High Street, Ixworth, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP31

A superb, well-presented Grade II listed property affording further scope for improvement, with garden, drive & parking; centrally located within this popular, well served Suffolk village.

Entrance porch, drawing room, dining room, garden room, kitchen/breakfast room (for completion), pantry store (off possible kitchen), inner & rear halls, shower room, store and a cellar.

First floor landing study space, sitting room/potential main bedroom, bedroom with dressing room/nursery bedroom, guest bedroom, family bathroom, separate cloakroom, kitchen/ 4th bedroom and a snug/bedroom.

Driveway & parking, outbuilding with utility room, former garage/workshop store and low maintenance enclosed rear garden.

THE PROPERTY
68 High Street was formerly known as Theobald’s, a well-regarded restaurant that hosted diners in the characterful front two reception rooms of this beautiful period property. The building is Grade II listed, with earlier origins as a shop, with two slightly bowed shop windows to the front and is mainly of a high status timber framed construction with brick plinth, rendered upper front and side elevations under a glazed clay pantile roof to the main frontage and to the rear partially timber clad, painted render and brick elevations under a mix of clay pantile and slate roofs.

The accommodation in brief leads in from a half-glazed door from the steps to the front, into a hall with traditional latch door opening to the drawing room. This room boasts a wonderful inglenook fireplace with bresummer beam, fire hood and exposed Tudor brick work, and features exposed heavy timber framework that is understood to date back to the early 16th century. A doorway opening connects to the open plan dining/garden rooms which enjoy the light from the former shop windows and unused ½ glazed door to the front, and double-glazed patio doors to the rear. The room boasts the exposed original timber frame and has stud partitions to the front and rear. The stud partition to the front can be removed if desired, however the rear partition cannot be removed as is part of the original framework. This room affords, alongside the further accommodation good scope for versatile change of use, perhaps as an open plan kitchen/living room as an option (subject to the relevant consents). A latch door leads through from the drawing room, via the oak panelled inner hall to the rear hall, former commercial kitchen room and storeroom (that could connect, if required, through to the garden room). The storeroom has a shelved wall, and a trap door that gives access down to the cellar. Change of use works have been completed, in the main, for the alteration of the former commercial kitchens to an additional spacious reception room or potentially outstanding family/breakfast room, with double glazed window and glazed French doors with side screen windows that open to the rear garden, and a short passage off to a larder/pantry store, with part exposed brick floor. The rear hallway has a ½ glazed door to the garden and two secondary glazed windows to the rear with a door also giving access to the ground floor shower room, which features a corner shower cubicle with electric Mira shower, wash basin unit with cupboard below, a radiator towel rail and a low flush wc. Stairs lead to the first floor with a useful under stairs storage cupboard below.

On the first floor the spacious landing offers scope, subject to consent, to create a bathroom/en-suite or could be used a home office space with double glazed window to the rear and an internal timber mullioned window opening to the sitting room/bedroom. The kitchen to the rear has consent to be returned to a bedroom, however, currently features a breakfast bar, range of base and eye level units, work surfaces, stainless steel sink unit, electric oven and space and plumbing for white goods. The current first floor sitting room would make a wonderful master bedroom and features a fireplace housing an electric log burning stove effect fire. The current main bedroom has a range of built-in wardrobe cupboards, a Velux window to the rear and a dressing/nursery room off to the front with a modern studwork dividing wall. There is also a family bathroom with panel enclosed bath with shower over and a wash basin unit. There is a separate wc with wall mounted hand wash basin.

OUTSIDE
Connected to the rear there is a very useful outbuilding/former garage that consists of a utility room, with ½ glazed door to the garden, exposed pamment tiled floor and space and plumbing for a washing machine and water softener. A cupboard to the rear, houses the recently fitted Valliant gas fired boiler and the pressurised hot water tank. An internal door connects to the former garage/workshop storeroom with personal door to the rear drive. The rear drive and parking consist of a mixture of concrete and gravel surfaces and leads off Crown Lane, to the side, and provides parking for a couple of vehicles with further scope to use the former garage if required. The rear garden is delightfully wall and fence enclosed with a gate opening to the parking area. The garden, which is southeast facing, is mainly brick and slab paved, creating a low maintenance terrace area with charming brick raised flower beds and borders.

LOCATION
Located in the centre of this highly regarded village of Ixworth, noted for its extensive facilities, which include a well-stocked village store, two public houses, a restaurant, doctors’ surgery, police station, primary school, secondary school, fish and chip shop and a fine parish church. The property offers easy access into Bury St Edmunds along the A143 and good access to the A14, which leads to the east coast ports or west to Newmarket, Cambridge and the M11. For the rail commuter there are frequent mainline services from either Stowmarket (12 miles) or Diss (15 miles) with Stowmarket taking approximately 80 minutes into London Liverpool Street. More extensive facilities can be found in the Cathedral town of Bury St Edmunds. The town offers an excellent range of amenities, with schooling in the public and private sector’s, extensive shopping facilities and a good range of leisure facilities including health clubs, swimming pools and golf clubs.

DIRECTIONS
From Bury St Edmunds proceed north on the A143 through Great Barton and onto Ixworth, taking the first left signposted Ixworth and proceed up the High Street and the property will be found on the right, just before The Greyhound Public House on the left.

PROPERTY INFORMATION
Services Mains water, gas, electricity and drainage.
Local Authority West Suffolk Council
Council Tax Band E
Tenure Freehold
Broadband Ofcom states speeds available of up to 70Mbps
Mobile Signal/Coverage Yes - varies depending on network provider.
Viewing Only by appointment with Jackson-Stops Tel: