Highlands Road, Monks Eleigh, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP7

Impressive 16th century Grade II Listed country house with delightful gardens and grounds

Description

The house is set back from the road on the edge of the village. An oak front door leads into the reception hall with a fine staircase, wall panelling and flanked by two impressive reception rooms. The dining room has a superb fireplace, glazed doors through to the conservatory and garden room beyond. The drawing room features numerous exposed wall studs, beamed ceiling and open fireplace. The study has a delightful brick floor and a side lobby with serving hatch to the dining room and connects through to the library/sitting room with fitted bookcases, door to the rear terrace and a fine barley twist staircase to a guest bedroom. The back hall has a door to the delightful terrace gardens and a side cloakroom. The farmhouse kitchen/breakfast room has a four oven Aga and hatch to a wine cellar. The utility room offers further storage and houses the oil fired boiler. Beyond is a boot room/pantry with shelving and door to the outside walled garden.

The first floor landing leads to seven impressive double bedrooms and three bathrooms. From the inner landing is a bedroom with a separate cloakroom and a staircase leading down to the kitchen. The second floor has a further attic bedroom and access to the extensive unconverted attics.

Outside
Highlands Hall is approached over a drive which gives access through brick piers to the front drive and also continues down to a large open cart lodge along with a workshop/storage building and standalone tractor shed. The front of the house has a circular parking sweep surrounded by lavender and a partly walled garden with herbaceous beds. A gateway in the wall leads through the walled swimming pool garden with further ornamental plants including a mature vine. The gardens continue around the house with some yew topiary, numerous trees and gently sloping lawns which back onto the undulating countryside of the Brett valley. There are further terrace gardens to the rear of the house along with an adjoining wood/garden stores. To one side is a hard tennis court and also a meadow and two lakes.

In all about 4 acres

Location

Highlands Hall enjoys an impressive position in the heart of the sought after Brett Valley, surrounded by gently undulating fields and equidistant to Kettlebaston, Chelsworth and Monks Eleigh; pretty villages known for their medieval architecture.

Lavenham is an especially famous medieval village, known for its half-timbered house and impressive wool church. There is a great array of public houses, cafés, restaurants and shops.

Historic market towns, including Hadleigh and Sudbury, offer a further range of amenities. Sudbury is home to Gainsborough's House, the museum and gallery celebrating the life and work of Thomas Gainsborough RA.

Ipswich, the county town of Suffolk, provides a wide selection of independent and high street shops, numerous restaurants, and a variety of theatres, galleries, and museums.

Local sporting facilities are fantastic: tennis courts in Lavenham, superb sailing clubs along the River Orwell; golf at courses including Stoke by Nayland, Hintlesham and Ipswich.

Schools are excellent in both the state and independent sectors, including Old Buckenham Hall, Littlegarth, Orwell Park, Finborough School, Ipswich School and Framlingham College.

Square Footage: 7,145 sq ft


Acreage: 4.08 Acres

Directions

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Additional Info

Lavenham 4 miles, Hadleigh 6 miles, Sudbury 8 miles, Colchester 18 miles

Services: mains water and electricity; private drainage; oil-fired central heating to the house

Agent note: Photographs were taken in 2024.