an oak panelled front door and into the new reception hall with welcome mat well, oak flooring, vaulted ceiling with Velux roof light window and a stable style ½ glazed door leading out to the rear. There is a cloaks hanging alcove and a store cupboard. A terracotta tiled floor open plan utility room features a double-glazed window to the rear, work surface, single drainer stainless steel sink unit, base and eye level cupboards and space for a washing machine and upright fridge/freezer. There is a shower room/cloakroom opposite, housing the wall mounted gas fired boiler. Stairs lead up to a first-floor study/office/bedroom four from the hall, over the garage, with automatic sensor lighting and a door that connects to a useful store room which could, due to the location of the plumbing below, easily be re-purposed as an en-suite bath/shower room if required. An oak plank latch door leads from the hall into the kitchen/breakfast room which features double-glazed windows to the rear, French doors to the side and exposed ceiling timbers. The room is fitted with a range of base units with granite work surfaces, ceramic butlers sink with mixer tap, Rangemaster induction hob range cooker set into the former bressummer beamed fireplace, a larder fridge and a dishwasher. An old latch door leads to the rear stairs leading to the first floor and a carved archway leads to the living/dining room, which features double-glazed windows to the front and side, a fireplace with brick hearth and inset log burning stove with alcove cupboard to the side, exposed wall and ceiling timbers and original mullion window. This room also enjoys modern oak flooring and a built-in solid oak end wall display and storage unit. A second, original entrance door leads into the original entrance hall, with stairs turning up to the first floor and doors into the dining room and sitting room. The sitting room is of particular note being well proportioned with double glazed windows to three aspects and features a bressummer beamed inglenook fireplace housing a log burning stove with alcove storage to the side. A door leads out to the garden terrace and the room enjoys glorious historic dark oak panelled walls.

On the first floor a small landing with double-glazed window to the front has a useful ‘home office’ unit built-in with desk, shelving and cupboard. A three-plank original latch door opens to the main bedroom which has a semi vaulted ceiling, double-glazed windows, built-in wardrobe cupboards to one wall and an en-suite bathroom. Bedroom two has windows to the front and side, a door to an airing cupboard and also enjoys a stylishly fitted en-suite shower room.

A connecting hall leads through to a third shower room and bedroom three, which has a semi-vaulted ceiling with exposed timber frame, windows to the side and rear and stairs down to the kitchen.

There is an integrated garage with a door to the reception hall, double doors to the front, workshop area and storage space, a connecting door and step down to the garden storeroom, with double doors to the rear.

OUTSIDE
The house is set back behind a high hedge to the front with spacious gravelled drive and parking area to the front capable of easily accommodating several vehicles and giving access to the integral garage and to the side, via the covered veranda space, the rear garden. The outstanding grounds extend to around 0.25 of an acre being mainly fence and hedge enclosed with landscaped paved terrace, ideal for alfresco entertaining, that steps down into the sunken garden and beyond too another terrace with a water feature. The gardens are laid to lawn with shrub and flower beds and borders and there is a separate kitchen garden area with vegetable beds and fruit trees incorporating Quince, Medlar, Mulberry, Plum, Damson and a grape vine arch. The garden also benefits from a substantial garden house, currently used as an exercise room and of particular note a very useful underground 3,800 litre rainwater harvester tank, ideal for use during drought conditions.

LOCATION
Fiddler Simpson’s Cottage is situated on the northern outskirts of Lavenham, close to the delightful Lavenham circular walk and award-winning Dyehouse Field Wood, within walking distance from the centre of the village, which contains many fine period houses and cottages and is often described as one of England’s finest preserved medieval villages with its fortunes arising from the wool trade in the 15th and 16th centuries. The village has a magnificent parish church and a wonderful selection of ancient houses and cottages from Tudor timber buildings, through to Georgian period and the Victorian era.

Today the village is very vibrant with the most active community and useful range of shops including a Butchers, post office, pharmacy, bakery, traditional grocers, a modern Co-Op, well regarded primary school and doctors’ surgery. There are also a selection of interesting shops and galleries, fine public houses and restaurants, such as The Greyhound Pub, The Great House Restaurant and The Swan Hotel.

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds head south towards Sudbury on the A134 passing through the villages of Sicklesmere and Bradfield Combust. Take the left turning signposted Lavenham (A1141) and follow this road until you reach the outskirts of Lavenham. As you proceed over the brow of the hill, Fiddler Simpson’s Cottage will be found on the left.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, electricity and drainage.
- 24 Fitted Solar Panels affording 7.2KW
- 13.5 KWH Tesla Powerwall Battery also affording power cut backup.
- Zappi Car Charger included.
- Eddi hot-water solar diverter that has enabled the current owner the opportunity to turn the gas supply off during the summer months.
Local Authority Babergh District Council
Council Tax Band F
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds currently available of up to 55Mbps but with Gigaclear currently running fibre to the property this should soon lift to 1000Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes
Viewing Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops. Tel.